Humorous piece about corned beef “etiquette”.

Corned-beef-etiquette foibles make for some wry anecdotes

articles.baltimoresun.com

“Augie Ciresi, in Harford County, related how, while once in the old Jack’s on Corned Beef Row, he heard a woman make like Diane Keaton in Annie Hall and order a corned beef sandwich on white bread with lettuce, tomato and mayo. The counter guy shot back, “Would you like peanut butter and jelly on that, too?”

“I once walked into the Knish Shop in Pikesville and ordered a corned beef on rye — with ketchup,” Alan Friedenberg admitted. “The lady behind the counter glared at me and said, `Are you sure you’re Jewish?’”

“A note from a woman known to me in e-mail as “The Redhead” suggested that such culinary deviance can lead to marital troubles: “My ex-husband not only eats corned beef on white bread, but with mayonnaise and ketchup on it. Utterly disgusting.”

Corned beef, rye, mustard. The only way to eat this sandwich, people.