Once cooled, hams are taken out of the molds
and packaged. Hams may be smoked to
acquire a typical color and smoke fl avor
(Ellis 2001 ). Cooked hams may be sold as
either entire pieces for slicing at the retailer
shop at consumer request or as packaged
slices ready to be consumed. A wide variety
of vacuum and modifi ed atmosphere packages
containing different numbers of slices
are typically found in supermarkets.