Are there limits to fusion cuisine?

I've had it before. It's okay but they usually go way too heavy on the mustard. They treat it like their sour cream or salsa on a normal burrito.

A chacun son gout as they say in France... “to everyone his or her own taste.”

But there are certain lines that must never be crossed. For example, serving some tomato-laden stuff and calling it “chowder” warrants the assembling of a mob and the distribution of torches and pitchforks.

It's the taqueria for me that kills it. People rave about Anna's but I think they're below average and go for El Pelon when I need my burrito fix.

Don't @ me. I just think that corned beef is a horrible thing to do to a brisket.

(and don't start with pastrami because THAT IS DIFFERENT DAMMIT)

that one! Allston has a couple of Mexican / Korean joints I kinda like.

The anatomy of the mouth makes it very difficult to pronounce “corn beef” and “corned beef” differently from each other without an exaggerated pause, because in between ending the “n” and starting the “b” the tongue kind of passes through “d” whether you are trying to say it or not.

See also, “mash potatoes”

been corned, i.e., wet-cured, so-called because the brine was once made from large-grained salt called corns.

I bought me some Prague Powder #1 (a/k/a/ pink salt) and pickling spices and corned a big brisket at home a couple of years ago. The results were pretty great! I should do that again this year.

The etymology of corned beef is from corn's meaning of a small nugget (as in peppercorn) and it was also once applied to the more typical coarse salt of the day. Since it's a past tense verb it is essentially the same as saying "salted beef" so "corned beef" would be appropriate regardless of how people pronounce it.

As a trivia side note it was usually corned pork that was eaten back in Ireland. In old immigrant NYC the Jewish owned markets obviously didn't sell pork so corned beef became more common in the Irish immigrant community there and has since become the standard.

"conbeef"'

I think more accurately is that corned pork was a traditional Irish dish but since the Irish in NYC went to Jewish butchers they couldn't get pork so would salt beef instead.

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