Is there any point to St. Patrick's day?
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I'm a doing a run/bike/run race that ends up at an Irish pub. I will partake of the guiness stew, but not the beer. The race is at 0800 so it will all be done by noon. Then I am outta there and back home to sit on the dock.
Also cooking a corned beef overnight tonight and will finish with the cabbage and potatoes tomorrow. Its my 8 yr old favorite food holiday. Last year I ended up cooking three corned beefs for her!
Most of my previous St Patty's days were spent dressing in green and getting crazy drunk.
Also cooking a corned beef overnight tonight and will finish with the cabbage and potatoes tomorrow. Its my 8 yr old favorite food holiday. Last year I ended up cooking three corned beefs for her!
Most of my previous St Patty's days were spent dressing in green and getting crazy drunk.
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Why would you want to ruin a perfectly good race by drinking after it, Tobo?
Seanie's right (he's posting from Ireland, after all). It's Paddy. I don't know about the rest of the world, but in America I see it written wrong more than right.
I thought it would be Patty's with a "t" as in short for St. PaTrick? No?
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Originally Posted by Dee74 
Welcome soberinnepa 
Rick Stein does a nice simple dish like my Gran used make - no Guinness in sight
Irish Corned Beef with Cabbage Recipe : Rick Stein Recipes | LifeStyle FOOD
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Rick Stein does a nice simple dish like my Gran used make - no Guinness in sight
Irish Corned Beef with Cabbage Recipe : Rick Stein Recipes | LifeStyle FOOD
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OK, The food thing I get because I love food. The lent thing I get. I think maybe the people who are really Irish and really celebrating their heritage are great. The frat-boy mentality of 90% of the other people that celebrate really bugs me still.
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Originally Posted by Dee74
Welcome soberinnepa
Rick Stein does a nice simple dish like my Gran used make - no Guinness in sight
Irish Corned Beef with Cabbage Recipe : Rick Stein Recipes | LifeStyle FOOD
D
Rick Stein does a nice simple dish like my Gran used make - no Guinness in sight
Irish Corned Beef with Cabbage Recipe : Rick Stein Recipes | LifeStyle FOOD
D
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Taking my 2 year old to my grandpas assisted living center. They'll serve horribly prepared corned beef and cabbage and have some not-so-professional Irish dancers trolling around the dining hall.. I love it!
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Originally Posted by flutter
Taking my 2 year old to my grandpas assisted living center. They'll serve horribly prepared corned beef and cabbage and have some not-so-professional Irish dancers trolling around the dining hall.. I love it!
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As an Irish person!!!! WE as a country celebrate St.Patricks day as it reminds us what it is to be Irish, the troubles we had to come through to become a Republic, We fought for our freedom hence the pride in being Irish!!!! The fact that so many of our country people had to emigrate over the generations & found there way to countries all over the world to work & survive, to build nations , THAT was the reason for them to remember the mother country "EIRE" . Should we canel Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, or any countries national holidays?? becasue people go over board drinking? NO
Just because its a day of Celebrating Irishness DOES NOT mean you have to drink, all u got to do is walk out your door & buy it at any point, dont blame the holidays & certainly dont blame us Irish if you do!!
I'm Irish , I'm an Alkie in recovery , but i am DAMN proud of my Country & my heritage!!
Just because its a day of Celebrating Irishness DOES NOT mean you have to drink, all u got to do is walk out your door & buy it at any point, dont blame the holidays & certainly dont blame us Irish if you do!!
I'm Irish , I'm an Alkie in recovery , but i am DAMN proud of my Country & my heritage!!
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St. Patty's Day has always been just another excuse to get drunk for me! Actually, every holiday was an excuse to get drunk. Upon further reflection, every day was an excuse to get drunk! 
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Well, I must say I was not looking forward to this day. My 55th day sober and being in Dublin for St Patrick´s day, I was planning to hide out in bed, but I did decide to go out and watch the parade and then have a nice coffee with a friend from AA.
I was surprised, the only drunk people I saw around the parade were tourists and the Irish were there with their kids and having a good time. In my twisted mind I had the picture of the whole population being drunk because that is just what I seem to focus on these days, I was wrong and all in all it has been a lovely and surprising day :-)
I was surprised, the only drunk people I saw around the parade were tourists and the Irish were there with their kids and having a good time. In my twisted mind I had the picture of the whole population being drunk because that is just what I seem to focus on these days, I was wrong and all in all it has been a lovely and surprising day :-)
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