Cheddar News' Shannon LaNier pays a visit to traditional Irish pub The Dead Rabbit in lower Manhattan on its biggest day of the year: St. Patrick's Day. 

Cheddar News' Shannon LaNier pays a visit to traditional Irish pub The Dead Rabbit in lower Manhattan on its biggest day of the year: St. Patrick's Day.&nbsp;

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The Dead Rabbit in Lower Manhattan Preps for St. Paddy's Day Rush 

Welcome back, everybody. That's Maker Machado. I'm headed job. A Happy ST Patrick's Day. And so yet the celebrations going bright and early, our very own channel and here is on the scene at an Irish bar right here in the middle of New York City. Happy ST. Patrick's day with 70 million people worldwide claiming Irish heritage and 61% of Americans saying they recognized the holiday. We want to make sure you celebrate in style. So I came over to the dead rabbit in New York City to talk to the managing partner. We have Jack McGary here to learn a little bit more about the holiday and how you all celebrate. So talk to us about how you'll be celebrating here at the Dead Rabbit this year. Yes. So ST Patrick's Day is obviously a big day for us with, with being an Irish pub. But the Dead Rabbit, we're all about celebrating ST Patrick's Day authentically. So obviously, as you said, there's 70 million people the claim Irish heritage, but there's a huge difference in how it's celebrated in Ireland and in America. Um So in America, it seems to be like Santa Con only you change, read the green. Whereas we celebrate ST Patrick's Day. So, not dissimilar to the way you would celebrate Thanksgiving. So, it's about friends, it's about family. It's about our culture. So, at the dead rabbit, that's what we're doing. We're celebrating with our food or drinks or art or musicians and yeah, we're going to do it well. So if you want to have a good authentic Irish and Patrick's Day, we're, we're definitely the place to come. So how do people in Ireland feel about the way Americans celebrate ST Patty's Day? Um So it's a mixture I'd say of bemusement and bewilderment, you know. Um Because obviously America has, has, has taken ST Patrick's Day, like the parade wasn't created in Ireland that was created in America. So when I first moved over to America and I've seen the size of the parade here. I was blown away that there's that appreciation for Irish culture. But again, with Dead Rabbit, we seek to do everything authentically and accurately. So that's really what we're trying to do now. So I'd say a mixture of pride. We, we want to use this as an opportunity to enlighten people. What ST Patrick's Day is, you know, Americans keep calling the Patty's Day with two T S. It's ST Patty's Day with two days, you know, so there are so many of those little nuances that are, that are lost in the journey over the Atlantic Ocean. Okay. So what's 11 other misconceptions or myths, people in America surrounding ST Patrick's Day. So the big one, obviously, everybody on the day wears green. So, well, Saint Patrick's color. Well, you're not wrong because everybody was green because of Ireland obviously, but ST Patrick color was actually blue. And then another one, ST Patrick was not Irish. So he was said to be from Britain or Scotland. It's contested, but he definitely wasn't, wasn't Irish even though like we use it as a, as a are like basically national Irish state. And also, so yeah, there's some of the misconceptions about my goodness. Okay, we'll set up straight. What's the one thing we can all do to celebrate ST Patrick's Day the correct way. So responsibly I would start off with because obviously, I've seen a lot of ST Patrick's Day parades where people get pretty crazy. So making sure you're enjoying it in the way that it's, it's meant to be enjoyed. It's not a green card to get absolutely hammered or be the fighting Irish sort of stereotypes. So I would say enjoy it responsibly um and enjoy the products and culture of Ireland as they are today, not as represented in a lot of places in this, in this, in this country. So, listening to our amazing music, having an amazing Irish coffee, having a great point, a Guinness, having the diversity, the whole category of Irish sports that we have. So we are making some amazing Irish food, which we're, which we're going to today. You know. So there's a lot of ways you can do it, but if you're gonna do it, do it right. You know, that's what I love that. No green beer. Right. And you can use that for many holidays. Avoid the stereotypes and enjoy and celebrate the real culture and history of the holiday you're celebrating. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you very much for having me. Thanks, of course to Shannon Lanier. He's getting all the good assignments. I know. Great food, great drinks, good for him. And by the way, we're gonna be doing some Irish whiskeys shots coming up later on in the show today. Yeah, I mean, who doesn't want whiskey? Yeah.