JerryChicken wrote:
My dad was also a great lover of corned beef, or "bully beef" as he called it, would just slice it straight from the tin and have it at least once a week with chips and salad and I have to say, its pretty good with Heinz salad cream
Yes, mine called it "bully beef" too, I think it was a throwback to his army days. I remember him telling me how he used to fry up on the body of his bren gun carrier just with the heat of the desert sun. I like it in sandwiches with plenty of onion.
But polony, hated it as a kid, a non-descript sausage in a red skin that tasted of nothing in particular (from memory) but was always of a very mushy consistency as if they were scared to leave any reminder of what it might have been.
That's the stuff, apparently it's quite an old british dish related to mortadella etc. It's probably very variable in quality depending on who made it. I don't think I liked it either, but I love a good quality mortadella now.