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Pastrami is a popular deli meat made from a highly seasoned cut of smoked meat--usually beef. To make pastrami, one usually begins with a slab of uncooked meat. That meat is typically first pickled in a thick, salty, brine solution, which creates, when using red meat, what is known as corned beef.
This is a problematic designation when the product in question is bacon, ham, salami, or any other kind of traditionally cured meat. I just examined a package of Trader Joe's Uncured Pastrami that I found next to the other deli meats in my local branch of that store. It's clear that the manufacturers are using the uncured moniker to indicate that the pastrami was made without the addition of sodium nitrate (saltpeter) or sodium nitrite (pink salt).