I may be wrong, but I don’t remember a time in my life when I’ve gone out on St. Patrick’s Day. I’ve never had green beer. Seems like at least as a college student I’d have done something, particularly when I had Irish roommates, but if so, it hasn’t remained in my memory. Maybe I should check my old photos.
I wear green on March 17, but that’s about as celebratory as it gets, I guess.
Same here, since I don’t drink, but I imagine that green beer would taste like a lot of green food coloring as clear does to Pepsi version 1.0, before those morons ruined it like sprite with caffeine so that all clear sodas are citrusy instead of a cola. Or maybe the difference between green and not green beer is that psychological difference between yellow and white American Plasticheeze.
Fortunately, there is a distinctive difference and benefits betwixt green (which is only leaf green if it’s Matcha) and black teas! Then, one day, I noticed that Panera had something like liquid green jello in the green iced tea container, so my hyperactivity will get triggered by food coloring anyway and the world will just have to put up with that!
So, green is a nice colour, just in time for the Spring Equinox, sometimes just in time for actual Spring, but why booze? I just don’t get it.
I wonder if one drinks green beer if it stains the teeth for a while. Or at least the tongue. Which was part of the delight of candy and Popsicles as a child–sticking out a freshly colored tongue.
I think I haven’t even worn green after high school. In NOLA I did have a bit of the green fairy
You didn’t wear green and no one ever pinched you?
Not that I recall plus I worked where you had to wear a uniform. Who’s going to pinch a gate agent….
Except considering the behaviors of others these days, a pinch would be the least of a gate agent’s worries.
I have never celebrated St Patrick’s Day, since I am not Irish, although I am sure I was once told there is some Irish blood in the family line several generations back? A friend of mine celebrates her birthday on 17th March – 89 tomorrow – so I always remember the day for that reason.
I will think of the parades and festivities as an homage to her longevity!