"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:49:46 -0500, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>>On 11/16/2013 11:45 AM, 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?
>>>
>>What the cattle eat has nothing to do with it. It's salt-cured beef.
>>According to Wiki, "The term comes from the treatment of the meat with
>>"corns" of salt."
>
> Like corn bread, course milled grain is corn/korn. Calling maize corn
> is a Euro thing, because of the maize kernals.

We call various things 'corn'. We talk of cornfields etc and a farm where I
regularly stay in North Yorkshire, the farmer refers to his barley as 'corn'
too as well as his wheat. It is quite common.

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