Posh Pork Product

Do you like to eat? Do you like to spend? Do you like to combine these hobbies? Well feast (pun intended) your eyes and potentially your wallet on the world’s “most expensive” leg of ham! Selfridges’ Oxford Street flagship shop is hocking it (again, pun intended) for a modest £1,800 for the full seven kilograms. What makes this ham so expensive? Well Pig farmer and “ham expert” Manuel Maldonado hand picked an elite group of fifty pigs to rear in Extremadura feeding them a steady diet of acorns and roots to give them a distinctive flavor. But wait. Theres more. After slaughter, the ham was salted and cured for three full years before being boxed in a hand-made wooden case wrapped in an apron made by a Spanish tailor. It even comes with it’s own DNA certificate. Seriously. The only question left is what to serve it with.

[BBC]