[thechat] Re: corned beef or bacon? (was RE: Hijacked... Re: [thechat] Fighter plane's laser may blind civ ilians)

Joel Canfield joel at spinhead.com
Wed Jul 31 10:10:01 CDT 2002


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>    I'm not sure. We have stuff we call corned beef, which is
> a sort of re-constituted beef-and-flour mix, with other, more
> dubious bits in. Sort of like high-quality dog food, now that
> I come to think about it, although I quite like it. Is that
> what you'd call corned beef?

Nope. It's brined, or pickled, with spices, usually pepper and bay. This
article makes quite a few interesting statements I can't substantiate.

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/pubs/cornbeef.htm

Either way, I like the stuff.

joel



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