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

.... Irish humour and craic!

Irish Boys!

Unpossible

Lyons Tea, milk (after a visit to Ireland it takes a month or two before I can bear finnish milk again), Guinness (good guinness, at a reasonable price), friends, family and the craic/humour of Irish people (I cant find any Irish in my current city), Irish accents, mountains & sea (I come from Tralee), the fact that in Ireland I know what shop to go to if I need something (here the lines are a little blurred on what a shop sells)

dont miss scumbags, skangers, chavs etc

Greenhorse

Well lets see...

I have to say that the food over here in NZ is pretty good. There are great sausages, hams, lamb and beef. So cant say I miss that about home. just as good here. I have got used to drinking Dilmah (sp) tea. Not Lyons but better than the rest.

However I cannot drink the Guinness over here. Its just not on the same planet as back home. We went back to Ireland in September on a long honeymoon till January. I felt like a friggen child on my first night back in Ireland and just the anticipation of that black pint.


Mabey strange or mabey not but I really miss and I mean really miss Kevin Myers Irishmans diary in the Irish Times. A complete **** stirrer and there is nothing like it over here.

I do miss family and friends now and again. Myself and my brothers and mates lived in a big house in Terenure for years before I left for NZ in 2004 and we lived in each others pockets. Then a Kiwi chick pulled me to the otherside of the world:rolleyes: .

And while it took a while, I have gotten used to the earthquakes.:)

All good though.

Rgds,

Niall

galwaydude

I have been living in the states for 2 months now. I must say i miss alot about ireland. The food, pubs, the people. It doesnt hit you how great a country ireland is until you are away.

Our local stop and shop have an irish section which helps when i need an irish fix. In saying that shaws have the irish section marked under the eastern european sign. We have a friend who works there and i complained to him.He said the manager is a right nob and hasnt a clue where ireland is lol so why should he care.

lisaloo

i have to say i miss sausages the most. Brennan's bread,nice soft slices.

i miss the craic with the Irish. there really is no place like home.

luckat

Hagar wrote:

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

Heh. The bitter word!

groundedplane

I have been living in Pensacola Florida now for 4 years and there is so much I miss from back home in Dublin.

All is order starting with

Family and friends. The mammys cooking, going for a pint with me father and brother, hanging out with my little sister.

The Craic in the pub while getting slaughtered on Guinness. Creamy Guinness. God I miss it so bad. I can get in over here, but its no where near the same.

I miss Irish people in general. There are not many where I live at in N.W Florida. When I do meet an fellow Irish man, it makes my day, just chatting way as if you were at home.

The sence of humor of Irish People. No other race can laugh and have the craic like we can.

Going to the chipper on my way out of the pub. Getting myself a greasy battered sausage and chips, smothered in salt and viniger. Jayis, my mouth is watering right now.

King Crisp sandwhichs with a cup of tea using dairygold butter.

What I don’t miss :-

Paying through my arse for everything I need. From housing to a pint to a pack of smokes. It’s a total disgrace how expensive it is back in Dublin.

The weather. Living in Florida, as you can imagine the weather is beautiful all year round. I don’t think I could stick the Irish weather again.

Overall, there is not a day that goes by that I don’t think about home. Family or friends.

Larianne

Ruu wrote:

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

Not actually going to Chicago this time. Doing the year thing, going to S.E. Asia and Oz, NZ and LA and San Fran. So I think I might bring a small stash of Lyons, just for emergencies!

dSTAR

Mr.75 wrote:

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

Ready made excuse not to have to hang about after you have finished!

...sorry darling but I have to catch a plane...

Greenhorse wrote:

Then a Kiwi chick pulled me to the otherside of the world.

Story of my life...:(

galwaydude wrote:

It doesnt hit you how great a country ireland is until you are away.

V. true!

Gandhi

Jackie Lennox's potato pie and chips.

Murphys.

BEAT

I missed the sausages and black current juice a lot until I found a nice little Irirsh Import store that has it all so I can get my fix when I need it...

I still miss a decent pint of guinness and the Irish MEN A LOT though

Ruu_Old

Also whats with american soda, like slice or crush, its more of an orangey-red and not near as good. I miss club orange so much, nothing like it.

lazylad

glenroe

DublinWriter

Ruu wrote:

Also whats with american soda, like slice or crush, its more of an orangey-red and not near as good. I miss club orange so much, nothing like it.

Damn right about Club Orange. All my ex-pat friend and family outside Ireland allways get me to bring over suitcases of the stuff.

Diet Club Orange is surprisingly nice.

jamesozzie

how the hell was "Bachelors Baked Beans" not mentioned!

When I was away in Europe thats what i missed the most! Some supermarkets sold beans BUT......my god they were bad!

7aken

i miss the weather, its constantly hot where i am and it doesnt really do much else, might get a nice cloud every now and again. apart from that i dont really miss much but i havent been here long so give it some more time. my fiance misses chocolate and her 'soaps'. she got a soap magazine yesterday from home and apparently cain gets it on with someone, whatever the hell that means!!!

Ruu_Old

The last few days have into the 90s here (IL) and horrible humidity. I want Irish summers back

Gandhi

Suck it up, Ruu. Stay hydrated and you'll be fine.

Next time you get off the plane in Shannon, and have to duck your head because the clouds are so low, and everyone is talking about what a lovely day it is, you'll be longing for the sunshine.

tabatha

sausages and barrys tea! oh and brennans bread

Jean05

Things I missed about Ireland, in no particuler order!

#1 The way people are educated
#2 The way Irish people can speak fluent English, and understand Irish accents.
#3 Efficient service in shops and restaurants
#4 Irish men
#5 It not being a big deal which religion you are
#6 Irish sense of humour
#7 The way women are treated as equals
#8 Drivers who stay in lane.
#9 Gaeilge.
#10 Scarfs and jumpers

Pepe LeFrits

Actually, I miss the RTE football pundit team. Bill, Liam, Johnny and Eamo - the dream team.