to be sad at the price of corned beef?

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Impulse buy as I walked past the butchers on the market, it was lush. But £2.33 for 4 slices! This is why I don't buy it anymore. Love it but for what it actually is it doesn't seem worth the price? I mean its hardily slices of prime meat (from my understanding its from cows that have been cross bread with maize to make an affordable cow that grows out of the ground and lives of water) is it?

I am veggie so can’t comment on the price.

I rather like your idea of where corned beef comes from though. Very cute.

God i love corned beef

Sadly the soil here is no good for growing them

"Cows cross bread with maize"
. Kinda like moosli?

You buy it in slices? Last time I looked corned beef cows were in chunks in a tin not slices. You need to find some new cows

I love corned beef and now, with this mental image its from cows that have been cross bread with maize to make an affordable cow that grows out of the ground and lives of water I love it even more.. thanks!

Corned Beef Hash is a food of the gods !!!

It'll cost more if it comes from a butchers. Go to Tesco. 12 slices for £3.

Our tea tonight is corned beef hash. Awesome

Have to disagree with butchers being more expensive than Tesco. Would never ever buy meat in a supermarket it’s no cheaper and usually much worse quality. Butcher all the way.

Today's lunchtime butty is corned beef, slice of tomato and dijonnaise - bestest butty in the whole wide world

Tesco do a corned beef made from British beef, so no rain forest angst.

How do you cross breed a cow with a grain and grow it out th ground?

No wonder it's so expensive if someone has managed that scientific marvel

myusernamewastaken argree it is the food of the gods and awesome. But the reason it is the food of the gods is because only gods and Bill Gates can afford it.

Goldenbug like I said impulse by as I walked past. I used to set my budget at £1 a tin (give or take a few pence). Now a days I am totally price out of the market (mainly due to stubbornness).

Cows that grow out of the ground? Like plants?

Bloody love a corned beef & brown sauce sarnie...

Mumsnet was my go to place for witty conversation, opinions and a good bun fight.....now its corned beef?

Op, you're joking right? You don't really think cows can grow out the ground and live off water?

Ooooh a corned beef and brown sauce sandwich... now we’re talking!

Redphone That's my understanding of the science behind corned cow. I would imagine the educational video on corned cow reproduction fascinating. Also a great subject for Jeremy Kyle. My father was cob and my mother was bovine.

Op, you're joking right? You don't really think cows can grow out the ground and live off water?

I know, everyone knows corned beef grows on trees, bloody townies not knowing where their food comes from...

Cows that grow out of the ground? Like plants?
Well yes, that’s the joke

If you cross a cow with a maize plant, you get an animal that grows out of the ground, requires only water, and from which you can pick corned beef.

*Maize is corn.
*OP hasn’t actually clarified how one harvests corned beef from the hybrid.

I thought it was made of noses, ears and bums with a good helping of fat thrown in and much too much salt.

I'm veggie now, but I remember a favourite meal as a child being corned beef hash with mashed potato and tinned sweetcorn, with a bit of brown sauce, all heated and mixed together. Mmmm.

somewhere meat in supermarkets is definitely cheaper than my local butcher. I went in the butcher this week and a kilo of steak mince and 4 chicken fillets was £15, it's over £5 cheaper in Asda. Not a major issue for me but a lot of people just can't afford to shop at independent businesses.