Sometimes a food can be so familiar and a complete mystery at the same time. We hear the name on the daily and we’ve eaten it since childhood, but when we stop to think about it, we don’t have any clue what the food is made of. The classic example, of course, is hot dogs. We eat them all the time, but do we really know what they are and how they’re made? (If you really want to know, watch this at your own risk.) While certain foods are better kept a mystery, others aren’t as freaky as say, Slim Jims.
Two foods some of us here at HuffPost Taste grew up around but can’t quite distinguish are corned beef and pastrami. We know we’ve eaten them on sandwiches with our grandfathers, we know we’ve seen them on countless deli menus and we know we like both. Besides the fact that we know corned beef is eaten on St. Patrick’s Day, we realized we couldn’t describe the differences. After much deliberation and daydreaming, we figured it out. Here’s what you need to know about corned beef and pastrami.
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