So...How Do You Feel About Ham?

mmmmmmm ham.

I think the pig is a magical wonderful animal.

My favorite Simpson's episode is where Lisa and Homer are talking about Lisa becoming a vegetarian.....

“(Lisa) "I'm going to become a vegetarian"

(Homer) "Does that mean you're not going to eat any pork?"

"Yes"

"Bacon?"

"Yes Dad"

"Ham?"

"Dad all those meats come from the same animal"

"Right Lisa, like there's some wonderful, magical animal!"”

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE a great ham...spiral sliced...topped with Heinz 57 sauce and honey with some spices...ooh don't forget the pineapple rings...

the perfect slice of ham makes the BEST chicken cordon bleu...yyyyyuuummm!!!

scrambled eggs with diced ham? SSWWWEETTT!!! LOVE IT!!

Just a piece of great sliced ham?????? Bring it on baby!!!

Mmmm Dreamy salty goodness. I especially love it with honey glaze on it.
I am now thinking of the pea soup with ham hocks I made last night....

I love most parts that come off a pig!

Ham ham ham, yum yum yum!!!!

Honeybaked ham is deeelish! There is a really good spiral cut ham at Costco, too.

I love it! I like it best on a big fat sour dough roll with mayo and lots of mustard :-) Great, now I'm hungry lol!

I like ham. I like turkey and beef and lamb and rabbit and chicken.

If your ham is too dry when you finish cooking it its because the internal temp got too hot. I like smoking my hams or any of the other meats mentioned above.

I don't like having ham for Christmas. Christ was a Jew and Jews can't have pork. Kind of ironic isn't it, to celebrate the birth of the King of the Jews and do it with ham.

BTW, Do you know why Arkansas celebrates Thanksgiving with ham instead of turkey? Its because they sent all their turkeys to Washington DC. . . ;~))

Good luck to you and yours.

I hate ham, won't touch it, no no no!

Love it!
This past New Year we didn't even have all our dishes out after the move, I got a nice ham and some pre-made side dishes. Next day we had the ham again with other side dishes, the day after that I made ham sandwiches, I would have keep going the next day but my family beg me to let it go, lol.
So yeah, love it, that and ribs!

I love ham!!! It's amazingly delicious!

Maybe I am just ham deprived but I cant get enough of it! I like it pretty much any way, with pineapple, glazed, or what not. Just NOT in soup! Yuck!

Okay, thanks, now I want some of that delishiosity!

Love Ham, we had ham WITH turkey for both thanksgiving and xmas ... then new years just a ham! LOVE IT!

Christmas dinner grocery shopping I opted to buy a cheaper ham...not spiral...I just kinda sliced it thick ...put it on the grill and brushed it with a brown sugar glaze with pineapple syrup. I'm telling you...I did it as a shortcut...cause I needed my oven freed up for something else....and it was the best darn ham I have ever had...no joke!

I don't like ham, but I'll eat bacon forever.

I love a good ham, but I am not big on sweet things with my meat..

Love to have twice baked potatoes, good slice of ham, and some fresh steamed green beans or fresh peas with tiny onions!!!!

I just like it roasted or fried in a skillet for breakfast or fried in an iron skillet over a camp fire.

I like to buy ham from Honey Baked Ham a few times a year. Great with white beans and rice, or in potato soup, or buy itself, or cooked with sweet potatoes (or homemade mac 'n cheese if hubby isn't home) and spinach madeline. Awesome sandwiches with a lovely slice of fresh tomato and some spinach leaves. YUM. It's my friend. ;)

I LOVE spiral cut, glazed ham!!! I despise the weird textured ham that tastes like a salt lick.

I tend to avoid pork for personal reasons, but I have to admit that a well cured ham is delicious. I absolutely love the smell of frying bacon. Sometimes I use a little bit in my homemade soups.
Fresh steamed green beans with onions and a little bacon is pretty tasty as well.

With biscuits, the salty goodness! For dinner, sweet ham, with or without the pineapple.

Yummmmm!!

Dawn

I love a good quality ham...the really expensive Honey Baked Hams are so good. Too bad they have nitrates in them which I avoid. sigh. I miss ham!

Hi theresa-

I LOVE ham...my father's FAV dinner was ham...mac and cheese...and baked beans! I make that often...as a dedication to my dad...

BUT what I really love about ham are the leftovers...pea soup is a regular favorite around here...and ya GOT to have the bone...and some meat on it for that...

Sammies as leftovers too cannot be beat...some crusty bread...some cheese...YUM!

Just saw some 'semi boneless' hams on sale...making room in my freezer as I type!

Best Luck!
michele/cat

we LOVE ham in our house!! My husband likes to "save" some, so I can make it with pancakes. But, spiral sliced only, the other whole hams are nasty to me. And good ham at the deli, yum! The other day my son says "I really like ham, and bacon, and pork tenderloin, and sausage." I said "I guess you like PIGS!!" we laughed, and how he keeps telling his dad "dad, I just like to eat pig".

LOVE ham!!! I buy one every chance I get, seperate it into vaccume bags and get a lot of dinners from it. Actually, we are having ham sandwiches for dinner tonight!

Next to peanut butter it is ham. Love it!

Ham is wonderful! I bake a ham for one hour-then glaze it for one hour-sensational!

I love ham, in fact I told dh last night that I was craving a Honey baked ham, I have not had it in at least 10 yrs. Oh now you have me thinking about ham soups, made with that wonderful ham bone, mmmmm ham and our fresh eggs, DAMN you woman now I really have a hankering for it, lol. :-)

I loved having a Honeybaked ham cooked up for Christmas, and then being able to use the leftovers for sandwiches afterwards - slap some honey mustard on it with a Kaiser roll and a slice of horseradish cheddar cheese, mmmm....

But I also love my bacon. Bacon is like meat candy.

God praise the pig!

I'm middle of the road on this one. I don't go out of my way to eat it or avoid it. Boring, huh?

LOOOVE ham. I prefer the salty juicy kind (smoked is good too). I will eat honey-glazed or brown sugar ham, but prefer it to be super-salty and ready to eat. :)

I don't like ham except for Christmas leftovers on a little Sister Schubert with a little mustard.

Love it. But I do get sick of it quicker than most meats. Leftover chicken I can make taste like different stuff, but leftover ham always taste like ham. So I like it, but after a dinner and maybe one serving of leftovers, I'm all hammed out for awhile.

I think pork is disgusting in all it's forms. If I ever encounter a ham dinner, I will promptly mail you my portion! :)

So FUNNY how many answers you got to this dumb question! LOL!
Growing up, I hated ham for Christmas dinners, it was my grandparents tradition and I was like barf! These days, I love it on certain occasions. I will fry some sliced black forest ham and eat it with an egg or once a year, I have an uncle who sends us a ham from some pricey company. It is absolutely delicious. But not something I want alot of. I break up the leftovers into sandwich bags and freeze them and take them out for different things.

i love ham...in fact we had ham steaks for supper!!! i prefer my ham on the sweet side!!! my favorite is a ham loaf which i haven't had in years!!!!!!

Not one of my favorites - usually too salty. But yes, I do enjoy a good ham. We have it a few times a year, but not for the holidays.

lol. it's alright. i prefer turkey :)

Prosciutto di Parma ... I'm feeling you.

Ham & Swiss Croissants are pure heaven

Smoked Ham HOCKS I'm like a cat that got the canary (done in soup... really the soup is an excuse for hocks).

Standard baking hams, though... I like them better than chicken... but a whole heckuva lot less than steak!

Can NOT stand HAM. Under ANY circumstances.

I love ham! Then i love the ham and bean soup! My blood pressure does not love it :(

Its my favorite meat ever. I don't eat it that often cause I can't afford it except the ham steaks on rare occasion.

Baked ham? I can take it or leave it.

Give me a good ham steak, though, pan fry that little darlin', and it doesn't matter WHAT you put it with. Let's eat!

I LOVE a good spiral ham!

~I have vowed to make it THE Easter protein! I would love it for all the Holidays but Christmas HAS to be Prime Rib (for the hubby) and Thanksgiving IS Turkey...so Easter (Which is usually a brunch in my family) is now officially THE Ham Holiday! :) Ha-Ha!

You talkin' country ham or city ham? LOL!
(and I know of a couple places that have some good country hams)

I don't mind some honey-baked ham either - but only ones that do it right!

2 things I HATE:

1. HAM
2. MAYONNAISE

YUCK!!! :)

Blah.... enough said :P

I only like the crispy part or the outer edge...and it really depends on who makes it~

Well im a vegetarian, but even if i wasnt i think the "pork coca cola" video would send me off of it forever even if i hated pigs and wanted them all to die.

Watching worms escape a peice of rotting flesh is not my idea of scrumptious.

I absolutely adore ham. My daughter, not so much. We bought one right around Thanksgiving while they were on good sales & stuck it in the big freezer.

Pulled that baby out last weekend & made it with a potato salad...oh yum!

Used leftovers in a potato soup. Oh, divine!

Had a couple of grilled cheese & ham sammies. *swoon*

I actually love ham sandwiches, but I will never eat it again since having cancer.

I like ham in a variety of ways, but the best (tastes like a fantastic BBQ ham) to me is to get a ham -usually 16-20lbs and have them skin it. Put it in a roasting pan on a rack and fill with water up to right underneath the ham. This IS a raw, uncooked, uncured, skinned ham! Put it in your oven the night before you want to eat it at 250 around 8 pm. At midnight before bed, turn it to 300. When you get up, up it to 350 and cook until it's done with a meat thermometer -usually about noon for the weight I suggested. It's DELICIOUS! People will beg for more! Slice it and eat it, put BBQ sauce on it -you can't go wrong! Mind you -it's not the "ham" you're used to (as in Honeybaked or cured types of hams), but it's divine!

I love baked ham. I like the ham steaks too. I love love love bacon! I like to use leftover slices of ham on a poppy seed bun with a good slice of cheddar or white american cheese. I love ham and cheese on a croissant too. I also like to make scalloped potatoes with chunked ham in it.....or even better scalloped cheesy potatoes with chunked up ham.

If God didn't want us to eat ham, it wouldn't be made of pig. mmmmmm.

Spiral cut, Honey Baked Ham, on a soft potato roll with mustard....I usually only get this at funerals though....so I have a hard time serving it at home.

Honest - I maybe buy a ham every few years.

I don't eat Babe.
:)

My family loves a good baked ham dinner. My youngest son only liked ham gravy. If I made any other meat for dinner with gravy for the potatoes, he would n't eat it but use butter on his whipped potatoes. Ham gravy --he couldn't get enough.

One hint don't use pineapple when baking if you plan to make gravy.

OOOO yummy ham.

Ham...as in, a whole ham...I don't like it at all. Never have...ugh.

Weirdly enough, though, I buy Land O' Frost Bistro Selections black forest ham for sandwiches and to ME, it tastes like roast beef, so I like it. Same for Hormel's Natural Choice oven roasted ham...I like them both. Go figure. :)

I'm so sorry that I didn't know earlier, you could have come to Christmas here. I alternate what I make on Christmas - turkey, roast beef, ham, leg of lamb. We had the ham this year. My 12 year old doesn't care for it but I did homemade mac and cheese as a side dish, so he was able to make a main course out of it. I do like ham very much but out of my four alternating holiday meats, I can't say it's my favorite one.

I HATE ham. I will eat it if I have to but damn I hate the stuff. I love crispy bacon and that is about as far as my liking pig goes
So you are more than welcome to my share of ham

My family loves ham! I hate it! I don't like the smell, that pink color is absolutely revolting and although I love salt, ham is for me, way too salty.

I think bacon smells awful too.

I was never a big fan of ham when I was a kid, but I am now. My family's nothing but picky eaters, including the dog, so they don't count. Back to why I'm a ham fan. I had my first bout with high cholesterol when I turned 40, got scared, and started looking stuff up since I don't want to be on meds. Guess what I discovered? Ham is the only meat that is low-fat! It's just as low-fat as chicken breasts. So how do I like my ham? In sandwiches, pan seared with sweet N' sour sauce, baked in pie crust, cooked in with my string beans with onions, used as a substitute for corned beef in corned beef and cabbage, and of course....us Germans put it in our potato salad.....ok, it's usually bacon in the potato salad; but I've been substituting ham since it's low-fat.

If your talking dry-cured, I can think of very little I enjoy more. With a little melon and fresh bread.... My grandmother ruined the boiled hams for me though.

I try to avoid it, but on occassion I can't resist a nice slice of Death with a slice of Pineapple on top! Actually, we don't eat pork at all in our house :( So on special occassions, I indulge!

Love ham!!!! Not only is it oh so yummy on it's own, but a handful of diced ham turns an otherwise vegetarian dish into something a carnivore is satisfied with.

Ham plays so well with so many frugal ingredients-- ham and beans, ham and potatoes, ham and rice, ham and eggs. Of course cheese makes everything even better!

i am sorry theresa. i don't like ham. i am ok with turkey finally after so many years but i just don't like ham. so dry. you know.

i hate ham steak... yeah- a christmas ham--- eww

but i love ham and cheese sandwiches, i love ham and eggs and i love canadian bacon on pizza mmmmmm...

it just has to be With something for me to like it.

But what is 10 times better than ham? SPAM!---- mmmmmmmmmm

-M.

I love ham, especially since I began to roast them on a rack over water to warm them up.
They come out very juicy and the steaming seems to cut back on the saltiness a bit.
Before I learned to do it this way, ham came out very dry and I didn't care for it much.
Now I'm more than happy to do a ham more than once a year at Easter (we did one for Christmas instead of turkey or goose this year), and the bones help make great soups.

First of all, you are MADE OF AWESOME for even posting this question.

Secondly, ham is made of awesome. Some hams, anyway. Nitrites and whatnot sadly give me headaches, but I seem to do all right with the higher-end hams.

Third, I love watching the expression of horror on people's faces when I eat pork. "But you're JEWISH!" they say. hehehe. Not every Jew keeps Kosher, bub.

Fourth, it is physically impossible to say the word "ham" and not smile afterward, even a little. Go ahead, I dare you to say "ham" and keep a straight face. See? I told you!