Cooked Ham Paris Style - Jambon de Paris - Approx. 11Lbs

Unlike any other ham I have prepared or have eaten. Delicious flavor, not too salty. I will purchase again

This product was not what it claims to be. I paid for it thinking it is Jambon, but it was a very average ham. Very disappointed.

I buy this by the pound, sliced up at a local deli, so I’ve never ordered it from Amazon. There are about a zillion types of ham sold in France. “Jambon de Paris” actually means something precise: a composed ham made of boneless, whole-muscle meat packed into a watertight metal form, the remaining spaces in the form filled with a gelatin-rich stock, and then gently poached in the sealed form. It’s different from whole leg ham, boneless or on the bone. It’s just as far from composed hams that are made from little scraps and trim, and filled with an emulsion of ground meat. In comparison to most American hams, the meat has little water added, and the cure is not sweet. It’s less weepy than most American hams when it’s fried or cooked in any other way, but is fully cooked already, so can be eaten as is in sandwiches, etc. I’ve spent almost a quarter of my life in France over the past 20-plus years, and know that Jambon de Paris is made by many hundreds of producers, from industrial to artisanal. It’s the kind of ham that’s used for the simple baguette, butter, and ham sandwich eaten by the hundreds of thousands each day. It’s also the ham that is most frequently used in a crocque-monsieur, a Breton-style galette complète, or under a fried egg. Are fancier hams used for all of those thing? Yes, but I said “most frequently.” The idea that this is falsely advertised because it’s “not jambon” would be amusing if it weren’t so sadly parochial. Fabrique Délices is the US subsidiary of a French company, and I personally don’t detect much difference between the ham they sell under this name in the US, and the one sold in France. In France, it would be seen as industrial production, and it, or a ham virtually identical from another big producer, would be sold in any grocery store, large or small.