Black-and-Tan Ice Cream does NOT go down well in Ireland.
But I liked the Journalist’s other attempts…
Just wondering: really stupid ice cream names aside, do the Irish themselves drink black-and-tans at all? Can’t imagine it for some odd reason…
But yeah, I liked the others, too. 
Hey, nothing wrong with small boobs 
Loren
Nope, small ones are more juicy… 
I do seem to remember people ordering it. That was a long time ago, though, and I might just be confusing it with my time in Scotland. I was wondering too…
I don’t know the timing, but it occurs to me that the Police Force was nicknamed after the drink, rather that the other way around.
C’mon… somebody around here must know…
I thought their nickname came from the colors of their uniform shirts and trowsers.
I did, too, although I’m still trying to figure out the one about the sorbet which is the product of Florida’s early harvest of oranges in March.
There’s something wrong with that scenario, but I can’t quite put my hoof on it . . . every time I think I’ve gotten it, it kind of slips away . . . 
Um, yes… …it was a bit like the drink…
I mean, the drink was named for those #$*!$!!# and their clothing.
I did, too, although I’m still trying to figure out the one about the sorbet which is the product of Florida’s early harvest of oranges in March.
There’s something wrong with that scenario, but I can’t quite put my hoof on it . . . every time I think I’ve gotten it, it kind of slips away . . .
According to Chambers, Black-and-Tan originally referred to a kind of hunting dog, that was tan underneath and black on top. Shades of Pratchett’s advice “never trust a dog with orange eyebrows.”
According to Guinness, this was a variety of beagle. But either way, it will have pre-dated the Armed Force. Guinness says that the uniform was Khaki, with black peaked caps. (I’d only heard of the Coat-and-trousers theory before.) It also says that a properly poured black-and-tan will divide with the Guinness on the top and the ale on the bottom. (I didn’t know that!)
It’s not conclusive, but it seems to me that the drink was named after the dog, and the Armed Force was named after both. I just don’t believe that people with access to Stout and Ale will not try mixing them and give the drink a name. It is not human nature.
Wiki isn’t too bad on Orange Marches, but it misses the fact that the 12th of July commemorates three different Battles - Enniskillen and Augherim as well as the Boyne. At least one of these Battles was really fought on the 1st of July, and the reason for the shift of date “explained” by the eleven days skipped from the calendar in 1754. (so why didn’t… awww, never mind.)
My personal favourite is Londonderry, the capital of Ireland.
Blasphemy 
Slan,
D. 
Made me laugh. I thought the “Orange March Sorbet” was killer. Well, and the “Mouthful of Shaved…um…never mind”, too. They were all pretty funny in a horrid sort of way.
I especcially liked the Mouthful one, of course that may have somthing to do with me bering a teenage boy.
HMMM… there is a “chain” of “gentlemen’s clubs” that go by spearmint rhino here in L.A and Las Vegas.
Oh, my goodness! I never made the connection!
I was trying to figure out how oranges could be harvested in March, because they ripen in December!!! 
My mother grew up in a predominantly Irish neighborhood in Boston. She described orange parades and of all her brothers and sisters being beaten up on their way to school (Catholic–with a navy blue uniform) by gangs of Irish children. The ones in the orange beat them up because they didn’t wear orange. The ones in green beat them up because they weren’t wearing green, until they figured out the system and started carrying both green and orange to satisfy whichever group was attacking them.
When I was in 3rd grade, I started attending a Catholic school which had a green uniform. She seemed worried by this. She campaigned for me to go to a different school farther away which had navy, but my father said that was silly. She gave in and, when we went to get the uniforms, her comment, and I think it was a serious one, was that at least the Irish kids in the school wouldn’t bother me, but if any public school children wearing orange asked what I was, to tell them I was French from France, not Canada, and stay as far away as possible.
I thought it all very strange. Later, when I saw the first Coneheads skit which included “We are from France,” I had to laugh.
An old Irish friend once told me that at the Battle of the Boyne William of Orange’s army predominantly wore green uniforms.
Sigh. And here I thought I’d find something about Janet Jackson.
Back to the Andrea Corr picture in the other thread for me.
Yeah! And his horse wisnae white, either! 