Doug Hamilton
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- Joined
- Mar 1, 2020
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- Location
- Washington State
- Member of
- Mule Deer Foundation, RMEF, SCI
- Hunted
- Zimbabwe, US, Canada
Okay. One more Jewish meat story. It is quite customary to eat corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick's day here in the US, even among those of us that aren't Irish. It was known to be something that Irish-Americans ate a lot of here. In Ireland it is rarely eaten. When the Irish immigrants arrived in this country they mostly settled in New York. The butcher shops were mostly owned by Jews, who did not sell ham. The next best thing is corned beef. So even if corned beef was not actually invented by the Jews, we have them to thank for making it popular here. I love all of these meats! Come to think of it, I met up with a friend for lunch today and I had a Rueben!Yes, Doug. Originally, the European (Romanian) Jews used goose breasts. But they switched to beef navels after immigrating to the United States.
I still use the original European Jewish recipe for making pastrami out of all the breasts of the bar headed geese and greylag geese that I hunt every wildfowling season.