On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:49:46 -0500, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 11/16/2013 11:45 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>> I just read that corned beef comes from cattle raised on maize. I
>> always though it referred to the corns of salt which was used to help
>> preserve it.
>> Can anyone elucidate please?
>>
>What the cattle eat has nothing to do with it. It's salt-cured beef.
>According to Wiki, "The term comes from the treatment of the meat with
>"corns" of salt."

Like corn bread, course milled grain is corn/korn. Calling maize corn
is a Euro thing, because of the maize kernals.