17th Day of March, St Patrick’s Day 2025 Greg Asimakoupoulos
St Patrick’s Day 2025, Shamrock Shakes, Cabbage and Corn Beef
It’s Greg Asimakoupoulos on this 17th day of March, St Patrick’s Day, and here I am at the Poetry with a new installment that says Shamrock Shakes to celebrate with cabbage and corn beef. Well, there you have it the long-for green milkshake from McDonald’s along with what is the traditional fair for St Patrick’s Day.
If you’re Irish that’s a given right? You have corn beef and cabbage and whether or not you have it just one day a year or routinely something that my Irish family and friends look forward to. Yes in fact I am a wee bit Irish my grandmother on my dad’s side. The Virginian who married the Greek immigrant Margaret Turley was English and Irish so I inherited a little bit of my grandma Margaret’s Irish blood and so I enjoy corn beef and cabbage on St Patrick’s Day. I’m still kind of developing a taste for a McDonald’s Shamrock Shake, not my favorite but one day a year it’s okay.
It got me thinking though when we think of symbolic food or food that is designated for a special occasion in the Life of Christ followers. We have a traditional meal, don’t we? It’s not celebrated once a year in many churches, it’s once every 3 months, quarterly, and in a lot of churches like the church in which I have been a pastor for the last 46 years. It would be every month we would celebrate the Lord’s Supper and my friends who are Roman Catholic.
