What can you buy in ireland you cant buy anywhere else?

MIN2511

javaboy wrote: »

Proper Guinness.

Try Nigerian Guiness!

Fratton Fred

Alun wrote: »

Wrong. There's (still) a Bulmers company in England (H.P. Bulmer) which has been in existence for ages, much longer than the Irish equivalent, in fact (Woodpecker and Strongbow being the most well known products), but it's a totally different company to Bulmers in Ireland. It's all to do with the original owner of the Clonmel cider going into business with H.P. Bulmer, using the Bulmers trademark, and when they split up later on, they retained the use of the Bulmers trademark, but only in Ireland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Bulmer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulmers_(Ireland)

So Cider made in Hereford is not Irish, hence my use of the word. I thought adding in the bit about trade marks made that clear.

Incidentally, one of the founding partners of the Hereford Bulmers was offered a job with the King of Siam to tutor his children. He turned this down and instead he went into business with his cousin making cider. His replacement tutor was a women who promptly fell in love with the King.

If it wasn't for Bulmers Cider, the Story "The King and I" would never have happened.

Piece of useless info for ya:)

MIN2511

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Alun

Fratton Fred wrote: »

So Cider made in Hereford is not Irish, hence my use of the word. I thought adding in the bit about trade marks made that clear.

Yeah, sorry, didn't read the post carefully enough there.

ShooterSF

Fratton Fred wrote: »

So Cider made in Hereford is not Irish, hence my use of the word. I thought adding in the bit about trade marks made that clear.

Incidentally, one of the founding partners of the Hereford Bulmers was offered a job with the King of Siam to tutor his children. He turned this down and instead he went into business with his cousin making cider. His replacement tutor was a women who promptly fell in love with the King.

If it wasn't for Bulmers Cider, the Story "The King and I" would never have happened.

Piece of useless info for ya

Aw great now Ive forgotten how to drive. Thanks alot!

Corcaigh84

Aodan83 wrote: »

What about Beamish?

I remember seeing a sign for Beamish Red in Amsterdam.

Also, I bought a 4-pack of Murphy's in California for $6.50, way cheaper than over here!

Shelflife

Mikados, Kimberley choc and ordinary, barrys and lyons tea, tayto, emerald sweets these are not really generally available, i sell all these abroad through my ebay shop A Taste Of Ireland .

Suprisingly one of the biggest sellers at the moment is Lincoln biscuits.

golden gal

Was in America for the summer, was able to get loads of the irish sweets including Nerds (Im old!) and jelly tots. There was a shop in the Bronx called "Tierneys"!!!!

Nehaxak

Didn't read the whole thread but you can't buy a packet of Johnny Onions rings anywhere else in the world but Ireland.

Skellington

Superquinn sausages.

pallepille

a 16 hour stint on a trolley for 70 euro (comes with a free dose of the mrsa bug)

rossie1977

inforfun wrote: »

For all i know Ireland is one of the cheapest in (western)Europe.

still alot more expensive than tenerife where i was about 2 weeks ago, it was 70cent a litre there when we were still over a euro here

supermacs is a good call, supervalu is another one, i was going to say dunnes stores but they have them in england (i know of one they had in manchester not sure if its still there), o'briens sandwich places have taken over scotland

AvrilLavigne

The Quinn's Poitín.

rossie1977

pallepille wrote: »

a 16 hour stint on a trolley for 70 euro (comes with a free dose of the mrsa bug)

nhs were at that years before us :pac:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/316/7132/645/m
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/elderly-wait-up-to-25-hours-on-trolleys-705178.html

niceirishfella

Begrudgery

kazkiely

skaterdude wrote: »

Murphys

I heard of someone getting a pint of it in Mexico :eek:

West Coast Cooler? Can't get it in England anyway, methinks.

Fratton Fred

Shelflife wrote: »

Mikados, Kimberley choc and ordinary, barrys and lyons tea, tayto, emerald sweets these are not really generally available, i sell all these abroad through my ebay shop A Taste Of Ireland .

Suprisingly one of the biggest sellers at the moment is Lincoln biscuits.

Lyons and PG tips are the same thing. Unilever just use the brand name Lyons in Ireland. Unilever are the only company who have the pyramid tea bag machines.

The UK and Ireland are the only countires where tea bags as we know them are common, the rest of the world uses the ones with string attached as they never use a tea pot.

Tea bags are much cheaper to make than leaves. the tea in a tea bag is ground up leaves, shoots, branches etc(all the junk in other words), whereas tea leaves are only from the leaf, which is more expensive to produce.

More useless ****e (How's the driving going):D

somethingwitty

Well in France I recently got barred from a butcher shop for buying mince meat. It took me ages to explain what I wanted and took him several goes. Then when I did, he shouts in disgust "WHY would you want to eat your mean like that??!!! Don't come in here again!!!"

And a can of baked beans in tomatoe sauce. I triend to get my boyfriend to bring some over but they took it off him at the airport :(:(

Alun

Fratton Fred wrote: »

The UK and Ireland are the only countries where tea bags as we know them are common, the rest of the world uses the ones with string attached as they never use a tea pot.

Tea pots, albeit usually glass ones, are quite common in the Netherlands, and they just dangle the tea bags in the pot, and hang the string and little tab over the edge secured in place by the lid. Usually though they won't leave them in there very long and will remove them before the tea gets too strong. You won't ever see them in a restaurant / cafe setting though, only in Dutch homes. In cafes they'll just serve you a cup or glass of hot water with a tea bag.

Alun

somethingwitty wrote: »

Well in France I recently got barred from a butcher shop for buying mince meat. It took me ages to explain what I wanted and took him several goes. Then when I did, he shouts in disgust "WHY would you want to eat your mean like that??!!! Don't come in here again!!!"

Strange. Minced beef or "bœuf haché" is pretty common over there in my experience.

dunnomede?

I was told red lemonade isnt available in other countries due to its carcenogenic qualities

ntlbell

a 1 bedroom flat in dolphins barn for 350k

kevmy

cornbb wrote: »

Several African countries are big into their bottled Guinness Extra Stout stuff apparently. I've never tried it but it's supposed to be pretty different to the draught Guinness.

It's essentially like normal Guinness but way stronger ~7% and it's also a browner head.

You can get it here in loads of places Dunnes, Tesco

alexjk

Decent cup of tea! Other countries seem to look at tea drinking as something cultured and refined whereas we just hawk it back.I have a lot of trouble finding jelly in other european countries...

Run_to_da_hills

Skaterdude wrote:

What can you buy in ireland you cant buy anywhere else? ...

BZP and other "legal" drugs over the counter.

Tom65

somethingwitty wrote: »

And a can of baked beans in tomatoe sauce. I triend to get my boyfriend to bring some over but they took it off him at the airport :(:(

Like Heinz beans? They're available everywhere, no?


As regards the Guinness, there's a bar here (Stockholm) that only Irish people work in, and the Guinness is good. Not as good as home, mind, but certainly decent.

There are many nights when I'd murder a pack of Tayto, which is strange because I don't really eat them at home.

Professey Chin

javaboy wrote: »

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BJC

Shelflife wrote: »

Mikados, Kimberley choc and ordinary, barrys and lyons tea, tayto, emerald sweets these are not really generally available, i sell all these abroad through my ebay shop A Taste Of Ireland .

Suprisingly one of the biggest sellers at the moment is Lincoln biscuits.

How do you keep the mikados from getting smushed!? :eek:

rossie1977 wrote: »

supermacs is a good call, supervalu is another one, i was going to say dunnes stores but they have them in england (i know of one they had in manchester not sure if its still there), o'briens sandwich places have taken over scotland

They have Dunnes in Spain aswell.

syklops

They have supervalu in spain aswell.

Other things I saw in Spain:

An Oifig an Phoist
Full Irish breakfast with batchelors beans
A 700ml bottle of jameson for under a tenner
Irish people and english people living in harmony

MIN2511

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