Hoarding corned beef?

[Throck]

I went shopping at 3 local stores yesterday, all corned beef was sold out by noon. My part Irish wife is pissed.

No shortage of cabbage though. None of them were true Irish.

The bastards.

[tirebiter]

1. In Hawaii back in the day, when the longshore Union would strike

First things off the shelf at the market were tp (some things never change) and Spam, a great Hawaiian delicacy.

[MFM008]

2. Cabbage

And potatoes with bacon or not works in this irish house.
Colcannon.

[mercuryblues]

3. As republicans would say

I got mine so FU.

Corned beef was on sale last week. With people doing mad shopping in prep for social distancing a lot of things flew off the shelves.

[jimfields33]

4. Call around to restaurants to see if they have any and can deliver

I’m sure they ordered some earlier before ban and now stuck with the corn beef. They’d probably appreciate the business. Delivery on St. Patrick’s Day a plus.

[wnylib]

5. Could happen even without the current

crisis. Holidays create runs on certain items.

At Xmas, my favorate grocery ran out of pecans. Guess everyone was making the same cookies. Shortage of pre-made graham cracker crusts at Thanksgiving.

Enjoy your St. Paddy's dinners. Probably not a good time to hit the bars, though - if they're still open in your area.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. I imagine corn beef is an Irish-American tradition.

As I've been told several times by the Irish in Ireland, if they had corn-beef available to eat they wouldn't have starved due to crops of blighted potato.

[PA Democrat]

7. I've been to Ireland four times in the last 7 years.

Ate in restaurants every day and never saw corned beef on a single menu.

[Maeve]

12. This is true

It's Irish bacon that is the older tradition. Our ancestors were introduced to corned beef here in the States (Lower East Side, if the folklore is true) and exported it back to Ireland.

But if you boil it, add some Guinness

[ChazII]

8. My birthday is tomorrow

and the last thing I want is corned beef.

[Throck]

9. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

[ChazII]

10. Thank you,

for the birthday wishes. Bouncy green dude for the holiday.

[aikoaiko]

11. I have corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, and soda bread.

I'm Polish, German, and Russian, but good food is good food.