Tesco: do they sell any Irish chips now?

Rebelheart

I've noticed this in the past 4 weeks: Tesco has removed all its Irish French Fries - e.g. Green Isle - and replaced them with British imports, usually with a Union Jack on them. My diet has, needless to say, improved dramatically!

As I sit here eating carrots, I'd like to know: what is going on in Tesco, policy wise, that the Irish produce is certainly been pushed off the shelves in the frozen food section, and appears to be pushed off the shelves throughout their stores?

Thanks.

PirateShampoo

Tescos is as cheap as Chips

Peyton Manning

Rebelheart wrote: »

I've noticed this in the past 4 weeks: Tesco has removed all its Irish French Fries - e.g. Green Isle - and replaced them with British imports, usually with a Union Jack on them. My diet has, needless to say, improved dramatically!

As I sit here eating carrots, I'd like to know: what is going on in Tesco, policy wise, that the Irish produce is certainly been pushed off the shelves in the frozen food section, and appears to be pushed off the shelves throughout their stores?

Thanks.

Silly billy, they taste the exact same!

PirateShampoo

Rebelheart wrote: »

I've noticed this in the past 4 weeks: Tesco has removed all its Irish French Fries - e.g. Green Isle - and replaced them with British imports, usually with a Union Jack on them. My diet has, needless to say, improved dramatically!

As I sit here eating carrots, I'd like to know: what is going on in Tesco, policy wise, that the Irish produce is certainly been pushed off the shelves in the frozen food section, and appears to be pushed off the shelves throughout their stores?

Thanks.

And if you dont like eating British grow food from a British owned shop, why do you keep shopping there?

Agricola

Something to do with the high cost of Irish producers, high Irish tax rates which Tesco can circumvent by bringing in their UK stock etc etc........! The usual!

xzanti

Blight ftl

PirateShampoo

And this, reported on 27th of september http://www.independent.ie/national-news/tesco-backs-local-growers-with-commitment-to-buy-irish-vegetables-1897986.html

"Irish vegetable growers have been given a strong vote of confidence by Tesco, who has agreed, for the first time, a commitment to purchase 211,000kg of top-quality Irish produce for Tesco Ireland stores every week."

Jim236

Agricola wrote: »

Something to do with the high cost of Irish producers, high Irish tax rates which Tesco can circumvent by bringing in their UK stock etc etc........! The usual!

And yet they're still charging more than their shops in the North...

Namlub

Pffft, green isle chips suck anyway.

Noffles

Moaning for Irish ****ing chips now.... jeysus will you lot give it a rest....!

orourkeda

Noffles wrote: »

Moaning for Irish ****ing chips now.... jeysus will you lot give it a rest....!

Indeed.

smk89

why the hell does it matter if they come from england?

Rebelheart

PirateShampoo wrote: »

And if you dont like eating British grow food from a British owned shop, why do you keep shopping there?

Well, actually, as I implied, I don't particularly like the British Union Jack gracing the place. With its connotations of centuries of occupation and dispossession, the executions in 1916 and the massacre in Derry, it makes for a rather unpleasant meal. I, accordingly, avoid any product upon which it is emblassoned. And your problem with this is what, precisely?

I expect companies will be owned by people/corporations from many states, be they firms or pension funds. Unlike you, I am not under the illusion that Tesco is wholly British owned. It's not; indeed its largest single shareholder is the global fund of a bank: http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=253

Grow up and stop swallowing the British media's spin on everything.

Namlub

smk89 wrote: »

why the hell does it matter if they come from england?

West brit.

smk89

Namlub wrote: »

West brit.

actually i am from the north livin in dublin, what of it!

the queen pays for my university. thats how i get back at them for years of oppression etc. the best you could do is join the army and die for your country.
good luck with that. Ireland will remember you for the length of the 9 oclock news

Just buy a bag of Irish spuds and make your own. Simple.

sock puppet

Rebelheart wrote: »

Well, actually, as I implied, I don't particularly like the British Union Jack gracing the place. With its connotations of centuries of occupation and dispossession, the executions in 1916 and the massacre in Derry, it makes for a rather unpleasant meal. I, accordingly, avoid any product upon which it is emblassoned. And your problem with this is what, precisely?

I expect companies will be owned by people/corporations from many states, be they firms or pension funds. Unlike you, I am not under the illusion that Tesco is wholly British owned. It's not; indeed its largest single shareholder is the global fund of a bank: http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=253

Grow up and stop swallowing the British media's spin on everything.

What exactly do the British media have to do with Tesco not selling Irish chips?

The Sparrow

Rebelheart wrote: »

Grow up and stop swallowing the British media's spin on everything.

Grow up and stop shopping in a British supermarket if you don't want to see British products.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Namlub wrote: »

West brit.

Let's keep the anti-English sentiment to a minimum, shall we? Consider this a warning.

Namlub

smk89 wrote: »

actually i am from the north livin in dublin, what of it!

the queen pays for my university. thats how i get back at them for years of oppression etc. the best you could do is join the army and die for your country.
good luck with that. Ireland will remember you for the length of the 9 oclock news

I was joking Er, ok.

Namlub

Michael Calm Tango wrote: »

Let's keep the anti-English sentiment to a minimum, shall we? Consider this a warning.

And again, I was joking. Just because I didn't follow it with ?

Rebelheart

sock puppet wrote: »

What exactly do the British media have to do with Tesco not selling Irish chips?

Should you follow the discussion correctly, that media clearly has much to do with portraying Tesco as a "British" company, which is the point that poster was making, and overlooking the shareholdings of companies and pension funds from across the world in it, and the relatively small British market. Perspective is everything. But some people think the world begins and ends in Britain.

PirateShampoo

Rebelheart wrote: »

Well, actually, as I implied, I don't particularly like the British Union Jack gracing the place. With its connotations of centuries of occupation and dispossession, the executions in 1916 and the massacre in Derry, it makes for a rather unpleasant meal. I, accordingly, avoid any product upon which it is emblassoned. And your problem with this is what, precisely?

I expect companies will be owned by people/corporations from many states, be they firms or pension funds. Unlike you, I am not under the illusion that Tesco is wholly British owned. It's not; indeed its largest single shareholder is the global fund of a bank: http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=253

Grow up and stop swallowing the British media's spin on everything.

Thats Brilliant, you went from being upset that Green Isle chips arnt sold in Tescos to being upset about the 1916 up-rising in one single sentence.

And I'm the one your telling to grow up?

Here's a idea for you, IF YOU DONT LIKE THERE POLICYS, STOP SHOPPING THERE AND GIVING THEM YOUR BUSINESS.

MagicMarker

Rebelheart wrote: »

I've noticed this in the past 4 weeks: Tesco has removed all its Irish French Fries - e.g. Green Isle - and replaced them with British imports, usually with a Union Jack on them. My diet has, needless to say, improved dramatically!

As I sit here eating carrots, I'd like to know: what is going on in Tesco, policy wise, that the Irish produce is certainly been pushed off the shelves in the frozen food section, and appears to be pushed off the shelves throughout their stores?

Thanks.

Why don't you just buy potatoes?

brummytom

You're refusing to eat chips because it's got our flag on them?

And Tesco are the bigots?


They're using cheap produce, what's wrong with that - you save

Rebelheart

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Thats Brilliant, you went from being upset that Green Isle chips arnt sold in Tescos to being upset about the 1916 up-rising in one single sentence.

And I'm the one your telling to grow up?

Here's a idea for you, IF YOU DONT LIKE THERE POLICYS, STOP SHOPPING THERE AND GIVING THEM YOUR BUSINESS.

Please learn to write the queen's English before rushing to her defence. Thank you.

Hint: 'There' and 'Their' are not the same ; 'Your' and 'You're' are not the same.

....

eightyfish

Rebelheart wrote: »

As I sit here eating carrots, I'd like to know: what is going on in Tesco, policy wise, that the Irish produce is certainly been pushed off the shelves in the frozen food section, and appears to be pushed off the shelves throughout their stores?

Irish distributors are more expensive and Irish products are more expensive than their British counterparts, especially when sourced with Tesco’s buying might in the UK. They used to source from Irish suppliers in the south, but use their UK channels in the north. As part of the “border prices on your doorstep” campaign, the southern Irish stores have become much more like their NI counterparts, even sharing whole identical product-layout plans. This gets us low prices but is bad for Irish food producer’s jobs. It also means that they can sell products at prices that the Irish supermarkets haven’t a hope of matching at anything like the same profit margin.

Buy Irish!

sock puppet

Rebelheart wrote: »

Should you follow the discussion correctly, that media clearly has much to do with portraying Tesco as a "British" company, which is the point that poster was making, and overlooking the shareholdings of companies and pension funds from across the world in it, and the relatively small British market. Perspective is everything. But some people think the world begins and ends in Britain.

They were started in Britain, are based in Britain, and sell mostly to Britis people.

**Timbuk2**

You're not buying chips because of the history associated with the flag on them?

You don't deserve chips!

phasers

brummytom wrote: »

what's wrong with that - you save

You were fine until you said that...

Buying in cheaper British goods costs Irish people their jobs.

smk89

TBH the whole buy Irish thing seems to be more about national pride than reducing the carbon footprint. Just because a pack of chips has a British flag on it doesn't mean it'll leave your freezer at night and start repressing you.

Dudess

Jesus wept...

ejmaztec

Rebelheart wrote: »

Should you follow the discussion correctly, that media clearly has much to do with portraying Tesco as a "British" company, which is the point that poster was making, and overlooking the shareholdings of companies and pension funds from across the world in it, and the relatively small British market. Perspective is everything. But some people think the world begins and ends in Britain.

The only things that begins and end in Britain are certain threads.:p

brummytom

phasers wrote: »

You were fine until you said that...

Buying in cheaper British goods costs Irish people their jobs.

Fair point.

But Jesus Christ, I don't care where my food fúcking comes from - just be thankful you've got any!

Namlub

Rebelheart wrote: »

Well, actually, as I implied, I don't particularly like the British Union Jack gracing the place. With its connotations of centuries of occupation and dispossession, the executions in 1916 and the massacre in Derry, it makes for a rather unpleasant meal. I, accordingly, avoid any product upon which it is emblassoned. And your problem with this is what, precisely?

I expect companies will be owned by people/corporations from many states, be they firms or pension funds. Unlike you, I am not under the illusion that Tesco is wholly British owned. It's not; indeed its largest single shareholder is the global fund of a bank: http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=253

Grow up and stop swallowing the British media's spin on everything.

Are you this political about the origins of all the foodstuffs you buy or is it just a British thing?

Kold

Rebelheart wrote: »

Well, actually, as I implied, I don't particularly like the British Union Jack gracing the place. With its connotations of centuries of occupation and dispossession, the executions in 1916 and the massacre in Derry, it makes for a rather unpleasant meal. I, accordingly, avoid any product upon which it is emblassoned. And your problem with this is what, precisely?

Wow, and I couldn't give a **** if a chicken had a swastika scrawled on it as long as it tastes good.

Rebelheart

brummytom wrote: »

You're refusing to eat chips because it's got our flag on them?

And Tesco are the bigots?

Yeah, what a harmless little flag is the British flag, the flag which flew over Ireland when crowds were massacred in Croke Park, the flag which went along with the British troops as they burned Balbriggan, Trim, Cork and many other places to the ground; the flag which flew while 27 Irish people were shot in Derry by British forces; the flag which symbolised the exclusion of all my [Irish Catholic] family from positions of power in this, their native land; the flag which flew over the British concentration camps in South Africa when tens of thousands of children and women died; the flag which flew over the trials and euphemistically names "enclosed villages" of Kenya when hundreds of thousands were interned and tens of thousands were tortured and executed by Britain.

"Your" flag is, sir, a mark of savagery. Whether you have the wit or courage to realise your country's history is another matter. But it is not my problem that you wilfully have chosen to live under a romantic conception of what the current British flag really means.

ejmaztec

If it weren't for old Walter Raleigh , that other much-loved Englishman, getting his hands on some spuds, there wouldn't be any feckin chips,:p and there wouldn't have been a potato famine either.:(

Rebelheart

Kold wrote: »

Wow, and I couldn't give a **** if a chicken had a swastika scrawled on it as long as it tastes good.

Well, really, that is something you ought to share with your therapist, son.

PirateShampoo

Rebelheart wrote: »

Please learn to write the queen's English before rushing to her defence. Thank you.

Hint: 'There' and 'Their' are not the same ; 'Your' and 'You're' are not the same.

....

What do you care about the Queens english, arnt you against that sort of thing?

smk89

Rebelheart wrote: »

Yeah, what a harmless little flag is the British flag, the flag which flew over Ireland when crowds were massacred in Croke Park, the flag which went along with the British troops as they burned Balbriggan, Trim, Cork and many other places to the ground; the flag which flew while 27 Irish people were shot in Derry by British forces; the flag which symbolised the exclusion of all my [Irish Catholic] family from positions of power in this, their native land; the flag which flew over the British concentration camps in South Africa when tens of thousands of children and women died; the flag which flew over the trials and euphemistically names "enclosed villages" of Kenya when hundreds of thousands were interned and tens of thousands were tortured and executed by Britain.

"Your" flag is, sir, a mark of savagery. Whether you have the wit or courage to realise your country's history is another matter. But it is not my problem that you wilfully have chosen to live under a romantic conception of what the current British flag really means.

I'm pretty sure if the British wanted to invade us they wouldn't choose the freezer section of Tesco as the embarkment point.

Please get over the past. The Irish arn't a nation of sweetness and light either

brummytom

Rebelheart wrote: »

Yeah, what a harmless little flag is the British flag, the flag which flew over Ireland when crowds were massacred in Croke Park, the flag which went along with the British troops as they burned Balbriggan, Trim, Cork and many other places to the ground; the flag which flew while 27 Irish people were shot in Derry by British forces; the flag which symbolised the exclusion of all my [Irish Catholic] family from positions of power in this, their native land; the flag which flew over the British concentration camps in South Africa when tens of thousands of children and women died; the flag which flew over the trials and euphemistically names "enclosed villages" of Kenya when hundreds of thousands were interned and tens of thousands were tortured and executed by Britain.

"Your" flag is, sir, a mark of savagery. Whether you have the wit or courage to realise your country's history is another matter. But it is not my problem that you wilfully have chosen to live under a romantic conception of what the current British flag really means.

They're fúcking chips!!

My family weren't even in this country at the time of any of the things you've mentioned, I've no affiliation whatsoever except being born here. My family were persecuted just as much as anyone - do you think the black and tans didn't go near them?
I don't have any romantic conception of what the flag means ('your' country is in it too by the way).. it's just a load of colours to me.

You can't hold the actions of a disgusting British tyranny against a load of fúcking potatoes.

Rebelheart

Namlub wrote: »

Are you this political about the origins of all the foodstuffs you buy or is it just a British thing?

If you could tell me what political symbol should mean as much to an Irishman as the British Union Jack does, I may be able to answer that ostensibly silly question.

MagicMarker

Rebelheart wrote: »

Yeah, what a harmless little flag is the British flag, the flag which flew over Ireland when crowds were massacred in Croke Park, the flag which went along with the British troops as they burned Balbriggan, Trim, Cork and many other places to the ground; the flag which flew while 27 Irish people were shot in Derry by British forces; the flag which symbolised the exclusion of all my [Irish Catholic] family from positions of power in this, their native land; the flag which flew over the British concentration camps in South Africa when tens of thousands of children and women died; the flag which flew over the trials and euphemistically names "enclosed villages" of Kenya when hundreds of thousands were interned and tens of thousands were tortured and executed by Britain.

"Your" flag is, sir, a mark of savagery. Whether you have the wit or courage to realise your country's history is another matter. But it is not my problem that you wilfully have chosen to live under a romantic conception of what the current British flag really means.

Change the fúcking record.

drkpower

Rebelheart wrote: »

Should you follow the discussion correctly, that media clearly has much to do with portraying Tesco as a "British" company, which is the point that poster was making, and overlooking the shareholdings of companies and pension funds from across the world in it, and the relatively small British market. Perspective is everything. But some people think the world begins and ends in Britain.

So you can shop in Tesco, which was founded in Britain, has its headquarters in Britain, has a British CEO and chairman, has a majority of its stores in Britain etc... because its not "fully" British.
But you cant eat chips contained in a bag with a British flag on it.

Haha!
Armchair Republican, me thinks!

Kold

Rebelheart wrote: »

If you could tell me what political symbol should mean as much to an Irishman as the British Union Jack does, I may be able to answer that ostensibly silly question.

The tricolour perhaps? Haha, who am I kidding? We're talking of the fabled 'Irishman' here! Bitter bastard that he is.

Rebelheart

smk89 wrote: »

I'm pretty sure if the British wanted to invade us they wouldn't choose the freezer section of Tesco as the embarkment point.

Please get over the past.

How about I get "over the past" when that flag is no longer flying in Ireland? Oh, you sounded so cool in the PC sense; all you have to do is block out the reality.

Dinner

I'm surprised you care what you eat, everything just tastes bitter to you.

ejmaztec

We should all listen to the OP because he's a chip specialist. I prefer to eat my chips and not balance them on my shoulder.

Namlub

Rebelheart wrote: »

If you could tell me what political symbol should mean as much to an Irishman as the British Union Jack does, I may be able to answer that ostensibly silly question.

Sillier than your preoccupation with the "cannontations of opression" made by displaying the british flag to signify the origin of chips? There are no cannontations, no-ones going to make you pledge an oath of allegiance to the Queen if you buy them, they're potatoes.

brianthebard

ejmaztec wrote: »

If it weren't for old Walter Raleigh , that other much-loved Englishman, getting his hands on some spuds, there wouldn't be any feckin chips,:p and there wouldn't have been a potato famine either.:(

That's a myth.