Disney Irish
Premium Member
You'd be surprised, corned beef and cabbage has become more Americanized and not limited to the Irish anymore. I know plenty of non-Irish families that have it during St Patrick's Day simply because its become an Americanized holiday.My family has origins in the South, too. Ireland as well. I shared this in another thread, but my grandmother’s maiden name is Dugan, a very Irish name. She said she doesn’t know who exactly was born in Ireland, but someone was. Her father, my great-grandfather, was light-skinned and has “mulatto” on his birth certificate. I haven’t been able to go back too much further than that, but I feel like his father or maybe his grandfather was the one who came from Ireland.
When my grandmother was living, she used to make us cabbage, potatoes, and corned beef almost every St. Patrick’s Day. She must have learned that from someone in the family. Black families usually don’t usually include these food items together in our meals, so that tradition must have been passed down from whoever the Irish person in our family was.