St. Patrick’s Day is the day to celebrate the death of St. Patrick. People celebrate it around the world in all types of ways, eating certain foods and drinking certain drinks. Locally, Triton students and families seem to have taken this St. Patrick’s Day to the next level, as many students can say that this St. Patrick’s Day was one to remember.
Students were interviewed the following days after St. Patrick’s Day, most saying they celebrated the holiday by going to the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Boston and partying with the local “Frat Kids” and other people celebrated by eating common St. Patrick’s Day food and hanging out with their family and friends.
Triton Junior Andrew Balkus was recently interviewed to talk about his experience at the St. Patrick’s Day parade. “Around 1.2 million people were there, I had to be a part of the people,” says Balkus. The outstanding number of people there was the main factor for the parade being as “electric as it was, “Green, completely electric, very compact, people all around partying having the time of their life, everyone was super amped up” said Balkus when he was asked to describe the Boston parade.
Triton Junior Ava Kiricoples was also asked what her St. Patrick’s Day experience was and she started by saying “I think the older you get the less excited you are unless you go to a parade. To me, St. Patrick’s Day is more a regular day if anything but I do enjoy celebrating and dressing up in green”
People didn’t just go to the parade when celebrating this holiday, some people like to include traditional foods and relax with family and friends. Triton Junior Danny Lannan was forced to spend most of his St. Patty’s Day at home since he suffered a painful injury on the holiday which didn’t allow him to make the parade. “We didn’t celebrate until dinner time, we had corn beef and cabbage and spent time decorating green,” says Lannan when he described his St. Patty’s Day experience.
Some people included all of what St. Patty’s Day has to offer friends, family, and a parade. “I came back from Boston, my mom cooked up beef stew and I spent the last few hours of the holiday with the fam,” said Balkus when asked to describe the rest of his St. Patrick’s Day.
St. Patrick’s Day is an extremely fun holiday, there are many options for people to celebrate this day from spending your day partying at the parade, to relaxing with family and friends and eating corn beef and beef stew.
We the Triton Voice hope you had a great St. Patty’s Day, and if anyone would like to feel the Irish spirit we have a recipe for Soda Bread below.
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. and while that is heating grease a rectangular loaf pan
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in a mixing bowl, combine 2 cups of all-purpose flour, ½ tsp of baking soda ½ tsp of salt, and raisins in a large bowl until all mixed in
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in a separate bowl, combine 1 cup of buttermilk, egg and melted butter
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add the buttermilk mixture to the flour mixture
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stir just until the ingredients are moistened. The batter will be stiff but sticky
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scrape the batter into the loaf pan and spread evenly. use a sharp knife to cut a large X on top of the batter
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bake until golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean, about 40-50 minutes
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let it cool in the loaf pan on a rack for 5 to 10 minutes before removing it from the pan to cool completely on the rack
