"Leonard Blaisdell" > wrote in message
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> In article >, Cheri >
> wrote:
>
>> Personally, I usually buy the shank, a really good bone left for soup
>> after
>> eating the ham.
>
> I do too. Well, not for Thanksgiving for us, but I buy shanks. Then I
> don't spend time trying to get ham off the bone and leave plenty of
> meat on it. I freeze the meaty shank for ham and beans later.
> By the time I'm done with a ham shank, I'm not eager for ham and beans.
> Dorothy Parker's definition of eternity: "Two people and a ham".
> Yeah, yeah, we've all heard it before, but it's as true today as it was
> then.
>
> leo

I freeze a lot of it after the initial cutting when it's just us, and yes it
is still true as you say.

Cheri