Dear Mr Hallstedt,
Many thanks for this most likely lead. Of course Meissner could easily have
been misspelt as Meisner by WSC.
The puzzling question is why he should have assumed that CSC would immediately understand what he meant. Was Meissner ham famous
in Britain at the time ? Why ? Since then ?
Also extremely puzzling is why / how Meissner ham could be procured in 1947, at a time when Germany was starving, so much so that
the perpetuation of rationing in Britain was justified by the need to "share" with Germans in the British Occupation Zone in
Germany.
And how did the two Americans from Time-Life (stationed in London) obtain the coveted German ham ? (The question would not arise
if it were American ham.)
It is of course highly interesting that Cita Stelzer was unable to trace the
allusion in her thoroughly-researched book.
Many thanks again for this lead,
A. Capet
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From: håkan hallstedt
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 7:17 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ChurchillChat] Meisner ham at Chartwell, 1945
Dear all,
Meissner ham is made from a special pig from a region in Germany with that name.
http://www.kulinarium-meissner-land.de/produkte/wurst-und-fleischwaren.html
Sorry about the language.
Could that be the ham in question?
Best regards
Håkan Hallstedt
Stockholm, Sweden
Den torsdagen den 3:e maj 2012 skrev :
In researching my book, Dinner with Churchill, I too was flummoxed by this ham
name and so left it out of the book.
Cita Stelzer
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From: "Antoine Capet" <[email protected]>
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Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 17:36:46
To: <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: [ChurchillChat] Meisner ham at Chartwell, 1945
Dear all,
In his letter to CSC dated 11 August 1947, WSC mentions that his visitors from
Time-Life "brought as goodwill offerings Cigars,
Brandy, a Meisner ham & lots of chocolate for you".
Searches on Google only produce references to radio hams : surely he must have
been referring to the food product in those days of
severe rationing in the UK ?
What sort of ham was / is Meisner ham, if anybody knows ?
Thank you all in advance for any enlightenment.
Professor Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Head of British Studies
University of Rouen
76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan
France
[email protected]
'Britain since 1914' Section Editor
Royal Historical Society Bibliography
Reviews Editor of CERCLES
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