• ggppjj
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    This guide is awful and bad.

    Country ham and mayo??? What the genuine fuck?

    Edit: To the person who downvoted me: I challenge you to find a single recipe, a single real photo, a single COMMENT from ANYONE in the world who has even thought about putting country ham, what is essentially salt that comes in the shape of a slice of ham, bare on some bread with mayonnaise as a sandwich, let alone the sandwich of Virginia.

    I live in rural Virginia, I was born in urban Virginia, and I feel firm that I can speak for all of Virginia and say this guide is wrong and bad.

    The only source I’ve been able to find for this is TitleMax, a title loan company. https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/the-united-states-of-sandwiches/

    This is spam.

    • JCSparkM
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      2 months ago

      Here’s a restaurant in Virginia that specializes in that…

      http://www.thecamsham.com/

      I also mention in another comment that this is likely based on a list by the Food Network.

      • ggppjj
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        This is not country ham.

        This is country ham:

        Country ham is salted ham. Always, 100%, like pre-refrigeration levels of salt, to the point that it’s shelf-stable.

        Also the source is is in the guide, which I didn’t see until now. Looks like AI generated blogspam to me. Virginia is known for country ham, but no way has anyone put it on bread that wasn’t a buttermilk biscuit alongside mayo and called it a sandwich.

        • JCSparkM
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          12 months ago

          I’m not at all disagreeing that Cam’s Ham isn’t serving Country Ham. I was just hoping to provide a little context to the graphic using the cited sources and some additional information.

          It’s a graphic that someone’s probably put a fair bit of effort into, not spam. This is spam:

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            The reference the graphic cites is blogspam, the infographic is a weird ad for TitleMax that someone did presumably put time into. Unfortunately, it is good effort put towards bad information.

            The reference in question, from the bottom of the image: https://www.ezcater.com/lunchrush/office/america-50-iconic-sandwiches/

            One of the sandwiches is a bratwurst on a hot dog bun. It has the feel of an AI hallucination.

            • JCSparkM
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              22 months ago

              Ok, going through that source, I can see how some of that must be an AI hallucination. “Fluffernutter” can’t actually be a thing, can it?

              • ggppjj
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                12 months ago

                Fluffernutrer is real and delicious, and if you haven’t had the chance to try it, please do.