Coming Soon: World’s Most Expensive Ham
Published by Joel August 20th, 2007 in Food, Meat. Share ThisNow, hard-core foodies are drooling over the prospect of something truly superlative from Spain, at least in price: a salt-cured ham costing about $2,100 per leg, or a cruel $160 per pound. It’s a price believed to make it the most expensive ham in the world. … The 2006 Alba Quercus Reserve (as this pricey pork will be known) won’t be available until late 2008 and you must buy the whole ham or nothing at all.
I need to figure out how to get a job with the AP on the “pork beat.”
World’s costliest ham triggers pork envy [News.Yahoo/AP]
Dude, seriously how many meat related blogs do you have bookmarked? On a side note I always found it funny that we eat so much beef and chicken in America that pork needed it’s own ad campaign.
I love meat. I make no apologies!
So many thoughts….
-Can I get this in Jimmy Dean sausage style?
1. Buy land with oak trees
2. Buy mess of pigs from county fair
3. Feed them acorns from oak tree
4. Cure the meat for *3* years
5. ???
6. Profit! Even more than the guy in the article!
Really, what am I missing here?
Hitchhiker: You heard of this thing, the 8-Minute Abs?
Ted: Yeah, sure, 8-Minute Abs. Yeah, the excercise video.
Hitchhiker: Yeah, this is going to blow that right out of the water. Listen to this: 7… Minute… Abs.
Ted: Right. Yes. OK, all right. I see where you’re going.
Hitchhiker: Think about it. You walk into a video store, you see 8-Minute Abs sittin’ there, there’s 7-Minute Abs right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man?
Ted: I would go for the 7.
Hitchhiker: Bingo, man, bingo. 7-Minute Abs. And we guarantee just as good a workout as the 8-minute folk.
Ted: You guarantee it? That’s - how do you do that?
Hitchhiker: If you’re not happy with the first 7 minutes, we’re gonna send you the extra minute free. You see? That’s it. That’s our motto. That’s where we’re comin’ from. That’s from “A” to “B”.
Ted: That’s right. That’s - that’s good. That’s good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with 6-Minute Abs. Then you’re in trouble, huh?
[Hitchhiker convulses]
Hitchhiker: No! No, no, not 6! I said 7. Nobody’s comin’ up with 6. Who works out in 6 minutes? You won’t even get your heart goin, not even a mouse on a wheel.
Ted: That - good point.
Hitchhiker: 7’s the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 doors. 7, man, that’s the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin’ on a branch, eatin’ lots of sunflowers on my uncle’s ranch. You know that old children’s tale from the sea. It’s like you’re dreamin’ about Gorgonzola cheese when it’s clearly Brie time, baby. Step into my office.
Ted: Why?
Hitchhiker: ‘Cause you’re fuckin’ fired!
“‘Ham provides us with life,’ he said with a smile.” Mmmmmmm, ham (and butter).
i always say “‘Cause you’re fuckin’ fired!”
i love the way he says it