Ham

Here we have the very un-spectacular entrance to my favourite wog deli - Rizzo's Deli. It is not very wide, it's on a crummy street and it's almost too cramped to take a pram in.

However, they do very nice ham. Double smoked. Sliced very thinly - so thinly, it actually is "shaved". Shaved is such an over used term these days. I could "shave" a ham more thinly with a blunt block splitter than most supermarket delis could slice it with their slicing machine.

The other bonus is that they skin the ham before slicing it, so you don't get that horrid ham rind when you eat it. There is a slightly flasher deli about 50 yards down the road, and I gave up on them after finding that they neither skin nor shave their ham.

I bought some ham from Rizzo's the other day and held it up to the light. Yes, you could almost see through it.

It's worth putting up with the queues, the smelly wog customers (and that's the women), the crowding and the staff that don't speak much English in order to get your hands on their ham.