Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.
When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.
A salmi is an oldfangled, richly flavored game stew - often served, like chipped beef, over toast - that was a delicacy popular in the 1890s.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Before refrigeration, most food was heavily salted. Many of these salted foods have persisted, such as sauerkraut, pickles, cured anchovies, cheese, salted butter, ham, corned beef, sausage, and bacon. We still eat these things because we like them. But they are no longer the mainstay of our diet.
My favourite organic recipe is probably a huge batch of chilli con carne cooked with organic low fat British minced beef, tons of kidney beans, tomatoes and baked beans.