I do I do
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The auld lad always said cork people eat the skins of potatoes. It wasnt a lie either
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You would get ginger ale in any English speaking country from what I have seen
Ginger ale is everywhere mate and done better overseas
You might but we invented it
At least the dark version
#oooofffttt
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Irish cuisine is generally quite bland, and “hearty”. You have arguably the best meat and dairy products in the world on tap here and most natives are completely allergic to experimenting with them. My mam still cooks a heap of meals the exact same way her mother cooked and my sister is the same.
Go to any casual type dining establishment and they will cook a steak to medium well by default even if you ask for rare. Everything is safe.
That being said I do loves a carvery and also a home cooked bacon and cabbage that is boiled to shite with a bit of yr sauce and plenty of butter on the shpuds. Cabbage/bacon juice optional.
Breakfast rolls and deli type food is completely abhorrent but I do indulge way too much. It’s awfully convenient.
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The auld lad loves this; I wonder was this common years ago? He might shake a bit of Worcestershire Sauce over them as well.
Burning steak to a crisp?
You’d see the cookery programmes doing roast beef that would be pink in the middle. Most Irish people want it a deep brown in colour
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Oh yeah, and boiling the shit out of the veg.
There was a discernable unease when I hosted Christmas dinner for the first time and I roasted the vegetables and pan fried the sprouts with streaky bacon
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Nothing wrong with it when coupled with bacon, a lovely addendum to a breakfast bacon, egg and cheese sandwich
I’d say for an island we ate very little fish*
*ive no proof of this
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I’d agree with that living in the Midlands for 24 years as someone who grew up on fish in Limerick I’m constantly told “we’re too far from the coast, it’s not fresh”
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Porridge
We have no real cuisine. We had a work visitor from Zurich recently who wanted some wholesome Irish grub. He got a Gaelic chicken boxty from Gallagher’s in Temple bar and was happy out. It was proper tasty tbf but wasn’t exactly core Irish just more of a posh vol au vent
I have a right little league table set up on best sausage rolls in Dublin from meaty cunts to dry cardboard. Will have a rating system and commentary up soon
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They do a lovely Irish Cabonara, Calzona is optional, in the Mona Lisa, highly recommended
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I think we are improving in the sense there’s a lot of restaurants now championing local, seasonal produce etc. Our “traditional” food, is food from when were all peasants. Plus when you consider how much English food is frowned upon in foodies circles, then we never really stood a chance.
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Serious game here.
The only unique foody thing about irish quisling is bread: sodas, wheaten etc. Nothing more to say really. Lock the thread
What have we lost over the years I wonder. We would have foraged a lot I’d imagine. Berries and mushrooms - surely something was done with foraged foods.
Oats would have been huge. Breads and porridge…
I remember for my studies many moons ago , reading a travel book by a German doctor who toured Ireland in the 1780s or there abouts, and he maintained the Irish were some of the healthiest people in Europe at the time. Yet, within 60/70 years we were practicing cannibalism from starvation.
Eggs, milk, oats were the predominant diet with herring and a scrap of meat thrown in here and there.