Happy St. Patricks - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Aquaticedge · #1 03-17-2011, 01:29 AM

Have fun, be safe

MTUpower · #2 03-17-2011, 09:35 AM

I got up and put on my Guiness T shirt printed in Gaelic and my great grandfathers green tie which was only worn on today's date.

Learn some gaelic

10fords · #3 03-17-2011, 09:54 AM

The corned beef is in the crockpot, and the Guiness is in the fridge. No cabbage though- I can't stand that stuff! Is it still OK to celebrate an evil white European oppressors holiday? I'm sure the PC crowd will eventually find a reason to eliminate St. Patricks day or rebadge it as "green celebration" or something less "offensive"!

SwampYankee · #4 03-17-2011, 03:39 PM

I continued my tradition of not wearing a spot of green.

Corned beef and cabbage is cooking as I type, should be ready when I walk through the door at 4. Pop open a Draught Can of Guinness, savor it along with my plate of corned beef, taters, carrots and cabbage with malt vinegar. I really do like the stuff and don't know why I don't think to make it other times of the year. Anyway, scarf that down and then we're off to son #1's CYO tournament basketball game. The aforementioned meal might make for an interesting game while seated on flat, wooden bleachers.

tbomachines · #5 03-17-2011, 03:43 PM

I celebrated hard on Saturday, ushering in a diet. Only green I'm seeing today is a salad

elchivito · #6 03-18-2011, 12:46 AM

I belong to America's smallest minority. Americans Who Are Not Irish. I'm going to start a PAC, or a foundation, or something. We're going to demand our rights, you'll see.

Did you know? St. Patrick's favorite color wasn't green? Historically, he is almost always portrayed in blue. Corned beef isn't Irish? It's Irish American, and culturally more associated with Kosher law than it is with Ireland. The typical Irish meal, while certainly including cabbage and potatoes, would much more likely include boiled bacon, or a joint of mutton.

I have always found it curious that a culture that is surrounded on all sides by the most fertile fisheries in the world and with a not insignificant seafaring tradition would find it's poor starving to death and send 25% of it's entire population packing because they had become so dependent on an AMERICAN crop that when it failed, so did their economy. An ocean full of salmon and cod and you split your 3000 year old culture because there were no POTATOES???

Having said all that, we had CB and C for dinner too. I barbecued mine. We do it in honor of the "San Patricios", Irish immigrants conscripted into the U.S. Army who, finding themselves in Mexico, became sympathetic to the Mexicans they were fighting and deserted, many fighting for the Mexican side and ultimately staying there. There are lots of Irish surnames in Mexico, especially in the central part of the country.

Having said all this, Guinness, especially the newly available Foreign Export, and Bushmill's Black Label, are the apex of the maker's art. I've had several at this writing, so forgive my verbosity, not to mention so many words.

compress ignite · #7 03-18-2011, 03:01 AM

10fords,

"evil white European oppressors holiday"

That would be Boxing Day, south of Hadrian's Wall.

The Irish,Scots and Welch have NEVER been in the Position of (Or had any interest in) Oppressing anybody.

Elchivito,

The OLD Irish Culture
(Predating the founding of Certain Irish Cities by the Norsemen)
[So, It's not really an "Irish Temper" ?]
[Where the heck do you think Red Headed Irish come from?]
goes substantially further back than a mere 3,000 years.

"An ocean full of salmon and cod and you split your 3000 year old culture because there were no POTATOES???"

The Sires of the Current Inhabitants of Londinium had taken everything edible from the Irish,in hopes of Starving them Out.
(Including the Fish,as it was caught)

In fact at one point the Sires of the Current Inhabitants of Londinium tried Cross-Contaminating the Irish and Scots[So they Thought]
by Involuntary Emigration (Moving Scots to Ireland and Vice Versa)
The Current Inhabitants of Londinium are not very bright.
[They've got a bunch of Orangemen as royals,Who Re-named themselves after one of the Castles (Windsor) ]
Ever wonder why the French think so little of the Current Inhabitants of Londinium?
The Current Inhabitants of Londinium are Masters at Abusing Everybody Else.ONLY.

Almost before the Legions pulled out of Britannia,
the Sires of the Current Inhabitants of Londinium were looking for Neighbors to Abuse.

Txjake · #8 03-18-2011, 10:44 AM

potatos come from Peru...

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family (also known as the nightshades). The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species. Potatoes were first introduced outside the Andes region four centuries ago, and have become an integral part of much of the world's cuisine. It is the world's fourth-largest food crop, following rice, wheat, and maize.[1] Long-term storage of potatoes requires specialised care in cold warehouses.[2]

Wild potato species occur throughout the Americas, from the United States to Uruguay.[3] The potato was originally believed to have been domesticated independently in multiple locations,[4] but later genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species proved a single origin for potatoes in the area of present-day southern Peru (from a species in the Solanum brevicaule complex), where they were domesticated 7,000–10,000 years ago.[5][6][7] Following centuries of selective breeding, there are now over a thousand different types of potatoes.[6] Of these subspecies, a variety that at one point grew in the Chiloé Archipelago (the potato's south-central Chilean sub-center of origin) left its germplasm on over 99% of the cultivated potatoes worldwide.[8][9]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato

ramonajim · #9 03-18-2011, 10:47 AM

Everything I need to know about Irish history I learned from Dennis Leary:

Quote:

IRISH HISTORY TIMELINE: potatoes, whisky, poetry, potatoes, whisky, music, fist-fights, whisky, NO POTATOES!, potatoes, whisky, JFK, whisky, potatoes, U2.