Happy St. Patty's Day

Happy St. Patty's Day
The best thing about St. Patricks Day is NOT the beer. The first time I took M to a bar on March 17, she just had to try the green beer. Of course, there is nothing special about it. It doesn't really taste green like a freshly mowed lawn or, I suppose, the 18th green at St. Andrew's golf course. I explained to her that it's just regular beer--probably the cheapest one on tap--with a little food coloring. Still, it was novel enough for her to have a taste.
The best thing about this day is the food. Being the carnivore that I am, I love to dig into that corned beef. Man, is it good. And I am a pretty big cabbage fan, so corned beef and cabbage sounds just about perfect to me. That and a pint of green beer. M-m-M-M-Mmm....
Oh yeah, a little FYI: cabbage is good for the digestion. Indeed, in Japan, it's the best thing to eat when you have a hangover. They even have an over-the-counter medicine called Kyabejin, which works pretty well when you have an upset stomach with that hangover. Come to think of it, when I eat cabbage while I drink, I don't have such a bad hangover the next day. Of course, I don't mean to suggest that you can drink an entire keg as long as you eat cabbage... of course.
Everything in moderation.

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lol nice,i def try the cabbage when i drink, i usually go for ramen to flush my system....
- 3/17/2007 9:39 AM
- potatohead127 (message)
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I was totally not feeling the St. Patrick's Day love, and then all of a sudden I look up and the Tokyo Tower is GREEN. Like... what? Took me a while to figure it out, and it's just gone back to it's natural color (much like my hair), but that was a nice little two hour nod to a holiday which has absolutely nothing to do with Japan other than it was created on another country that is also an island.

Cheers!
- 3/17/2007 10:09 AM
- LaMangust (message)
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I'm leaving for work in about an hour and I'm not going to wear green. I'm worried that I'm going to be pinched to death by 10 female employees, but hey, am I one to complain about something like that?
- 3/17/2007 10:25 AM
- iiSoNySoUnDii (message)
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ooohhhh, so that's why they serve cabbage with everything here... naruhodo
- 3/17/2007 6:44 PM
- the_greatest_pip (message)
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We used to make green milk shakes which, like the green beer, was simply a regular shake with green dye. Still a fun day though.
- 3/18/2007 12:16 AM
- SammyStorm2 (message)
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I guess the moral of the story is eat more cabbage? Funny, I just saw something on TV about that the other day...about how we should all eat more cabbage.
- 3/18/2007 12:38 PM
- EnderSatomi (message)
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