In article >, bogus address
> wrote:

> > 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.

As an Irishman (from Ireland) I must say that I've never once come
across corned beef and cabbage. Yes, bacon is the usual thing, even
now.

Lazarus

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