I believe my wife made sure the kids were wearing orange today. Some of her ancestors were Huguenots who were chased from France to Northern Ireland, then later to Canada. Not much chance of them wearing green today.
it just amazes me how many think because they had an Irish wolfhound in the family a hundred years ago they now are Irish.
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I’ve just talked to 3 Irish lads, real ones over in Ireland and all of them said they think Americans who pretend their Irish is a joke and it goes way over the top plus they forget this is a religious holiday for many real Irish.
Even worse in America is that some teachers tell the kids there are Leprechauns and then tell them to wear green and set out traps to catch Leprechauns but of course Christmas cannot be mentioned.
Last year we had a bunch of folks from NY staying down here, all of them wearing green, asking the waitress for green beer, one dressed as a Leprechaun WTH
When the restaurant ran out of green dye the group from NY refused to drink anything until the restaurant got more green dye.
LOL - my mom said that her dad made her wear orange on St. Pat’s day. His family was from Scotland. She said she used to come home from school bruised.