Why did you repeat yourself?
Because you sought clarification.
Are you a bit dim?
That’s a rhetorical question so no need to reply.
Italians can be so melodramatic
You never see as many chippers, kebab shops, Chinese fast food across Europe as you do in Ireland.
Maybe life is slower paced and they have more time for cooking and more health conscious. You drive past a chipper during the day in Ireland and they have lunch time specials for secondary school kids, 3 in ones and other deals.
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I’d have a little obsession with Italian food. You would go to restaurants in Verona or somewhere and you’d be sitting in small room with tables everywhere. Concrete floors and maybe a basic table cloth with a small candle. The fella eating behind you would be almost on top of you. Usually family run with one waiter maybe. You’d nearly eat your fucking fingers the food is so good and it’s as cheap as chips. We haven’t a notion about cuisine in Ireland. It’s sickening.
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Goodfellas would have been a luxury
I’d say @Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy would be a smashing cook. I’d say he’d do a beautiful Bucatini all’Amatriciana
Would have thought England would be a lot worse? A lot of dung on sale in Belgium and Germany too…
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The Germans are big into their street food aren’t they? Our chipper tradition has a strong Italian influence, although I suppose that’s more a British hangover than actual Italian. We do have too many I’d agree though.
Have we added anything to world cuisine besides coleslaw and chips ?
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Bodice/ crubeens/ spiced beef😁
The Irish were a lot more redeeming when they were a bunch of navvies.
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The Belgians love their frites . Except whatever oil they use it sits in your stomach a lot longer than Irish chipper chips which is saying something…
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I did some research into this a few years back. Here’s a few notes I had:
Giuseppe Gervi who arrived in Ireland in the 1880s is recognised as the man who instigated the Irish fascination with chips.
Remarkably, during the large migration of Italians to Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th century, most of the people came from a handful of Italian villages in the Frosinone Province in Lazio. They primarily came from Casalattico and Picinisco, two villages whose population stands at less than 2,000 inhabitants between them today. However, 8,000 Irish-Italians still have ancestors in Casalattico, and each August, throngs of Irish-Italians descend on the village for a celebration of these Irish-Italians links
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Boxty my man, boxty. Yanks be mad for it.
There’s a super Boxty-house in midtown Manhatten. Busier than that spoofer in Scotty’s. How’s that then…
There was a programme on rte a good few years ago about it…
There’s hope for more Cascarinos so
Yeah they are big into Bratwurst or pretzels. Not exactly nutritious either but markedly better than some lad eating a quarter pounder, curry chips and a side of onion rings washed down with a litre of Fanta.
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Man don’t dish Scotties till you’ve eaten there. It’s unreal.
Better than the average Greek diner located all over NY?
They’re all the same 