LOL! I knew a farmer who cured his own tongue, and carried a big piece in his pocket to slice and eat while he worked. I wasn’t crazy about it, and my husband says he simply can’t eat something that could taste him back :-)
But when corned beef brisket goes on sale in March, we stock up on it for the freezer. It’s one of the few beef roast-type things I still like to eat. (The pressure cooker makes fast work of it, but I’m not sure the taste is quite as good as the long stove-top cooking.)
My Grandmother boiled the tongue first. Then she cooked it in the oven. Sliced to make sandwiches. I like the stuff.
We have a beef butchered every year. For some reason my Wife never comes home with the heart or the tongue.
My Daughter is 37 now. Each year she wants canned corned beef sandwiches for her birthday meal. Been the same meal since she was a child.