It sounds like a
Good Idea:
ham with an ultra-long
shelf life in an
attractive package. Unfortunately, that's about all it is.
Having always lead a simple life, the canned ham called, no, beckoned to me in
Wal-Mart. So I bought one. What I discovered was truly disappointing.
Canned hams are little
ovalish shaped
lumps of
pressed meat covered in some sort of
fatty membrane. They have a very
lumpy texture, high fat content, and are amazingly
salty. So salty in fact, that I had to
rinse the meat before
eating to avoid becoming some sort of human
jerky.
The hams aren't
cheap either: a 1lb 8oz ham cost about
$5. For $5 I could have gotten a real ham.
Granted, a real ham wouldn't last until
Feb 27 of 2004 like my canned ham did, but the taste is sure a hell of a lot better.
My
advice, unless you are
white trash living in the
sticks, avoid canned ham except for a rare adventure into
processed meat.
Canned hams do have one redeeming quality: they come with this
old school key to open the package. Food that requires a
tool to open is really lacking in the food industry today.