Originally Posted by
bubba
Corned beef and cabbage isn't really traditional. The traditional is Irish bacon (lean back bacon) and cabbage. Corned beef is an American alteration brought about because the Irish immigrants couldn't afford Irish bacon and their Jewish neighbors introduced them to the much cheaper corned beef.
Oh thank goodness!
I never could stand corned beef. Bacon though is another matter!
I'll be having Irish soda bread. It's cooling as we speak. 
It don't mean a thing, if you aint got that swing!!
'S Rioghal Mo Dhream - a child of the mist
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