The muscles we call the hamstrings get their names from the long tendons (the strings) that these muscles have. When a pig was slaughtered, the cut of meat we call a ham was strung up in the smokehouse by these tendons. Where on a pig, then, does the ham come from?

a. upper front leg
b. neck region
c. upper back leg
d. the belly region
e. the shoulder region


C

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