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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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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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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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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Stereotypes like this? (From the Toronto St Patrick's Parade):pic.twitter.com/PJbunJ7giW
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