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The Irish Ham wars

Muahahaha

I dont think Ive ever seen any food product advertised so widely and consistently on tv/radio as you do ham. Between Bradys Family ham, Dennys Deli style Crumbled Ham, Shaws Hand Carved ham, Carrolls Traditional Ham, O'Heliheys Cooked SLiced Ham, it goes on and on. Rarely a day goes by you dont hear an advertisement for ham but you rarely hear much for chicken, pork, beef, lamb etc.

I cant even remember the last time I bought any kind of sliced ham. Maybe I'm missing something here, is the rest of the nation completely obsessed with ham or something? The amount of advertising certainly seems to suggest so.

Just saw that the company behind Carrolls Ham in Tullamore sold in 2015 for €40m. Is ham some kind of black gold for the Irish? And ultimately who comes out top in the Irish Ham wars?

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EmmetSpiceland

Anyone who’s eating that muck thinking it’s some sort of “gourmet” product is deluded. That stuff is sprayed off the pig carcass, swept off the floor and hammered into ham slices. The idea it’s sliced from a pig is laughable.

Some of those competitors are probably getting the processed ham from the same factories and just stamping their logo on it. Brady’s doesn’t run their business out of the grandfather’s shed.

Those lads in factories are smart, they don’t waste anything. The only part of the pig that’s left is the bung, the arsehole. Don’t think there’s a market for it here but places in the States have been getting away with selling it on as imitation calamari but not labelling it as imitation.

zapitastas

Stopped eating ham a long time ago. The smell from it when you would first open a packet would turn your stomach. Fried bacon on the other hand i don't think I could ever stop

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Leave that near me and I assure you it will be missing pieces.

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One eyed Jack

I don’t think you’re missing anything OP, you’ve probably just become more attuned to the advertising because you started to take notice.

In saying that though, ham sandwiches are fairly traditional Irish food anyway. I just thought about it there and I’d often have ham sandwiches for lunch, had bacon for dinner yesterday, and pork chops for dinner the previous day.

Now I think of it, I also had two beef steaks for supper the previous night. I don’t plan on becoming vegan any time soon, but maybe that’s why there’s an increasing amount of advertising around promoting meat in our diets, to compete with the constant barrage of nonsense about “adopting a vegan lifestyle” :rolleyes:

dxhound2005

Dtp1979 wrote: »

If you ever saw how that “ham” was made, you’d think twice about eating it. Complete shjte

I believe it's made from pigs.

Dtp1979

If you ever saw how that “ham” was made, you’d think twice about eating it. Complete shjte

suicide_circus

how many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?

None.