In Ireland we have nostalgic ads

and a pint of harp

"I miss the fields, and the rain, and the being abused by the priest... and a pint of Harp"

"and the way she might look at ye" has a nice Philadelphia Here I Come nudge winking sexual repression feel to it.

also love the hallowed holy tones given to "an egg", also seen in Angelas Ashes

"I remember the first time I saw... an egg"

Also, those Richmond Sausages look fucking foul. Are they supposed to look appetising?

However, I think the English have one ad that knocks even the pint of Harp into a cocked hat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFLBvLxLJMI

"Last stop on t'round would be me old ma' Peggetty's place, it were like taking bread to the top 'o the world"

i dunno, the dementia of the pint of harp ad trumps even the hovis for me. also the way it appeals deeply to raging alcoholism.

Richmond Sausages (the thick ones) are quite tasty actually. Somerfield and Asda sell them.

i cannot believe i never looked at this thread

Yeah I hadn't realised quite how sweaty the Pint of Harp guy was.

They are always in the reduced section of our local Tesco because no-one actual buys them. They're pretty bland (OK, I bought them, but only because they were like 30p or something).

xpost about crappy Richmond sausages.

I used to drink Harp because I thought with it being related to Guinness it might be OK. I was wrong.

It doesn't matter whether Richmond Sausages were actually any good in real life. Surely they could have made them look slightly less foul in the advert?

Or maybe the point is that they looked foul when you were 10 years old but you didn't care because they were sausages?

was it the thick ones or the normal ones?
xposts to ailsa

I haven't actually watched the advert*, I just like the idea that they stick the word Irish on them and them people go "oh, the Irish are all about the sausages, let's buy those ones", like those crap made-up Scotch whiskies you get abroad that no-one in Scotland's ever heard of (I have a bottle of some mank called "Queen Margot" in my kitchen that I won in a pub quiz in Spain), or Castlemaine XXXX or whatever they don't actually drink in Australia, etc etc etc.

* OK, I've watched it now. If I'd ever seen that advert, I'd have avoided them like the plague, 30p cheap reduced price or not.

xpost, I don't know, or care, really, they were generic supermarket sausagey pish.

also love the hallowed holy tones given to "an egg", also seen in Angelas Ashes

― I for one welcome this new Nazi ILX (Local Garda)

You say this then Frank McCourt dies!

I wasn't mocking Angela's Ashes

nah i just meant weird coincidence.

like I don't remember the last time I heard anyone mention Angela's Ashes.

It's like how Tuomas killed Michael Jackson on the dead pool thread!

lol @ http://discohorror.com/2009/08/10/it-is-hot-so-i-am-listening-to-lugnet/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNH6gKbew2o

this one might be more sexxxay than nostalgic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Z4crBt-iM

this one though is an absolute masterpiece, and the when the old woman says "safe journey" it is more naked and real than i can handle

i mean, this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REqZ4h_5fZI

YOU COULD PUT A BIT O' BUTTER ON THE SPUDS, ANDRE

the andre one is like a failed draft of these later masterpieces

classic thred, but "he'll be barn in jurmany, but his feet will touch irish soil furst" crosses into official "fuck off and die" territory

thats not a phake sounding irish accent btw

spelling is more trying to convey that simpering heartfelt whisper putting jam on the accent that is horribly fake. & anyone who would do something like this and tell people abt it is the worst kind of disgusting savage imo or certifiable.

dear god man, just play him Thin Lizzy in his crib or something.

have they found a donor for your soul transplant yet?

sorry man but grabbing him bloody out of the womb and plunging him into your shoebox to prove to everyone how important your irish identity is = NAGL

Richmond Sausages: we have a packet of these in the freezer. Some people may think that is because I am gullible English person, but no! In town there is a butcher who makes sausages on the premises and they are a thousand times better. Richmond sausages are our cheap go-to sausage when we want to knock together a toad-in-the-hole.

kinda feel liek they hint at this whole human drama surrounding his family's closeness, the suspicion that he's been taken by this german woman away from home, the land that was supposed to be his, that he still misses, and that this is just a way of making some sort of symbolic compromise

xp

but i mean, to these ads get shown elsewhere?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi1_1kAEZgk

for those who like the letter-writing format:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW2a0hY6_Xo

way xxxxposts but it was like a national scandal when sally o'brien turned out to be irl english

idg the appeal here

eh its like an actual thing that when you are visiting ppl in other countries you are required to bring taytos, and i know from all the polish supermarkets in ireland now that ppl really do miss stuff from home, ireland has a weird relat. w/ diaspora etc.

i am nostalgic for all these nostalgic adverts

just lolling at "barry's tea", idk why

do irishmen living in england get nostalgic for taytos or is it just crisps in general longing for the further afield

they get nostalgic for it, sure and why wouldn't they?

well as far as i have discerned tayto quality isnt that vast compared to yr average walkers and whatnot - certainly not a void on the level of a pole pining for his packet of cup-a-borscht or whatever

the taytos u get abroad are a pile of shit

they're not the same, yr import tayto are made in NI to a different recipe i think.

but in either case r|t|c god made taytos on day 7 iirc

yeah i mean if you buy taytos outside of ireland they taste like cardboard, but here they really do render all other types of crisps irrelevant

cant imagine lyfe without taytos.

i mean barrys tea i can take or leave, tbh, that diaspora thing is just marketing bullshit. but taytos i dunno.

nah that NI thing is mostly bullshit, they are pretty much the same ime. however walkers cheese and onion are fucking appalling compared to any tayto or king crisps....so shit, can't believe rtc can't taste the diff!

(that esb as above is beautiful)

x-post just also to say, don't think i miss anything from ireland apart from decent sausages and i am slowly being weaned onto the british variety.

cmere can one not post links direct to image from imgur app anymore this is fucked

I don’t have that & also I too need to go to sleep

nm got it

thread and seeing it on fb prompted me to note what irl irish emigrants could look like in days of yore, heres a fellas aunt and uncle in the 60s posted today on their 54th anniversary

https://i.imgur.com/vqJVZ5C.jpg

Catch bars are back, lads

Walking the dogs yesterday, I told them to "Go, go, go," and then added "with the Glen Abbey Show!"

Luckily there was nobody around to hear me.

Dairy Executive: Ok everyone the public mood on our product seems to be shifting. We need to run a relatable campaign to boost sales and change the conversation.
An actual maniac: I've got an idea pic.twitter.com/lIxFnL2z3C

— Pints Before People (@sonofedge) June 27, 2019

I don't think there's any place for irony on this thread

This is the bad kind of nostalgia

Bank of Ireland (~2005)
"Train tracks are ching ching, bitta cash you know what I mean"
You could say that this ad is of its time.@bankofireland @talktoBOI pic.twitter.com/lG46f5bJWF

— Classic Irish Ads (@AdsIrish) September 22, 2020

Tayto (c. 2000)
This was part of a series of ads themed around hell and the devil. I think they originally aired a few years earlier in the mid to late 90s with the launch of a new flavour, Worcester Sauce.@MrTaytoIreland pic.twitter.com/7uSHn73zjQ

— Classic Irish Ads (@AdsIrish) March 28, 2020

I was just thinking that

Is it the time of year, is it this year, but, lads

If ever there was a Christmas to look out for one another, this is the one ❤️ So, we’re delighted to share our Christmas ad which tells the story of how a simple act of homemaking becomes a beautiful act of kindness from one neighbour to another. #WereAllHomemakers pic.twitter.com/f8WCTYfKrQ

— Woodie's (@WoodiesIreland) November 14, 2020

I actually consider myself a homewrecker, thank you very much!

i feel like since the extreme schmaltz christmas ad took off in the uk and since the diaspora began returning this is not such a strong suit for the irish advertising industry any more discuss.

Obviously as mentioned upthread the ESB Going Back ad is alltime. I haven’t been able to watch that one this year as I will no doubt be undignified. Anyway this isn’t a diaspora one like your classic Barrys of old, y/n?

yeah that's what I meant

losing out on usp

Idk as a diaspora... what is the applicable noun...I find the ads like that really moving, because of the sense of community and small gestures being intrinsically more moving to me in that context.

i guess i am more cynical than you!

I have been watching a load of nostalgic ads recently due to the twitter account that collects them, however I keep getting interrupted whenever I try to post them so this is all i have atm

The housing crisis in two ads

Barry's Tea ad - New York (1997)
"Remember John O'Brien?"
Here's another Barry's ad from the late 90s, they were on a good run for sure in this era. Looks to me like John O'Brien might have had more interest in Angie herself than the sister though!@BarrysTeaTweets pic.twitter.com/fqqN0BAIFN

— Classic Irish Ads (@AdsIrish) March 31, 2020

McDonalds - Apartment (2005)
Developed by TBWA Dublin. Directed by Chris Roche for H2 Films. Part of the Sense/Nonsense campaign, Eurosaver menu was positioned as a humorous solution to some of the overcharging associated with “Rip off Ireland”.@McDonalds@TBWA_Dublin @H2_Films pic.twitter.com/M1cCqEbTV5

— Classic Irish Ads (@AdsIrish) July 8, 2020

yeah i guess she like runs a hedge fund for a tobacco company or something

hedge fund witch

Tangentially related. I dunno how/if Bluesky links work, but here goes:

https://bsky.app/profile/seamas.bsky.social/post/3keml6eeyua2v

Samantha Mumba’s Body II Body came on Spotify & I wonder what it’s like to only know this song as an inferior cover of Ashes to Ashes and not for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epTdI-9V6Jk

irish salt bae ad

Omg

you can almost feel every life-ending internal injury

I’d totally forgotten that awful visceral cronch sound effect too

the airplane crash scene in Society of the Snow hit's even harder than that ad, just more snapping legs and broken necks than I needed at this moment.

the airplane crash scene in Society of the Snow hit's even harder than that ad, just more snapping legs and broken necks than I needed at this moment.

that seat belt ad - holy shit! I can't imagine how they could make the violence that graphic without injuring the actors

I remember as a teenager when the first person learned to drive re-enacting that on the maiden drive in the backseat

Do it do it do it