Hi, friends!
I read years ago that people in Ireland are confused about how weirdly obsessive white Americans are with celebrating St. Patrick’s Day.
About 12% of Americans claim Irish ancestry to some extent. It helps our persecution kink as white people, to claim heritage to some quasi-mythical past where our ancestors were abused by the British and had to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps in a new country. You know, gosh, white slavery was totally a thing too! Etc etc.
Notably absent typically is the self awareness to understand how the US treated Irish immigrants and how large numbers of Irish immigrants becoming cops in the late 1800s turned around a lot of negative perception about them.
Anyways, I’m rambling.
Today on this most Irish of holidays, are you partaking in anything particularly Irish?
Green beer? Green snake bread? Ceilidh dancing? Corned beef and cabbage? Cupcakes with green icing? More green beer? Guinness or Bailey’s?
I made colcannon to go with my pork roast tonight, that’s the closest I’ve got to Irish food today.
Corned beef & cabbage is all prepped & ready to go! Oh sure. I’ll probably drink a few beers too.
No potatoes?!!
Roasting some carrots too but I prefer it with rice & my wife doesn’t eat potatoes very often.
i drank too much and stayed up too late
by american logic that makes me at least one 32rd irish
stupid fucking shit
we all trace our roots back to everyfucking where
i mean…if i choose to go back far enough im polish
granted..thats a couple hundred years back
me mums dutch…me da was english
im dinglish
Hey my grandma is Polish, we could be distant cousins!
For fuck’s sake. Easter gonna suck.
US turns to Denmark as it hunts for eggs despite Trump’s threat over Greenland
Eh, bird flu doesn’t affect Cadbury eggs! We’ll be fine!
Erin go bragh! Things are falling apart here in the Casa Encantada. Normally I would make some culinary nod to the holiday, but today I just blew it off.
But accept this offering (Clancy Brothers, Ed Sullivan show)
My only actual gripe about today is the number of bar fights I’ve seen (not participated in which is zero) on the most Irishy of days.
I wish that immigrants of all descents remembered how they or their ancestors were treated before unloading their bigotry on the current wave of immigrants.
It really does piss me off how soon people forget. Too many Fuck Around Find Outs these days for many ethnic groups who decided to ally with MAGAts. If my MAGAty Murrican (Korean) relatives get deported I will just shrug and I’ll try not to laugh.
I’ve got a story about the Irish in America. One St. Patrick’s Day, oh, must have been in the 90s, they were getting ready to turn the Chicago River green as God intended. The thing though, is that the stuff they put in the river to make it green is actually orange until it goes into the water. So, some loyal Irishmen happen to notice a guy from Streets & Sanitation getting ready to pour drums of this orange stuff into the river and they assumed he was trying to sabotage St. Patrick’s Day (you have to know a bit about Irish history here). So, they start hurling bottles at the poor schlub from Streets & San and a riot almost broke out. A black cop tries to explain to these guys that yes, the orange stuff is what turns the river green, but they weren’t having none of it. So now they’re accusing the cop of being in on it (and of being black don’t you know) until someone from Streets & San that happened to know a few of these goofs explains it to them very slowly, finally diffusing the whole situation.
I got this story from the actual guy from Streets & Sanitation, who was the third generation of city workers who did this very job on St. Patrick’s Day.
Would it have been 1992 when they filmed the St. Patrick’s Day Film, The Fugitive?
…see…now, if I had read through these comments *before* trying to dash off a DOT…there’d have been at least an attempted gag about how if you’re a yellow-belly in a red hat…the bit in between being orange is to be expected
…but…@myopicprophet is really who you need for a colour-spectrum-based allegorical punchline…so…maybe it’s as well I didn’t…one has to know one’s limitations & all?
…like @luigi-vuoto says…you’d need to know a bit about irish history to get it…arguably no more than you’d learn watching peaky blinders…but…the whole deal with the potato famine & who was shipping out for the last frontier them days…of all the things for irish folks as were coalescing around…the saints day they share with nigeria is…maybe not what I’d have picked?
…in terms of how many paddy’s day fans that might have opinions they’d be prepared to put their money where their mouth is about regarding “the cause” & arming the sort of people blowing up the sort of stuff in ol’ london town (among others) that we very much file under “things terrorists do” in others…because it made them feel “in touch with their roots”…in a tiny island beset by virulent & violent sectarian discord…demarcated by the same schism in the same church your man patrick is the damn apostle credited with personifying the arrival of in a previously united eire?
…&…now I want soda bread…damn it…I can’t make the good stuff, myself
Had myself a corned beef special and a Guinness (albeit from a can) , down here in Florida, and both were pretty good.
As for Irish history, I just finished watching the series ” Say Nothing” about the IRA, and it left me with more questions than answers.
Oh that looks interesting. I wonder if I can get the book from the library.
I literally ate so many potatoes when I was in Ireland a few weeks ago. It was glorious.