Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day
Who is celebrating St. Patrick’s day and How are you celebrating? We had a parade last Saturday and many people here wear green on St. Patrick’s Day. I am not that religious and I like diversity so I enjoy any all celebrations. I really learn a lot from other people and cultures and have a great deal of honor and respect for them.
Some may be offended if I take the celebration or religions less seriously than I should, but in the city of Chicago where I lived for 40 years, that is what a lot of people did. St. Patrick’s day was the biggest celebration of the city because at that time we had an Irish mayor and the river through our downtown was dyed green. All bars and restaurants were serving corned beef and cabbage and green beer.
The Mayor would say, “Everybody is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day.”. I an not in Louisville Kentucky and the celebration is not as big and we have Irish restaurants which won’t serve corned beef and cabbage because it is not Irish. Well, it is Irish American and the grocery stores advertise and sell a lot of corned beef.
I am curious about how the holidays are celebrated in Ireland and other countries. I have an Irish friend and she says she celebrates all month. The Lenten fish fries at the Catholic churches are part of the celebrations too. I am not sure what else she does. I know her church has activities all day long on St.Patrick’s Day. I feel a little left out of things having no known ethnicity to celebrate and being American is not as glorious as I once thought.
I always considered myself American so I just enjoy celebrating and honoring everyone else. I want to visit any country and like everyone I visited so far. I feel that my country is enriched by all the immigrants and I don’t have to travel to experience other cultures which is great for me.
So, how do we celebrate and think and feel about St. Patrick’s Day?
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Hope to go out for Corn Beef and Cabbage at the Poutin Still Irish Restaurant that has really good corn beef and cabbage. Baltimore always has a ST. Patricks Day parade and guess it will be tomorrow .
Sounds like fun and wish I were there with you.
Hi Roseinbloom, St Patricks Day is celebrated here,. but usually where there are large Irish Communities which are mainly in the cities, they are also at Cheltenham for the Horse Racing all this week which is a big event over here. We don’t see so many celebrations in the smaller places or rural areas, but Guinness still flows freely lol.
Thank you for your comment. Tomtwodogs. The beer is green here.
Not a lover of corned beef so will have a steak when I go out to dinner tonight but might have an apple martini because it’s green!
Well. Thank you for your comment. Each to his own and maybe I am a bit Irish; I do love cabbage and corned beef and boiled potatoes. Come to think of the corned beef may just be an original American Creation. I fact checked it. Corned beef was not an original product in America but was made in Ireland for 100’s of years and other places; but it did become popular with Jewish and Irish immigrants and I know from experience it is still popular and as far as I am concerned it is delicious and I rarely eat beef of a fresh kind.I know that corned beef was once associated with poverty but many foods associated with poverty are healthy and delicious. For years I went to a corned beef and cabbage, boiled potatoes and apple pie banquet.
Lo, find some good corned beef and boiled it and I think you will learn to love it and it makes a no fuss meal and it cannot fail you. At one time corned beef was brown and not appealing but somewhere along the way somebody learned to throw some chemicals in and made it delicious. I don’t eat it often and the nitrates and nitrites are not healthy. The Irish have embraced their heritage in spite of their history.
I just love the jewish corned beef sliced thin on light rye bread with mustard! hmmmm sounds good. hard to find the good stuff though.
I really have never celebrated St Patricks day. well I had my own way with friends at the bar drinking green beer but that was all.
Now that has all changed because I don’t drink anymore and have moved and lost touch with those friends. We did have a lot of fun though. Good memories
CSweet, I remember what you do and had a lot of fun but I didn’t drink beer and I didn’t drink green beer but I lived in Chicago and actually lived downtown for some of the time and we died the river green and had a huge parade. It was almost like Mardi Gras but not as wild.Chicago has great corned beef. I always have it with creamy horseradish. Amazingly, in our grocery stores we can get great corned beef.
Have you ever cooked corned beef? I actually made some, it wasn’t good; no chemicals and I never did it again. The Jewish deli’s and restaurants have the best corned beef.You are in Wisconsin, Are you In a large city?