Where to buy smoked ham shanks?
I used to buy smoked ham shanks for cooking beans, greens, jambalaya, etc., but my local grocery stores no longer carry them. In fact, the butcher told me they're just not available anymore. Can this be true?
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9 Comments:
Hmmm...I just bought some a few weeks ago for some beans. I live in southern california and bought them from the grocery store Stater Brothers..... I cant immagine them being gone all together!
socal_cowgirl at 11:33AM on 03/16/09
I see them everywhere in the northeast, midlantic states and south.
Where are you?
JerzeeTomato at 12:05PM on 03/16/09
Burger's Smokehouse carries them. High-quality stuff, too.
www.smokehouse.com
lemons at 12:38PM on 03/16/09
I'm in Southwest Florida, Marco Island to be exact. Plenty of smoked hocks available, but no shanks.
1stmakearoux at 2:56PM on 03/16/09
I'm a butcher in central Florida....and we have smoked ham shanks all the time....maybe your butcher gets the hogs that are raised without shanks on them....lol
onepercent99 at 3:07PM on 03/16/09
@lemons
Thanks.....I just ordered some from Burgers.
1stmakearoux at 3:08PM on 03/16/09
@onepercent99:
There are two Publix supermarkets and one Winn Dixie here, and I got the same story from all three. They say that they're just not available. Maybe I'd better head up your way and stock up!
1stmakearoux at 8:49AM on 03/17/09
I got my ham shanks form Burgers, but they're not smoked! I used one last night with some collard greens, and they were good, but I really wanted smoked shanks. The ones I got are "country" ham shanks, which means heavily salted, not smoked.
1stmakearoux at 1:16PM on 03/22/09
Yes, they're brined, but I promise you they were smoked. I use Burgers all the time. Country hams are cured and smoked, and smoked longer than Burger's "city hams". I've been in their smokehouse.
lemons at 1:49PM on 03/22/09