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 is essentially beef cured in a salt brine, with some pickling spices for added flavor. It gets its name âcornâ from an old English word for grain, or small pieces of hard things the size of grain, such as salt.You can use the spiced cooking liquid to cook vegetables for boiled dinner or corned beef and cabbage .) Notice the visible lines on the meat; this is the grain of the meat, or the direction of the muscle fibers. To make the meat easier to cut, cut it first in half, along the grain of the meat.