As far as I’m aware, there is zero Irish blood running through my veins. But I’m not about to let a little thing like lack of heritage keep me from enjoying St. Patrick’s Day. It’s a fun, stress-free holiday and easy to celebrate at home during a pandemic. An Irish Coffee or two, soda bread, some drinking songs, and an appropriate movie are all I need. If you want to get a little fancier, you could try the Shamrock Cocktail suggested by @MemeWeaver.
What are you drinking today in honor of the Emerald Isle, Guinness Stout, a Harp, Irish Breakfast Tea, McDonald’s Shamrock Shake?
A local brewery had already colored their Haus Session Ale green on Sunday, so we had that. We’re trying to reign in our various vices, so I doubt we will drink any holiday beverages tonight.
I’ll limit my intake to 1 or 2 Irish Coffees since it is mid week.
I was wrong (yay), and ended up having a Guinness, while Ms. Meme had a cider-Guinness Snakebite from a local cidery.
its friday! yaaaaaay!
wait a minute….
i expect this kind of deception from lemmy…but you blindsided me
anyways…im drinking milk….gonna take me a while to get used to that one
@farscythe Sorry!
Waking Ned Devine was a riot.
I love that movie, I may watch it again tonight.
…when you say “potato vodka” I sort of assume they mean poitín…but maybe they don’t?
…either way that stuff is lethal…I have no idea if it’s true but I was told by an irish guy one time that some years back when the stuff was very much illegal & there was very much a hard border between eire & NI that the legal penalties for crossing it with poitín were steeper than if you ran guns across it
…what I can vouch for is that it gets folks very drunk indeed on surprisingly small quantities…& that it’s one of those odd spirits that does the thing where the alcohol forms sort of crystals or something that turn your liver into a time-bomb
…having watched a classic “never mind dat bollox, pass that bottle over ‘ere & I’ll show yous how it’s done” segue into the would-be hard drinker passed out splayed across a piano stool near instantaneously (…to be fair to the lad we’d all been drinking for hours before our host had produced this small bottle & offered a cap-full to anyone who fancied a not-even-a-whole-shot)…when he came to the next day with a crushing hangover we non-irish types who didn’t know any better hopped to & brought him a good pint or two of water before anyone could tell us not to
…poor lad was bouncing-off-the-walls drunk all day & hungover all over again the next morning…over 24hrs after the last drop of booze passed his lips…& once we’d got over how funny that was at the time we were of course suitably apologetic
I don’t believe I’ve ever had honest to goodness potato vodka. Now I’m thinking that’s probably for the best!
I’m drinking the slow cooker juice from my corned beef.
Here’s a question — what are the odds that stupid little spice packet does anything at all? Corned beef by itself is so strong tasting that I can’t believe a teaspoon of random bits in the cooking water does anything to a big hunk of corned beef. I’ve made it without bothering and don’t recall the slightest difference.
I’ve never made it myself but I’m sure one of the FYCE authors can answer that question for you.
As for drinking the juice – I used to be a bartender and had a regular who thought it was funny to order beef daiquiris. Until I made one complete with a slice of beef rolled up on a cocktail pick. 😁
Honestly, it depends on the spice and the amount of meat you’re seasoning. There’s no real hard and fast rule there.
The chopped up bay leaves & pepper corns can do more than u think, especially in slow cooker situation.
I don’t do anything special for St. Patrick’s day, because I am Irish. This is a day when everybody else who isn’t Irish wishes they were, for some stupid reason. Nobody wears pins that say, “Kiss me, I’m Mexican” on Cinco de Mayo.
My people are English and Welsh, no Irish strangely enough. But you have to go back to the 160s to get to it.
I’m not interested in being Irish, I like St Patrick’s Day because it’s not a gift giving or decorating holiday. Which means it’s not a ton of work for me for a cgange.
I’m almost a quarter Irish, half Irish wife, I’m getting drunk cause I spent the day doing projects w/ wife & need booze! Holiday is just unneeded excuse
I like when they dye the Chicago river green, because it’s pretty. But I don’t really drink and I think corned beef is gross (more for you all). So not much for me in this day! I am trying to decide if 7:30 is too early for bed…
I think corned beef is gross too
I will say that I do enjoy corned beef hash with a couple of poached eggs on top.