# The day after Christmas and all I have are 4 buns and no ham. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 26, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737 "2008-12-26T16:01:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/201 "2009-02-02T23:59:51Z")
I think my eyes just glazed over. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/202 "2009-02-03T00:38:04Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > It should have a nice, healthy pulse. It may have been feeling a bit ill before, but now it’s cured! Zombie ham! Searching for dog braaaaiiiiinnnnzzzz. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/203 "2009-02-03T00:50:53Z")
Everybody has to ham it up. Yuk Yuk Yuk I guess we’ll have genuine eggs and green ham instead of roast beast. Anybody interested in a white elephant exchange?😃 ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/204 "2009-02-03T01:12:57Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > Everybody has to ham it up. Yuk Yuk Yuk > > I guess we’ll have genuine eggs and green ham instead of roast beast. > > Anybody interested in a white elephant exchange?😃 Are you going to buy it plane ticket? I wouldn’t to have to carry anything like that in an animal carrier. Not on my lap anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/205 "2009-02-03T01:50:27Z")
So, what does happen if the ham sees its shadow? I found something hammy that might be almost as scary as the ham in your fridge: > **[Ham and Jello](https://flickr.com/photos/65472523@N00/9844317/)** > > Explore compact collection's 710 photos on Flickr! Yeek! Easter dinner? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/206 "2009-02-03T02:29:52Z")
> [@Tabithina](#): > > So, what does happen if the ham sees its shadow? It’ll be bacon for the light again. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/207 "2009-02-03T23:16:29Z")
Good grief. Okay, people, the next holiday we have coming up is President’s Day. Let’s have a few presidential-themed recipes for leftover Christmas Ham. **Hostile Dialect** , do you have a food processor, or an old meat grinder? I’m thinking you get this baby macerated and put it into a Jello mold shaped like Mt. Rushmore. Can’t get more presidential-themed than that. Also, if nobody still eats it, you can later reshape it for Easter, or Arbor Day, or International Talk Like a Pirate Day. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/208 "2009-02-04T01:05:14Z")
> [@Tabithina](#): > > So, what does happen if the ham sees its shadow? > > I found something hammy that might be almost as scary as the ham in your fridge: > [Ham and Jello | Stephanie Brown | Flickr](http://flickr.com/photos/65472523@N00/9844317/) > Yeek! Easter dinner? Hey, they got one thing right. That is in fact…really different. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/209 "2009-02-20T12:32:48Z")
I’m doing an update now that weeks have passed. The pan with the ham still sits on the top shelf. Nobody ate it for Valentine Day. It’s a good thing the pan is an enamel pan or the ham may have eaten through the metal by now. The ham has lasted past the halfway point to becoming an Easter ham. I wonder if it’s starting to look like a religious icon yet. I don’t plan on looking to see, but maybe we’ll have a Easter miracle. I have to remember to buy my own pound of ham for Easter, because I know she’s not buying one. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/210 "2009-02-20T13:01:21Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > I’m doing an update now that weeks have passed. The pan with the ham still sits on the top shelf. Nobody ate it for Valentine Day. It’s a good thing the pan is an enamel pan or the ham may have eaten through the metal by now. > > The ham has lasted past the halfway point to becoming an Easter ham. I wonder if it’s starting to look like a religious icon yet. I don’t plan on looking to see, but maybe we’ll have a Easter miracle. The passive-agressive! It buuuuurns! Is she eating it at all? Did she forget about it? Is she just keeping it there to prove to you that she WILL do it? What the hell? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/211 "2009-02-20T13:23:04Z")
She never ate it after that day. She does tend to leave stuff in the refrigerator, that I will throw out. This however is something I won’t toss, because of the original baggage attached to it, that would give me grief for doing so. It sits on half of the top shelf. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/212 "2009-02-20T14:27:05Z")
You know how some people have those cement geese on the front walk that they dress up in different outfits for the holidays? You should make costumes for the ham. Put a green plastic bowler on it for Paddy’s, some bunny ears for easter… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/213 "2009-02-20T15:07:45Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#): > > You know how some people have those cement geese on the front walk that they dress up in different outfits for the holidays? You should make costumes for the ham. Put a green plastic bowler on it for Paddy’s, some bunny ears for easter… Green shouldn’t be a problem at this point. I think the coat of green fur it probably already has should do. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/214 "2009-02-20T15:30:04Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#): > > You know how some people have those cement geese on the front walk that they dress up in different outfits for the holidays? You should make costumes for the ham. Put a green plastic bowler on it for Paddy’s, some bunny ears for easter… BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! The ham. For some reason, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” by Green Day keeps running through my head. "Read between the lines What’s fucked up and everything’s alright Check my vital signs To know I’m still alive and I walk alone I walk alone I walk alone I walk alone I walk a… My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me 'Til then I walk alone Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah Ah-ah, Ah-ah" ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/215 "2009-02-20T23:21:20Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > She never ate it after that day. > > She does tend to leave stuff in the refrigerator, that I will throw out. This however is something I won’t toss, because of the original baggage attached to it, that would give me grief for doing so. It sits on half of the top shelf. I wouldn’t either. At this point it’s a battle of wills. Yours, hers and the hams. I don’t doubt the ham’s sentient at this point. If I was you I would go ahead and name it. “The ham” sounds so informal considering it’s now a member of your family. ---
**Author:** ![criminey.jicket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@criminey.jicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminey.jicket)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/216 "2009-02-21T00:31:18Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > If I was you I would go ahead and name it. “The ham” sounds so informal considering it’s now a member of your family. I vote for Hamish. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/217 "2009-02-21T01:31:55Z")
Hamlet. Obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/218 "2009-02-21T01:35:45Z")
Hampton. ---
**Author:** ![criminey.jicket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@criminey.jicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminey.jicket)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/219 "2009-02-21T01:42:04Z")
Or Hairy Hamlin even. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-after-christmas-and-all-i-have-are-4-buns-and-no-ham/478737/220 "2009-02-21T03:04:54Z")
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