March 16, 2008
Good Thangs: St. Paddy’s
Chocolate Stout Cake Recipe from Epicurious
Corned beef and cabbage just makes me feel bloated and gassy. I’d rather bake this delicious cake for my St. Paddy’s day feasting. Last time I made it I put an orange liquor cream cheese icing on it and it was very yummy. It pairs nicely with Guinness of course, and if you’re like me and start drinking before you even start baking, don’t worry, this cake tastes almost as good coming up as it does going down.
Flag & Shamrock Thong at Irishshop.com
St. Patrick’s Day is a traditional day for spiritual renewal and offering prayers for missionaries worldwide. For some of you it’s a day to wear green, celebrate Irish culture, and drink green beer. For your cousin Regina last year, it was an excuse to dye her pubes green and flash her lucky charms for 8 blocks from atop a St. Paddy’s Day parade float. If you’re not quite feeling that much in the party mood but still want to show your spirit, you’ll feel lucky in these thongs and avoid a citation for public lewdness. [$10.49]
Shamrock Dog Pillow on etsy.com
This is adorable! How nice to roll over to see your dog asleep on this in your bed instead of the dwarf dude from the party who was dressed as a leprechaun and kept looking up your skirt and offering to show you his Blarney stones. Ah well, he must have had the luck of the Irish that night. [$19.]
Sláinte, y’all!
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Amy, I love you. You did not title your post “Good Thangs: Saint PaTTy’s”. You used the correct derogatory term “PaDDy” — and, speaking as a (Danish) Irish-American with an allegiance to historical accuracy, I tip one to you.
Even though I find the American incarnation of St. Patrick’s Day deeply, profoundly embarrassing. So much so that I’ve imagined organizing a terrorist group the goal of which would be to substitute a vat of orange dye for the green they dump into the Chicago River each March 17.
I didn’t say that. I did not say that.
Thanks, Sheila. Our celebration of the day is quite silly indeed, but I think of it as a way to celebrate my (partial) Irish ancestry. I’d help you with the orange dye project, though, since it’s a personal goal of mine to be arrested for some non-violent, outlandish petty crime.
Well, after all, here in the States what it really is — is our way of celebrating Carnival.
Though it wasn’t always such a big thing. Definitely not in Dallas. As a neighbor child once said to my mother, “You know . . . that . . . that green day you celebrate.”
Oh, and Amy, I’d love to help you achieve your goal of being arrested for some non-violent, outlandish petty crime. But I’m chickening out on the orange dye escapade. Having been arrested by Chicago’s finest for a non-violent petty crime that fell short of outlandish, I don’t think I’m up for the consequences of disrupting a St. Patrick’s Day Chicago tradition.