Those sorts of salads I am familiar with. ... I am scared to ask when that ham recipe is from.

Also, what the heck, one does not use ginger ale for ham. *Co-Cola*, not ginger ale -- you want dark sodas.

(Okay, a really nice ginger brew, maybe, with the pineapple and the honey, but not the sweet vaguely-gingery soda which calls itself ginger ale.)

<-- Deep South girl