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Frazzled wrote: I'll be honest, corned beef always looked disgusting to me.
I think corned beef tastes like socks.
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I don't drink and the only person who could ever cook corned beef right was my now departed grandfather so... my usual st patrick's day celebration is having a cup of tea
anyhow i'm polish so i'd rather use cabbage in golabki
if you do eat corned beef you should make a sauce out of mustard, brown sugar, and vernors.
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2017/03/17 22:17:40
Subject: Re:How do YOU celebrate St. Patricks day ?
The same thing I do every year, absolutely nothing. My wife (who is actually is Irish) accompanies me in my inactivity. I wonder what St Patrick would have made of the debauchery that is carried out in his name?
I have also never had corned beef in Ireland, I have always associated it with the English though (Bully beef).
Incidentally its really good in sandwiches if you dry fry it first, it turns into a salty beefy mush.
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Nostromodamus wrote: I will spend the day cringing as Americans pretend they are Irish because their great-great-great grandfather's dog was from Dublin, and therefore they are blood-bound to engage in activities that perpetuate an offensive ethnic stereotype.
That's a pretty bold statement what's wrong with a little harmless fun? Shouldn't we be glad people are embracing other cultures rather than treating the Irish worse than slaves (which they used to do)?
Without wishing to delve into too much seriousness, you do realize that St Patrick was an Englishman who was enslaved by the Irish, then went back after escaping and helped force Christianity on them? The embracing cultures and slave comment are unfortunately the exact opposite of the circumstances that occurred.
Sometimes I'll go out and have a pint or two. Most times I just plain forget about it.
Without wishing to delve into too much seriousness, you do realize that St Patrick was an Englishman who was enslaved by the Irish, then went back after escaping and helped force Christianity on them?
He was a 'Briton', he could have been from near enough anywhere on the British mainland and he predates 'England' anyway.
Without wishing to delve into too much seriousness, you do realize that St Patrick was an Englishman who was enslaved by the Irish, then went back after escaping and helped force Christianity on them?
He was a 'Briton', he could have been from near enough anywhere on the British mainland and he predates 'England' anyway.
Well like anything religious there is no real rhyme or reason to celebrate St. Patrick's day, tis just an excused to drink too much
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Nostromodamus wrote: I will spend the day cringing as Americans pretend they are Irish because their great-great-great grandfather's dog was from Dublin, and therefore they are blood-bound to engage in activities that perpetuate an offensive ethnic stereotype.
That's a pissed poor outlook on it. I don't celebrate it(and I'm half Irish) but I also don't knock people who do. Enjoying other cultures is good I think. But hey whatever blows your hair back.
The thing is, a lot of the time the St. Patrick's Day events around the world are not actually celebrating or representing actual irish culture but rather the stereotype that the irish are just a bunch of drunks.
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Despite my surname, I'm as Irish as Attila or Vlad the impaler.
There's more scots in me than Irish, and Glaswegian at that (so barely human on the face of it ... ). Saying that, I also don't do St. Andrews or any other token "cultural" drinking festival and I don't do religious observances, either.
The other half is Polish/Czech and Hungarian Gypsy. All of them way too superstitious for my liking.
That said, I had a glass of the "devil's due" (Tullamore Dew) tonight, because I like the taste of it - and it's more of a "to absent friends" thing than a tokenised drunken Irish shenanigans thing. Buried another one (friend) last week.
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How do I celebrate St Patrick's day? Usually by seeing a topic like this and thinking "Oh, it was St Patrick's day yesterday?"
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Kap'n Krump wrote: Curiously, on a scale of 1-10, how big a holiday is st. Patrick's day in Ireland? I always wondered if it was way more celebrated in America than in Ireland.
Well, nobody dyes the Liffey green, for one thing.
As for corned beef, I read somewhere that corned beef is actually Jewish/Yiddish. it's just that when the Irish began turning up in New York, corned beef was the cheapest meat they could find, or the closest to whatever cheap cuts they used to get. Like Chow Mein, it's a traditional American meal, not something imported from the "old country".
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I celebrated the day after by watching Kong, and drinking rum. Does that count?
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Which is funny because potatoes are from the New World. But its been a few centuries so thats ok, plus potatoes are awesome.
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Potato, Tomato, Chocolate and Tobacco all come from the Americas. Chocolate and Tomato are some of the few English words to have come from Nahuatl (the language of the Incas), albeit via Spanish.
The portato was originally thought to be an aphrodisiac.
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Nostromodamus wrote: I will spend the day cringing as Americans pretend they are Irish because their great-great-great grandfather's dog was from Dublin, and therefore they are blood-bound to engage in activities that perpetuate an offensive ethnic stereotype.
That's a pissed poor outlook on it. I don't celebrate it(and I'm half Irish) but I also don't knock people who do. Enjoying other cultures is good I think. But hey whatever blows your hair back.
The thing is, a lot of the time the St. Patrick's Day events around the world are not actually celebrating or representing actual irish culture but rather the stereotype that the irish are just a bunch of drunks.
Very true. I think that's the case for most holidays to be honest.
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what's wrong with a little harmless fun? Shouldn't we be glad people are embracing other cultures rather than treating the Irish worse than slaves (which they used to do)?
