preserved with salt or salted grains, especially corned beef made from salt-cured brisket.
From 'corn' meaning 'grain' or 'grain of salt,' describing meat preserved with large grains of salt called 'corns' of salt.
Corned beef became the iconic St. Patrick's Day food, but ironically it's an Irish-American invention—Irish immigrants in America adopted it as a cheaper alternative to bacon, which was what they actually ate back in Ireland.
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