March 18, 2019

Good morning crew,

Yesterday afternoon the wife wanted me to go with her to take her mother out to dinner. Unfortunately we all forgot that yesterday was St. Patrick's Day. We attended our local Irish parade last Sunday, so in our minds we had already celebrated the holiday. But nobody else forgot.

Everywhere we went we found packed houses with live music and plenty of merry-making, but little room for late-comers.

We were about to give up our plans for eating out when the wife remembered her favorite Polish restaurant which was not far down the street. We entered in and found it not too crowded with a little 3-piece band in the corner playing a lively Mazurka.

So we celebrated our St. Patrick's Day with pierogi stuffed variously with pork, potatoes and cheese, cold cucumber salad, potato pancakes topped with beef goulash, pork cutlets and fresh smoked Polish sausage with sauerkraut, all washed down with a few discreet shots of lemon Spirytus as a digestif.

No slight to corned beef and cabbage, but so satisfying was the meal you would think St. Patrick himself was a Pole.

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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