Corned Beef and Cabbage Day
March 17 · Level 4 · #1465 of 2238
A day for the dish that has become the classic St Patrick's Day meal in the United States. Corned beef with boiled cabbage is seen as an Irish-American staple.
How it is celebrated: families and friends sit down to tender corned beef served with cabbage, potatoes and carrots. Many order it at pubs and restaurants, often dressed in green.
In Ireland itself, bacon and cabbage was the more traditional pairing. Irish immigrants in the US switched to corned beef because it was cheaper and easy to find at the butcher.