Have you tried searching your store using the term 'Hormel roast'?

Could it be a cottage ham? My grandmother cooked cottage ham by simmering. I prefer it to regular ham.

Thank you. I just looked for Hormel roast and cottage ham at several local store sites. No luck. I guess it will have to live on in memory. I appreciate your suggestions.

Ohiopeppers, your grandmother’s cottage ham looks like what i want, but i cant find it under any name in any local store. Sigh.

Kroger some times carries it under the oh so appetizing name of cottage butt. The last time a cooked one I bought it at a small independently owned store that caters to the Amish population. Good luck in your search.

I used to be able to find smoked ham in a shrink-wrapped package that I would use for sandwiches, but not for the past couple of years or so.

I have an Avantco meat slicer that will slice meat paper thin, and so I prefer to slice my own deli meat. I smoke my own turkey breast, and so that is not a problem, but I have not yet smoked my own ham and am unsure about how to do that.

I realize that your post is about pork instead of ham, but I have noticed that a lot of products that used to be readily available are now almost impossible to find.

It‘s true that many products are no longer available. I realize that the American diet has changed dramatically over the years, but i still love many of the things that have fallen from grace. That pork butt, chicken livers, even Y and S black licorice! FortuFortunately, I can still buy Spam!

You should definitely try smoking your own ham, Lars. My son does, and it is absolutely delicious.

I wonder if some of the products that have been in short supply during the last couple of years will come ever back to shelves. The less known ones? Of course,, I know what is popular in one area is less so in other parts of the country.. I know I have seen your roast before, but have never had it. Several products I like have not been available in months.

Rose brand still has smoked boneless pork shoulder butt in the red plastic. Hatfield and Usingers has it, but it's not in red plastic. Hormel has pork butt roasts, but they don't seem to have a smoked in red plastic variety.

Thank you all very much for your help. I won’t give up just yet.

I can't find it either! This has bothered me for years, too! I finally found Rose and Hummel Bros. brands online, but not in a store. I just got some from Roman's Famous Meats in PA and it looks good, but I miss being able to just go get one.


I live in Wisconsin and just bought this at my Piggly Wiggly store. My husband always ate it growing up, so we make it occasionally. Good luck in your search.

You can Google smoked pork in red plastic and it will tell you.

I used to make it all the time also. Hope I

Can find one soon.someone said to ask at deli section of a gourmet grocery?

Good Luck