Virginia ham has the added bonus of being a phrase ... plenty of experience with curing meat -- although they preferred venison -- and they showed the English settlers how best to salt and smoke ...

You can have pork steaks, beef steaks, even venison or shark steaks. A steak just needs to be a flat, meaty cut to earn the name. 'Ham steak' is a natural progression of the terms 'ham' and 'steak ...