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Re:Why Japan Celebrates Christmas with KFC (2016) by dylan604 on Saturday July 10, 2021 @03:21PM (#27795766)
I get your point to an extent, but are you serious with the not knowing Honey Baked Ham? Maybe if your upbringing says no pork, then sure you'd probably not be familiar but I'd at least thought the name would have been at least heard of in school/office/entertainment/etc. Clearly I'm wrong in that.

Not everyone has a large family after growing up and getting holiday meals from "strange" places isn't that strange. Getting a fully cooked holiday meal from the grocery store is a thing, lots of restaurants do this as well. Boston Market often has menu items of turkey/dressing/potatoes/etc that one might think of a traditional holiday meal, so this isn't a stretch for them.

Re:Why Japan Celebrates Christmas with KFC (2016) by mtlynch on Saturday July 10, 2021 @03:28PM (#27795802)
>I get your point to an extent, but are you serious with the not knowing Honey Baked Ham? Maybe if your upbringing says no pork, then sure you'd probably not be familiar but I'd at least thought the name would have been at least heard of in school/office/entertainment/etc. Clearly I'm wrong in that.

You and GP might be talking past each other. GP is talking about "Honey Baked Ham" as a brand name. You might be talking about honey baked ham as a generic food.

I've also spent all my life in the US in vastly different regions, and I've never heard of a franchise called Honey Baked Ham, but I'm aware of honey baked ham as a food product.

Re:Why Japan Celebrates Christmas with KFC (2016) by brudgers on Saturday July 10, 2021 @05:14PM (#27796522)
An Occam's Razor guess where those honey baked ham food products tend to come from can be confirmed with a google when honey baked ham is what you're bringing to the next party.
Re:Why Japan Celebrates Christmas with KFC (2016) by joecool1029 on Saturday July 10, 2021 @04:28PM (#27796206)
>I get your point to an extent, but are you serious with the not knowing Honey Baked Ham? Maybe if your upbringing says no pork, then sure you'd probably not be familiar but I'd at least thought the name would have been at least heard of in school/office/entertainment/etc. Clearly I'm wrong in that.

Funny thing was, I had never heard of Honey Baked Ham until my first boss told me he used to be a manager at one. The irony there was that he was Jewish and didn't eat pork.

Re:Why Japan Celebrates Christmas with KFC (2016) by nkrisc on Saturday July 10, 2021 @04:39PM (#27796275)
Never heard of Honey Baked (Ham?) brand name before. Grew up in Chicago. I’ve had honey baked ham (lowercase) before, but we always got it from a place in Michigan for the holidays.
Re:Why Japan Celebrates Christmas with KFC (2016) by DenverCode on Saturday July 10, 2021 @06:12PM (#27796836)
I’ve never heard of honey baked ham the food chain.