"The real boom in #kosher #canned #meats took place when kosher #cannedmeat became a crucial component of #Jewish organizations’ relief packages for #Europe’s Jewish war victims... in DP camps in #Germany.
In May 1946, the #Chicago Kosher #Sausage Manufacturing Company — a #Winnipeg-based company — registered a word mark with the #Canadian patent office for a canned #meat product called #Breef.
#NeilFeinberg, 74, the last owner of the #Feinberg #Sausage Co. in #Minneapolis, says he’s well familiar with Breef.
“That was the best quality product of the bunch” among kosher canned meats, he says.
“Canned #cornedbeef is like #Spam — very similar texture,” explained Feinberg, 74, who is retired and living in Palm Springs, Fla. “Only it was made of #beef and had a corned beef flavor to it,” an effect achieved by using the same seasoning from the company’s regular corned beef.
https://stljewishlight.org/jewishfood/kosher-spam-a-breef-history/

Kosher Spam: a Breef history - St. Louis Jewish Light
(JTA) — On Nov. 14, 2011, the Israeli media outlet Ynet sounded the death knell for a staple of the country’s military diet: Loof, Israel’s kosher alternative to Spam. Thanks to a policy of mandatory conscription, the Jewish state in effect, had been force-feeding Loof — a colloquially corrupt short form of “meatloaf” —...




