"sanne" wrote in message
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Am Mittwoch, 14. März 2018 17:46:09 UTC+1 schrieb Sheldon:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 15:01:49 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
> >On Wed 14 Mar 2018 07:46:21a, Dave Smith told us...
> >
> >> On 2018-03-14 10:26 AM, wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On 2018-03-13 3:28 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> >>>>> On 2018-03-13 2:20 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >>>>>> On Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 12:54:54 PM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Because it's tasty. Of course, it's even better smoked as
> >>>>>> pastrami. I've pretty much given up corned beef in favor
> >>>>>> of pastrami. Granted, I've never liked corned beef except
> >>>>>> in sandwiches. "New England Boiled Dinner" was one of my
> >>>>>> childhood scourges.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Despite being part Irish, I have never been able to celebrate
> >>>>> St. Patrick's Day with the traditional corned beef, boiled
> >>>>> potatoes and cabbage dinner because, quite frankly, the whole
> >>>>> thing sucks.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Since everyone else these days reserves the right to be
> >>>>> offended, I am going to express my disapproval of people using
> >>>>> the day honouring a blessed saint
> >>>
> >>> In the US there really isn't much Irish about how the day is
> >>> celebrated, for one thing there is nothing Irish about corned
> >>> beef and cabbage.
> >>
> >> There may not be much Irish about it, but it has become a North
> >> American tradition for many people to eat it on St. Patrick's Day.
> >> It is also an excuse for people to go out and get drunk.
> >>
> >
> >I know more people who do not go out and get drunk than those who do.
> >AFAIC, there's no correlation between drinking and eating corned beef
> >and cabbage.
>
> A typical sot's commentary/alibi.
> Everyone who goes out on St. Paddy's day to eat cornbeef and cabbage
> also gets loaded because only gin mills serve corned beef and cabbage,
> and usually all one can eat for free... just buy the booze. Same with
> the Kraut's Octoberfest, free sauerbraten with the booze they buy.
> Btw, not much difference between corned beef and sauerbraten.
> It's always the drunks who make commentary that everyone else is a
> drunk... a Sot's Rationalization.

Lol.

Show me one beer tent that serves Sauerbraten at the Oktoberfest - let
alone all you can eat and for free. And as you talk about "Krauts",
you have to refer to the Munich original - otherwise, you'd have to
call Trump a "Kraut", too.

==

Do you make it? If so, will you share the recipe, please?