The Irish

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 ?

Has anyone else got that passport card and is it actually accepted in other countries? I want one but have nightmares of turning up at some airport and then going “what is this”

I didnt even know there was a passport card tbh!

It looks really handy and I want one but I don’t want to buy it if I can’t use it!

ive no idea but can ask

i quote an actual passport/immigration officer of ill repute of my acquaintance:

"It’s real alright. I have one for about 2 years but have yet to use it. Always use the passport as I fear some foreign immigration officer will laugh me out of it"

so yeah.

Lol ty immigration officer. If she/he is one of the people who says “welcome home” at Dublin airport please pass on my thanks as well.

oh hes far beyant it now that fella. off to join some embassy in next few months, has put "nowhere that kills me for being gay pls" on his forms so fingers crossed for the lad eh.

omg! Good luck to him!

this approach actually has worked for previous lgbt+ officers of our mutual so yknow even amidst bureaucracy theres ways and means.

this fella and i have somehow hopped around together across the past four or five depts starting with actually stuffing envelopes in the ill-fated (feted) household charge.

hes def the second most likely person i know to be a spy after sv- dashing six footer, double history masters, learning diplomatic french from alliance francaises in the evenings around his international policy masters and knows exactly which tds used to frequent that bathhouse on the quays

not utterly spoiled by being a fanatical blackburn fan but ive often advised him to tone it down at interview

Any chance of a webmail re the quays?!

I’ve never met an Irish Blackburn fan, literally whyyyy

Did ye ever benefit from the free cheese protests?

1: he never even breathed a word to me save the one name youd actually expect, and all stopped well before greatness

2: has to be from a cousin that remembers 95, thats the only thing ive ever heard attributed

3: lol we were somewhere else entirely, it was all a sting operation. no badges, no insignia, lecarre aint got shit on us type stuff til the day we had a fire in the print room and the bauld lads of dublin fire brigade threw the offending item out of the fourth floor window and covered all of d7 in our headed paper

five full time staff and three hundred agency ppl sorting forms and data entry in a secret building in the city centre tho, it was great apart from the dogshit youd find in the odd envelope. its where i came across the gaeilgeoir donkey for a start.

ah good times

v disappointed to hear that supermacs may be going global. what will be left to visit once the last pathetic scraps of parochial nostalgia have been debased by relentless availability. That sneaky supermacs in eyre square while steeling myself for my parents house will seem colder comfort than ever.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/15/mcdonalds-loses-big-mac-trademark-legal-battle-supermacs

I appreciate that this may be a "galway" thing.

Supermacs is much appreciated in the midlands as a source of excellent chicken, and fights outside it are an institution. Choco cones if they still do them are amazing.

you can't export the vibe in the Eyre Square outlet at 3 am on a Saturday plax

some things refuse to be commodified

they were in nyc with years i posted it here for dayo

chicken breast sandwich is the best burger

agreed

I don’t think I’ve ever had their burgers, chicken mainly and I have fond memories of the pizza from secondary school.