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"Black Forest" Food Items Phony Balogna

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Anyone know where this so-called "Black Forest" is? We have Black Forest ham, ice cream, beef and cherries among other items. The truth is it is nothing but a marketing name.
 
Anyone know where this so-called "Black Forest" is? We have Black Forest ham, ice cream, beef and cherries among other items. The truth is it is nothing but a marketing name.

Comes from the same place as your screen name.
 
Germany. So, it simply means, a style of ham. Black Forrest ham, for instance, is uncured, smoked ham.
 
Anyone know where this so-called "Black Forest" is? We have Black Forest ham, ice cream, beef and cherries among other items. The truth is it is nothing but a marketing name.

It may be just a marketing ploy but I lived, worked & studied in Freiburg i. Br. which is in the Black Forest which is part of Alsace-Lorraine.
I could see the Black Forest from my apartment window.
My friends & I used to bicycles throughout the region & up into the foothills of the Alps as well as the Alps. We also rode our bicycles from Freiburg up to Strasbourg along Weinstrasse ( Wine street/road) which had wine booths set up along the way like they have vegetable stands along country roads in the US. Each vineyard sold wine by the glass or bottle so after a day of bicycling and drinking wine, we would eat a long dinner of the local ham etc then spend the night either with friends or outside in a field.
Food & wine were very inexpensive so we traveled well for a very long time.

That was in 1974 but I remember many of the delicacies that are indigenous to the region with the wine being second to none.
A former Wehrmacht Officer with whom I worked gave me a sack of cherries from his cherry tree which were especially delicious.
One of the things for which the region is best known is "Black Forest cherry cake" but I have yet to find the real thing in the US.
 
It's a style of ham (the way it's cooked, cured, etc.). It's named after the German black forest region of Europe. You may prefer honey ham. You might like Louisiana style BBQ sauce, for example. It doesn't mean it's actually from there. The recipe could be though.
 
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