Tribal People Try Saint Patrick Day For The First Time 

You're such a wonderful friend to these good folks, Elliott! The soda bread was a big hit and as always, your generosity is unmatched! 💛 Our brother Azeem is becoming quite a chef! He could probably open "The Tribal Act Restaurant" and serve all of the new international dishes that he's learned to make! Wishing everyone in the Tribal Act family a Happy St. Patrick's Day and Ramadan Kareem!! 💛🕊️🙏

On St. Patrick's Day...everyone is Irish, no matter where they are, or where they are from 🙂

Happy St Patricks Elliott and TPT

Soda bread is so-named because it uses baking soda as the leavening agent, instead of yeast. It is therefore a type of quick bread, as you don't have to wait for it to rise before baking. A basic, simple, everyday bread, using few ingredients, from a hard working people, meant to keep starvation from the door. I've read that, in Ireland, there's a light and a dark version, and historically it didn't have raisins (that was a "fancier" bread variously called "spotted dog" or "spotted dick"). As times improved, the recipe changed to often include more ingredients, such as butter, sometimes even sugar or egg. Here in the USA, where so many Irish settled after fleeing (if they could) the Great Potato Famine of 1845-1852, we almost always see the light version WITH raisins (unless you go out of your way to seek out and bake yourself a traditional Irish recipe). The slits are placed on top to allow the rather dense bread to expand in the oven without cracking; the slits are so-placed also to represent the Christian cross. I like my soda bread spread with plenty of butter.😋 In New York City, where most of the Irish famine immigrants landed, settled, and many of their descendants still reside, we have a huge St. Patrick's Day parade every year on March 17th (unless it falls on a Sunday, like this year, where it was held yesterday/Saturday instead). There are more Irish-Americans in the US than there are Irish in Ireland, and so people come into the city from all over the NY region to participate in the parade and celebrate their Irish heritage. (In the US, there's a great deal of revelry🍻 associated with the holiday as well.) Among many, many, many other groups marching, you will see the various Irish counties represented, plus the Emerald Societies of the NYPD and FDNY and surrounding communities. Bagpipers, marching bands, schools, colleges, any group, town, or organization that has Irish descendants... which includes just about everybody. New York's parade is the largest and oldest in the world, dating back more than 260 years. (The televised portion is 4 hours long, but the parade continues hours beyond that. So yes, a big deal.) This Irish-American tradition eventually made its way back across the pond, where the first St. Patrick's Day parade was held in Dublin in 1931. Originally purely a religious holiday, even in Ireland it has become more secularized, with the pubs finally allowed to open in the 1970s. And no matter where or who you are, EVERYONE is Irish on St. Patrick's Day! A very Happy St. Patrick's Day to all!💚☘️

A belated happy paddys day from ireland.everyone is irish on that day.much love❤❤❤

Y'all should try Cabbage and Corned beef.☘️

lol, all the reasons they first gave for celebrating are not really the reason we do here in the US. That's such a tickle, bruhs. Good ol' Elliot! Great choice.