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  • Posts: 65 Member

    I take it you're not actually Irish and maybe this is just your family? I certainly don't have a Chinese once a week and Cowboy Supper? Nope. And Boxty is potato bread so spud bread and Boxty are the same thing.

    No, I'm the same but (presuming you live here too) you've prob seen how busy the chinese's and chippys are at the week end.

    Is boxty not made with potatoes and eggs? The two taste different so there must be some differences in the ingredients.

    Not Irish, British, Northern Irish, what ever you want to call it.
  • Posts: 1,225 Member
    Boiled potatoes,
    Mashed potatoes,
    Chips,
    Potato cakes...

    Irish mixed grill....:bigsmile:
  • Posts: 1,326 Member

    No, I'm the same but (presuming you live here too) you've prob seen how busy the chinese's and chippys are at the week end.

    Is boxty not made with potatoes and eggs? The two taste different so there must be some differences in the ingredients.

    Not Irish, British, Northern Irish, what ever you want to call it.

    I'm Irish and living in Ireland which is an island and If you were born anywhere on this island of Ireland you're Irish too.
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    I'm Irish and living in Ireland which is an island and If you were born anywhere on this island of Ireland you're Irish too.

    Can open.........worms everywhere........
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    Can open.........worms everywhere........

    Pfft!!! I know, I know....I tried to stop myself, just couldn't be arsed with that 'I'm British' *kitten*. The Argentinians consider themselves Argentinian, the Aussies never said they were British, or the Indians.... it's just so odd to me. *end rant*
  • Black and Tan Brownies? Really?

    Colcannon is yum.

    ETA: I can count on one hand the number of chinese takeaways I've had in the last five years. Just sayin'
  • Posts: 2,576 Member

    Pfft!!! I know, I know....I tried to stop myself, just couldn't be arsed with that 'I'm British' *kitten*. The Argentinians consider themselves Argentinian, the Aussies never said they were British, or the Indians.... it's just so odd to me. *end rant*

    Why would the Argentinians consider to call themselves anything but Argentine? Except for maybe Spanish .....

    /runs away from Falkland mess.
  • Posts: 65 Member

    Pfft!!! I know, I know....I tried to stop myself, just couldn't be arsed with that 'I'm British' *kitten*. The Argentinians consider themselves Argentinian, the Aussies never said they were British, or the Indians.... it's just so odd to me. *end rant*

    I agree, lets just forget it. We have different opinions and we're never going to agree, so lets just agree to differ. :ohwell:
  • Posts: 1,326 Member
    Agreed, must remember not to get political on MFP!!!! *tries hard*
  • Posts: 262 Member
    Most people here in the US have no idea why they wear green on St Patrick's day, what the orange order is, who Michael Collins was, the history of Sinn Fein and why we call a certain drink black and tans. Don't get started with the car bombs (drink I mean)..

    Point is, I don't think anyone means to be offensive.
  • Posts: 1,326 Member
    Most people here in the US have no idea why they wear green on St Patrick's day, what the orange order is, who Michael Collins was, the history of Sinn Fein and why we call a certain drink black and tans. Don't get started with the car bombs (drink I mean)..

    Point is, I don't think anyone means to be offensive.

    Oh sure I get it but not meaning to be offensive doesn't always equal not being offensive. People ought to learn, that's all! None of it is secret stuff, we had to learn about American political history in school... Funny they don't teach about our history in American schools, there is more than one country/continent in the world after all!
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    Most people here in the US have no idea why they wear green on St Patrick's day, what the orange order is, who Michael Collins was, the history of Sinn Fein and why we call a certain drink black and tans. Don't get started with the car bombs (drink I mean)..

    Point is, I don't think anyone means to be offensive.


    nobody does. Americans love any holiday where we can drink. That's really all there is to it.
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    nobody does. Americans love any holiday where we can drink. That's really all there is to it.

    I'm not sure that's anything to be proud of.
  • Posts: 26 Member
    potato pankcakes are the best!!! :)
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    nobody does. Americans love any holiday where we can drink. That's really all there is to it.

    You'd think, given the sheer volume of Irish emmigration to the states you'd learn about Ireland in school. My family are weird, they went in the other direction, although I wont pretend there isn't a large emmigre population in the town that they chose to settle in (Manchester). You do have to search out Irish history living in England, but I find this less surprising.

    As for holidays where you can drink...Over here thats all of them and "Friday" counts as a holiday in this case.
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    Guiness..... yes lots of guiness, thats when the conversation starts getting really good.
  • Posts: 2,576 Member

    You'd think, given the sheer volume of Irish emmigration to the states you'd learn about Ireland in school. My family are weird, they went in the other direction, although I wont pretend there isn't a large emmigre population in the town that they chose to settle in (Manchester). You do have to search out Irish history living in England, but I find this less surprising.

    As for holidays where you can drink...Over here thats all of them and "Friday" counts as a holiday in this case.

    I come from a large Irish American family in the PA coal region. Most of the history lessons have been focused on what happened after they arrived in America. I only started looking into Irish history when I was a child because I moved to the UK and was summarily hated for my last name.
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    Lucky charm squares

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    Hell to the Yeah!!!

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  • Posts: 1,238 Member
    Irish themed dish. Throw a bunch of *kitten* in a pot, at cabbage, boil the *kitten* out of it until it looks like a grey pudding, then serve. No seasoning needed. Enjoy!:drinker: :bigsmile: :laugh:
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    now is a god time to discuss the definition of the word Oxymoron. After that we can make a Vegan Meatloaf
  • Posts: 1,326 Member
    Irish themed dish. Throw a bunch of *kitten* in a pot, at cabbage, boil the *kitten* out of it until it looks like a grey pudding, then serve. No seasoning needed. Enjoy!:drinker: :bigsmile: :laugh:

    Ha! Every woman in my family would kick your behind for that Ben!!! Why not just make some American food, take any meat, fry it as if it were chicken, add a ****ton of corn syrup and pour melted cheese over it liberally. Dip it in anything runnier than bread. Eat it in your truck with your sister who's your cousin and your wife.
  • Posts: 1,238 Member

    Ha! Every woman in my family would kick your behind for that Ben!!! Why not just make some American food, take any meat, fry it as if it were chicken, add a ****ton of corn syrup and pour melted cheese over it liberally. Dip it in anything runnier than bread. Eat it in your truck with your sister who's your cousin and your wife.

    You're kinda right, EXCEPT! the dip has to be a very thick Ranch dressing, not something runny. Aside from that, you nailed the a description of the South PERFECTLY!
  • Posts: 1,599 Member
    whiskey. lots of whiskey.
  • Posts: 1,225 Member

    Ha! Every woman in my family would kick your behind for that Ben!!! Why not just make some American food, take any meat, fry it as if it were chicken, add a ****ton of corn syrup and pour melted cheese over it liberally. Dip it in anything runnier than bread. Eat it in your truck with your sister who's your cousin and your wife.

    Wot no banjo?
  • Posts: 1,238 Member

    Wot no banjo?

    Says the man from England. Say, how's that dental plan coming along ?
  • Posts: 1,225 Member

    Says the man from England. Say, how's that dental plan coming along ?

    You mean the dental plan we get subsidised from our tax money unlike the US, say where one has to pay outright for these things? :tongue:
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    You mean the dental plan we get subsidised from our tax money unlike the US, say where one has to pay outright for these things? :tongue:

    My dental insurance calls your bluff along with my $10 co-pay
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    Lucky charm squares

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    food pr0n ITT
  • Posts: 1,225 Member

    My dental insurance calls your bluff along with my $10 co-pay

    And here I was expecting a hundred page sectarian bunfight and all I get is tooth-based snarkiness....
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