> I'll give you an example of an "ethnic" dish that isn't traditional,
> but is accepted to be so.
> On St. Patricks day--a US Irish Holiday--everyone tries to eat
> corned beef and cabbage--a "traditionally" Irish dish. Wrong! Corned
> Beef is Jewish. The Irish of the Lower East Side of NYC bought this
> meat to replace their traditional salted bacon.

I don't believe you. That was one of the few meals my grandma could
cook without burning - she was second-generation Irish from Glasgow,
born in 1889. She would always use corned beef. There were Jews in
Glasgow but not in Maryhill (an Irish area) and not in such numbers
that they could affect what the Irish ate.

What may be American is the specific association with St Patrick's Day.
I doubt if my grandma often remembered when that was.

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