Quotes About Corned

Emperor Claudius, the story goes, once convoked the Senate to vote on whether corned beef and cabbage was the best of all possible dinner dishes.

At one time, people also preserved meat by soaking it in a brine solution or by covering it with whole grains of salt (which were known as "corn," hence the origin of "corned beef").

It was the seventeenth-century English who gave corned beef its name—corns being any kind of small bits, in this case salt crystals.