Saoirse wrote:
Irishness is...
Describing someone with longstanding, persistent and untreated psychosis as "a character".
Wallpaper on your school books
Being "grand"!!
Boil everything in a huge pot for 3 hours
Being absolutely terrified of a wooden spoon.
Flat 7UP heals all illnesses
I may have grown up in the States, namely the South, but all of this is entirely reminiscent of my childhood.
"Ma, I don't feel well,"... was inevitably followed up with a glass of 7Up, no matter what the actual ailment was. :p
And the boiling thing? Yeah, I was fortunate, because my mother couldn't handle anything boiled from her days eating her mother's cooking which consisted, almost singularly, of boiled [insert any food item].
