Is corn beef any good?

I’ve always thought it just sounded gross! I mean, what’s “corned” about it? I thought it must have something to do with creamed corned, and creamed corn is yucky! When I was a kid there was a comic strip character who was forever eating corned beef sandwiches, and bad things were always happening to him. So I developed my opinion at an early age, the name of it not with standing, and corned beef just wasn’t going to work for me all the way around!

However, today I was at the grocery store, waiting for the butcher to slice up a ham I had bought when my glance fell upon a package of corned beef. I took a closer look and it’s actually a piece of beef brisket, which is good stuff, and it was marinated in something. It looked quite good, actually.

So my question is, do YOU like corned beef? Dare I try it?