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I really hate to be cliche, but it is St. Paddy’s day and in the 31 years I’ve been around, almost all of them included corned beef and cabbage for supper on March 17th. The irony here isn’t the fact that we’re a half Japanese half Scottish family, but rather the fact that Corned Beef didn’t actually originate in Ireland!

According to Wikipedia, corned beef came about when Irish immigrants in New York City hooked up with their Jewish neighbors (probably at Essex Market) while looking for a cheap substitute for Irish bacon. continue →

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