Corned Beef and Cabbage: Ireland Said no Thanks

Corned Beef and Cabbage: Ireland Said no Thanks: It's St. Patrick's Day, so naturally we think of corned beef and cabbage. This dish, like the Irish, like pepperoni pizza and Italian chop suey is Chinese.

In other words, not very Irish at all.

The duo wrote Belfast Irish descent, Peter Morwood and Diane Duane, former resident of New York's approach to this topic on the website of European cuisine. People are "here", referring to Ireland, "sometimes there is a corned beef and cabbage," they say, but "they do not eat all that much." - And almost none on the day of St. Patrick.

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Some restaurants in Ireland to serve corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick's - but "almost without exception," those who eat it will be a tourist.

Corned beef and cabbage, the pair say, not the national dish of Ireland. This is not the corned beef is not the history of Ireland, this is just what the Irish do not eat them.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, cattle grown in the country, is often used for corned beef - which was then mostly in the mouths of British citizens and British Army and the United States, according to Serious Eats. The Irish were too poor to afford their corned beef. They ate mostly pork and lamb.

But these days, most native Irish people, for example, residents of Duane and Morwood, find a corned beef and cabbage "too poor, just like that, old or boring, or too ... to go."

Although corned beef is not hard to do, it may take a long time. Los Angeles Times recipe for a tasty sounding New England style beef, cabbage and pickled vegetables with mustard horseradish cream takes about 3 1/2 hours total time to prepare.

Should I? This is for the cook to decide.

You can simply order a pepperoni pizza. Pizza has its roots in Italy, but it's the Americans who love pepperoni. In fact, if you order a pepperoni pizza in an Italian pizzeria (who was not a tourist destination), you will probably get red pepper pizza. As told About.com, pepperoni means "pepper" in Italian. If you want pepperoni, you will have to apply for piccante Salaam.

However, pay attention to the forum PizzaMaking.com "sausage is not pepperoni, and in this case, it seems that the Italians are up to us and not vice versa."

A chop suey? According to one legend, the dish was thrown together with waste cooking in a restaurant in San Francisco in the late 19th century. Other sources to debunk this story, saying that the sources of chop suey joint jumped base, which originated in the Pearl River Delta in southern Guangdong province, China.

But the Chinese stew, like pizza pepperoni and corned beef and cabbage, thoroughly Americanized.