Re: Native Japanese Saying ``Barrel''

In message <qHrCk.411$sc2.78@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John Atkinson <johnacko@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Brian M. Scott wrote:
John Atkinson <johnacko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

Certainly people (sailors, anyway) used to keep corned
beef ("salt beef" in USA-speak?) [...]

Corned beef on rye is a classic U.S. sandwich. But
Wikipedia says that what we call corned beef is 'salt beef'
in the U.K., and that U.K. corned beef is something else.

Not that I know of. In Australia at least, it's generally "corn(ed) beef" (usually without the "ed"), never "salt beef".

It's true in the UK. At least, "corned beef" always was (and still is) something that came in cans from Argentina. "Salt beef" is a mysterious imported substance you'd find in a delicatessen, probably synonymous with pastrami. The cured pressed beef my father used to cook is brisket.

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Richard Herring
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