This unpleasant nerve sensation is what most people refer to as âhitting the funny boneâ. Even though the original â and rather laborious pun â underlying the whole âfunny boneâ gag has been long since lost, as it now refers to a nerve experience rather than a bone, the phrase lives on.
Much of the canned corned beef came from Fray Bentos in Uruguay, with over 16 million cans exported in 1943. Even now, significant amounts of the global canned corned beef supply comes from South America. Today, around 80% of the global tinned corned beef supply originates from Brazil.
Corned beef hash is commonly served with eggs for breakfast. Smoking corned beef, typically with a generally similar spice mix, produces smoked meat (or  smoked beef ) such as pastrami. In both the United States and Canada, corned beef is sold in cans in minced form. It is sold this way in Puerto Rico and Uruguay.anned corned beef produced in Argentina for export to in New Zealand, 1946. Although it ceased to be an important commodity in the 20th century Atlantic trade due in part to the abolition of slavery, corned beef production and its canned form remained important as a food source during World War II.