I just WON a ham bone worth $12.09

[Papa Deuce]

I was entered into a raffle at my mom's senior citizen's group. I paid $1 for a ticket. Today, my mom brings me over a ham bone from Honeybaked Ham.... I have to make ham and bean soup, now, I guess.

Seriously, though, $12 for a ham bone? It is meaty and all, but I can't imagine spending $12 to buy a carved down ham bone.

If the bone costs $12.09, what does a full ham cost.. $100?

( I have never been inside a Honeybaked Ham store )

 

[mum4jenn]

WOW!! That's just about as good as when a few years ago I was doing the Atkins diet and I won a years supply of potato chips!!!!

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

I'm not sure how they came up with a value for the Ham bone. I would probably mistrust whether it had stayed refridgerated and was safe to eat. How long did it stay out on the carving table??

I must say, that is an odd thing to win!

I guess you could make soup and donate it back to the care home.

 

[Papa Deuce]

I'm not sure how they came up with a value for the Ham bone. I would probably mistrust whether it had stayed refridgerated and was safe to eat. How long did it stay out on the carving table??

I must say, that is an odd thing to win!

I guess you could make soup and donate it back to the care home.

It had an actual Honeybaked Ham bar code on the bag it came in, so I imagine they bought it there, or it was donated from there. When I got it, it was frozen.

 

[torinsmom]

It had an actual Honeybaked Ham bar code on the bag it came in, so I imagine they bought it there, or it was donated from there. When I got it, it was frozen.

I wouldn't trust it either. I would give it to my dog or a neighbor's dog.

Marsha

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

That's really funny. But feel free to share the soup

 

[Papa Deuce]

I wouldn't trust it either. I would give it to my dog or a neighbor's dog.

Marsha

I'm not understanding this thought. Apparently this is a retail item sold by Honeybaked Ham.

It had a barcode, a price, and was clearly marked Ham Bone. It came in a bag that had the Honeybaked ham logo all over it.

 

[doxdogy]

Yes you can buy a ham bone from Honey Baked Ham. I buy one every year at Christmas for my black eyed peas or collard greens. My mother use to use a ham bone for her lima bean soup.

 

[torinsmom]

Truthfully, I would not trust any food item that needed to be refrigerated if it was in someone else's hands before me. It was frozen when you got it, but it could have been sitting out for hours before it was frozen or thawed after they bought it and then refrozen.

Maybe it's just me....... I could see raffling off a gc for Honeybaked Ham store, but to have a HAM BONE as a PRIZE? I have never heard of that! The only time I ever bought bone was for my dog.

Marsha

 

[Pigeon]

Yes, they do sell the bones and that's about the price they sell them for.

I don't get it. I can get a 14 lb ham for that price if I watch the sales flyers. But I don't think Honeybaked Hams are any better than any other hams.

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

Truthfully, I would not trust any food item that needed to be refrigerated if it was in someone else's hands before me. It was frozen when you got it, but it could have been sitting out for hours before it was frozen or thawed after they bought it and then refrozen.

Maybe it's just me....... I could see raffling off a gc for Honeybaked Ham store, but to have a HAM BONE as a PRIZE? I have never heard of that! The only time I ever bought bone was for my dog.

Marsha

Don't take this the wrong way, because I would never tell someone to do something they're uncomfortable with. But... I've been to the grocery store before and seen frozen food items haphazardly left next to the canned soup because the person who had originally picked it up decided that they didn't want it and was too lazy to return it to the proper place. Or maybe someone returned a steak and it wound up back in the meat section instead of being thrown away or whatever.

I think any time you buy a food item, you're taking the risk that it wasn't properly taken care of.

 

[torinsmom]

Yeah, but I think that would be unlikely. I am kind of weird in that I never buy the pack of meat on top. That includes the packaged sandwich meat as well. I figure the freshest is on the bottom and anything someone carted around for awhile and then put back would probably be on top.

Like I said, it is just me. If I am weird, oh well. I have had food poisoning before and it was no joke. I don't use a bone for anything anyway. The bones I buy for my dog are $1. I can't imagine paying $12 for a bone.

Marsha

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

No, not weird at all!! We all have our own comfort levels

 

[Papa Deuce]

..... The bones I buy for my dog are $1. I can't imagine paying $12 for a bone.

Marsha

Well, it was $2.99 a pound... so about 4 pounds. I imagine there is about 1.5 pounds of actual ham on it...maybe a little more.

 

[HelenePA]

please dont give ham bones to dogs unless you like your dog pooping 100000's of times a day.. ham + dogs = disaster!

 

[kirbsam]

I'm not understanding this thought. Apparently this is a retail item sold by Honeybaked Ham.

It had a barcode, a price, and was clearly marked Ham Bone. It came in a bag that had the Honeybaked ham logo all over it.

papa, you have been on the dis long enough to know that half your responses will be some warning not to eat it and be suspicious of it.

 

[Piecey]

Great, now I need to go to HoneyBaked Ham for lunch tomorrow.

Their cookies are the best!

 

[Macca1111]

I'll post a real response...I do think it's weird that Honeybaked Ham actually sells hambones, and it's even weirder that whoever put the raffle together thought that it was the perfect item. How do you know the person who wins it would even have any idea what to do with it? Or isn't Jewish? Or vegitarian? Very weird.

 

[DVC~OKW~96]

Honey Baked Ham sells their bones for about $5.99 or so here in Florida. I have a relative who gets them each time she wants to make bean and ham soup. There is usually quite a bit of meat on the bone, so she ends up with soup and scalloped potatoes and ham.

As for the appropriateness of the item, look at the cohort group. It fit with their experiences in life, and they'd be surprised to see the objections here.

If someone who won it didn't want it, the bone could have easily been refused. It's not like it was a Ferrari.

At any rate, make a wicked pot of soup! Enjoy!

 

[melk]

The BEST soup I have ever had was when I made a split-pea and ham soup with a ham bone (we had eaten the ham). The recipe was right off the split pea bag.

I would use it, I don't see why a frozen ham bone would be any different from consuming a frozen meat that was bought.