to be sad at the price of corned beef?

[1DAD2KIDS]

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?

Value and supermarket own corned beef has identical nutritional information and is identical as far as I can tell.

It's all about branding. A lot of corned beef is exactly the same in the tin because it all comes from a tiny number of giant south American suppliers, but they put it in value, own brand or branded tins because of the people who won't by value and those who only buy brands etc.

BeeFarseer I can't help it if I'm posh (not)

Wait, so corned beef comes from plant based cows grown in Argentina? It's basically vegan then.

Your thread title caught my eye OP as I've been saying for some time that the price of corned beef is outrageous! My late DM used to tell me that it was dirt cheap years ago when she was young (during the 1940s and 1950s) but that chicken used to be prohibitively expensive. It seems that the situation has reversed now. I do love a corned beef and pickle sandwich but it has become an occasional treat nowadays.

God, I love a corned beef and Branston sarnie - or when I’m feeling particularly lardy, there is no beating a CB and cheese toastie - don’t knock it till you’ve tried it ...).

Tesco have recently reduced the size of the slices by about 25%, keeping the size of the packaging the same and increasing the price. Grrrrrr ....

I like what the Americans call corned beef (salt beef); the beef spam out a tin we get in the other hand... bleurgh.

Corned beef sandwich with a ton of butter and sliced brown onions is my guilty pleasure though every supermarket brand ive tried has been impossible to seperate without it disintegrating so the butcher's is probably better quality for that price

Oh I get it about the plant now. Corn. Yes. V good.

I'm fuming nobody has asked for the full story of the hairy skin 🤢

Give us a chance - I've only just figured out the first post. It'll take me at least another six hours to wrap my head around yours.

YABU purely for the fact that I now really really want a corned beef sandwich. Thanks.

Yes, agreed, it's now a luxury item.
We only have it on treat week, which is strange, when I was growing up it was a cheap thing.

God damn you all

I’m Irish and growing up didn’t really eat corned beef very often —at all— It always seemed like a cold, greasy strange thing. I did buy some M&S slices about a year ago on a whim, and it was delish. How could you make a supper from that though?? Lots of packs??

Oooo how strange.

I bought corned beef today for tge first time in years.
£1.50 for 4 slices from the deli counter at Asda. It was lovely and I will admit on mn to eating the lot this afternoon

I didn't really like corned beef until one day I was working on site and the foreman got us sandwiches from a local sandwich lady - corned beef, pickled beetroot, salad, mayo and hard boiled egg - omg it was amazing!
I do it now for the kids without the egg but everything when I have the time. It's a truly wonderful sandwich combination.

I just buy it tinned and it does the job.

impulse buy

Woooah! Steady on there Kanye.

Woooah! Steady on there Kanye

Woooah! Steady on there Kanye

Who said I was Mr sensible all the time. I can be spontaneous and frivolous sometimes. I have my moments.

Iklboo, that is very similar to the way I make corned beef hash but I use a full tin, put thin layer mash in. Ottom of oven dish, layer of corned beef mix top with mash and bake till crispy on top, fab with red pickled cabbage!

In the Forces one of the ration pack breakfast options was corned beef hash (can you believe it). It was boil in the bag and the breakfast of champions (especially when stuck in an ice cold dugout in the middle of January).

I can only assume some clever bod though how do bring life to the cold, worn down and gopping troops first thing in the morning. I know, break with convention and give them corned beef hash for breakfast.

we always called it corned dog

Corned beef is all fun and games until someone finds a ‘tube’.

Ruined it forever for me.

If you buy it presliced you pay a premium.

A tin of Tesco's own (not value) corned beef is £1.75 for 340g. That's beef for £2.34 per lb. It might be bits and bobs of beef, but so are burgers (£3 per lb for frozen all beef quarter pounders in tesco).
The presliced sandwich beef is £9.99 per ib.

So it seems expensive but it's still the cheapest way to get beef if that's what you want.

Corned beef hash, cooked until it has lots of crispy bits, with brown sauce and a fried egg on top. Mmmmmmm. There's enough meat in one tin for all of us to have a good portion of hash and DH to have a corned beef and piccalilli sandwich next day.