Did you know...........?

[Garmard]

That Fray Bentos is the town in Uruguay where the famous pies and corned beef are made and have been made for just over 100 years.

[NoMercy]

Yup... I knew that. :-)

[dothawkes31]

yes I knew that when i was 12

[dothawkes31]

sorry Garmard that was just a statement and not meant to be as rude as it seems whenh i read it back!!! My family raised beef cattle in the 1950s and 60s and Fray bentos were swear words in our house. lol

[askyourgran]

100 years I thought that last corned beef hash tasted foisty.

[sara3]

well I didn't know that!

[saxy_jag]

It's one of the few things my geography teacher told me that actually stuck, probably because it was linked to some sort of major food poisoning outbreak a few years before that.

[hc4361]

I knew that.

[boxtops]

I remember that saxyjag, didn't they wash the meat in a toxic river then canned it? or or something similar? - people went off corned beef for several years as a result of that, as I recall.

[Garmard]

It's okay dothawkes, i like the banter.
It gets like Prime Ministers question time on here, but much more exciting.

[sadielady]

I do like corned beef

[dothawkes31]

I love corned beef hash with lots of soft potatoes, or lobby as they call it in Lancashire