gammon

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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

“I thought it would get lost in the ether. When I started getting requests from serious news organisations to discuss gammon, my conviction that the world had gone irrevocably insane only deepened.”

From The Guardian • Dec. 25, 2019

They say the bookie always wins - but in 1898 a mystery syndicate managed to gammon the establishment and make themselves a tidy sum with an audacious scam.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2018

The father of three children, aged nine, 18 and 19, says he will be going for a cheaper cut of meat for Christmas dinner such as brisket, gammon or belly pork.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2016

Maxine, Dean, and I put the Ladybird books away till the smell of gammon and mushrooms filled the small kitchen.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell