Hoenselaar built his prototype spiral slicer using "a tire jack, a pie tin, a washing machine motor, and a knife".

Hoenselaar taught lunch counter clerks the proper procedure of slicing ham for sandwiches with a knife; he later bought that drugstore in Detroit from the widow of the previous owner for five hundred dollars.

[3] The company is presently headed by Hoenselaar's granddaughter, Linda van Rees, who moved the headquarters to Alpharetta in 2015.

[6] In October 2013, Consumer Reports called Honey Baked Ham "clearly best of the bunch".

[7] In 2019, Kim Severson with The New York Times called Harry J. Hoenselaar "the father of spiral-cut ham".