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** Don't forget freckles and pale skin. This is closer to [[Truth in Television]]; Irish people tend to sunburn pretty easily.

** References to the "black Irish" do come up -- but usually only as a punchline to explain a person with black ''skin'' and an Irish accent (similar to the terms Black British and its more PC cousin African American.) Every now and then it becomes clear the writers actually [[Critical Research Failure|think that's what the phrase means]].

* Corned beef with cabbage (see the ''Simpsons'' example below): this is unknown in Ireland (except for a spam-like lunch meat, which is a different thing). Corned beef is an Irish-American invention, a piece of cuisine for the poor which they learned from eastern European Jewish immigrants in the slums of the big cities of the United States. In Ireland, people ''actually'' eat [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon_and_cabbage bacon and cabbage].

** First generation American Irish took up corned beef because beef is very culturally important -- second generation Irish regarded it as what poor people ate, somewhat like Spam in American pop culture.

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