Originally Posted by
slawecki
i think quite a lot, although many carry name place. looks like about 20 hams are protected. some have name attached, some do not. prosciutto is the italian word for ham. it is not protected. prosciutto di parma is protected.
And then there are foods that are named after a region of which that region might be oblivious.
The example that spring to my mind is jamon York. I doubt if any of the tons of ham labelled this way in Spain ever came from Yorkshire.