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Ray's Country Ham 3-Pak - Blue Ridge Mountain Air-Cured in Ray's Original Style

Description: The Ray's County Ham Story Ray and Geneva Goad opened their first restaurant, about ten years after Ray was discharged from the Navy at the end of WWII. From day one home Cured Country Ham was featured on the menu. Ray became the innovator of the fast food breakfast. More significantly, he featured the homemade from scratch southern biscuits that his mother had started making at one of his first restaurants, Ray's Starlight Restaurant, in Mount Airy, N.C., the home of Andy Griffith and Mayberry USA. Ray's was the very first to serve Country Ham and Sausage Biscuits in a fast food restaurant. You can't eat at a Ray's Kingburger restaurant today, but you can find Ham and Sausage Biscuits at any fast food restaurant a few blocks from your home all across the USA. Breakfast Biscuits have become the foundation of much of America's breakfast menu today. Country ham harks back to the way food was preserved on the family farms of Appalachia before electricity and refrigeration. The family tradition of butchering hogs in the late fall allowed for them to be preserved during the cold winter months by rubbing them with salt, and sugar, and other spices to begin a curing process. Country hams are drastically different from their more common cousin, the wet-cured ham, also known as "city ham." The flavor of a country ham is more complex, with an almost addictive taste, aroma, and texture unlike any other. Today those traditions are being kept alive in in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Where once moonshiners and revenuers raced hot cars along "thunder road," a few facilities owned and operated by the descendants of those early American pioneers are still making Country Hams. They are patiently made in three traditional seasonal steps: curing, salt equalization, and aging, but also with a dedication to the preservation of a taste from another place in time, a taste that can be found in every slice of Ray"s Country Ham.

Price: 36.9 USD

Location: Mount Airy, North Carolina

End Time: 2024-11-21T21:59:48.000Z

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Return shipping will be paid by: Seller

All returns accepted: Returns Accepted

Item must be returned within: 14 Days

Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)

Form: Salt Cure Naturally Air-Dried

Product Name: Country Ham

Product: Salt Cured Pork Ham

MPN: 12 oz. 3-Pak

Brand: Rays Country Ham

Food Aisle: Fresh

Type: Pork

Food Specifications: Cured with salt, sugar, nitrates & nitrites

Style: Rays Original Style

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Serving Size: 2 0z

Number of Servings: 6

Item Weight: 12 Oz

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