Happy St Patrick's Day!

Well I can't believe nobody else started this thread.

Happy St Patrick's day, one and all!

My Jewish mother was born on St. Patrick's Day.  So in my childhood ('50's and '60's) we would celebrate her birthday by going to a long-gone bakery in Maplewood Village to get their cupcakes that were iced to look like green frogs for St. Paddy's Day.  By the way, I hate the greasy, mile-high icing that seems to be on all the trendy cupcakes these days (even if you somehow manged to not get it in your nose on the first bite).  Does anyone know the technical name for the kind of icing that used to be on cupcakes that was hard, thin, and tended to crack?

SFTD (Sorry for thread drift).

 
My abode of St. Louis has several St. Patrick's Day parades.  One is on the real day (no matter what day of the week it falls on) in the last neighborhood in the city that has any identifiable Irish connection.  Everyone calls this neighborhood "Dogtown"  The name probably goes back to rumors about a different ethnic group (Filipino natives at the 1904 World's Fair).  The City refuses to call this neighborhood by that name, dividing it up into three differently-named areas on official maps.  Nobody would recognize those names, but the transit agency runs a bus route named "Dogtown." 

There is a always another, more "official" parade downtown on the weekend.

A long lost (or no longer Irish) neighborhood here was once called "Kerry Patch."  At least the name in common usage wasn't an ethnic slur, as was often attached to urban ethnic neighborhoods.  (See above: "Dogtown")

There is a picture in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch of a local alderwoman who traveled to be in a St. Paddy's Day parade across the pond in Galway, one of St. Louis' official "sister cities."

The last Archbishop of St. Louis who was promoted to Cardinal (our city isn't considered that important anymore) died in his native Ireland on the way back from his investiture ceremony in Rome.  His last name was Glennon, so as a result, many men even now in St. Louis who go by "Glen" are just shortening their real given first name of "Glennon."

I guess we were all out celebrating, but Happy st Patrick's Day! I was at St James Gate at 8AM, always a good way to start the day!