Post by PhredPost by antI got a ham (Oz: haaaeeeeemmmm) from Coles (cos it was marked
down!). It's got a bone which looks like the leg bit, and a fat
bulgy bit, but the ingredients listed all this stuff like your list
above (although Pork formed the vast majority), and then at the end
had a statement about being manufactured meat. But it's not! I
chopped some bits off, and it's bloody haaeeeem.
There was quite an outcry on the ABC Country Hour at lunch time today
about a pseudo "ham on the bone" being flogged to retailers by KR
Castlemaine this season. The local pig producers are not impressed!
Seems this so-called "ham on the bone" is a manufactured product with
real Canadian ham meat wrapped around a real Oz ham bone! (Is that
genetic engineering scaled up to full production? :-)
I gather it is being marketed labelled as "ham on the bone", but the
company doesn't expect consumers will be misled by that! (Presumably
because consumers can be assumed to be too dumb to notice and will
happily buy a sham ham. ;-)
See: <http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/2007/s2112867.htm>
<Quoting extract from above URL>
KR Castlemaine strongly rejects claims that's it trying to mislead
consumers with its processed hams.
Company chief executive, Mike Adams, says they're not breaking any
labelling laws, and the processed hams look distinctly different from
a traditional Aussie leg ham.
He doesn't think consumers will care that the meat on the ham is from
Canada, while the bone could be from an Australian pig.
</quoting>
Anyway, the good news is that the company has put only 18,000 of the
things on the market here...
Well, bugger me! I wonder if this is one of them? How bloody outrageous. I
read the label, figured they must be putting manufactured meat on the label
because they'd used some to make it look neat, or to clad it, or something.
I'd better go re-read it, to see if it says anything about Canadian pork.
bloody hell.
OK. It's a coles brand Picnic shoulder ham (haaeeeeem) semi-boneless.
It's got Pork 93%, and lots of minerals and chemicals, and water (cheats,
they puff it up with water, the yanks do that), and then at the end it says
Smoked Manufactured meat. 100% Australian Meat. I couldn't work out that
manufactured thing at all, and at $15 it was a useful bargain (and was 10%
fat which isn't bad for haaeeeem) so I got it.
And if the KR ones are Aussie bones with Canadian meat cladding, what did
they do with the aussie meat that was originally on the bone?
I suppose it's more efficient, to bring over the Canadian pork but not the
bones, which are less useful and weigh a lot.
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