Dollars and Sense

"That's how my mother made her ham, dear," the grandmother answered. "That's just what you do. It must make the ham taste better." Finally, the girl's great-grandmother spoke up.

"Hogwash," she scoffed. "I had to cut the ham because my oven was too small to hold the whole thing!"

At U of L, as the Kentucky school is affectionately known, the in-plant had been following its own time-honored traditions and long-established standard operating procedures—many of which were well meaning, but no longer well justified. The operation was, in effect, wasting an awful lot of ham.