Rays Countryham

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RAYS COUNTRY HAM
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ABOUT US
Ray and Geneva Goad opened their first
restaurant, about ten years after Ray was
discharged from the Navy at the end of WWII. From
day one home Cured Country Ham was featured on
the menu.
Ray became the innovator of the fast food
breakfast. More significantly, he featured the
homemade from scratch southern biscuits that his
mother had started making at one of his first
restaurants, Rays Starlight Restaurant, in Mount
Airy, N.C., the home of Andy Griffith and
Mayberry USA.
Country ham harks back to the way food was
preserved on the family farms of Appalachia
before electricity and refrigeration. The family
tradition of butchering hogs in the late fall
allowed for them to be preserved during the cold
winter months by rubbing them with salt, and
sugar, and other spices to begin a curing process.
They are patiently made in three traditional
seasonal steps curing, salt equalization, and
aging, but also with a dedication to the
preservation of a taste from another place in
time, a taste that can be found in every slice of
Rays Country Ham.
The only similarity between Southern Country Ham
and the stuff in the deli case is that they both
come from a pig. To Southerners and pork
devotees, Country Ham is legendary an exquisite
dry-cured artisanal meat rivaling prosciutto in
its rosy-hued perfection.
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Americas First Fast Food Breakfast
In 1970, there was not a single McDonalds,
Wendys or Hardees that was open for breakfast.
Ray Goad was the first to open for breakfast at
his Rays Kingburger restaurants featuring
Country Ham and homemade from scratch southern
biscuits that his mother started making at Rays
Starlight Restaurant, in Mount Airy, N.C. You
cant eat at a Rays Kingburger restaurant today,
but you can find the Breakfast Biscuit at any
fast food restaurant across the USA. Ray Goad was
a true Fast Food pioneer, and now you can enjoy
that original authentic taste in every slice of
Rays Country Ham brand.
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Country Cured Ham
Looking for premium quality Country Cured Ham?
RaysCountryHam.com is the place to find the best
quality Ham slices online. Come on, visit us now!
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Rays Country Ham Brand Launched
MOUNT AIRY, NC, July 4, 2017. Ray Jr. and Susan,
the children of Geneva and Ray Goad, announced
the organization of a family company to establish
a Rays Country Ham Brand. The product will be
cured in the style featured for almost 50 years
at the Rays Starlight Restaurant in Mt. Airy,
NC, and, at Rays Kingburger and Sweet Sue
Restaurants, for more than twenty years across
the five Mid-Atlantic States in which Rays
operated.
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ADDRESS
Rays Country Ham Company LLC, 707 West Pine
Street, Suite 600 Mount Airy, North Carolina,
USA [phone]
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