0 meat taken from the back leg or side of a pig and preserved with smoke or salt; a type of ham: --
1 an offensive word for someone whose opinions are very right-wing (= supporting the political right), used mainly about White men who are middle-aged (= from about 45 to 60 years old): --
What an unpleasant bunch of angry, dim-witted gammon they are.
I now come to gammon—to bacon.
Gammon cooked and uncooked will stay off the ration.
There is another compensating factor which, again, has not been mentioned, and it is that 2,000 tons of unrationed gammon meat come on to the market every week.
During our proceedings earlier we had some reference to gammon.
At the same time, uncooked gammon passes from the ration to be available off the ration.
That was when he announced that the bacon ration would be cut, while at the same time saying that off-ration gammon would be available.
The plain truth is that the uncooked gammon was not being taken up sufficiently on the ration.
The freeing of surplus gammon is in no way related to the temporary reduction in the bacon ration.
