For those of us brought up in the UK , Fray Bentos corned beef and steak pies were part of the weekly diet .
Here is an article from an erudite scholar at Liverpool Museum talking about the town .
Some background on Fray Bentos
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I suspected there would be a connection but hadn't looked into it....very interesting.
Used to love the tinned corned beef, tatties and biled cabbage my mother used to serve up for dinner. A touch of Colemans mustard along with it. When I first came here La Anonima used to sell tinned corned beef, no idea which brand. Haven't seen it in a long while though. Don't recall seeing cabbage here either.
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Fascinating article and Blue Star Line also rings a bell since I returned to Southampton from BA on the Brasilia Star in November 1976, with my sister and a case of Fray Bentos corned beef. (24 tins in a case.)
I absolutely love corned beef, especially served cold with egg and chips and slabs of decent white bread and Anchor butter.
It's called viandana here, but it's hard to find and considered poor people's food. So be it then; I'm poor.
Tesco still stocks corned beef.
https://www.tesco.com/grocerie…preads/tinned-corned-beef
And of course, Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie in a tin
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Thanks, UK Man and Splinter , for the interesting article, the Tesco info, and the trip down memory lane. We didn’t have Fray Bentos in the US, but it, along with Campbell’s soup, made up the nightly week-after-week menu in my Oxford bedsitter. I never developed a taste for steak & kidney pie, but loved the corned beef, especially in Reuben sandwiches. Mmmmm.
