Guest guest Posted July 12, 2000 Report Share Posted July 12, 2000 Hi Margaretha Yes again excellent point. Ireland was always an agricultural land, in years gone by all was undertaken by hand. Ploughing with horses, digging with a shovel, hay making with a scythe and milking the cows by hand. The stable diet, boiled bacon and cabbage with potatoes. Take it from me, boiled bacon is 100% fat. In fact they would slice the fat and place it between two slices of bread. However they then went out into the fields and worked the fat off. My Cousins are dairy farmers and meal time, well a full leg of lamb, potatoes, three assorted vegetables, plus bread and butter would vanish in less than five minutes. I took a leg of lamb on my last visit and my Cousin also cooked half a cow, the table was clean and then they ate cake. I then went out to help the thin sons pick the potatoes. I gave up after five minutes, the back was killing me, but they had three days of this back breaking work ahead of them. Meal times for me, a time to taste the delicacy and chat. For them it is just a fuel stop! The Irish diet has changed. Pizza, Mcs, fast foods and TV dinners. No wonder then that Ireland now has the highest European rate for cancer of the bowel! Believe it or not, the medics are now trying to restore the boiled bacon and cabbage, traditional Irish meal. In the winter I hardly every eat salad, because Mom needs her meat and three vegetables. However I have the arthritis and she some 30 years my elder, does not! Love and God Bless Gillian The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa- slightly off balance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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