Corned Beef

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When I was young, my mother fed me corned beef morning, noon and night. I fcuking hated it. My sister always use to say that corned beef was what poor people ate and that it was made from organ meat which was spiced and squashed into a can. So, after about 25 years of last trying it, I decided to buy a can at Christmas. I mixed it with mayonaisse and put it into a sandwich and discovered that it was in fact delicious. I also took time to read up on corned beef and discovered that it is a piece of cured pressed meat and was at one time, one of Ireland's biggest exports.
So what are your thoughts on corned beef?

BattleCorp

Fake News wrote: »

When I was young, my mother fed me corned beef morning, noon and night. I fcuking hated it. My sister always use to say that corned beef was what poor people ate and that it was made from organ meat which was spiced and squashed into a can. So, after about 25 years of last trying it, I decided to buy a can at Christmas. I mixed it with mayonaisse and put it into a sandwich and discovered that it was in fact delicious. I also took time to read up on corned beef and discovered that it is a piece of cured pressed meat and was at one time, one of Ireland's biggest exports.
So what are your thoughts on corned beef?

Fu kin grand in a Tayto sandwich.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Always hated it as a kid.

Haven't eaten it since about the turn of the century.

spurious

Real corned beef is nyom. The stuff in a tin is yuk.

falinn merking

Fake News wrote: »

When I was young, my mother fed me corned beef morning, noon and night. I fcuking hated it. My sister always use to say that corned beef was what poor people ate and that it was made from organ meat which was spiced and squashed into a can. So, after about 25 years of last trying it, I decided to buy a can at Christmas. I mixed it with mayonaisse and put it into a sandwich and discovered that it was in fact delicious. I also took time to read up on corned beef and discovered that it is a piece of cured pressed meat and was at one time, one of Ireland's biggest exports.
So what are your thoughts on corned beef?

Show off.
It was tins of soylent green in our house.

Conchir

My primary school got sandwiches delivered every day. Once a week the filling was corned beef. I brought my own lunch but I'd always take the corned beef sandwich, always thought it was pretty nice.

kylith

spurious wrote: »

Real corned beef is nyom. The stuff in a tin is yuk.

QFT

Jim Bob Scratcher

Corned beef looks like ham with chickenpox, never liked the stuff

DrGreenthumb

Korn Beef

http://www.mtv.com/news/1473403/korns-singer-calls-deftones-vocalist-bitter-prepares-to-blow-heads-off/

Maggie Marie

BattleCorp wrote: »

Fu kin grand in a Tayto sandwich.

Did you really have to quote the op, was it not obvious it was to the op you were replying to.

Surreptitious

We used to have it with cabbage and white sauce. I hated it for years but would probably munch away on it now. The real meat not the tinned one.

spurious

Surreptitious wrote: »

We used to have it with cabbage and white sauce. I hated it for years but would probably munch away on it now. The real meat not the tinned one.

It's savage, especially if the cabbage is cooked in the water the corned beef has been in.

patchyamac

Up to recently,I was still getting it vacuum sealed to send to sister in the UK,until she found a source near where she lives..Corned beef from a can is basically Spam,not Corned beef.

Marty Bird

If you're feeling rather hungry, hey there's a product you'll remember.


Eat it hot or cold on Sunday, or you can put it in a blender.


Corned Beef with chips or with salad, It's corned beef - even Buckingham Palce eats corned beef.


Hey why don't you try corned beef hash!"?

yorlum11

Hazlett lads. Can't beat it. Corned beef could only wish to be hazlett. Smathering of mayo and fresh white bread and hot cuppa. Heaven.

patchyamac

Marty Bird wrote: »

Hey why don't you try corned beef hash!"?

I prefer to put my hash into some petit filous

Zaph

Real corned beef is vile. The tinned stuff is even viler. When I was a kid the real stuff was often made from brisket. When you consider how good a brisket barbecued for 12-14 hours is, throwing it into a big tub of brine before boiling the arse out of it is an awful travesty.

somefeen

I'm sure you used to get tins of it off the social welfare when I was a kid or it was like that free cheese thing a few years back.
Hated the stuff and it was ****ing everywhere.

It was like someone found a way to condense the feeling and atmosphere of a dole queue into some kind of fatty syrup and then marinated scraps of beef in it.

Didn't eat corned beef as an adult until just a few weeks ago. The proper stuff is actually lovely if you can disassociate it from bad memories.

corner of hells

yorlum11 wrote: »

Hazlett lads. Can't beat it. Corned beef could only wish to be hazlett. Smathering of mayo and fresh white bread and hot cuppa. Heaven.

I tip my hat to you , sir.
Hazlet is heaven sent.

spurious

Zaph wrote: »

Real corned beef is vile. The tinned stuff is even viler. When I was a kid the real stuff was often made from brisket. When you consider how good a brisket barbecued for 12-14 hours is, throwing it into a big tub of brine before boiling the arse out of it is an awful travesty.

Ooh no boiling, just a couple of hours slightly below the boil.

Fake News

somefeen wrote: »

I'm sure you used to get tins of it off the social welfare when I was a kid or it was like that free cheese thing a few years back.
Hated the stuff and it was ****ing everywhere.

It was like someone found a way to condense the feeling and atmosphere of a dole queue into some kind of fatty syrup and then marinated scraps of beef in it.

Didn't eat corned beef as an adult until just a few weeks ago. The proper stuff is actually lovely if you can disassociate it from bad memories.

The lumps of fat that come with it does it no favours. It looks like cat food. The product needs to be re-branded and given new packaging.

Ann22

I used to get it in slices on my school lunch sandwiches. Liked it well enough but preferred the chicken or ham days. My hubbie likes it in a sandwich with tomato. My granny used to give us what I thought was spam...I hated it!

Westernyelp

Did you really have to make that post?

BTW Corned beef is lovely on fresh white bread

freshpopcorn

The odd slice of Corned beef is nice but I never liked luncheon roll.

Butcher Boy

freshpopcorn wrote: »

The odd slice of Corned beef is nice but I never liked luncheon roll.

That luncheon roll is pure ****e

SpannerMonkey

Love corned beef always did even as a kid . cant beat it with a fresh loaf of crusty bread with lashings of kerrygold butter and loads of helmanns mayo and a hot cuppa taaaaeeee nom nom nom

gozunda

Zaph wrote: »

Real corned beef is vile. The tinned stuff is even viler. When I was a kid the real stuff was often made from brisket. When you consider how good a brisket barbecued for 12-14 hours is, throwing it into a big tub of brine before boiling the arse out of it is an awful travesty.

The yanks all think the Irish eat corned beef (the boiled variety) and cabbage on a regular basis - go figure ...


https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/food-drink/chef-gilligans-corned-beef-and-cabbage-87626582-237359981

Kat1170

The boiled type can be the bomb so long as it is not over cooked. Get yourselves a meat thermometer people. You won't regret it.

The stuff in a small tin is vile, tastes like cheap bubble gum to me.

The sliced packaged stuff in the likes of Centra, nope.

The 'fresh' sliced stuff from a butchers or good deli counter, in a salad sandwich with fresh white bread, salad cream (Chef) and lashings of piping hot tea .... Lovely.

In sandwiches in school ??? Jaysus' that's bringing right back to the mid 70's.

Canis Lupus

I'm getting days on the bog flashbacks with the thought of corned beef sandwiches.

I like it, the real deal or the canned stuff.

donegal_man

Proper corned beef in a sandwich with some mature cheddar and slightly under ripe tomato.
DELICIOUS!

ella23

I think like everyone I was turned off it as a child, especially the sliced one. My nan used to fry the tinned stuff for us though, made it nice and crispy and put it on toast or with potatoes. Used to love that, I haven't had that though since probably 1995. I rediscovered the sliced corned beef (butcher sliced, not packaged slice) about fifteen years ago and I still liked it the odd time before i gave up meat completely last year. My mouth is watering now at the thought of it though. I liked it two ways, one in a sandwich, with plenty of butter, taytos topped with brown sauce or just simply put the corned beef on toast, with butter and a little bit of white pepper sprinkled over it. Feck.. I want corned beef now.

Can’t believe anyone was picky about what meat they ate in the 90s or before- I loved it all. Corned beef was delicious, haven’t tasted it in ages though. Last time I had it I liked it. Used to be so jealous of my friends who were allowed to eat beef during the BSE scare- it was all pork mince, fish fingers, roast chicken and the odd fry up for us. Used to pine for a hamburger! Honourable mention to “billy roll” - unreal.

FanadMan

Love the tinned stuff but the real version it so different and beautiful.

When I was a kid I used to make toasties with the tinned stuff. Grate some cheese and mix it with grated corned beef - became a cheeesy meaty sludge that was so nice. Sometimes add a wee drizzle of ketchup and into the toastie maker. Mouth is watering just thinking about it now.

...__...

Hazzlet and Corned beef amazing

Pork onion and tomato roll Jesus wept why would you feed that to someone.

Dakota Dan

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Always hated it as a kid.

Haven't eaten it since about the turn of the century.

At the turn of the century you'd have been a garsun not a kid

ThisRegard

...__... wrote: »

Hazzlet and Corned beef amazing

Pork onion and tomato roll Jesus wept why would you feed that to someone.

I like all 3, but can rarely bring myself to eat any knowing what it is.

dub_skav

Fake News wrote: »

My sister always use to say that corned beef was what poor people ate

How is her ladyship these days?

Jesus, any type of meat was a treat when I was young. I got corned beef sandwiches once a year for my school trip as a treat.

Proper stuff is excellent for dinner and then leftovers for sandwiches - delish

suicide_circus

I'd take a tin of corned beef over a tin of spam any day of the week

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Most people don't know what proper corned beef is. Corned beef is a salt-cured beef. The term comes from the treatment of the meat with large grained rock salt, also called "corns" of salt.

Somewhere along the way somebody thought it meant pressed meat with sweetcorn added and squeezed into a can.

Junkyard Tom

Carrion gobbling vultures.

gozunda

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Carrion gobbling vultures.

Go on ya bleddin veganista ya ...corned beef (tinned) to meat is what cola is to water

Sebastian Dangerfield

yorlum11 wrote: »

Hazlett lads. Can't beat it. Corned beef could only wish to be hazlett. Smathering of mayo and fresh white bread and hot cuppa. Heaven.

Is that the horrible glow in the dark pink / purple stuff you used to see in butchers everywhere?

I say horrible - I've never eaten it, I have a phobia of neon foods.

Edit: Google tells me that stuff was called brawn

bnt

Love it but have pretty much stopped eating it due to health concerns. Saturated fats and all that, especially the canned stuff. The one you get from the butcher's counter seems less fatty.

Fann Linn

Conchir wrote: »

My primary school got sandwiches delivered every day. Once a week the filling was corned beef. I brought my own lunch but I'd always take the corned beef sandwich, always thought it was pretty nice.

Buns on a Wednesday and corned beef on a Thursday in James St school back in the day. Horrible jam sambos on a Friday, with the jam on a hot day melting along with the butter and becoming a slimy mass, coagulating on the plastic packing in which it came
All washed down with a tepid glass bottle of milk.

God be with those days.

razorblunt

The stuff in a tin or sliced in the corner shop was always rank.

But "proper" corned beef is fantastic.

andekwarhola

I loved it as a kid, even the shop sliced stuff everybody looks down their nose at.

I even begged my Ma to make corned beef burgers when I spotted them mentioned somewhere.

I liked Haslet too. You never really see that around anymore.

whisky_galore

Deleted User wrote: »

Can’t believe anyone was picky about what meat they ate in the 90s or before- I loved it all. Honourable mention to “billy roll” - unreal.

Bright pink highly processed meat and liver...two pre Celtic Tiger 'delicacies' I'd rather not sample again.
Barf.

Rumpy Pumpy

razorblunt wrote: »

The stuff in a tin or sliced in the corner shop was always rank.

But "proper" corned beef is fantastic.

This. Proper boiled beef with cabbage, turnip, and boiled spuds is an epic dinner.

lolie

Used to remember as a young fella on a Sunday and one of the elder sibling's going to the local shop for tinned corn beef, tomatoes and fresh batch bread for the tea. Never ate it with mayo though, always salad cream.
Delicious. Used to enjoy a slice of it on the pan.

Fann Linn

And whilst on the subject of SW culinary delightful meats let's not forget that 'auld Dublin' favourite, Brawn.

Foxhound38

Bread, butter, corned beef, tayto crisps and a mug of scalding hot tea - pure happiness.