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Don't forget the Charlotte Irish Summer Festival kicks off tonight at Connolly's on Fifth. Great Irish bands playing there tonight including the Dublin City Ramblers and then tomorrow at 3rd and Tryon with many bands, Irish dancers and a chance to be involved in a Guinness World Record attempt. An Irish dancing record to be exact. There will be a representative there from GWR to officiate. They need as many people as possible to line up down Tryon Street and dance a step which will be explained to you.
You have to have the Smithwicks in it to call it a Blacksmith. I prefer it made this way.
As you know a "black and tan" is stout and ale and a blacksmith is guinness and smithwicks - so it is the same just with the brand name. The first time I heard it called a blacksmith was here in the US. And of course you know a real black and tan was a british soldier and it was a derogatory name given to them by the Irish.
As you know a "black and tan" is stout and ale and a blacksmith is guinness and smithwicks - so it is the same just with the brand name. The first time I heard it called a blacksmith was here in the US. And of course you know a real black and tan was a british soldier and it was a derogatory name given to them by the Irish.
I was not aware that black and tan was a slur against the British. I know very little about Irish culture/history and what I think I know is probably wrong.
Ya, Blacksmith was definitely the brain child of some marketing guru here in the US. It worked on me, I heard about it in ads right before St. Patrick's Day last year. I have known about and enjoyed Smithwicks for several years, though.
OMG - I was told it was called and "black and tan" about 20 years ago and have been using the term ever since! I had no idea this was a slur!!! Would folks be offended if I were in Ireland and asked for a "black and tan??" I am so glad you enlightened us. I hate committing a faux pas when traveling - especially when I think I am doing/saying things correctly.
OMG - I was told it was called and "black and tan" about 20 years ago and have been using the term ever since! I had no idea this was a slur!!! Would folks be offended if I were in Ireland and asked for a "black and tan??" I am so glad you enlightened us. I hate committing a faux pas when traveling - especially when I think I am doing/saying things correctly.
The Irish festival sounds wonderful!
From what SM said, it sounds like black & tan is a slur against the Brits so I doubt anyone in Ireland would care.
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