No big plans for festivities here. I detest do not care for corned beef and cabbage, but if I can find some good lamb I will make lamb stew for supper. I did lay out the shamrock tie for my husband, but I haven’t been back upstairs yet to see if he actually put it on.
Now, if I could just find an appropriate tie for St Joseph’s day, we would be all set.
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No corned beef & cabbage here, either. Alas — I love the stuff. But my husband can’t stand even the smell of it.
Oddly enough, he’s almost 100% Irish, with just a wee bit of Scot and and even smaller touch of German in him.
Y’know, I’ve never heard of corned beef and cabbage being eaten in Ireland – must be an Irish-American thing.
Yes, I think corned-beef=’n’-cabbage is 100% Irish-American.
I was about to make that comment, but was afraid I would get an influx of people saying “not true, I was in Ireland and had it”. But I once read the history of this, and I am foggy, but it was something like many places where Irish immigrants were coming to America, like NYC, corning meat as a means of preservation was becoming very popular, and many Irish people worked in or near the factories where they did this.
It was poor people food. I know because my mom never had it when she was growing up in her little mostly Irish town. (Just as I never had Spam when I was growing up–One Does Not Eat ‘poor people food’ if there is any way around it. One must Keep Up Apperances–although it was never put that way. It’s just a thing that IS.)
For the tie…. How about going to home depo or such and finding one with hammers and rulers and nails on it?
Sailorette, good to hear from you again. And what an awesome idea for the tie!