A meat product is spirally sliced around an axis through the meat created by the insertion of a temporary support member through the meat. The meat is mounted in meat slicing apparatus which rotates the meat. A slicer blade is introduced into the meat in a plane substantially perpendicular to the axis of rotation while the meat is rotating. The slicer blade is then indexed linearly along an axis parallel to the axis of rotation of the meat, thereby effecting a continuous spiral cut in the meat. First and second spacers are used to allow the meat product to have a continuous spiral cut having first and second ends each residing writing a range of 1/8 of an inch to 1 inch from the respective ends of the meat product.