St. Patrick's Day is traditionally celebrated with a meal of corned beef and cabbage. Although cabbage has always been known as a food of Ireland, corned beef didn't make that leap until the beginning of the 19th century. It was Irish immigrants living on the Lower East Side of New York City who began to substitute corned beef for Irish bacon.

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