Corned Beef – the most dangerous food?…

…evil, shitty tins – you always feel like you are handling an unexploded bomb. You just know the little sod will snick you at some point.

You think you’ve got it, then you slide a knife in to ease it out and catch your knuckles on the open flappy bit! 🙂

#EpicSandwichFilling

Tin? I thought it came from the deli?

Mackrel fillet tins. Sharp edges with a spring loaded action that sprays pervasive fishy gunk everywhere.

Tin? I thought it came from the deli?

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Sorry! > Corned Beef > Deli?

Is this a southern thing?

The finest abattoir floor scrapings come in a tin – always have, always will!

Some corned beef earlier…

evil, shitty tins – you always feel like you are handling an unexploded bomb. You just know the little sod will snick you at some point.

You think you’ve got it, then you slide a knife in to ease it out and catch your knuckles on the open flappy bit!

Jesus, you should see what an avocado can do if you get one on a bad day.

Stab the narrower end then open it just falls out then?

Corned beef available from the deli counter has come out of a tin (usually a massive one), it’s just you’ve outsourced the severed artery to the shop staff…

Stab the narrower end then open it just falls out then?

^^He’s right, it releases the air. Same with Spam.

God I miss corned beef now I’m veggie!….I used to buy it pre-sliced in packets though.

Stab the narrower end then open it just falls out then?

So now you’re adding a sharp knife into the mix! 😳 🤦‍♂️

‘as a student’ a tin microwaved (out of the tin first, obvs) with some beans was a staple. Left as a block, just fork bits off…..

(I say ‘as a student’ because clearly I never do this for a cheap EOTM lunch nowadays, of course not)

I thought it came from the deli?

I thought they stopped production after World War One?

I thought it came from the deli?

I thought they stopped production after World War One?

I hope not. We’re having corned beef hash and fried eggs for tea tonight. We’ve had enough of healthy, posh eating this week. 😀

The ‘posh’ pre sliced stuff from the supermarket’s isn’t cheap. You can get real meat cheaper !

You can’t beat a corn beef hash in winter.

The Branwells corned beef tin above is something I give a swerve after having it a few times and getting crunchy bits in it. I don’t even want to think about what that is 🤮

I tend to stick to the Asda one – with smash and baked beans covered in grated cheese. Haven’t had it in a few years but what a comfort food combo that is

Corned beef on a massive bap with salad and salad cream is just the perfect sarnie…

for tea tonight

You mean dinner?

… I’m so hungry for a corned beef butty now (with Branston)!!

Corned beef and raw onion in a bap/barm/roll is a top tier lunch.

Corned beef with chips with a fried egg thrown on top of the corned beef.

I was once introduced by a girlfiend to a Lancastrian delicacy called ‘corned beef hash’, which as far as I could tell was boiled spuds, baked beans and chunks of corned beef stirred in. Dull in itself but my god, the introduction of tonnes of pickled beetroot and juice turned it into an absolutely fantastic dish.

I’m not really in any sort of rush to refresh my memory of corned beef.

for tea tonight

You mean dinner?

Would you really have corned beef hash for dinner? Even if it’s the same time and with the same people, dinner suggests something posher than tea and corned beef hash is deffo not posh. 😀 (My daughter is making it, as it’s one of her favourite foods. Her student friends don’t understand what it is. 😀 )

We’re having corned beef hash and fried eggs for tea tonight.

You’re late. You’ve missed Ash Wednesday.

Oh and up in the NE they have it nailed. Corned beef pie. Mmmmm.

as far as I could tell was boiled spuds, baked beans and chunks of corned beef stirred in. Dull in itself but my god, the introduction of

Is exactly the point. It’s used as a base to make a fabulous meal with just a small addition of something. For me it’s fried eggs and tonnes of butter melting in. For your girlfriend it was beans. For you it’s beetroot. Which is utterly disgusting btw.

You can’t beat a corn beef hash in winter.

You really can, with something like, I dunno, pretty much any other meal.

For you it’s beetroot. Which is utterly disgusting btw.

I give you the Baltic speciality that is Labskaus which is very likely the original “scouse”.

I tend to stick to the Asda one – with smash

Bleedin’ell, they still make Smash as well? I had no idea!

Whatever next……a mug of stout and a Woodbine before taking the ferrets out for a walk?

Key to a good corned beef hash is to let it burn to the pan just the right amount before your scrape it over and gently mix before letting it burn again.

Corned beef, strong cheddar and chilli jam in a toastie…..

Eight stitches between my thumb and forefinger as a four year old. Probably explains why my handwriting was always atrocious. Still got the scar 47 years later.

For you it’s beetroot. Which is utterly disgusting btw.

You couldn’t be wronger! I had a corned beef and beetroot butty for lunch. The butty of the gods! 😀

Key to a good corned beef hash is to let it burn to the pan just the right amount before your scrape it over and gently mix before letting it burn again.

Correct! The other trick is to cut your corned beef into chunks in the morning and then leave it soaking in Worcester sauce all day. As espoused by the master herself

CORNED-BEEF HASH WITH FRIED EGGS

Corned beef, strong cheddar and chilli jam in a toastie…..

Its also a fact that the best cheese toasty is corned beef, mature cheddar, thinly sliced onions, all doused in loads of Worcester sauce

https://m.facebook.com/NoContextPhoenixNights/videos/corned-beef-with-chips-or-with-salad/899911674084384/

Its also a fact that the best cheese toasty is corned beef, mature cheddar, thinly sliced onions, all doused in loads of Worcester sauce

Pfft, as if you know anything about toasties.

beetroot. Which is utterly disgusting btw.

As a soft southerner I appear to have stumbled into a whippet waving competition. Apologies I shall revert to Waitrose.

I’ve only ever wanted to go to two places that loomed large from my childhood:

Devils Tower in Wyoming from Close Encounters,

Fray Bentos in Uruguay, where corned beef comes from.

Corned Beef may yet kill my

Travelling in west Africa in the late 1989s every where we went you could buy corn beef tins labelled

“A gift from the people of Denmark. Not for resale. 1986”

So why did Denmark tin and give away all of its 1986 beef and send it to Africa? One summer word “Chernobyl”

Its also a fact that the best cheese toasty is corned beef, mature cheddar, thinly sliced onions, all doused in loads of Worcester sauce

I have never heard of a croque monsieur with corned beef in it.

So far in the last 24 hours I have discovered that in 2023 people still eat turnips, corned beef, and Smash.

Is Fray Bentos still sold in the northern provincial towns?

Edit: I’m talking about Fray Bentos steak and kidney pies, not the corned beef as suggested up there ^

They’re compulsory Ernie. Every northern household has to have one at least once a week or we get cast out into exile in Cheshire, which everyone knows is just an outpost of the south, inexplicably marooned in the north.

But even Fray Bentos can’t hold a northern candle to these beauties… the goblin pudding!

Goblin pudding FTW !
But…
Not steak and kidney?

APF