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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 15

      A minor fun fact about St. Patrick's Day is corned beef and cabbage isn't really a native Irish thing Like yes, they had corned beef in Ireland (and since this became a thing some people have really pushed the theory it was invented in Ireland) But it wasn't a traditional dish

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 15

      The evidence is like nearly universal that if you read old books about Ireland the struggle food of choice for Irish peasants was *salt pork* and cabbage No question about it -- the most common meat in a meal *by far* was a little bit of fatback (from a literal "pork barrel")

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 15

      Beef was for rich people back in the Old Country "Corned beef and cabbage" became a thing among Irish-Americans as an *upgrade* from salt pork and cabbage, because America was a land of plenty and home to cowboys

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 15

      And you can find references to the time about Irish immigrants giving thanks for kosher delis run by Eastern European Jewish immigrants The growing market for beef from people who couldn't eat pork helped drive the price of beef down

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 15

      That's a whole thing about America, America is the beef country, we're all weird about how it's the only real meat for respectable people ("Where's the Beef?") McDonald's only sells pork burgers when disguised as part of a special promotion (the McRib)

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 15

      The nation's pig farmers are heavily dependent on exporting to China (the pork-eating center of the world) to make a profit, which is why Trump's trade war was so ruinous for them Complicated phenomenon with a lot of different reasons behind it

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 15

      A thing that started in English culture (the idealized "Sunday roast" as a symbol of the rich-people good life), American "cowboy culture" making use of all the pastureland in the middle of the country, Jewish immigration in big cities, etc.

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 15

          Anyway what's really funny about this is that this makes corned beef and cabbage a *perfect* symbolic dish for St. Patrick's Day Which is really, in its present form, an Irish-American holiday and not a native Irish one at all

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 15

          And is this sort of self-deprecating celebration of working-class Irish-American culture Which was a life that was still generally objectively shitty, but compared to how fucked the Old Country was at the time made America feel like the promised land

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 15

          "That's BEEF in the goddamn cabbage, from a COW" "They have whole FIELDS of potatoes here, ENDLESS potatoes, they NEVER RUN OUT"

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 15

          Hence a traditional St. Patrick's Day celebration involves getting drunk and disorderly from chugging keg after keg of the cheapest, wateriest beer imaginable

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        6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 15

          (I would strongly argue that it doesn't actually matter whether the brand is Irish or American, the authentic beer for St. Patrick's Day is whatever the cheapest thing they have on tap is, and if you drink your beer out of a bottle on that day you are spitting on the ancestors)

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        7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 15

          Fun fact: A lot of Irish people in Ireland dislike what is seen as the American-imported transformation of St. Patrick's Day into the raucous bacchanal kind of festival (something the original St. Patrick would've detested, and that reinforces stereotypes they'd rather be rid of)

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        8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 15

          At the same time, there were people in Ireland who wanted to try to capitalize on this Leading to the Guinness Brewing Company creating a whole-ass invented holiday to celebrate Irish drinking culture, named "Arthur's Day" after Arthur Guinnesshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%27s_Day …

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        9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 15

          It's so wild that 1) Ireland tried to make St. Patrick's Day no longer a holiday for Irish people getting drunk by creating a holiday that WAS that 2) Guinness has such an economic stranglehold in Ireland they were able to make this holiday all about themselves

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        10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 15

          3) A few years later, they caved and canceled the whole thing because of a growing backlash over how alcoholism in Ireland isn't actually cute or funny but is a major generational crisis 4) It's called "Arthur's Day" and I didn't find out about it until after I quit drinking

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