That could be true, jeffbc......sounds possible.
I remember a story of a woman who was cooking a ham for Easter dinner. As she sliced a one inch slab off the end of the ham before placing it in the roasting pan, her daughter asked her why she cut the slab off. The mother said, that's just the way you cook a ham......my mother always did it like that, and it was always delicious.
The next time the woman and her daughter were at the 'grandmas' house, she asked her mother why you had to cut the one inch slab off the ham. Her mother answered......I cut the one onch slab off the ham, because it didn't fit in the roasting pan.