It’s March and we all know what that means, St. Patrick’s Day. All the grocery stores are running deals on brisket, cabbage, potatoes, and carrots.
I was able to score corned beef brisket for $3.49/lb, 8lbs of potatoes for $1.49, cabbage for $.79/lb, and carrots for $.99/lb.
$3.03 per person.
After being very confused by this picture, I just went down a rabbit hole researching the use of “corned beef” across the English speaking world…
As far as I can tell:
Corning is a preservation process that involves curing meat with salt corns (big grains) in a brine. This helps extend the shelf life of the brisket and imbues a salt flavor to the meat.
Hopefully that clears up some confusion.
In Canada, there is sliced meat from the deli called corned beef, but also corned beef in a can like in the UK. I’ve never seen inside a can, but Ive assumed its like canned ham, a formed meat product.
Corning is a process so I assume it can come out in all shape sizes and colors lol
We have the canned kind in the US too. I guess we distinguish between them with context clues. “Pick up a can of…” vs “I’m making…”
Yup. I always buy the canned stuff to make corned beef hash, the premade stuff has awful potatoes.