14 Things You Never Knew About St. Patty’s Day

13. Corn Beef and Cabbage

Here’s another tradition that’s totally American: corn beef and cabbage. See, in Ireland, there aren’t a whole bunch of cows running around, so traditional Irish cuisine is actually a little more bacon-oriented. That, and ham. Meanwhile, when Irish immigrants got off the boat in America, they found that beef was much more readily available than pork, so a tradition was born. Some people actually suspect the origins of corned beef, specifically, belong to the Jewish immigrants living in close proximity to the Irish immigrants at the time.