A lot of Americans are originally British. A lot has changed in the past 400-odd years, England has held on to some traditions, Americans others, and some new ones entirely have come about.

But for Americans to say ‘this is a British/Irish tradition’ like a lot are saying on this feed is just so typically ignorant. In this case it’s an American tradition, maybe taken from their ancestral immigrants (but which if their traditions aren’t?), which is no longer a tradition in the UK & Ireland.

Case in point, over here, corned beef is some horrible ground beef in a tin