Could the building super use it to bait traps around the place? Were there any instructions that it was a salt-cured ham and should be soaked before cooking?  With that much salt, it was a health hazard and could have been reported to a consumer reporter. I once, as a kid, ate some salt-cured ham at the house of friends. It was a taste treat, but I remember them telling me how much water was used in the preparation with the soaking and boiling, to get the salt out of the meat and it was still pleasantly salty.

The Chinese have bought the most famous ham-curing company in the south and I would not bet on the quality any longer; hell they poison their own populace why should they care about ours? I think Talmadge Farms in Georgia produces or did produce salt-cured hams, but those are memories from long ago so I can't vouch for any of them.

I do know that smoked turkey breast tastes like ham and has virtually no calories, but Empire changed their production methods, ostensibly to eliminate chemicals and the stuff is dreck. The slices used to be thin and delicious and now they are thick with an unappealing texture and flavor and I encountered gristle for the first time in a slice. Maybe it's time I gave it up, but it was so good with so many different flavor add-ons like half sour pickle slices, tomato, onion and cucumber salad and, of course, wonderful Honey Cup mustard. Now I will have to find a new brand.

As to returns, if my mother ran into resistance, she would open her purse, remove a piece of paper and a writing instrument then examine the employee's name tag and verify the spelling before writing it down, explaining that she wanted to make sure she had it right before going to the manager. It changed employees' attitudes immediately. Today, that can be used before going online to corporate HQ. I waited 15 minutes at my local HD years ago while they paged the manager on duty who must have been sleeping or screwing someone because he never answered the page. I verified the store number and reported it to HQ. They sure have changed their front end operations with people directing customers to available self-serve registers and helping in many ways like scanning large items. I think that they learned from complaints from dissatisfied customers.

It's a shame to waste GOOD food.  Something that is inedible is not food. Food is meant to nourish the body. Anything that harms the body is not nourishing.

I have opened things that were bad and bagged them up and froze them to return the next time I went to the store. Luckily, I save the register tape.

The video was funny.

I am embarrassed for some of you that you value your time and energy so little to go pester the store about items that end up being disappointing.

Don't buy it again.  Lesson learned.  I usually suffer through a mistake item and don't buy it again.  After reading some of the comments, I'll add older homos to the dissatisfied group I previously thought was reserved for old women.

Back when I had my case management job. Any honey baked or spiral sliced hams provided by vendors at holidays or inservice training, we always sent the carcass home with a lady in the office that had several kids.  Of course red beans and rice is a Monday menu in NOLA.  Many times I think she fed her family and half of the subdivision.  She was glad to get the bone/meat and whatever was left.