Charlie Buffalo looks like he may have indulged a bit too much.
Today is Saint Gertrude of Nivelles Day. In the 1980s she became the unofficial Saint for cats. Apparently cats didn’t have a saint until then. Not sure who started it and it’s not really official but there you are. Among other things she is also the Patron Saint of deceased rodents so maybe there is a connection.
It is also National Corned Beef and Cabbage day, which is interesting as they do not eat that to celebrate St Patrick’s day in Ireland. It’s an American thing as it’s a simple and frugal meal created by Irish immigrants so an American thing. Pork and potatoes would have been an Irish meal but in the U.S. pork was more expensive than beef. The Irish borrowed the corned beef substitute from their Jewish neighbors who used it as a substitute for pork and bacon. Corned beef mixed with spices and then smoked becomes pastrami.
I’m not a fan of anything “corned”. I don’t like ham or bacon either. The closest I get is using Canadian bacon to make BLTs and that isn’t really bacon. But it doesn’t have the fat and is less salty.
Don’t care for cabbage either except in a really good coleslaw, which is difficult to find.
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all!
Good day to all.
Charlie Buffalo looks like he may have indulged a bit too much.
Today is Saint Gertrude of Nivelles Day. In the 1980s she became the unofficial Saint for cats. Apparently cats didn’t have a saint until then. Not sure who started it and it’s not really official but there you are. Among other things she is also the Patron Saint of deceased rodents so maybe there is a connection.
It is also National Corned Beef and Cabbage day, which is interesting as they do not eat that to celebrate St Patrick’s day in Ireland. It’s an American thing as it’s a simple and frugal meal created by Irish immigrants so an American thing. Pork and potatoes would have been an Irish meal but in the U.S. pork was more expensive than beef. The Irish borrowed the corned beef substitute from their Jewish neighbors who used it as a substitute for pork and bacon. Corned beef mixed with spices and then smoked becomes pastrami.
I’m not a fan of anything “corned”. I don’t like ham or bacon either. The closest I get is using Canadian bacon to make BLTs and that isn’t really bacon. But it doesn’t have the fat and is less salty.
Don’t care for cabbage either except in a really good coleslaw, which is difficult to find.