St. Pat's not among Top 8 beer drinking holidays

[LynneSin]

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20090317/ENTERTAINMENT/90317015
Oceans of suds, green or not, will be consumed today.

But St. Patrick’s Day isn’t one of the top beer drinking holidays.

In fact, it’s not even one of the top eight.

Uh, come again, laddie?

Rob Kasper, who writes the Kasper on Tap blog for The Baltimore Sun, reports that the nation’s top beer holiday is actually – wait for it, wait for it – the Fourth of July. (That’s no blarney.)

The other top holidays for wetting the whistle, according to data from the Nielsen Co., are: 2. Labor Day, 3. Memorial Day, 4. Father's Day, 5. Christmas, 6. Thanksgiving, 7. Easter, 8. Super Bowl.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

1. I'd like to add Mother's Day

[BeachBaby]

2. I didn't know that SuperBowl Sunday is a holiday.

But I'll take it!!! :woohoo:

[redqueen]

3. Maybe this will help

to kill off that ugly stereotype.

[LynneSin]

4. You mean about those drunken Irish people

:hide:

Oh I'm so bad

[redqueen]

6. Yep, that'd be the one. (nt)

[skygazer]

5. I cry foul

Super Bowl is not a holiday, no matter what the football nazis say!

[eyepaddle]

7. Where is New Year's Day?

That was alwasy a good one back in the day.

Curse my too tender to drink innards--curse you I say.

Oh well, I have a lot fewer headaches these days!

[NJmaverick]

8. Easter?

:wtf:

[LynneSin]

9. If you just went 5 weeks without drinking thanks to a silly Lenten Promise

you'd be drinking too

[NJmaverick]

15. ahhh! OK now it makes sense

[KansDem]

10. Fourth of July

I've heard this is the day when there are more drunks on the highway then any other day. Even more than New Year's Eve. It makes sense:
1) Usually hot;
2) Festivities begin late morning/early afternoon and go all day and night long;
3) Picnics with lots of barbecue to make one thirsty;
4) More casual atmosphere leads to "keggers."

[skygazer]

11. 5. Often falls in such a way that people have a long weekend

[KansDem]

14. True...

Three-day weekends might lead to out-and-out benders...

[elleng]

12. Irish Whiskey

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[Inchworm]

13. Skr00 them gov't polls!

If asked I'd say Easter just for sport :D

:toast:

[Pacifist Patriot]

16. Since when is the Super Bowl a holiday?

[Initech]

17. Cinco De Mayo isn't one of them?