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Bargain Alerts - THE MEGATHREAD!!! - DON!! DON!!! DONNNNN!!!! *READ Mod Note in OP*
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dont think he meant that, i think he meant buying a tree grown locally.
yep (although i could walk upo the road and cut one down ) i choose to support my local guys and buy one grown a few miles from me (smug/ buy irish etc etc
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ednwireland wrote: »yep (although i could walk upo the road and cut one down ) i choose to support my local guys and buy one grown a few miles from me (smug/ buy irish etc etc)
good on you, a lot people don't think of the affect of not buying the irish produced version of an item for the sake of a small saving. Milk is one of them, I always try buy Irish and from southern based creameries if possible, we have enough milk of our own without buying anyone else's.0 -
dont think he meant that, i think he meant buying a tree grown locally.
Ya I know. It was meant tongue in cheekednwireland wrote: »yep (although i could walk upo the road and cut one down ) i choose to support my local guys and buy one grown a few miles from me (smug/ buy irish etc etc)good on you, a lot people don't think of the affect of not buying the irish produced version of an item for the sake of a small saving. Milk is one of them, I always try buy Irish and from southern based creameries if possible, we have enough milk of our own without buying anyone else's.
I totally agree on the buying Irish thing. However, sometimes you have to ask yourself WTF when it comes to price. Eg. last night I was in Dunnes (at least an Irish shop anyway:)) and wanted to get some Jam and Marmalade. This stuff from the real Irish food co is delicious and what I like to get. However I bought this every bit as nice high end product instead. Reason - - €3.29 v €2.29.
So how can a good premium Jam made in France and shipped all the way to Ireland be 30% cheaper than something made up the road? I put it down to greed. Sometimes the Irish stuff is sold on offer and I get it then. I generally don't mind spending a few pence more to get Irish products, but I'm afraid if difference is crazy, then I will be buying the import. Actually last night I bought Barrys tea bags for the first time ever in a defiant move from Lyons as I only found out last week that Lyons tea is no longer an Irish product but made in the UK. Barrys was a few cent more for the 80 bags, but its's Irish!0 -
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Ya I know. It was meant tongue in cheek
I totally agree on the buying Irish thing. However, sometimes you have to ask yourself WTF when it comes to price. Eg. last night I was in Dunnes (at least an Irish shop anyway:)) and wanted to get some Jam and Marmalade. This stuff from the real Irish food co is delicious and what I like to get. However I bought this every bit as nice high end product instead. Reason - - €3.29 v €2.29.
So how can a good premium Jam made in France and shipped all the way to Ireland be 30% cheaper than something made up the road? I put it down to greed. Sometimes the Irish stuff is sold on offer and I get it then. I generally don't mind spending a few pence more to get Irish products, but I'm afraid if difference is crazy, then I will be buying the import. Actually last night I bought Barrys tea bags for the first time ever in a defiant move from Lyons as I only found out last week that Lyons tea is no longer an Irish product but made in the UK. Barrys was a few cent more for the 80 bags, but its's Irish!
Real Irish Food Co. Jam's are only 2.20 in Tesco :P
Picked up a jar of raspberry yesterday
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going off topic, but
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale
Without reading all that, I know and understand what you mean. Maybe what we need to do though is get this thread back on topic and have a serious look at our economies of scale and get some more Irish bargins up here so we can all take advantage of them.
P.S. I don't know, but I'd be pretty sure Ikea are not shipping christmas trees all the way from Sweden to sell for 10 bob. For all we know, they come from up the road from ednwireland
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Ya I know. It was meant tongue in cheek
I totally agree on the buying Irish thing. However, sometimes you have to ask yourself WTF when it comes to price. Eg. last night I was in Dunnes (at least an Irish shop anyway:)) and wanted to get some Jam and Marmalade. This stuff from the real Irish food co is delicious and what I like to get. However I bought this every bit as nice high end product instead. Reason - - €3.29 v €2.29.
So how can a good premium Jam made in France and shipped all the way to Ireland be 30% cheaper than something made up the road? I put it down to greed. Sometimes the Irish stuff is sold on offer and I get it then. I generally don't mind spending a few pence more to get Irish products, but I'm afraid if difference is crazy, then I will be buying the import. Actually last night I bought Barrys tea bags for the first time ever in a defiant move from Lyons as I only found out last week that Lyons tea is no longer an Irish product but made in the UK. Barrys was a few cent more for the 80 bags, but its's Irish!
Wildly off topic here but, it'd be much cheaper to ship something like jam than fresh fruit to make the jam here, possibly the *berry and *currant jams are made with Irish fruit in season but the marmalade can't be. The rules re labeling are so poor that it's hard to believe what you think you are reading in most cases and a quick look (apologies in advance if I'm missing something ovbious here) at the Real Irish Food company's website doesn't seem to suggest that they grow their own/use exclusively Irish fruit.0 -
P.S. I don't know, but I'd be pretty sure Ikea are not shipping christmas trees all the way from Sweden to sell for 10 bob. For all we know, they come from up the road from ednwireland
There are plenty Nordic Christmas trees for sale in Ireland every year. I always ask where they come from before I buy, but two years ago I found it hard to buy an Irish one (in Greystones) and ended up with one that had come from Holland!
Last year the one I got had been grown in Roundwood, a much better outcome!0 -
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oh shush, it's just a few ot posts, sure it's what makes boards what it is.
Right, I'm off to make toast to spreak my delicious RealIrishFoodCo jam, which I bought in Tesco for a fantastically cheap price of €2.20 in Tesco, on top of.
So long as you rode to Tesco on your reasonably priced bicycle it's ok for this thread 0 -
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So long as you rode to Tesco on your reasonably priced bicycle it's ok for this thread
On the footpath, the whole 2km each way, with no lights, and I rode across the pelican crossings without looking while the little man was red and traffic lights were green, with my ipod on full blast.
No handed.
Because I'm good cyclist.0 -
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This stuff from the real Irish food co is delicious and what I like to get. However I bought this every bit as nice high end product instead. Reason - - €3.29 v €2.29.
I've never been impressed by the ingredients list on The Real Irish Food Company's jams and I wouldn't consider them on a par with the Bonne Maman ones. Follain's extra fruit jams, on the other hand, are great and certainly up there with Bonne Maman though they are up their in price too (in Tescos). Worth it though. I like jam.
There's not nearly enough discussion about jam in the cycling forum. I hope I've done my bit to help redress things 0 -
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PMSL, what the hell have I done bringing up Jam and tea. Actually, why don't we all meet up over christmas in a cycle shop new years sale and compare our pocket snacks to see who has the best jam sandwich. Does anyone bring a flask of tea with them on a spin instead of water?There's not nearly enough discussion about jam in the cycling forum. I hope I've done my bit to help redress things
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