It is to be hoped that you'll never have to see anything like this live, so, for those of you brave enough to scroll down, I'm posting a graphic photo for your edification.
For the
LTHForum 1,000-Recipe Potluck, I at first planned to prepare a
well-aged country ham I had acquired some years ago on a trip to Kentucky. Unfortunately, that ham turned out
not to have aged so well after all.
It looked fine on the outside:

Unfortunately, on the inside, instead of looking like this:
G Wiv wrote:10-year-age "Heart of the Ham"
It looked like this: