We Irish are not picky as you so declare; we simply have a clear understanding of what soda bread is and isn’t. If you put tomato sauce and mozzerella cheese on a slab of dough, would you call it soda bread as well? I doubt it.

for your information, soda bread with raisins is indeed not soda bread. It is called railway cake or spotted dog.

I understand you are very good in the kitchen and you may make tasty food, but you shouldn’t tell your readers to put whatever they link into the soda bread, because it isn’t soda bread anymore. Delicious? Perhaps, but not traditional Irish soda bread.