"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Ophelia wrote:
>>
>> I just read that corned beef comes from cattle raised on maize. I always
>> though it referred to the corns of salt which was used to help preserve
>> it.
>> Can anyone elucidate please?
>
> Corned beef, fish....corned anything refers to soaking it in a
> super-saturated salt brine before putting away.

Is it first salted and then dried?

Has nothing to do with
> the vegetable corn.

Thanks, Gary. That is how I understood it too but I wasn't sure. I've
never seen that here, the only corned beef we get is canned and is very
salty.

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