gammon

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Pulled pork has also substituted an oven-ready gammon joint.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2025

Until recently, Laira Green Primary School in Plymouth served local Cornish beef for its roast dinners every Thursday, but has now switched to gammon as a cheaper alternative.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2022

Her ham in cola is a treasure of a dish that calls for boiling a gammon in two liters of Coca-Cola, with an onion chucked in for mellow savoriness.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2021

My mom was the kind of mom who’d make sticky buns from scratch on Christmas morning, and she’d have canned vegetables for the day months before, so we’d have fresh green beans with our gammon.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2018

I should’ve just gone while I had the chance, but the dogs had prehistoric fangs, deranged eyes, gammon tongues, and steel chains round their necks.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell