Corned beef seems to have originated in Ireland and Scotland, but was commonly used throughout the British Empire for the past 400 years. I assume the cooking and salting process makes it last much longer without going bad, which would make sense for long voyages.
ikidd@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Corned beef is Irish?
News to me. I thought it was just pastrami.
gramie@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A traditional corned beef has potassium sulfate (saltpeter) which often had red dye in it, lending the meat a pink color. So it was also about making bad meat look better.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
It’s Irish American, I doubt it has anything to do with Ireland.
11111one11111@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah you know except the whole part where it was brought to the US by the Irish potatoes famine refugees. But yeah nothing to do with ireland just the thousands of Irish people from Ireland that fled the famine.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
There’s about the same number of foods that are actually from Europe, as there are foods that immigrants made theirs once they got here.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The corned beef isn’t necessarily Irish, but putting it in a stew with cabbage and potatoes is the Irish bit
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The whole reason the Irish subsisted on potatoes was that the corned beef they raised and produced was to be eat only by English abz French. The corned beef was here already in the US, and a different form. It was the Jewish kosher corned beef that became synonymous with Irish American culture.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Nah, it has some irish origins, just not only Irish