Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day?

ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s Irish American, I doubt it has anything to do with Ireland.

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  • 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah you know except the whole part where it was brought to the US by the Irish potatoes famine refugees. But yeah nothing to do with ireland just the thousands of Irish people from Ireland that fled the famine.

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    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      There’s about the same number of foods that are actually from Europe, as there are foods that immigrants made theirs once they got here.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The corned beef isn’t necessarily Irish, but putting it in a stew with cabbage and potatoes is the Irish bit

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The whole reason the Irish subsisted on potatoes was that the corned beef they raised and produced was to be eat only by English abz French. The corned beef was here already in the US, and a different form. It was the Jewish kosher corned beef that became synonymous with Irish American culture.

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Nah, it has some irish origins, just not only Irish

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• gramie@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Corned beef seems to have originated in Ireland and Scotland, but was commonly used throughout the British Empire for the past 400 years. I assume the cooking and salting process makes it last much longer without going bad, which would make sense for long voyages.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    A traditional corned beef has potassium sulfate (saltpeter) which often had red dye in it, lending the meat a pink color. So it was also about making bad meat look better.

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