St. Patrick’s Day, which was originally only celebrated as a Catholic holiday, has now become shared by Catholics and the secular world alike.

We all know that the holiday calls for wearing the color green, but their are also some other interesting traditions, such as eating corned beef and cabbage. Corned beef and cabbage is a classic dish created by Irish immigrants in the United States.

The immigrants used the corned beef rather than other types of meat such as pork or bacon. The dish contains the corned beef along with cabbage and some vegetable such as carrots and potatoes.

It is perhaps ironic that corned beef and cabbage is linked with St. Patrick’s Day since the dish is not from Ireland.

As often happens, we lost our since of history, and simply adopted the dish for St. Patrick’s Day since it was created by Irish immigrants. Corned beef and cabbage remains quite popular in the New England region of the United States as well as parts of Canada in that same geographic area. Maybe it is the fact that the dish contains very simple foods that makes it so popular even to this day. That question may never be answered, but one thing seems clear, this dish is here to stay.

Corned Beef and Cabbage: A St. Patricks Day tradition