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[blue_condition]

Well no actually, but a couple of reviews of Leeds eateries.

Sam's Chop House is the Leeds offshoot of the famous Manchester food pub. The Manchester version has consistently served me the second-best roast beef I've ever had (the best ever being at the Durham Ox at Crayke - go there), although it was a while before I noticed they'd launched a

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[thecesspit]

1) What is American/Irish corned beef, and is it different to what you get in a tin?

2) You said "dude"?

[blue_condition]

What's sold as 'salt beef' in the UK is pretty much the same as 'corned beef' in the USA.

The mush in tins is... not the same ;)

[ortho_bob]

I've never understood why two very different foodstuffs should have the same name. It's not like it's such a great name that one nation couldn't bear to back down and call it something else.

And corn isn't an ingredient of either, by the way. Even after reading the Wikipedia page I can't figure out how the tinned UK stuff is made or why it's that color. And now I've got the stuff on my brain. Why, I'm almost craving it....

[thecesspit]

English corned beef is perserved with corns of salt. Bully beef hash with hot sauce is very nice.

Yes, I see that frown....

[ms_siobhan]

It isn't but my Mum's home made corned beef hash made with it is absolutely delicious......

Am going to try Sam's Chop House as it sounds my kind of place.

[blue_condition]

I think you'd like it. Not full of chavs (which is pretty rare for any pub/bar in Leeds!) and the food is... well, I've just told you!

[moral_vacuum]

But I like the stuff in tins. Fresh bloomer loaf, corned beef, Branston pickle - sorted.

[blue_condition]

Ah, the corned beef and pickle sarnie. Accompanied by a flask of very strong tea and perhaps a Mars Bar or two that's fine fuel for a couple of hours standing at the end of platform 9 at York trying to check your email to see if that rare loco working a special has failed somewhere in the Midlands ;P