… you should totally buy this ham, and tell me WHY IN GOD’S GOOD NAME this HAM COSTS $2,000.
Really, Dean & DeLuca, you should be ashamed of yourselves. Do you know how many groceries $2K would buy at Wal-Mart? I love gourmet food and fancy crap as much as the next starving graduate student, but this is pushing it even for me.
A $2,000 ham. Guess McCain is right – what recession?
Gah.
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What the crap? I could buy groceries for MONTHS with that money. Whoever buys that Ham is a total fucker.
That’s Jamon ham and it’s a tapa. The Jamon is sliced really really really thin. It almost looks like bacon, but it’s extremely salty and they love it in Spain and to some degree in Portugal, too. It’s really, really, REALLY expensive, too!
When my husband and I traveled there last year, to get a couple of ounces of the stuff cost an arm! (I think it was 15 euro (over $20)!)
I, wow.
When I did economics at college, one of the cases we learned about was a shampoo that wasn’t selling (one of the big brands) – they put it in a nice bottle and doubled the price. It became the market leader.
Could you resell individual slices and mark them up to make a big profit?
well it does come with a carving stand….lol
For 2 grand, they really ought to hack off the hoof for you. I mean really. No one wants to deal with that.
I believe it says you get two hams, so it’s not really that unreasonable. Two 13 lb hams for $2k is a steal at $76.92 per pound.
And really, who likes ham that much? I mean ham at the honey baked store is pricey, but that’s about as good as I need my ham to be.
INSANE doesn’t even begin to cover it.
Maybe it’s because (gag) that hoof is still on there (gag).
WTF is THAT about?
LORD.
Well, since there actually is no recession currently occurring (2nd quarter GDP growth was 3.3%) and housing starts are beginning to recover, let’s have a slice of that.
i love me some salty ham. but come on!!
OK. For 2k you should get a couple of whole freaking huge pigs.
Why do they keep the trotter on there? Just whack it off. I know it’s a pig leg, but I don’t need that much info, you know? Sheesh.
Ack. Crazy.
So, wine should be as cheap as grape juice? Cars should just cost as much as the metal and plastic? Fine cheeses should just cost the price of milk?
These are a particular breed of pigs in a particular area eating a particular diet. They are then processed in a very particular way, aging 36 months. There’s approximately 1 importer of them to the US.
Get with the program. You and I are never going to buy one, but those who do will acknowledge the real cost of production and enjoy it for what it is.
Jason- 2k for ham is still INSANE!!!! Please be nice.
$2,000 for 26 pounds of ham is obscene, not matter how you slice it.
This would appropriate for a Wordless Wednesday post, because it actually leaves me virtually speechless. Unreal.
But someone will buy it.
Soon after, the D&D special delivery person or the buyer’s personal chef will pass fourteen homeless people and twenty economically/physically-fragile people as he/she makes way to the double-parked vehicle waiting just around the corner from the Prince Street entrance.
I *get* why certain foods cost so much, and I want farmers well-rewarded for the care that they put into their produce. Certain foods are special.
But it’s hard to process how deep the gap grows between the have’s and the have not’s.
For $2000, you’d think you would at least get the other stirrup so you could have your own set. Seriously, doesn’t it look like that turkey is getting a pap smear?
For $2k I want the foot OFF thank you!
That would be about half a year of groceries for us! Insane!
You’re definitely paying for the hoof there…I mean, think of all the things you could make with that!!
Copy that Roger. Right back at you, over there wherever your are!!!!!!!!