Corned Beef

GlynD

How bad has this country got that a basic like corned beef which us old soldiers used to thrive on, moan about, and even discard tins of we had so much of it has now become a luxury item? What's next - hard tack at £5 a packet?

recovering_spendaholic

katskorner wrote: »

My Dad swears by Sainsbury's Basics corned beef. He says it is great value, really meaty with hardly any fat.

I bought a tin of the Basics Corned beef (£1.49) yesterday and you're Dad is right - there was hardly any fat and it was really nice. I will definitely be buying again! I looked at the label and compared it with other brands on the shelf and the percentage of meat was identical, and all the other ingredients were identical too.

GlynD

I think the fat is an essential component. In the army we used to fry it in its own fat on our little no1 petrol stove.

*Homer Simpson voice* Hmmmm - corned beef and petrol *slavers*

sb44

GlynD wrote: »

What's next - hard tack at £5 a packet?

Sorry if I am being a bit thick but what is hard tack?

GlynD

sb44 wrote: »

Sorry if I am being a bit thick but what is hard tack?

It was a ship's biscuit from ye olden days and it was as hard as the oak timbers. In the army until around Y2K there was quite a hard dry biscuit in the ration packs which was referred to as hard tack.

sb44

GlynD wrote: »

It was a ship's biscuit from ye olden days and it was as hard as the oak timbers. In the army until around Y2K there was quite a hard dry biscuit in the ration packs which was referred to as hard tack.

Thanks GlynD, you learn something new everyday!

I can't remember where I put my keys or what I went upstairs for but shall try and remember that little nugget.

moonrakerz

GlynD wrote: »

It was a ship's biscuit from ye olden days and it was as hard as the oak timbers.

...and before you ate it you had to tap it very hard on a wooden or metal surface to get as many as possible of the weevils to fall out

OR....you soaked the biscuit in water/gruel/beer etc, etc, this made the biscuits much easier to eat and the weevils would swim out !

That is why people still dunk their bikkies today :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

GlynD

moonrakerz wrote: »

...and before you ate it you had to tap it very hard on a wooden or metal surface to get as many as possible of the weevils to fall out

OR....you soaked the biscuit in water/gruel/beer etc, etc, this made the biscuits much easier to eat and the weevils would swim out !

That is why people still dunk their bikkies today :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

The lesser of two weevils then?

NKLK

Glynd, you've made me laugh so hard I don't even care that corned beef is expensive anymore!

Haffiana

Ah, the Jack Aubrey fans are coming out of the woodwork...!