# St. Patty's Day shopping list **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 16, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-pattys-day-shopping-list/234635 "2004-03-16T14:48:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-pattys-day-shopping-list/234635/1 "2004-03-16T14:48:39Z")
Alright folks. Sure, sure, get your corned beef and cabbage. Get your Guinness. Get your potatoes and shepherd’s pie ingredients. But don’t forget the large quantities of grape soda as well. Nothing says “Pogue mahone!” like green poop. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-pattys-day-shopping-list/234635/2 "2004-03-16T15:49:13Z")
Forgot the coffee, whipped cream and Irish whisky to make Irish coffee for the drinkers, and Irish Creme non-dairy creamer to make faux Irish coffee for the non-drinkers. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-pattys-day-shopping-list/234635/3 "2004-03-16T15:51:11Z")
Check your pantry to see if you have raisins and caraway seeds, so you can bake your own soda bread. Much better than that ersatz stuff they try to palm off on the unsuspecting in March. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-pattys-day-shopping-list/234635/4 "2004-03-16T15:59:09Z")
I always put aside some cab fare… ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-pattys-day-shopping-list/234635/5 "2004-03-16T16:57:33Z")
Huh? I’m confused. Corned beef isn’t popular in Ireland, Shepherd’s pie is English and Soda bread doesn’t have raisins in it. And it’s spelt Póg ma thoin. You’d want lamb chops with your cabbage and the potatoes should be mashed and have scallions put through to make champ. Instead of Shepherd’s pie, make a lamb stew with carrots, and serve some oysters or smoked salmon with brown soda bread (wheaten). Scones and strong tea would be nice and traditional too. Irish food, being as how it’s based largely on bread and potatoes, doesn’t really do low-carb. Sorry for nitpicking. My Paddy’s day shopping includes 6 cans of Guinness, a bottle of rum and some Alka Seltzer. There is a public transport and airport strike in Dublin on Thursday, so I can spend the day in bed with a hangover, secure in the knowledge that I have a great excuse not to turn up at work. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-pattys-day-shopping-list/234635/6 "2004-03-16T17:07:40Z")
and to keep on rolling with the nitpick, Whiskey is spelt with a **e** unless you are talking about Scotch. 🙂 Sláinte a chairde. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-pattys-day-shopping-list/234635/7 "2004-03-16T17:31:47Z")
You shouldn’t be confused, **irishgirl**. My wife is friends with a folk singer from Belfast who tours America frequently. He always refers to St. Patrick’s Day as “that curious American holiday.” What we’re discussing here are American St. Patrick’s Day customs, which often have only passing acquaintance with the Irish. Oftentimes, too, they are observed by people who aren’t of Irish descent at all. I’m Welsh and Italian, myself. I cooked the corned beef up on Sunday. My wife is Irish, Belgian, Italian and Lithuanian. She doesn’t like it quite as much as I do. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![PolishSausage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@PolishSausage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PolishSausage)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-pattys-day-shopping-list/234635/8 "2004-03-16T18:01:07Z")
I wanted to buy a good Irish Wiskey. Recomendations, please! ~t ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-pattys-day-shopping-list/234635/9 "2004-03-16T18:24:10Z")
> [@irishgirl](#): > > Huh? I’m confused. > > Corned beef isn’t popular in Ireland, Shepherd’s pie is English and Soda bread doesn’t have raisins in it. And it’s spelt Póg ma thoin. > > You’d want lamb chops with your cabbage and the potatoes should be mashed and have scallions put through to make champ. Instead of Shepherd’s pie, make a lamb stew with carrots, and serve some oysters or smoked salmon with brown soda bread (wheaten). Scones and strong tea would be nice and traditional too. > Irish food, being as how it’s based largely on bread and potatoes, doesn’t really do low-carb. > > Sorry for nitpicking. The point of my OP wasn’t to direct people to buy corned beef, etc. It was to point out that drinking a large amount of grape soda will make your poop green. ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-pattys-day-shopping-list/234635/10 "2004-03-16T19:15:45Z")
I’m with **Irishgirl** on this - Huh? What’s green poop got to do with Pog ma thoin? boiling bacon, cabbage and carrots, that’s what we’re having 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-pattys-day-shopping-list/234635/11 "2004-03-18T13:14:20Z")
If you have any leftover corned beef, cabbage and potatoes, you can fry them up along with some chopped canned beets and make New England Red Flannel Hash. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-pattys-day-shopping-list/234635/12 "2004-03-18T13:23:06Z")
Good Irish whiskeys Jameson’s do a nice one, if your feeling spendy get a bottle of their “Crested Ten”. Paddy is terrible. You could aslo try a bottle of Black Bush, wheich is from Co. Antrim. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-pattys-day-shopping-list/234635/13 "2004-03-18T13:28:48Z")
Black Bush is good, but the Bushmills distillery also does Bushmills 10- and 25-year-old malts, which are worth the (rather high) price tag. Incredibly smooth. ---
**Author:** ![PolishSausage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@PolishSausage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PolishSausage)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-pattys-day-shopping-list/234635/14 "2004-03-18T13:31:56Z")
> [@TwistofFate](#): > > Good Irish whiskeys > > Jameson’s do a nice one, if your feeling spendy get a bottle of their “Crested Ten”. > > Paddy is terrible. > > You could aslo try a bottle of Black Bush, wheich is from Co. Antrim. Thanks for the tips; I’ll go shopping post St. Pat’s. …now where’s that DVD of The Quiet Man… ~t ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-pattys-day-shopping-list/234635/15 "2004-03-18T13:36:55Z")
BTW there’s a nice touch in that dreadful movie _The Devil’s Own_ where Brad Pitt plays an IRA man on the run who hides out in New York. His hosts have made him corned beef and cabbage because he’s from Ireland, but Pitt’s character says “I’ve never heard of it.” ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-pattys-day-shopping-list/234635/16 "2004-03-18T18:33:35Z")
> [@PolishSausage](#): > > I’ll go shopping post St. Pat’s. Since nitpicking is fun (and trendy it seems!) St Pats is a mental hospital, or a teacher training college (more or less the same thing). Paddys Day is a more common contraction. Americans are gas, and their traditions are spreading, I have taken to wearing something green on paddys day to fend off hoards of mad people who want to pinch me otherwise. I still don’t understand that…