Drunk thread

[delavan]

...addressing the ugly undercurrent here....

German:  https://www.next-where.com/food-wine-travel/12-cities-to-celebrate-oktoberfest-in-the-us/

Italian:  FDR made Columbus Day a national holiday (SPD? hardly).  Throughout  the U.S. there are slews of celebrations, festivals and designated 'days' encompassing a huge swath of ethnicities, cultures, races, etc.  And any Teutonophiles will be happy to note that the midwest in particular is full of them (Scandinavian as well).  In NYC alone there's the Puerto Rican Day Parade, the Salute to Israel Day Parade, the Gay Pride Day, Parade, the Chinese Lunar New Year Parade, Japan Day Parade, Afro-American Day Parade, Greece, Brazil...and so on and so on and so on...........

Japan Day @ Central Park

Brazil Day NYC

50th Annual NYC Gay Pride March

San Gennaro Feast

National Puerto Rican Day Parade

Greek Independence Day Parade

Dominican Day parade

West Indian American Day Carnival & Parade 2023

African American Day parade

[Johnny English]

Also the major aspect of.German cultural tradition in the US is to blend in to the point of being indistinguishable.

But you are welcome.to.Google.the history of Saint Patrick's Day in the US to find your answers instead of making it our problem to answer for you.

Thank you, I did and I learned stuff. And of course it makes total sense that it would have its roots in the War Of Independence and a shared hatred of the British, something which as a Brit by birth I have a fair degree of sympathy with.

Still, I'm willing to bet that an awful lot - like, a significant majority - of SPD revelers are also unaware of those roots. Now I just have to figure why Canadians do it as well...

[Badger]

To be clear, I have no issue with Irish people and people of Irish descent celebrating SPD, outside the usual caveat of patriotism being at best almost universally crass and at worst, well, worse. I don't understand though why non-Irish people make such a big deal out of SPD though, and not for example April 23rd, June 2nd, October 3rd, or November 30th.

As soon as the whole city starts doing a giant bar crawl on those days I'll get right on that.

[MBGreen]

Down in Cancun...drank enough drinks with umbrellas hanging out of them that I'm probably legally blind.

[Badger]

https://v.redd.it/vbo1d8yiazya1

[reuben]

https://v.redd.it/vbo1d8yiazya1

At first I was thought it was kinda awesome, but then I tried to remember the last time I had a case of beer in a milkcrate. 

[CatoTheElder]

I want to make healthier decisions when I go out, but I also want tacos.

[reuben]

I want to make healthier decisions when I go out, but I also want tacos.

Fish tacos.  Done.

[Badger]

 

[CatoTheElder]

The Harpoon colab was excrement.

[SixFeetDeep]

https://x.com/bornakang/status/1732140990687776948?s=46&t=e6vm1ybQ4I7pEpNpNEkBkg