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 cannot open the tins. The little foil thing that you have to use a key on always breaks. Cue trying to use a tin opener, then blood and plenty of it.

I buy the slices in M+S. Gorgeous, but they are expensive I'll grant you. Presumably they are the same as what is in the tin, but so much more user friendly have to say.

God I haven't had corned beef for years - want some now!

Is it a bit like this OP?
vegetable lamb

Maybe the rubbish key opener thing is designed to draw blood and so add some nutrition to your processed beef product.

noeffingidea I'm surprised at the price now. It used to be one of our cheapest dinners when I was growing up

That is exactly my beef.

Blatherskite beans always. Not sure about such decadent things such as poached eggs.

Maelstrop £1.29 is pushing it for my normal corned beef budget per tin but doable.

@Blatherskite

This is my fave way to do it Delia But I add carrots and sometimes peas as well (so I'm still getting veg in)

I had a corned beef and salad cream sandwich for lunch. Yummy.

My mum was an A&E nurse in the 1960/70s, she said they had patients in every week with corned beef tin related injuries.

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

I think you may be getting corned beef confused with the McTrump, MaccyD's new chicken burger. That's made entirely from right wings and arseholes.

Oooh corned beef hash guess what's on the menu this week, it is expensive now but I'm getting through tins of it every week, sarnies for work and at home it's corned beef, cheese and branston pickle toasties which I could eat till they come out of my ears

Ummm. I buy the cheapest one/one on offer and put it in the food bank. Is the cheap stuff vile or something? It’s nothing like the price people are quoting. Never liked it myself btw so wouldn’t be able to tell.

I just use the normal tin opener...

What exactly is corned beef?

I’ve never eaten it, it resembles tinned dog food, same with spam. What’s in those smelly little tins?

I’ve always premused it’s the sweepings up from slaughter houses mushed and canned but apparently people like it.

You lot are gross. I didn't realise anyone under the age of 110 ate corn beef [bleugh]

it's cured, then slow cooked beef.
that's then either sliced or pressed into a tin or terrine.

I'm loving this thread. I've got a tin in the cupboard. I've been psyching myself up to make corned beef hash with it because the idea is appealing but I've never actually had it.

The delia recipe looks tasty. Does anyone have an other recipes to try?

Corned beef and HP brown sauce sandwich

Love corned beef butty with home made pickled onion slices or a bit of brown sauce

Corned beef and piccalilli or corned beef with salad and salad cream. Both great.

My mums corned beef hash was amazing.

Even the tinned stuff is expensive for what it is, it’s a bloody liberty, I love it but it’s basically cow arse in a can, how they charge so much beggars belief

Corned beef hash is amazing.

1 tun corned cow, onion , baked beans, tinned potatoes, Worcestershire sauce and red wine- all chucked in a frying pan , easy peasy .

1 tin not 1 tun , that would just be silly and require more than a frying pan to hold it all

Mine is more of a stew

Fry chopped onion until soft, add cubed potatoes (fairly chunky), and round slices of carrot (chunky again), cover with hot water, add oxo cubes, pepper and Lea and Perrins. Simmer until potatoes are soft then add chopped up corned beef and stir

Serve with crusty bread and pickled red cabbage

Much fun, so meme.

My nana 'invented' a dish she called Catalana:

Fry an onion until soft
Add a tin of chopped tomatoes & simmer
Add about half a tin a corned beef, thinly sliced & cook / stir until it's all broken down
Crumble in a beef oxo cube and stir until it's melted in.

Serve with chips and lots of cheap white bread & butter.

I still make it for myself if I'm feeling a bit under the weather.

Woah woah woah, red wine in corned beef hash? Worcester sauce? No. Just no.

I bet it's a nice dish, but you can't call it corned beef hash. I am most shocked and appalled.