On Oct 7, 9:04*am, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Oct 2012 08:06:30 -0400, Gary > wrote:
> >The Other Guy wrote:
>
> >> On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 23:18:11 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> >> > wrote:
>
> >> >In article >,
> >> > Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
>
> >> >> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>
> >> >> >Why is it common to brine pork and poultry, but not beef?
>
> >> >> It's more common to brine beef.
> >> >> Corned beef.
> >> >> Sauerbratten.
> >> >> It's more common than all the rest together to brine fish.
>
> >> >Corned beef, eh? *Didn't know that.
>
> >> And, of course, pastrami.
>
> >And also....."corned" is another word for "brined in salt water."
>
> Pastrami is essentially smoked corned beef.
> Btw, brined in salt water is an oxymoron.

It's redundant, because it uses two terms that mean the same thing. An
oxymoron is two terms used together that are contradictory, like
describing someone as pretty ugly.