Everyone’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day! We’re wearing lots of green, feasting on corned beef and cabbage and snacking on—you guessed it—healthy Fun to Eat Fruit granny smith apples featuring lucky, four leaf clovers!
Corned Beef & Cabbage on St. Patrick’s Day
On St. Patrick’s Day, Irish Americans enjoy the traditional meal of corned beef and cabbage. Cabbage has been an Irish food staple, but did you know that eating corned beef and cabbage, also known in our neck of the woods as New England Boiled Dinner, is a fairly new tradition. During the late 19th century into the 20th century, Irish immigrants, living on the Lower East Side of New York, started eating corned beef as a less expensive substitute for their traditional dish of Irish bacon, according to History.com.
Keen Green for St. Patrick’s Day
Did you know leprechauns are known for their mischievous pinching? According to folklore, if you wore green on St. Patrick’s Day, it would make you invisible to leprechauns!
St. Patrick’s Shamrocks v. Four Leaf Clovers
This year, to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, we’re offering four leaf clovers on Fun to Eat Fruit granny smith apples! It’s such a healthy snack to enjoy on this holiday. Our customers order them for parties, dinners, to put in floral arrangements and as St. Paddy’s Day party favors!
When you find a four leaf clover, it brings good luck. A four leaf clover is a variation of the more commonly found three leaf clover, or shamrock, which is the traditional symbol of Ireland. The three leaf cover was used by St. Patrick to symbolize the doctrine of the Trinity. Four leaf clovers actually have nothing to do with St. Patrick’s Day. We selected it to spread faith, hope, love and luck to our customers.
Here’s a special blessing from our team to you:
May your pockets be heavy
Your heart be light
And may good luck pursue you
Each morning and night.
🍀Irish Blessing
Have a fun St. Patrick’s Day. How are you celebrating? Let us know in the comments below!
I never knew that I could be invisible to leprechauns on St. Patty’s day by wearing green! I think this year I will be wearing green and hopefully ordering some four leaf clover apples from Fun to Eat Fruit!
Awesome, Stella!
LOVE the shamrock apples! Can’t wait for mine to arrive!
We’re thrilled you’ll be enjoying our shamrock apples for St. Patty’s Day! Yay!
Love those shamrock apples and I better go look for something green to wear on Friday (don’t want to get pinched). What a fun post!
Thank you, Brenda! There’s so much history and folklore about this holiday! Loved writing about it!
I did not know that leprechauns were known for pinching! I guess I’ll have to find something green to wear!!! This is a fun post with a lot of interesting facts.
Hi Samika! Thanks for your kind comments! We didn’t know that about leprechauns either!
YUMM I forgot about the traditional Irish meal to eat on St. Patty’s Day! I planned for steak fajitas on Friday, but I think I might have to get some corned beef & cabbage instead!!
We’re having corned beef and cabbage Friday night too! Enjoy!
Great post and a wonderful inspiration for St Patty’s Day!!!
Thank you, Amy-Jo! Have a great St. Patrick’s Day, too!
Love those shamrock apples!
Thank you, Alyssa! Happy you like them!