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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Replying to @Diamandahagan @arthur_affect
corned beef is delicious, i have NO idea why its a pattys day thing or why people ruin it with gross leaves
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Replying to @Plutoburns @Diamandahagan
A *traditional* corned-beef-and-cabbage meal, as made by poor working-class Irish people living that authentic immigrant life, would be mostly cabbage with just enough corned beef to give it enough flavor to be tolerable
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One of the things about reading Terry Pratchett's odes to struggling working-class life in the British Isles is how it actually isn't that different from what I think of as Chinese immigrant culture
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A giant saucepan of cabbage with a few bits of bacon scattered throughout is very familiar to me from my own childhood
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I'm not a big fan of the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remake with Johnny Depp, but a piece of dialogue that always hit me hard was Mrs. Bucket trying to cheer her family up by saying, "I always say, nothing goes quite so well with cabbage as cabbage."
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Pratchett adapting his caricature of the rural farming culture of England into the Sto Plains Geography lessons are very short Primary crop: Cabbages Primary export: Cabbages Native flora: Cabbages Native fauna: Anything that eats cabbages and doesn't mind having no friends
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