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.

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