Snack serves up unique identity
RECENT studies by spoilsport scientists have concluded that the Irish and English are genetically identical. In other words, we all come from the same gene pool, the same family of ancestors and, whether we like it or not, we are not different from one another at all, at all, at all.
Except for the tendency of the Paddies to apply the musical cadences of the mother tongue to soothe the brittle English language, these latter-day soothsayers have concluded that we Irish are really Brits in hobnail boots, as English as a rose garden.