Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bruce Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=98=98=EF=B8=8F_St._Patrick's_?= =?UTF-8?Q?Day_Dinner=3F_=E2=98=98=EF=B8=8F_3/?= =?UTF-8?Q?17/2025?= Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:05:59 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <69f8f35725a47940b455c186f8969cae@www.novabbs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 22:06:05 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="99c5e69ae356f2ba1741a80f3fd13702"; logging-data="991372"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+xFcxPZdBH9MbBC3kXzrJO" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:crCZ5TkkJLKew2JC4NpJtUNsJt8= On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:24:13 +0000, dsi100@yahoo.com (dsi1) wrote: >On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:05:58 +0000, Bruce wrote: > >> On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:57:41 +0000, dsi100@yahoo.com (dsi1) wrote: >> >>>On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:41:52 +0000, Bruce wrote: >>> >>>> What's St Patrick's Day? Do we have to start drinking enormous >>>> quantities of beer and then go to confession? >>> >>>Americans love any day that gives them an excuse to get roaring drunk >>>and drink like an Irishman. Dyeing a river green and eating corned beef >>>and cabbage is mostly secondary silliness. >>> >>>https://apnews.com/article/patrick-chicago-river-dye-green-irish-5a61721b445577b8f76a5e106c55ca5e >> >> It says that Saint Patrick brought Christianity to Ireland in the >> fifth century. St Patrick's Day should be a day of mourning! > >We can thank St Patrick for driving out the snakes in Ireland. We don't >have any snakes here either but one day, da Hawaiians might need the >mana of St. Patrick. These days, da Hawaiians have got a bigger problem >than snakes. > >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwdzZ0udi8o I'd rather have snakes and beetles than Christianity. -- Bruce