What is National Corned Beef And Cabbage Day?
National Corned Beef and Cabbage Day in the United States occurs on March 17th, on March 17th, the same day as St. Patrick's Day in the United States.
To "corn" something, it is simply to keep it in a salty brine (the term corn refers to the coarse grains of salt used for curing).
Corned beef is a salt-cured beef product. It is a salt-cured beef product. Instead of corned beef, Traditional Irish Corned Beef and Cabbage dishes used salt pork or a bacon joint instead of corned beef. However, when the Irish immigrant to America in the mid-1900s, they discovered Jewish corned beef with a similar texture to the bacon joint (pork). When making corned beef and cabbage dishes, they used corned beef as a substitute for the bacon. On St. Patrick's Day, Irish-Americans began eating Corned Beef and Cabbage shortly after.
Corned beef and cabbage is a common dish in several parts of the United States.
