Thursday, November 30, 2006
Happy St. Andrew's Day
Us Americans are famous for taking another peoples' holiday and turning it into a drunken barbecue. We did it to St. Patrick's Day, to Cinco de Mayo, to Mardi Gras (which is a drunken holiday in many parts of the world, but not so profane as with us). So I guess, per this post, we may as well leave old St. Andrew alone. But still. It's Thursday, it's November 30th, and I need a justification to replenish my single malt. Is that not reason enough? The ceilidh's at my house.
7 comments:
I recommend The Balvenie. It's what we serve in Esmond Street.
Hoots!
Flash Harry
Need a piper?
Did you listen to that audio on the post you linked to? Very cool. Easily as stirring as anyhting the Clancy's and Tommy Makem ever came out with.
As a German/Italian/Indian I feel as if I can't comment.
-Roy
As a German/Irish/English/Danish/French American with a rumored Indian strain and one distant ancestor with a Scottish surname, and it lowland at that, I probably can't comment either, but I do like the pipes and a good peaty Islay single malt.
That audio was good, inspired me to crank up a Celtic station on live365.com while down in the lab.
since when do americans need an excuse to stuff themselves with as much food as possible and as much alcohol as they can consume within a 2 hour bbq ?
:-)
we're the most obese country on the planet for a reason - we celebrate EVERYTHING! YAY!!!
I like the peaty ones as well. Try Lagavulin. It's not cheap, but the good ones rarely are. It's everything Laphroaig is and more.
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