Hamazing Blog A comparison of prepacked & presliced ham vs ham on the bone

To make prepacked ham, the meat is deboned from the leg, squashed in to a long brick shape, frozen, sliced thinly and packed in to what you see in the supermarket packets. This is why all the slices look eerily similar and and have an eerily absent taste - it's not that the meat comes as a meat-flavoured breeze block, but that's how it's best to cut.