Tayto Park

tempura

I've seen it all now, a crisp based theme park, oddly enough though, i still want to go !

http://www.taytocrisps.ie/#/park/

Biggins

I shall walk in eating from a tube of Pringles!

Sykk

In before Bi..
:rolleyes:

Pawpad666

King crisps are king.

Venom

Biggins wrote: »

I shall walk in eating from a tube of Pringles!

Do it right and use a packet of King :cool:

KeithM89_old

Crisp based theme park?? Thats a bit cheesy

Biggins

Venom wrote: »

Do it right and use a packet of King :cool:

They might crown me!

PeterIanStaker

KeithM89 wrote: »

Crisp based theme park?? Thats a bit cheesy

Indeed, and would it survive the credit crunch?

Saila

thats just plain weird

Biggins

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

Indeed, and would it survive the credit crunch?

Well if they fall, it will be in a snap!

_blank_

Note to culchies.

Not ALL crisps are Tayto.

It's ridiculous that you refer to all kinds of crisps, King, Hunky Dory's, Walkers etc as "Tayto".

"Erra, gives a package a' King Tayto there Oisín" :rolleyes:

Ghandee

Biffos sorted for work now after his arse gets kicked outta the dail!

"Stand over there beside Brian, I mean Mr Tayto for your pictures kids!"

Ali Babba

It will be interesting to see what NAMA do with the place when they take it over.

Corsendonk

The same guy tried launching a wildlife park. He has a herd of Buffalos outside Ashbourne.

For the Dubs, Tayto and King are made by the same company so you can be sure that there will always be a part of the park that will always be King.:D

Donkey Oaty

A lot of people get me confused with an ant eater, because I've a long nose, but I'm not! I’m a very curious and active animal. And I think I’m very intelligent. If I’m kept as a pet, I can be quite cheeky.

I like to eat small lizards, insects, birds, eggs, and some nice fruit.

Who am I?

I'm a Ring Tailed Coati Mundi who lives in Tayto World, according to their website. However, I think my profile may have been ghost-written.

Ali Babba

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

A lot of people get me confused with an ant eater, because I've a long nose, but I'm not! I’m a very curious and active animal. And I think I’m very intelligent. If I’m kept as a pet, I can be quite cheeky.

I like to eat small lizards, insects, birds, eggs, and some nice fruit.

Who am I?

I'm a Ring Tailed Coati Mundi who lives in Tayto World, according to their website. However, I think my profile may have been ghost-written.

Mary O'Rourke?

Biggins

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Who am I?

I'm a Ring Tailed Coati Mundi who lives in Tayto World, according to their website. However, I think my profile may have been ghost-written.

Bertie Ahern?
...And now only was his profile possibly ghost written - but his fiction book too! :pac:

Donkey Oaty

Biggins and Ali, I'm ashamed of you both.

We should not sneer at a creature who's survival is threatened by the current environmental circumstances.

Biggins

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Biggins and Ali, I'm ashamed of you both.

We should not sneer at a creature who's survival is threatened by the current environmental circumstances.

Soorrrrrwwwweeee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSHaCzb3yYk

Donkey Oaty

Biggins wrote: »

Soorrrrrwwwweeee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSHaCzb3yYk

I meant O'Rourke and Ahern, but anyway - apology accepted.

Tallaght Saint

Pffft it's been done already

Hunky Dory Park, home of Drogheda United FC :pac:

Absurdum

€14 in? Ask me bollox Mr Tayto.

stemah

Absurdum wrote: »

€14 in? Ask me bollox Mr Tayto.

Children over 3 years – €20
Children under 3 years - €10
Adults – €14


€14 for adults and €20 for kids :eek::mad:

Absurdum

stemah wrote: »

Children over 3 years (with Santa visit)– €20

you pay extra to get yer kids touched by an oul fella

CoalBucket

Duff Gardens comes to mind

bellapip

You can spend 8 hours in tayto park. There will be no politicians, in bupboards or otherwise... there willl be no dodgy oul fellas waiting behind trees or vestal virgins......


This park will employ extra people, it will mean that people in the locality who might not have work, will have work, and it will mean that money which may have otherwise have been spent outside the locality with companies who are not IRISH now goes Irish...............


Yes the government is a pantomine, not even on the scale of bosco or wonderly wagon, but until the Germans are pulling our strings we should still be voting Irish,.


Mr Tayyyyyyyyyyytoooooooooooo...............is kewl.xxxxxx

rushmucker

Anyone been would like to see it, always support something Irish:D

civis_liberalis

Des wrote: »

Note to culchies.

Not ALL crisps are Tayto.

Note to jackeens:

You're not anywhere near as funny as you think you are.

Also, not all vacuum cleaners are hoovers.
Names for certain things sometimes catch on, even though they are technically incorrect.

randylonghorn

Des wrote: »

Note to culchies.

Not ALL crisps are Tayto.

No, but the best ones are.

(With the possible exception of Pringles)

StereoLove

Des wrote: »

Note to culchies.

Not ALL crisps are Tayto.

It's ridiculous that you refer to all kinds of crisps, King, Hunky Dory's, Walkers etc as "Tayto".

"Erra, gives a package a' King Tayto there Oisín" :rolleyes:

Irish slang, I guess:rolleyes:

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Des wrote: »

Note to culchies.

Not ALL crisps are Tayto.

It's ridiculous that you refer to all kinds of crisps, King, Hunky Dory's, Walkers etc as "Tayto".

"Erra, gives a package a' King Tayto there Oisín" :rolleyes:

I'm what would be called a culchie. I grew up in Mayo and go to college in Galway. I know lots of people from many different areas of the country from Donegal to Cork.

And I have NEVER heard anyone who talks that way. Everyone I have ever met calls crisps by their actual brand name. If they happen to be tayto they call them tayto. If they're walkers they call them walkers.

I'm utterly convinced that this idea that 'culchies call all crisps tayto' is nonsense of the highest order that Dubs believe solely because other Dubs have told them its the case.

alwaysadub

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

I'm what would be called a culchie. I grew up in Mayo and go to college in Galway. I know lots of people from many different areas of the country from Donegal to Cork.

And I have NEVER heard anyone who talks that way. Everyone I have ever met calls crisps by their actual brand name. If they happen to be tayto they call them tayto. If they're walkers they call them walkers.

I'm utterly convinced that this idea that 'culchies call all crisps tayto' is nonsense of the highest order that Dubs believe solely because other Dubs have told them its the case.

Honestly,i'd never even heard about that before i moved to Galway. It was only when i asked someone( who was from Sligo to be fair) did they want something in the shop and i was nearly lynched when i came back with actual Tayto that i discovered the problem and noticed it a bit more.

It's not everyone no, but there are a fair few people who when they say Tayto, don't mean Tayto at all.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Maybe there are a few areas of the country that say it. I don't know anyone who does however and I know people from a lot of different areas. Its definitely not a 'culchie' thing so much as its a very localised thing.

Adyx

Des wrote: »

Note to culchies.

Not ALL crisps are Tayto.

It's ridiculous that you refer to all kinds of crisps, King, Hunky Dory's, Walkers etc as "Tayto".

"Erra, gives a package a' King Tayto there Oisín" :rolleyes:

I'm not guilty of this myself (seeing as I'm not a culchie), but I'll expand on this and point out to the whole country (yes even Dubs) that:

1. Not ALL vacuum cleaners are Hoovers.
2. Not ALL circular flying toys are Frisbees.
3. Not ALL whirlpool hot tub/bath things are Jacuzzis.
4. Not ALL hook & loop fasteners are Velcro.
5. Not ALL public address systems are Tannoy.

:rolleyes:

BeerWolf

Corsendonk wrote: »

The same guy tried launching a wildlife park. He has a herd of Buffalos outside Ashbourne.

He's my neighbor... >_<;

bellapip

Howaya,


I am part of a group of 60 going to Tayto park tomorrow..... 6 adults, 54 miniature persons...... I am so looking forward to being able to report back to you all tomorrow, provided that I do not get gored to death by a Buffalo.


The park looks brilliant, the kids are ridiculously excited and the feckin frozen precipitation is almost gone,,,,,, So,,, it will be fabulous.... I just can barely wait..... Fabulous (oh I said that already)... Winter and Buffalo...


I will report back here tomorrow.....

Bella.
xx

bellapip

TAYTO PARK...........


WEll even though my previous post may have given the impression I was not altogether looking forward to an outing in a crisp named park while frozen precipitation was still lingering but in fact I was sooooo looking forward to it.

The truth is that Tayto Park is a fantastic outing....

The park itself is very well spread out and even though the beautiful lakes and water features were still well frozen, this in fact added to the the effect.
We had 20 kids aged 5 to 8, 22 kids aged 8 to 11, and 12 kids aged 11 to 13.
Not one of those kids moaned about a single thing today (trust me that is a rareity).
They got to explore the park and the huge fantastic climbing frames and slides. Then they moved on to explore Pocahaunus Tipee's where we told them some stories of how the American Red Indians used to live in these type of dwellings and they were totally entralled by this.
Then, in groups of two they got to go the absolutely stunning lodge to meet Santa in his grotto. The grotto is just brilliant, with gorgeous stuffed animals (fake ones) snuggly animated Polar Bears and a two of the loveliest Elves I have ever met.
Santa was a joy and the kids got really good pressies.
Then they got to go explore the park and look at all the animals, far too many varieties for me to remember, but I know the Ocelot was my favorite.
Finally they were brought up to the lodge to have their food.
At this point may I just say, as one who operates in the food business, I am constantly watching how others do food and mostly (on these type of outings) I find that the kids are served up food that only kids WOULD eat.
NOT SO today.
The food was the standard fare of Chicken Dippers, Sausages and Wedges, but it was plentiful and not the cheap and nasty variety.
We were served platters of food, a huge variety, and one hungry leader who could not wait until food was served had Cottage pie and roast vegetables, or which not one iota was left on the plate.

I asked the GM how many people they employ, and at the moment they have 37 although he said by next summer they hope to up this to 50.
The staff who were there today went out of their way to facilitate everyone who was there. As ours was not the only group, it was great talking to other groups and finding that they were just as impressed as us.

Overall, I think with time Tayto Park will be receiving bus loads of visitors.. All of our six leaders agreed that we would be more than happy to bring our kids back here for another outing in the future.

Check it out, we even got a goodie bag of Tayto Crisps, what more could you want.

Well done Tayto, and thanks a million for a really great day, it was great value...... Does that Ocelot want a new home???? I can Ocelot sit anytime.

4zn76tysfajdxp

bellapip wrote: »

TAYTO PARK...........


WEll even though my previous post may have given the impression I was not altogether looking forward to an outing in a crisp named park while frozen precipitation was still lingering but in fact I was sooooo looking forward to it.

The truth is that Tayto Park is a fantastic outing....

The park itself is very well spread out and even though the beautiful lakes and water features were still well frozen, this in fact added to the the effect.
We had 20 kids aged 5 to 8, 22 kids aged 8 to 11, and 12 kids aged 11 to 13.
Not one of those kids moaned about a single thing today (trust me that is a rareity).
They got to explore the park and the huge fantastic climbing frames and slides. Then they moved on to explore Pocahaunus Tipee's where we told them some stories of how the American Red Indians used to live in these type of dwellings and they were totally entralled by this.
Then, in groups of two they got to go the absolutely stunning lodge to meet Santa in his grotto. The grotto is just brilliant, with gorgeous stuffed animals (fake ones) snuggly animated Polar Bears and a two of the loveliest Elves I have ever met.
Santa was a joy and the kids got really good pressies.
Then they got to go explore the park and look at all the animals, far too many varieties for me to remember, but I know the Ocelot was my favorite.
Finally they were brought up to the lodge to have their food.
At this point may I just say, as one who operates in the food business, I am constantly watching how others do food and mostly (on these type of outings) I find that the kids are served up food that only kids WOULD eat.
NOT SO today.
The food was the standard fare of Chicken Dippers, Sausages and Wedges, but it was plentiful and not the cheap and nasty variety.
We were served platters of food, a huge variety, and one hungry leader who could not wait until food was served had Cottage pie and roast vegetables, or which not one iota was left on the plate.

I asked the GM how many people they employ, and at the moment they have 37 although he said by next summer they hope to up this to 50.
The staff who were there today went out of their way to facilitate everyone who was there. As ours was not the only group, it was great talking to other groups and finding that they were just as impressed as us.

Overall, I think with time Tayto Park will be receiving bus loads of visitors.. All of our six leaders agreed that we would be more than happy to bring our kids back here for another outing in the future.

Check it out, we even got a goodie bag of Tayto Crisps, what more could you want.

Well done Tayto, and thanks a million for a really great day, it was great value...... Does that Ocelot want a new home???? I can Ocelot sit anytime.

What in the name of fuck? Are you actually shilling a potato-themed amusement park?

omahaid

Colton Dirty Typhoid wrote: »

What in the name of fuck? Are you actually shilling a potato-themed amusement park?

Could be an honest review? I'm quite amused by a tayto themed park - might pop up at some stage.

Overature

yeeeeeaaaaaah, spud world

puheen

I did some work there and have to say it really does seem to be a great place for a kids day out. It was probably half to three quarters complete but it is a fine job and talking to some of the people involved there are some very good things to come when it is fully operational next spring. I think that in all fairness go have a look you may be surprised. I was a bit skeptical when I first went out there but came away fairly impressed by what I saw and will definetly be bringing a gang of kids there next year.

bellapip

Hey Frada,

Not here to schlep anything, but I would be of the opinion in the current climate that if something is good and good value for money we should at least give it a try before we spud it,. LOL

Its fun, let the beard down and have a bit of fun.


Bella.

tc2010

puheen wrote: »

I did some work there and have to say it really does seem to be a great place for a kids day out. It was probably half to three quarters complete but it is a fine job and talking to some of the people involved there are some very good things to come when it is fully operational next spring. I think that in all fairness go have a look you may be surprised. I was a bit skeptical when I first went out there but came away fairly impressed by what I saw and will definetly be bringing a gang of kids there next year.

where is it?

Are there any crisp-themed rollercoasters?

hitman79

tc2010 wrote: »

where is it?

Ashbourne in Meath

puheen

It is in Kilbrew just North of Ashbourne on the N2. Couple of kms out turn left.
Almost certain it is signposted.

storm2811

Des wrote: »

Note to culchies.

Not ALL crisps are Tayto.

It's ridiculous that you refer to all kinds of crisps, King, Hunky Dory's, Walkers etc as "Tayto".

"Erra, gives a package a' King Tayto there Oisín" :rolleyes:

Oh ffs, who actually cares??
If I ask someone to get me a bag of taytos they ask me what kind, I would say hula hoops or hunky dorys or whatever.

I don't see the big deal, just because some people refer to all crisps as taytos doesn't make them some kind of uneducated moron who says "Erra".

thebman

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

I'm what would be called a culchie. I grew up in Mayo and go to college in Galway. I know lots of people from many different areas of the country from Donegal to Cork.

And I have NEVER heard anyone who talks that way. Everyone I have ever met calls crisps by their actual brand name. If they happen to be tayto they call them tayto. If they're walkers they call them walkers.

I'm utterly convinced that this idea that 'culchies call all crisps tayto' is nonsense of the highest order that Dubs believe solely because other Dubs have told them its the case.

Relax he can't find his way out of Dublin and feels the need to mock those who have seen outside of the dirty old town.

uncle-mofo

storm2811 wrote: »

Oh ffs, who actually cares??
If I ask someone to get me a bag of taytos they ask me what kind, I would say hula hoops or hunky dorys or whatever.

I don't see the big deal, just because some people refer to all crisps as taytos doesn't make them some kind of uneducated moron who says "Erra".

And to add to that I've never met anyone outside Dublin called Oisín.

Unpossible

Why can't we have the cool kinds of theme parks, like alton towers.

afcdave

@bella

Would you reckon this place is just for kids or worth a visit from 'bigger' kids too?

Thanks