Just bought 3 slices at Sainsbury's - £2.50, equivalent to £2 per 100g! I could almost buy prime topside steak for that price. It used to be a cheap, nourishing food. Not anymore. I don't know what a tin costs these days but I bet it's not 99p, the price of the last one I bought. I now realise why, when I was in hospital, that the corned beef hash did not contain any corned beef.
There were problems with Cattle shortages in South America a few years ago,prices rose then - not sure of the state of play over there just now though.
I see the swear filter has become much more sophisticated. Despite my best efforts to circumvent it it still reduced my word to ***, which was meant to be illegitimi.
It has been popular because of the fact it is preserved so keeps well and of course when fresh meat was rationed it made a reasonably priced tasty meal.
Yes, Mamy, but meat rationing ended in 1954, and corned beef was still cheap until a few years ago. Not to worry, as soon as Corbyn hands the Falklands (sorry, Las Malvinas) back to the Argies we'll be awash with the stuff.
ALL corn beef is imported to the UK in plain tins. The various makers buy it in bulk and label it with their own labels. So you get the exact same product with many different labels and prices. If you do not believe me just look at the 'packing station' and batch number on the bottom of each tin. Normally the same numbers on several different brands with different prices.
eddie51, is absolutely right,same tins many different labels,"jackdaw33" fray bentos would put there label on dog****,today not like years ago,just relying on the name to charge what ever they like,the old folk were brainwashed, i could go on and on however enought for now