I´m surprised they never eat corned beef with cabbage. I just assumed it was part of the Irish tradition.

Even though I got baptised Catholic, my Irish side was Protestant. So, am I supposed to wear green or orange??? LOL!

Let´s say that corned beef and cabbage is part of the Irish-American tradition. Besides it gives the corn beef producers and cabbage farmers a chance to make a buck.

#2, wear both. #3 I love corned beef and cabbage, I fix it at least every 3 months even though I am not Irish.

I have a green shamrock pin that says ´mazel tov´. Have had that for about 35 years. It always gets a second look.

I was at an Irish bar in DC with Willard Scott, our local weatherguy who went national.

He wore a green bagel hanging from a gold chain around his neck.
Got lots of laughs with it.

My friend born in Ireland showed me lots of goodies, including Irish soda bread.
Plus of course corned beef, etc.
And our Irish coffees were made with real cream and Jameson´s whiskey, of course.
(I no longer imbibe.)

But never make the Johnny Carson joke...
"Erin Go Bra-less"
Even Johnny got busted (no pun) for that one!

Happy St. Paddy´s to ya!

We´re having old friend Paddy O´Furniture over for corn beef. March the 17th, sleep the 18th.

Some years ago I was dining at a restaurant in Kenmare Ireland. Business was slow and the owner joined us at our table for a drink and conversation. He was Irish and had lived in New York for 20 years before returning to Ireland and opening his own business. He informed us that the traditional dish was cabbage and Irish bacon (cured pork shoulder) which was unavailable in America. The immigrants substituted corned beef for the bacon and that is how cormed beef and cabbage came to be an Irish American tradition. According to my informant, the Irish acquired the corned beef from Jewish butchers.

Too many drunken fools will wreck their cars tonight or early tomorrow morning, pretending to be Irish to justify drinking like pigs. I only hope that when they wreck their cars, they don´t hit other people who have more common sense.
( a oouple of years ago, near Erie, Pa, two young men, drunk, on this day killed two young mothers who were heading into town to rent a video. All four died.
Pretty disgusting. None was Irish, by the way.

on Fox this afternoon I saw a shot of the St Patrick´s Day parade in Dublin and everyone was wearing green. Don´t think they were catering to the Americans!

My family is Italian and they never had pizza in the old country. Immigrants did what they could and ate/cooked what they found available in the US, improvising with local ingredients. Bottom line, these are all now OUR traditions...

Btw, the national color of Ireland is BLUE.

Hat tip to #11, who knows her Irish history.

My nephew tends bar as a 2nd job in Manhattan. About 5 years ago he´d begun asking for this particular weekend off, for cause.
When I asked him why give up what certainly must be a big tip-making weekend, he told me in plain terms, "I got tired of the rookie drinkers."

Isn´t it kind of insulting to the Protestants of Ireland to wear the green ?