So, yesterday morning, on my way to breakfast with the archaeologists, I passed by my local deli. And did a double take 😉
They were getting in a fresh supply of hams. Note the delivery guy with clipboard, his van’s just behind me.
Here’s another pic, where you can actually see the interior of the shop, with the hams dangling above the counter.
There have been a lot of ham-themed posts lately… just can’t get away from them!
Lady Of The Cakes 
Oi. Or more accurately, Oink.
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In body bags!
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OUCH! That’s horrible!!!
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Seeing that, I think I might join Polly in the vegetarian camp 😉
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Right? I am almost feeling bad about that cutlet I am chewing right now.
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Crap. Chewing on some ham myself! Well, not sure if it’s really ham but that’s what it says on the pack 😉
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Well, that in the trolley IS ham, well and truly. No binders, emulsifiers, nor reconstituted mechanically recovered meat. Which is what you’re eating, probably…
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LOL, look at this
http://50yearproject.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/street-snaps/
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‘Almost’ being the operative word.
I’m having fish for lunch.
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Before or after you’ve eaten the contents of your freezer…?
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This is right up there with the whole smoked ducks I saw hanging in the window of a shop in Chinatown, San Francisco!
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OMG, In Paris I lived right next to this bi-weekly farmer’s market and there were pheasants and rabbits hanging by their hind legs! So effing traumatic!
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All this meat trauma pouring out… what have I done?!?
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It’s a ‘breakthrough’! And to think, all those thousands of dollars I’ve paid therapists over the years…
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Oh, I love those ducks…!
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Back to being a veggie now : ( Gruesome.
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LOL! But you’ve seen them…while you were here…
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Oh! It’s all hammy of late! Poor piggies, I should have known not to look by the title… :S
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Aw, sorry 😉
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Oh, jamón, how I miss thee! Save me a slice!
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Plenty to go round 😉
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Having had (M) a grandfather who used to suck the meat of jellied pigs trotters in London in the 60s, this doesn’t look so bad. We intend to visit a ‘pig place’ to see how they’re kept, what happens to them and so on. It may, of course, put us off jamon forever.
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Jellified pigs’ trotters! One of my faves when I was a kid. My Dad used to make them regularly.
Grew up in the country, neighbour kept pigs. I’ve seen it all.
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yeah, I might be a veggie for a day or two so I can recover.
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Good luck with that. You may well last till lunch time 😉
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Actually I think being dead is an advantage. In Shanghai there will be live chickens,etc. delivered. It’s only fresh if you kill it yourself!
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Have you ever bought a live one?
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No, I am not mentally equipped to kill it. Live crabs though – that was a story!
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The reason for buying them live is so that you know they are healthy. I came over to this post to look at the trotters, because it reminds me of my neighbors coming over for the chicken feet when we kill chickens.
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I totally see the rationale. Chinese consumers also tend to insist on buying their chickens live, and you can’t really blame them…
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