Happy St. Patrick's Day!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

Begorrah! I had the Not-so-mini-Reuben last night at Max's Opera Cafe. Pastrami, not corned beef. Big enough for full-on Ditka heart attack.

Ah someone else unable to resist the allure of pastrami and kraut. It's just good eatin'.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Irish Christian Leader

I question the need for "mindless alcohol-fuelled revelry

I celebrated by attending an Ides of March/St. Patrick's Day Toga Party. It was all Green Roman (which is different than Greco Roman), and it was a hoot with people in varying degrees of beautiful to comical toga costumes and such.

It was not mindless alcohol-fueled revelry, but I did drink whisky, mint-filled mojitos, and green tequila shots.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

Begorrah! I had the Not-so-mini-Reuben last night at Max's Opera Cafe. Pastrami, not corned beef. Big enough for full-on Ditka heart attack.

Oh dear God, so did I, on Friday night. I did not finish it, but it was as yummy as I remembered. I had corned beef, however.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I've never felt motivated to do stuff for St. Pats. First thing I think of regarding the day is how I always forgot to wear green to school and was tortured for it. I'm also not much of a barhopper and don't often get ridiculously smashed.

We were thinking of going out but gave up on it. Eh.



Should have thrown the Purim party we keep talking about...

[Kevy Baby]

I've never been a St. P. person either. Though I do have a small amount of Irish ancestry (VERY small), I have no connection to it. Like Cinco de Mayo (which is NOT the Mexican Independence Day and is quite actually a relatively small event in Mexican history), this day has become predominantly a reason to go out and get blotto.

The only meal I had yesterday (besides some noshing earlier in the day) was a bowl of French Onion soup, steak with blue cheese and steamed broccoli with a sprinking of cheddar cheese (and it wasn't until I just typed this that I realized how much cheese I had for dinner last night).

[CoasterMatt]

I didn't have any green beer, but I had green biscuits last night at Saddle Ranch Chop House (and the best damned bacon cheeseburger I've had in MONTHS - the kitchen forgot the bacon initially, so the server went to the back, and came back with 4 BIG crunchy strips of very flavorful bacon).

[Mousey Girl]

Nickolas and I didn't do a darn thing last night. We put in a movie and played with the girls. Any remote thought I had about going out, even to the Chuy's on the corner, was squashed yesterday morning, when on my way to work, I saw no fewer than 5 police cars. This is a 10 minute drive.

Top this with me going through my quarterly insomnia battle and an ehausting Friday, I was in no shape to go anywhere.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

I played a gig yesterday so there wasn't much energy left for festivities afterwards. However, this morning Matthew was saying that he wished we could have had corned beef and cabbage. I decided to see what it would take to pull it off tonight and surprise him.

Went to the store and got everything I needed for under $6. It turns out that this is a very good day to buy corned beef. I got a 2.5 LB slab for less than 2 bucks. So, we will celebrate a belated St. Patricks Day tonight and it will hopefully (since I've never made this before) be pretty yummy.

[Kevy Baby]

Cabbage (IMO) stinks and tastes aweful.

I like corned beef though!

[wendybeth]

You're such a carnivore.