bully beef...

...by any other name is corned beef.
That of the rations of soldiers in allied forces from the Boer war to WW2 and so called from the French term 'bouilli' meaning boiled.

A friend in Tasmania many years ago cooked corned beef for me with a parsley sauce and it was delicious. I remember it now some 35 years later!
Somewhat different to the memories from this article
"One soldier sent home a recipe for rissoles made from a tin of bully, biscuit powder, a couple of onions and, for flavour, a little bit of thyme that grew on nearby hills.
Their stews were mostly canned bully, onions, biscuit powder, dried vegetables or potatoes, and water. No salt was needed — the meat was already laden.
More creatively, one story tells of an Anzac soldier throwing a tin of bully beef into the Turkish trenches, perhaps in disgust, maybe thinking it would do more damage than the usual grenades.
But the can was soon thrown back with the note: “Cigarettes yes, bully beef, no.”

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