Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 16, 2023

Sigh, can’t eat corned beef anymore, and others wish I wouldn’t eat cabbage (including me sometimes).

. . . and Guinness.

Sorry Arlo, still missing a lot of other fixings.

I’ll be right over!

Make your own! It’s as easy as sauerkraut. HInt: forget brisket and use bottom round or boneless chuck. Better yet, if you really want to be traditional, buy pork shoulder and make Irish bacon instead. Granted, this advice is about 3-4 weeks too late.

I may be Irish but I’ll take the Thanksgiving fare over the St. Patty’s day fare any day.

Mostly Irish here…..and I’m here for the beer!

Is the corned beef green?

My wife thinks bangers and mash is the greatest thing.

Don’t forget the Guinness.

I’m very Irish, but have never had a traditional St. Pat’s Day meal. The most St. Patty thing I do is go out and earn strings of green beads.

Still needs the soda bread, colcannon and Irish whiskey

Last year, I bought a corned beef brisket. Cooked it according to the directions. It was terrible! Ended up throwing it out!

boring…….

Arlo found the green cloth shopping bag.

I’ll take mine as, “thinly sliced corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread slathered with Russian or Thousand Island dressing…”

Does not matter how it is cooked, just how it’s drawn.

Paid $1.69 a pound for the point cut and $1.99 a pound for the flat cut. Eating the point cut for corned beef and cabbage. Got the flat cut for Rubens.

One of our favorite meals

I love corned beef and cabbage and boiled potatoes, with a pint of Guinness, all year round. Luckily we have a dozen Irish pubs close to us

This is going on in our kitchen as I type.

Arlo, that is the cost of inflation.

Problem is, the “original” Corn Beef and Cabbage. only had Cabbage. People were too poor in the past to afford Beef.

Going to need plenty of Guinness to help make that Corned Beef! It’s funny that we have this as a “ritual” feast… It’s my understanding that none of it was really all that common in Ireland!

You think it is expensive? Just wait until this afternoon.

One cannot eat gold but one cannot eat without gold.

Shirley Temple in one of her movies

Yuk. Cabbage and potatoes are good, but you can leave out the corned beef, put some ham in it, instead.

We can expect turkeys to be remarkably expensive this Thanksgiving because of deaths and culling from the avian flu. The price is nearly doubled from a year ago and, with almost half a year from laying of egg to harvestable turkey, it is likely to be this way for a while.

On a brighter note, flaming tar is expected to fall from the skies on beautiful Spring days this year, particularly targeting outdoor weddings…. Eh, these things just happen.

Sorry folks, but Corned Beef and Cabbage kicks Turkey and Dressing’s butt. I always end up throwing away leftover turkey. There has never been a sign of leftover brisket after the second day.

I still contend that most “traditional ethnic foods” hark back to a time when there was absolutely nothing else available.

Cinco De Mayo has the best food. Love Mexican cuisine.

I’m making cream of potato and ham soup. Definitely a family favorite. Don’t think I could get them to eat corned beef and cabbage!

The reality is that corned beef/cabbage is about as “Irish” as “Danny Boy” and Irish Spring soap—which is to say, it’s an Irish-American diaspora spin on things. It would almost be like Americans celebrating a German ethnic holiday by ODing on cheap hot dogs.

And if you paid more for the corned beef than the turkey, you’re really doing it wrong. Most major chains mark down corned beef as a special “loss leader” price either for the week or two before Green Beer Day or even all month long, just like they do for turkeys before Thanksgiving. Myself, I use it as an excuse to grab three briskets cheap, spice them up, fire up the smoker, and make my own pastrami….. and subsequently delight in a stream of grilled artery-hardening “Cloak & Dagger” sandwiches (pastrami and corned beef, Swiss, and specially seasoned coleslaw instead of sauerkraut)…….

Lest we forget, St Patrick was a Roman child when he was kidnapped, so his parents were most likely Italian. Have a nice Chianti & lasagna instead. ;-)

Mr. Johnson has always been able to entertain us with some really great sketches, skits, gags, insights, and peeks into life, both his and ours. On a disquieting note more than a few of us voyeurs remain concerned. It is rapidly approaching four years since JJ posted a message below a picture of a shallow, sandy shoreline. In bold type it read “Coming soon! Really…A revamped, refurbished, revitalized, renewable arloandjanis.com” and it can still be seen on the aforesaid arloandjanis.com. The link is right below “Latest Tweet” near the bottom of this page. Everything OK there big guy?

Well I’m just having corn dogs because there was no corned beef, or roast beef, at the grocery store I went to, today. No tater tots either!

New England Boiled Dinner.

Irish don’t do very much corned beef, it’s usually boiled bacon with cabbage and potatoes as a traditional dish. And BTW most Irish people don’t drink Guinness.

Husband had to have corned beef this year. Our attempts at cooking same in the past have NOT gone well. Somehow this year he found the right instructions and it came out perfect. I thought we would have two dinners – but he has a lunch of leftovers so there is enough for one more sandwich for him instead.

What I did not like is that I basically wasted an afternoon babysitting the corned beef as it cooked as could not cook it the night before and reheat as I do when I when cook stews as I am in the kitchen at night (because he is in the office and I get a little time on my own) online – such as now so easy to cook stews then.

Many, many years ago he had to go our state capital for several days to take a course. He was concerned about traveling alone so I rode up with him and took the train back down to Manhattan the next day – which happened to be St Patrick’s Day. I have never again gone into Manhattan on same!!!

Have edited this per a notice I had to and removed our ethnicity, I am hoping that was the problem and this goes through.