Processed meat refers to meat that has been transformed through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking, or other processes to enhance flavour or improve preservation. Most processed meats contain pork or beef, but processed meats may also contain other red meats, poultry, offal, or meat by-products such as blood.
Before anyone asks, no, ‘salt’ doesn’t refer to sodium chloride in this context but rather curing salt or sodium nitrite.
‘Unprocessed ham’ is just a consumer term for ‘uncured ham’, which ironically is still cured, just with sodium chloride and not sodium nitrite. But sure let’s pretend every ‘Ma’am’ asking for nitrite-free ham is just a homeopathic dunce asking for the non-existent.
Just don’t try to tell me it’s fucking “uncured.”
“Uhhhh, can i get that chipped/shredded?” ~most hated customer in line at the deli
Me when I have to do my job (I hate the customer now)
I always ask for it as thin as they can get without shredding it. It’s possible I’m hated, but that’s how I like my meat, and I can’t do it myself.
For ham, thats fine and very easy, its a solid piece of meat. For poultry or softer meats that can sometimes be problematic but still very doable. Chipped meat is the devil, wrenches the hell of out the shoulders for whoever’s using the slicer and probably damages the slicer a bit, as you have to use force to keep the meat and blade at the right angles.
Oh, and people who order large amounts of razor thin salami, that takes forever as it weighs so little per slice
So glad i dont work in a deli anymore lol
The fact that this ham monolith exists proves that God is either impotent to alter Her universe or ignorant to the horrors taking place in Her kingdom.
ooo, I’m stealing that for my obituary
As long as it’s not kreshmar, I’m cool with it.
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How is this Ham though?
Cured pork shank. Just because it’s been liquified and molded into a cube doesn’t mean it’s not ham. It’s just transmuted ham
That’s not transmutation, that’s hamomancy.
