Im thinking of getting a McDonald’s Shamrock shake, and adding Jameson Whiskey. What should I call this abomination?
Whiskey on the 'rocks?
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Green Purge
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A New Jersey Greenway?
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I had to look up what flavor a Shamrock Shake is. Answer: mint. It was originally Lemon-lime when first introduced.
Why not clover-flavored? Maybe it should be like a green smoothie 
Actually I’d prefer it to be pistachio.
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17. Clover Used to Be Eaten by the Irish, Especially During Times of Famine
The clover you find today in your lawn can be chopped up and added to salads. Even the flowers can be eaten raw or cooked.
Makes sense, of course. Tender greens. 
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Number 17 was an odd one to include. Our ancestors would have have been more content to eat real food during the Gorta Mór. People eat whatever’s going during times of famine.
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Yeah… people were recorded as eating boot leather and soil for the lack of anything else. I wouldn’t necessarily have put that in a listicle of “19 interesting things you didn’t know about dirt”.
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But, but—and I could be wrong—but haven’t people traditionally eaten all kinds of greens? I mean, not just in famine. Like, my grandmother would have eaten dandelion greens or watercress for a salad…but when I was growing up it was pretty much only Iceberg lettuce.
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I wonder if it is the same color coming out?
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Of course, but the reference to famine was an odd inclusion
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I have Ó Máille lineage in my mothers side of the family.
I need to know this.
Thanks
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An Enniskillen. For the act of terrorism against your tastebuds with a wildly unexpected result.
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And some very quick internet research finds several sources that say it doesn’t taste great to most people. E.g.:
Though well-known as totally edible, from blossom to root, it is not choice “eating wild.” Some call it a survival food, and perhaps rightly so for only the blossoms are truly pleasant to human tastes. The leaves are an acquired or tolerated taste.
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Mint? Who thought “I know what is a typical Irish flavour! Mint! Or Lemon -Lime, for that matter!”
Having never even been within 1000 miles of a shamrock shake, I’d always assumed they’d just be a generic “green” flavour imitating, you know, clover.
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But that is a different plant than the shamrock. Shamrock and clover aren’t interchangeable. I think the picture in the list article is wood sorrel, a type of clover in the Oxalis genus. It’s really good, I used to forage it around the house as a kid and called it pickle plant for its tangy flavor. It’s kind of a citrus flavor.
Now when I’m weeding it from the garden I save some to make sorrel sauce for salmon, Just cook up the leaves w/ a little chicken stock and cream or butter. They say you can dry it and make lemonade from the powder but it’s never worked for me.
Also great added fresh to salads, and the little yellow flowers are so pretty 
The Irish Mistake?
ETA: or you could call it “the botched heist,” as a play on the “mint” and it being a horrible idea 
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Think they deliver to Atlanta, GA, USA? 
My dead father would approve and I’m sure he’s going to come out of his grave just to try it himself for the holiday.
In honor of my father who hailed for NJ…
Can’t talk about the Irish without talking about drinking, music, storytelling, or the famine now, can we? I’m pretty sure that’s all that happened in Irish history… the Irish were dancing and telling stories, the English came and beat them up and colonized them, starved them for a bit, people drank and looked miserable, and then the Celtic Tiger and the Good Friday accords… I just told us all of Irish history… 
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Yes!
I forgot about making some scones. And haven’t made any for years.
Thanks.
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Post some pics of the outcome!
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