Wine and ham
State Sen. Ham Horton, R-Forsyth, is leaving the General Assembly next year. He's got cancer.
Here's a fine passage from the AP story about his decision not to run, and it accurately reflects my view of wine and ham:
When state inspectors shut down sales of sliced country ham at a
Winston-Salem store in 1999, Horton won passage of the Country Ham
Preservation Act to exempt small markets from some meat preparation
rules.
"In the pantheon of North Carolina food, up there with
soft-shell crab and barbecue is bound to be country ham," he said
in a floor speech.
"The older, the better," he said. "The texture, the color,
the odor all come together. The only difference between tasting
wine and tasting ham is that you spit out the wine, and no one has
been known to spit out ham."
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