St patricks day!!!

[chuck123wapati]

Happy St Paddys day to everyone a bit early. Was wondering today what the Irish really eat on the holiday? I'm going to have a corned elk roast But i as i peruse the net it is becoming apparent the Irish don't eat corned beef. What do they eat? Bangers and mash or is that British? The last time my family was in Ireland was right after the titanic sank lol.

[ButtonLady]

1 hour ago, chuck123wapati said:

The last time my family was in Ireland was right after the titanic sank lol.

Great photo!  My family left around the same time. ☘️

Mom described Sunday dinner with her father's Irish family as "over-boiled chicken and limp, greasy cabbage, all from one pot."  No seasoning, just... bleah.

I have to believe Irish food is better than that (and that my great-grandmother was just a lousy cook).

[fredk]

The OIrish have a few national foods or dishes but they/we don't eat any specific one on St.Paddy's day

Some national foods;

Colcannon - mashed potato with diced up white cabbage  through it. Some people cook the cabbage, I like it uncooked, served hot with loads of butter, often served up with some thick rashers of bacon or just on its own

Champ -  mashed potato with scallions, aka spring onions, milk and lashings of butter mixed up, served with just about any meat or just on its own

Potato bread, a bread made on the griddle with mashed potato mixed into the batter, served hot, either straight from the griddle, toasted or fried, with loads of butter

Soda bread, a bread made on the griddle, served hot, fried or toasted or straight from the griddle, with loads of butter

Irish/Ulster fry - 2 each of soda bread, potato bread, fried egg, pork sausage, thick bacon slices and loads of butter for the breads and eggs [no tomatoes or baked beans, these are added for the English visitors]

Irish Stew - lamb or mutton stewed with potatoes, parsnip, turnip and carrots. A thick stew, served with soda bread on the side, not forgetting the butter

Drinks;

Tea

Whiskey

Lager beer

Stout, aka Guinness

Regular beer

There'll be local parades, but most of us will avoid them [usually riots during and after them] and just get on with things as another day

[chuck123wapati]

1 hour ago, fredk said:

The OIrish have a few national foods or dishes but they/we don't eat any specific one on St.Paddy's day

Some national foods;

Colcannon - mashed potato with diced up white cabbage  through it. Some people cook the cabbage, I like it uncooked, served hot with loads of butter, often served up with some thick rashers of bacon or just on its own

Champ -  mashed potato with scallions, aka spring onions, milk and lashings of butter mixed up, served with just about any meat or just on its own

Potato bread, a bread made on the griddle with mashed potato mixed into the batter, served hot, either straight from the griddle, toasted or fried, with loads of butter

Soda bread, a bread made on the griddle, served hot, fried or toasted or straight from the griddle, with loads of butter

Irish/Ulster fry - 2 each of soda bread, potato bread, fried egg, pork sausage, thick bacon slices and loads of butter for the breads and eggs [no tomatoes or baked beans, these are added for the English visitors]

Irish Stew - lamb or mutton stewed with potatoes, parsnip, turnip and carrots. A thick stew, served with soda bread on the side, not forgetting the butter

Drinks;

Tea

Whiskey

Lager beer

Stout, aka Guinness

Regular beer

There'll be local parades, but most of us will avoid them [usually riots during and after them] and just get on with things as another day

yum! it all sounds good!! I love soda bread, we have it every year. And champ every week or so with sausage usually. Never heard of Colcannon but it sounds good too we have cabbage fried in butter often.

[chuck123wapati]

1 hour ago, ButtonLady said:

Great photo!  My family left around the same time. ☘️

Mom described Sunday dinner with her father's Irish family as "over-boiled chicken and limp, greasy cabbage, all from one pot."  No seasoning, just... bleah.

I have to believe Irish food is better than that (and that my great-grandmother was just a lousy cook).

Thanks my ggrand dad came over in the 1800s but went back to visit then and my g grand mother took the photos i managed to retrieve this off of her original glass negatives. the man in the white shirt i believe would be a g g uncle. 

[ButtonLady]

3 hours ago, chuck123wapati said:

There'll be local parades, but most of us will avoid them [usually riots during and after them] and just get on with things as another day

I thought those days were over...

[tsunkasapa]

8 hours ago, fredk said:

The OIrish have a few national foods or dishes but they/we don't eat any specific one on St.Paddy's day

Some national foods;

Colcannon - mashed potato with diced up white cabbage  through it. Some people cook the cabbage, I like it uncooked, served hot with loads of butter, often served up with some thick rashers of bacon or just on its own

Champ -  mashed potato with scallions, aka spring onions, milk and lashings of butter mixed up, served with just about any meat or just on its own

Potato bread, a bread made on the griddle with mashed potato mixed into the batter, served hot, either straight from the griddle, toasted or fried, with loads of butter

Soda bread, a bread made on the griddle, served hot, fried or toasted or straight from the griddle, with loads of butter

Irish/Ulster fry - 2 each of soda bread, potato bread, fried egg, pork sausage, thick bacon slices and loads of butter for the breads and eggs [no tomatoes or baked beans, these are added for the English visitors]

Irish Stew - lamb or mutton stewed with potatoes, parsnip, turnip and carrots. A thick stew, served with soda bread on the side, not forgetting the butter

Drinks;

Tea

Whiskey

Lager beer

Stout, aka Guinness

Regular beer

There'll be local parades, but most of us will avoid them [usually riots during and after them] and just get on with things as another day

Sounds like the National food is BUTTER! 

[billybopp]

21 hours ago, chuck123wapati said:

Happy St Paddys day to everyone a bit early. Was wondering today what the Irish really eat on the holiday? I'm going to have a corned elk roast But i as i peruse the net it is becoming apparent the Irish don't eat corned beef. What do they eat? Bangers and mash or is that British? The last time my family was in Ireland was right after the titanic sank lol.

 

This video went up on YouTube yesterday - It explains that corned beef is both ancient and modern in Irish cuisine.  The short version is that beef was preferred in the ancient past, but at some point pork became more popular - and bacon and cabbage likely the preferred dish.  When later Irish immigrants came to the USA, they largely settled in the same neighborhoods as Jewish immigrants did.  Not being kosher, bacon was off the menu, so they started using corned beef.

As a side note, many on my mother's side of the family came from Ireland in the 1660s, and settled in the Quaker colony of West Jersey (Yup!  Jersey was the quaker colony before Pennsylvania was!  It's a long story with much treachery on the part of the English).  Two of my ancestors were signatories to "The Concession and Agreement of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of New Caesarea, or New Jersey" which would serve as the constitution for New Jersey until 1947, and were also used as a model for the US constitution and its bill of rights.  

- Bill

 

[ButtonLady]

Between Chuck's corned elk roast, Fred's entire menu, and Billy's link to Ye Olde Corned Beef... I am seriously hungry!

[chuck123wapati]

sooooo... Happy day folks!!!!!   Corned beast & cabbage & potatoes with lotsa butter , Soda bread with raisins and lotsa butter, Lotsa Guinness stout in a clean glass no butter. Oh and the wife and kids gotta make shamrock shakes also with no butter lol.

I love this holiday, Beer and food and fun.