The thing you miss most about Ireland

mufflers

For me it has to be proper cheddar cheese!

I know it sounds strange but u cant actually get it here where i am!

1 thing i dont miss - irish women

Ruu_Old

lyons tea and tayto or any kind of cheese n onion crisps

Willymuncher

I missed Lucozade, Cadburys chocolate and Lyons tea the most.

But now I miss so much more about there now that I'm home again...

Banphrionsa

The foxes of Kerry.

dundalk cailin

Crisps, cadburys and my mammys home cooking

Walter_Sobcek

I miss proper Guinness and lucozade........and weirdly enough Irish telly. I've been stuck in Canada for the past few years watching bloody TBS.

Ruu_Old

Yeah lucozade is $5 for a 1 litre here and lyons tea..i think $7 for a box of 40 thats why i get the mammeh to send a box full of goodies

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Lyons tea yep, just coming to the end of a 180 box this week

Proper Guinness yep.

Proper Bulmers Cider, not that Magners crap.

Tayto crisps meh, but King yes.

WhiteWashMan

absolutely nothing.

MrPinK

Superquinn sausages

spuddy

MrPinK wrote:

Superquinn sausages

...rashers, and clonakilty black pudding

family and friends mainly thou

DublinWriter

Oddly enough, the Irish Times on a Friday.

However I could get it in a few places in London/Brussels/Frankfurt, but after a while, I was just like...........meh.

MrSinn

Anne Doyle from RTE news,ohhh baby

Ruu_Old

MrSinn wrote:

Anne Doyle from RTE news,ohhh baby

Forget her, what about all the great* Irish actors from Fair City and the like?






*really sorry crew of actors

damnyanks

Super Milk

kittex

seansouth wrote:

Proper Bulmers Cider, not that Magners crap.

Tayto crisps meh, but King yes.

I agree with these whole heartedly. Until I tried Magners, I thought they were the same with just a different name. Nowhere near as nice.

And King crisps rock \m/

I miss getting proper cod and chips in Beshoff's. In Scotland it's just random white fish with horrible skinnny frozen chips - not the nice chunky fresh potato ones you get in Beshoff's in Dublin.

Oh - red lemonade and whiskey! I used to love a Jack Daniels and red but you can't get red lemonade here.

MrSinn

Ruu wrote:

Forget her, what about all the great* Irish actors from Fair City and the like?






*really sorry crew of actors

I dont like violence but i would to give that susanne b!t(h a slap,imagine waking up beside that everyday ohhhhhhhhhhhh dear god help me

Nina_Angelica

Walter_Sobcek wrote:

I miss proper Guinness and lucozade........and weirdly enough Irish telly. I've been stuck in Canada for the past few years watching bloody TBS.

haha you sound just like my fiancé!

after living in ireland w/ him for a year i was kind of glad for canadian television again. although i do miss corrie and emerdale.

deman

Willymuncher wrote:

I missed Lucozade, Cadburys chocolate and Lyons tea the most.

But now I miss so much more about there now that I'm home again...

Second all the above......... and Tayto crisps....... and a proper sausage.

dSTAR

Bewley's Coffee, real Irish sausages, bacon, black and white pudding, and brown soda bread or Brennan's batch loaf with Kerrygold butter.

The smell of a peat fire in some old pub a proper pint of Guinesss!

Funnily enough I miss Irish girls too...

Hagar

The rain, the cold, the begrudgery, the commercialism, the obsession with house prices and King crisps.

Walter_Sobcek

Super milk - Irish milk is bloody lovely.
I reckon we must be pumping crack cocaine into Irish cows.

BTW - useful tip. If you do manage to get some nice Lyons or Barrys tea, put it in the freezer and just take out the bags as you need them. Last much longer that way.

the clansman

Ruu wrote:

tayto

im still here and i miss tayto..they have been bought out and flavour changed:mad:

dundalk cailin

dSTAR wrote:

Funnily enough I miss Irish girls too...

and i miss irish boys :eek: cos i find the french more hostile toward strangers

someone said irish milk,ive gotten so used to the taste of uht milk that ill prob hate the irish stuff when i go home!! it was only when one of my friends asked me if i could find real fresh milk where i was that i realised how much i like the taste of uht stuff,cos its been so long

Ruu_Old

ah cailin, UHT is rubbish. How can you drink it? *cleans mouth out with dirt*:p

Mr.75

I miss Irish women. Luxembourgish wans are pure frigids. You'd be lucky to get a bit of outside tit from them on the first night.

Lucky it only takes me 6 hours to be back in Cork.

Pepe LeFrits

Family and friends.

Nothing else comes springing to mind, really.

dundalk cailin

Ruu wrote:

ah cailin, UHT is rubbish. How can you drink it? *cleans mouth out with dirt*:p

:eek:
me loves milk..and i wasnt gonna go a whole year without it..im telling ya,if u dont have a choice,then u soon get used to it :cool:

Larianne

Ruu wrote:

Yeah lucozade is $5 for a 1 litre here and lyons tea..i think $7 for a box of 40 thats why i get the mammeh to send a box full of goodies

Where do you buy your lyons tea?? Coz when I lived in Chicago the local Jewel stocked Lyons tea, Lemon puffs, Club Orange, Erin Soup, HB sauce Bachelors Beans all on a little wonky shelf unit in the corner.. and it wasn't that expensive. I know out in one mall I went to Brookfield (I think) and the Irish shop there the prices were a disgrace! There was also a Treasure Island opposite the Jewel and that stocked loads of biscuits I liked!!

Oh and there was a corner shop a few blocks away that stocked flakes and Tayto (all sometimes I think they were past their sell by date) and other choc bars that I can't think of. I lived in the best location!

I had brought a big stash of Lyons tea and so did my mate so we were never short. I missed sausages and pudding and Brennans bread. And the craic of the pubs in Ireland. Even if you were in an Irish themed oub it wasn't the same. But still miss Chicago and can't wait to leave Ireland again! 6 weeks to go!!!

Ruu_Old

Are you going for long Larianne? I live 2-3 hours south of Chicago. I get most of my stuff in a place called World Harvest. Meijer, the supermarket, had an international aisle with all different stuff but I boycotted them when they moved all the Irish food under the British flag (took down the Irish one from he ceiling, or it fell down) :eek:. I was just talking last night about how I needed a can of club orange or lemon, must take a trip shortly. I get my folks to send me crisps and tea, cant beat that

Poplar

Silvermints
Tayto
Barrys Tea
Club Orange
Clonakilty White Pudding
Home cooking

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