The Irish

thought- does 'roman' trump italian/irish for what we're trying to get at? think theres a case that it does

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/brexit-stockpile-favourite-foods-you-might-not-know-are-british-1.3735188 this piece REALLY fucked me off.

Who the fuck in Ireland is buying Hovis sliced pan?! The bread is so much better at home!

aye but you cannae beat a tunnocks tea cake

I would dispute them being biscuits, also I prefer Tunnocks wafers to the cake!

yeah it's not really a biscuit i must admit.

I'm from the town they're made in so I'm a big booster of tunnocks products

we wont be short of tunnocks while theres a lidl in the parish

stan hard for tunnocks myself but the east coast bakehouse cookies mentioned are really good

I don’t know them but I would choose Polo (normal or chocolate) or chocolate Kimberleys or mikado biscuits I’ve 99% of British biscuits

look we need a nom(ination) thread before we could even poll

chocolate digestive man meself

anything by fox even tho they are disgustingly sweet obv

(goldgrain are nicer than mcvities digestives nowadays)

Nomination poll for what? British or Irish biscuits? Biscuits of these isles

B.Is.cuits

controversailte

now we might think of it.....

you dont...see many ....orange biscuits?

So sure l'm an orange biscuitman, from Erin's shelves I came

the stash my father stored

it is round and it is crumbly
the taste is just divine

Lol that article knows it's nonsense. Food in England is terrible, despite all that guardian "we've come a long way since rationing" smugness. The Sainsbury's by my house permanently looks like a scene from 28 days later and I've never seen a ripe banana in a shop in London. "Decent food" just means small portions.

What is fever tree tonic water?

Also, since it would be an almost total market loss for Lyons tea, wouldn't Unilever just shift production back to Ireland?

Tonic water with a higher price point than Schweppes. Comes in a variety of flavours, pretty nice, seems to have saturation coverage in some tube stations.

You’d imagine so; either that or just slap some labels on some other tea brands...

I prefer Schweppes, it is fizzier, but Fever Tree seems to be hugely popular.

There is lots of good food in England - I wouldn't hold giant chain supermarkets up as an example of anything even if their foreign equivalents are a little better.

London has a wide range of independent businesses selling good food at p much every price range. Again, if you want to extrapolate from whatever set of choices you force yourself to ensure, ie shopping at a crap Sainsburys instead of a corner shop or a better supermarket then that is your choice.

Even from branch to branch the chain supermarkets vary and there are some notoriously awful ones, most of the small "local" ones are a crime against food and cooking and I'd use a corner shop any time instead.

endure*

As for "decent food just means small portions"

If you really think this you prob should go to Chinatown, Green Lanes, Kingsland Road, etc.

Or a few hundred other places.

the stash my father stored

Post unfairly slept on imo. In the World Foods section in my local Morrisons, Irish is sandwiched between Polish and Mediterranean.

North London? The London Irish centre in Camden recently opened an Irish shop and they have Polo biscuits so I might have to go there.

So... we’ve got some news 👀 pic.twitter.com/RsZv4wJFog

— London Irish Centre (@LDNIrishCentre) November 21, 2018

Seems like most white people over 65 in my area are either Irish or Cypriot so Morrison's on the ball there.

Being in the post office in Holloway Rd on a weekday morning is almost indistinguishable from any random Irish provincial town. You can almost hear the rattling of the seandaoine’s rosary beads.

theres an argument, and youd know better than i obv, that its moreso

are you calling me a culchie

ya sure why not

https://ui.assets-asda.com/dm/asdagroceries/3017760363396_T1?defaultImage=asdagroceries/noImageAvailable&resMode=sharp2&id=0RHSV2&fmt=jpg > https://centra.ie/thumbnail/400x400/var/files/brandbank/5391517593044-2676-0ffb60-Jacob-s-Mikado-250g.jpg imo

(runs Zoidberg-style out of Irish biscuit thread)

(I do like a Kimberley though)

(I bet those images don't even work anyway. in fact I probably won't even know, since images don't show up for me on ilx any more even if I log out. maybe that's true for everyone else too. in which case, the first line should read "LU Mikado aka French Pocky > pink fluffy Jacobs Mikado imo")

also aren't those Northern Irish Taytos in that pic? I await someone being offended by that. I'd really like a Club Orange now thanks btw

morelike tattoos amirite

what is that imposter mikado

I switched Siri over to an Irish accent and now she pronounces my sisters name correctly so that's my bit for the thread

Now that you've dazzled the yanks with your Irish biscuits, it's time to baffle them entirely with your Christmas crackers.

went for a little drive around my beautiful county of donegal today and took a few snaps pic.twitter.com/WhaGZGuCbq

— Ireland / Patrick (@ireland) December 21, 2018

pic.twitter.com/9aYrxKffQ3

— Ireland / Patrick (@ireland) December 20, 2018

i'm a big history buff so its great to go back and look at old photos of ireland and famous irish people.

do you have any favourite old photos?

i found this one of former taoiseach michael collins pic.twitter.com/hYPn0V1sdk

— Ireland / Patrick (@ireland) December 18, 2018

Best curator since your man that did the ‘Churchill is a cunt’ thread!

hes pure irish and thats a fact

1980s ESB Advert - Going home. Those of you who are old enough should remember this. This is an ad broadcast in Ireland in the late 80s and early 90s. For some reason everyone always seems to remember it. Enjoy. pic.twitter.com/VDQcJmjQPc

— Rare Irish Stuff (@RareIrishStuff) December 23, 2018

Honestly well up watching this, it’s so dated but captures the emigrant Christmas so well (even down to my mammy and the electric blanket!)

stop im not able

Lol awful

Makes me want to stay put

Any of ye watch Jayo?

nah is a dub thing rly

It was good tbf.

“tbf” says the guy who’d never heard of him!

xp it was really good!

ok ok its on the list

Jayo?

boom boom boom

Give Google a try - is probably available somewhere in London

Jayo is huge right now in New Cross

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayo_Felony ?