| In the 1970s we ate pork pies, scotch pies, Spam, corned beef, cake, biscuits washed down with dilute orange squash. |
| I remember the brown carrier bag with the tin of corned beef and biscuits, but I did not have the large bar of Cadbury chocolate. |
| During the Napoleonic wars the British army was supplied principally with corned beef which was cured in and exported from the port of Cork. |
| I was a war baby, brought up on Spam sandwiches with best butter, and corned beef. |
| Then one day you chomp a Reuben and your front teeth stay in the corned beef. |
| Apart from corned beef, its most famous food item was a meat extract, a product that in Britain became the crumbly cubes we know as Oxo. |
