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Hello everyone. This weekend is St Patrick’s Day Weekend. St Patty’s falls on Monday the 17th of March but I imagine people will be celebrating on Saturday and Sunday as well. Whatchu gonna be up to? I plan to have some Irish Whiskey and a Corned Beef Reuben tomorrow.
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Mar 14, 2025 19:27
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Ooh corned beef could be good. Probably going to have some beer
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Mar 14, 2025 19:28
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Corned Beef lol. Let's take some perfectly fine beef and make it taste like poo poo, great idea, let's keep doing that.
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Mar 14, 2025 19:28
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lotta mentions of corned beef recently...
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Mar 14, 2025 19:50
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Should we be posting corned beef in the corn thread? 
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Mar 14, 2025 19:52
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Growing up my family, like many others in America, had that brain dysfunction that makes them believe they are 5/4ths Irish and celebrate this by making a meal that an actual Irish person would probably be confounded by: a corned beef, potato, and steamed cabbage slurry of some type. Bonus points for having the token drunk uncle present to ramble about how the Irish were indentured servants so "those people" should really stop complaining. Think I'll make some sort of beef curry dish this year. 
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Mar 14, 2025 20:04
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St Patrick's Day when I was in college was some of the most over the top debauchery I've witnessed. There wasn't even a noticeable amount of Irish people around; it was just a day to get more insanely drunk than most. The whole town, not just the students, but everyone would be going insane. One year I had an exam that morning and I was riding my bike to campus at 8 AM. Residential streets; and I see some student stumble drunk into the road right in front of an on-coming car. It braked fast enough and the drunken guy just kinda waved his arm in the air and stumbled on. Saw some dude passed out on a lawn with his bike laying next to him. And again, this is 8 AM. I got back to the apartment a couple hours later and my roommates were already half-sloshed. All the green dye added to the beer was just a massive cliche. One year we got breakfast and it was literally green eggs and ham. We went downtown that evening to the bar district, but we stopped at a true Irish pub that was local to us and was one of our group of friends hangouts. The place can hold about 60 people and there was a line of 200 waiting to get in. Everyone in line was drinking a beer they'd brought with them. We went downtown to the bar district and the police had already blocked traffic around several blocks because the streets were just flooded with drunk people. We walked past an alleyway and there were two people just banging away about 5' from the sidewalk. Good for them I guess. All in all; very fun time, but seeing massive amounts of drunken people everywhere was quite impressive.
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Mar 14, 2025 20:35
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It's my birthday so I'm getting drunk at a bar. I am not Irish...I am stealing valor
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Mar 14, 2025 20:40
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Internetjack posted:St Patrick's Day when I was in college was some of the most over the top debauchery I've witnessed. There wasn't even a noticeable amount of Irish people around; it was just a day to get more insanely drunk than most. The whole town, not just the students, but everyone would be going insane.  Where did you go to college?
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Mar 14, 2025 20:44
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Happy birthday titty_baby
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Mar 14, 2025 20:44
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I usually throw a little shindig at my house but wasn’t able to host it this year. My friend hosted it last weekend. Had some beers and corned beef and stew and such. Was a good time 10/10.
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Mar 14, 2025 20:46
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I went to Ireland last year and they didn't have any corned beef, however I wasn't expecting any. I heard it became an American Irish immigrant thing since it was plentiful in New York. I did a tour around Dublin and saw things like the hotel where Bram Stoker plowed Oscar Wilde's fiance. We didn't learn any of that in high school English class. Never let school get in the way of your education.
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Mar 14, 2025 20:47
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Family used to think it was from Ireland but the test said English. I dont drink anymore, it's a weekend of mourning
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Mar 14, 2025 20:48
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Anderson Koopa posted:
California State University, Chico. Has the distinction of being selected by MTV as the number one party school in the country at the time. Exactly one year before I started attending.
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Mar 14, 2025 20:48
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Internetjack posted:California State University, Chico. Has the distinction of being selected by MTV as the number one party school in the country at the time. Exactly one year before I started attending. I went to UConn. I even graduated! Lol. UConn was always a party school but they've improved their academic reputation recently. I didn't party because I'm a nerd.
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Mar 14, 2025 20:50
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Internetjack posted:California State University, Chico. Has the distinction of being selected by MTV as the number one party school in the country at the time. Exactly one year before I started attending. My dad said he looked at going to Chico (he was an adult in his 30s at the time) and he remembered seeing a shirt in a gift shop near campus that said "Chico State: The best 5 or 6 years of your life" above a passed out student
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Mar 14, 2025 21:38
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paddy's* day
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Mar 14, 2025 21:38
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Corned beef is way better if you bake it (braise? poach?) by putting it in a baking dish with like an inch of water, the seasoning packet and airtight aluminum lid. Low and slow and it actually comes out pretty nice. not all traditions make sense and straight up boiling stinky rear end cabbage and a hunk of meat is nasty as heck
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Mar 14, 2025 22:38
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The only corned beef you ever see here in Ireland comes in a can. It's... not great. It's minced and has a weird texture and aftertaste. Think SPAM only made with beef. I've seen pictures of the stuff you get at deli counters in the US. It actually looks quite good.
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Mar 14, 2025 22:56
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Apparently in America the Irish Immigrants turned to the kosher butchers and it eventually became what it is in America.
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Mar 14, 2025 23:00
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Valko posted:The only corned beef you ever see here in Ireland comes in a can. It's... not great. It's minced and has a weird texture and aftertaste. Think SPAM only made with beef. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_beef
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Mar 14, 2025 23:13
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Gatts posted:Apparently in America the Irish Immigrants turned to the kosher butchers and it eventually became what it is in America. I only found that out recently. It was a couple of years ago when I was arguing with someone else in a similar thread that bacon, cabbage and potato was the traditional Irish meal. Then I learned from Max Miller that history goes further back than what my mom told me. Here's a couple of videos. Highly recommended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGf_0_2Ji5I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8KpFs1CHgw
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Mar 14, 2025 23:17
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numberoneposter posted:the cat food stuff hell yeah we get that here too in canada My first thought was that looked like a ration. I was pleasantly surprised to find out I was correct
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Mar 14, 2025 23:17
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My birthday is on the 18th so I usually celebrate that instead of St Pattys Still going to get plastered though
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Mar 14, 2025 23:21
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I'm going to scream "ireland" until my throat explodes
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Mar 14, 2025 23:24
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numberoneposter posted:the cat food stuff hell yeah we get that here too in canada I have a can of it my cupboard right now. It's next to the canned carrots, peas, peaches and strawberries. And the canned steak and kidney pie (  ). I can't remember where I got most of that stuff from, likely xmas food hampers from a charity I worked at years ago.I don't throw food out but I'm only going to eat those if there's an emergency or something. Like a zombie apocalypse.
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Mar 14, 2025 23:27
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Tomorrow morning they dye the Chicago River green and everyone comes out, packing the streets shoulder to shoulder to start drinking in celebration Literally, entire streets packed shoulder to shoulder as people watch the river get dyed and drink in merriment. It's fun!
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Mar 15, 2025 00:11
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Valko posted:I have a can of it my cupboard right now. It's next to the canned carrots, peas, peaches and strawberries. And the canned steak and kidney pie (
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Mar 15, 2025 00:24
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nullandvoid posted:Tomorrow morning they dye the Chicago River green and everyone comes out, packing the streets shoulder to shoulder to start drinking in celebration Wondering about that dye. I feel like it can't be good for aquatic life to dye a river.
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Mar 15, 2025 00:27
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titty_baby_ posted:Wondering about that dye. I feel like it can't be good for aquatic life to dye a river. From my understanding it is a non-toxic vegetable dye that doesn't seem to have long-term problems, but I imagine changing the water color every year has to at least be disorienting to life in the river if nothing else That being said, we were worried about Asian carp running up the Mississippi and infesting lake Michigan but you know what stopped those carp in our preventing them from advancing? The pollution. Our pollution saved us from an invasive species.
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Mar 15, 2025 00:29
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nullandvoid posted:Tomorrow morning they dye the Chicago River green and everyone comes out, packing the streets shoulder to shoulder to start drinking in celebration That's pretty cool. Having a whole city come together for a festive event sounds like a good time . Wasn't that when the DAve Matthews cruise boat had the incident ?
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Mar 15, 2025 00:31
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August 8th, 2004. I think we still have a goon that post here who was working on the tour boat line that got dumped on that day.
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Mar 15, 2025 00:34
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Lol. If the Chicago river can handle that, it can handle some dye
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Mar 15, 2025 00:44
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I'm going around accusing anyone wearing green of not even being irish and then guessing their ethnicity
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Mar 15, 2025 00:45
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kntfkr posted:I'm going around accusing anyone wearing green of not even being irish and then guessing their ethnicity My super great grandfather moved to the US from Cork in the early 1800s. He was a stonemason by trade. We still have the family name, it's survived like 7 or 8 generations. So I'm about as Irish as Irish Spring.
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Mar 15, 2025 00:47
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kntfkr posted:I'm going around accusing anyone wearing green of not even being irish and then guessing their ethnicity I heard you were gonna go around asking people if they knew the Irish indentured servants were essentially slaves in metaphorical chains
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Mar 15, 2025 00:59
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Smugworth posted:I heard you were gonna go around asking people if they knew the Irish indentured servants were essentially slaves in metaphorical chains “Irish” you would stop posting 
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Mar 15, 2025 02:00
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titty_baby_ posted:It's my birthday so I'm getting drunk at a bar. I am not Irish...I am stealing valor the Irish have no valor to steal
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Mar 15, 2025 02:06
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ohnobugs posted:the Irish have no valor to steal Interesting. Where are you from?
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Mar 15, 2025 02:18
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The last of my family emigrated from Ireland to the US in the 60s Might celebrate with some Irish cream and a vape
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Mar 15, 2025 02:59
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