Potato waffles in the US!!

punchdrunk

Hi guys, as we all know the way to a woman's Heart is via her stomach!
This particular woman loves potato waffles!

Is there anyone selling them online for delivery within the US? I was guessing that as they are frozen this could be tricky!!

Cheers

Ponster

If you mean a particular brand that you get in ireland then the answer is probably no. But waffle fries are available in a lot of supermarkets and are't a million miles from what you want.

silja

Do you mean potato farls?

Ponster

silja wrote: »

Do you mean potato farls?

No, I don't think so.

punchdrunk

Yeah that's them!!

ProudDUB

No way you'd be able to get them in the US. There is no way to ship them, and keep them frozen.

Websites such as http://www.foodireland.com/ have a wide variety of Irish food products that you can order on line, including some meat/dairy products. You order them as long as you agree to their policy on shipping perishable items that need to be kept chilled. But frozen items are impossible to ship.

gowley

ProudDUB wrote: »

No way you'd be able to get them in the US. There is no way to ship them, and keep them frozen.

birds eye is owned by an american company called pinnacle foods so i think you might be sorted

gowley

ProudDUB wrote: »

No way you'd be able to get them in the US. There is no way to ship them, and keep them frozen.

Websites such as http://www.foodireland.com/ have a wide variety of Irish food products that you can order on line, including some meat/dairy products. You order them as long as you agree to their policy on shipping perishable items that need to be kept chilled. But frozen items are impossible to ship.

frozen items are impossible to ship???????? where ie the logic for that. birds eye an irish product. lol.

Solair

gowley wrote: »

birds eye is owned by an american company called pinnacle foods so i think you might be sorted

Unfortunately, it's not as simple as that. Several companies have rights to the BirdsEye trademark and they're not all related.

Nor is BirdsEye an Irish product by any means. It's British / multi-national. Their HQ was in Grimsby for many, many years.

In Europe it was owned by Unilever from the 1930s until 2006 and was sold to a private equity group called Permira when Unilever was culling various parts of its huge empire.

In the USA it's owned by Pinnacle foods.

There are a few situations like that e.g. Persil is owned by Unilever in the UK, Ireland, France and NZ and it's owned by Henkel of Germany everywhere else.

You could always just make some mash and put it into a waffle iron?

gowley

Solair wrote: »

Unfortunately, it's not as simple as that. Several companies have rights to the BirdsEye trademark and they're not all related.

In Europe it was owned by Unilever from the 1930s until 2006 and was sold to a private equity group called Permira when Unilever was culling various parts of its huge empire.

In the USA it's owned by Pinnacle foods.

There are a few situations like that e.g. Persil is owned by Unilever in the UK, Ireland, France and NZ and it's owned by Henkel of Germany everywhere else.

where is your logig for frozen not being able to be shipped. there are hundreds of food products that come from thailand being sold in the freezers of irish supermarkets.

Solair

gowley wrote: »

where is your logig for frozen not being able to be shipped. there are hundreds of food products that come from thailand being sold in the freezers of irish supermarkets.

I'm not sure why you're addressing that question to me, I never mentioned it anything about frozen food not being shippable.

It's quite easy to ship, provide you've got an adequate economy of scale. For an individual shipping a couple of boxes of potato waffles, it would be very difficult to do as you can't just ship a frozen parcel by DHL / UPS etc too easily.

Then you've got the issue that BirdsEye is a trademark in the US, owned by another company so you wouldn't be able to market BirdsEye products there from someone else.

--- Your best bet would be to find another similar product, or make your own.

gowley

Solair wrote: »

I'm not sure why you're addressing that question to me, I never mentioned it anything about frozen food not being shippable.

It's quite easy to ship, provide you've got an adequate economy of scale. For an individual shipping a couple of boxes of potato waffles, it would be very difficult to do as you can't just ship a frozen parcel by DHL / UPS etc too easily.

Then you've got the issue that BirdsEye is a trademark in the US, owned by another company so you wouldn't be able to market BirdsEye products there from someone else.

--- Your best bet would be to find another similar product, or make your own.

apologies solair that was meant to be a reply to someone who stated earlier that you cant ship frozen food

scrawnyass

Ponster wrote: »

No, I don't think so.

Birds eye waffles and fried eggs.The shizzle

Solair

They do have waffle fries in the USA.

http://www.alexiafoods.com/products/potatoes/waffle-fries

Not quite the same, but you might be able to do something with them ..

ProudDUB

gowley wrote: »

where is your logig for frozen not being able to be shipped. there are hundreds of food products that come from thailand being sold in the freezers of irish supermarkets.

I am not saying that frozen foods can not be shipped ever. Of course they can if you have your own fleet of refrigerated containers/boats/planes/trucks etc etc. The product that the OP is looking for is not sold in the US. So it would have to be imported from Ireland by a company such as foodireland.com. The item would then be purchased by the OP from their website & shipped to the OP's home.

This is done via the US postal service and the likes of UPS & FedEx. Companies such as those do not offer a method to ship frozen foods safely & securely, as there would be all kinds of health and safety permutations involved. That is what I meant by their not being able to ship frozen goods. I was speaking in the context of a ordering from a company such as foodireland. Of course large companies can move frozen food products from A to B, but a small company such as foodireland couldn't ship frozen foods to their customers. It wouldn't be cost effective.

Ponster

OP the only frozen Irish food that I've seen here is Brennen's Bread.

dave2pvd

You need Waffle House.

WH will crave your potato waffle cravings.

coylemj

Just buy a waffle maker, vintage ones available here....

http://www.toastercentral.com/waffles.htm

New models here....

http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=289942

ProudDUB

Comparing a Waffle House waffle with a yummy Birds Eye waffle, is like comparing Barcelona FC with the lads having a kick about down the local park. There is no comparison.

Ruu

I am currently in the Midwest and got them from Food Ireland a while back (they were Green Isle brand), they pack them in a freezer box type thing and ship it 2 day UPS.

vicwatson

They're waffley versatile

Dr Turk Turkelton

If you are in NY there is numerous places to get them.
Butcher Block in Sunnyside for one.

spideog7

Hang on is making potato waffles as easy as putting mashed potatoes in a waffle iron? News to me... tasty delicious news if true!

Ponster

Cuchulainn1. wrote: »

Butcher Block in Sunnyside for one.

I was there a couple of weeks back but don't remember seeing them but then again I wasn't looking out for them either I suppose.

silja

You know, I forgot all about potato waffles until this thread.... yeah, used to love them with Heinz Baked Beans (baked beans are different here too... sweeter, I think?).

dave2pvd

ProudDUB wrote: »

Comparing a Waffle House waffle with a yummy Birds Eye waffle, is like comparing Barcelona FC with the lads having a kick about down the local park. There is no comparison.

ProudDUB, you better take that back!

You know it's not true

Capital punishment has been administered for less grievous utterings.

mikewest

silja wrote: »

You know, I forgot all about potato waffles until this thread.... yeah, used to love them with Heinz Baked Beans (baked beans are different here too... sweeter, I think?).

Heinz are still Heinz when you can get them although much more expensive. Thank god for Fresh N Easy

Dr Turk Turkelton

Ponster wrote: »

I was there a couple of weeks back but don't remember seeing them but then again I wasn't looking out for them either I suppose.

In the freezers in the back left corner of the shop.

OU812

http://harrietsblogwellington.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/potato-waffles/

vicwatson

gowley

ProudDUB wrote: »

I am not saying that frozen foods can not be shipped ever. Of course they can if you have your own fleet of refrigerated containers/boats/planes/trucks etc etc. The product that the OP is looking for is not sold in the US. So it would have to be imported from Ireland by a company such as foodireland.com. The item would then be purchased by the OP from their website & shipped to the OP's home.

This is done via the US postal service and the likes of UPS & FedEx. Companies such as those do not offer a method to ship frozen foods safely & securely, as there would be all kinds of health and safety permutations involved. That is what I meant by their not being able to ship frozen goods. I was speaking in the context of a ordering from a company such as foodireland. Of course large companies can move frozen food products from A to B, but a small company such as foodireland couldn't ship frozen foods to their customers. It wouldn't be cost effective.

well according to ruubot who is out there foofireland can ship them

ProudDUB

dave2pvd wrote: »

ProudDUB, you better take that back!

You know it's not true

Capital punishment has been administered for less grievous utterings.

I'd sooner eat dog food !

Can someone throw up the link to the FoodIreland page where you can order them? I just clicked on several of the tabs on their website (breakfast, other items, new items and a few others) but I couldn't find them. Ta.

gowley

ProudDUB wrote: »

I am not saying that frozen foods can not be shipped ever. Of course they can if you have your own fleet of refrigerated containers/boats/planes/trucks etc etc. The product that the OP is looking for is not sold in the US. So it would have to be imported from Ireland by a company such as foodireland.com. The item would then be purchased by the OP from their website & shipped to the OP's home.

This is done via the US postal service and the likes of UPS & FedEx. Companies such as those do not offer a method to ship frozen foods safely & securely, as there would be all kinds of health and safety permutations involved. That is what I meant by their not being able to ship frozen goods. I was speaking in the context of a ordering from a company such as foodireland. Of course large companies can move frozen food products from A to B, but a small company such as foodireland couldn't ship frozen foods to their customers. It wouldn't be cost effective.

just look at the website you quoted and they ship plenty of frozen foods. why do people state stuff that is completely untrue

ProudDUB

This is from FoodIreland's own website

As the temperatures heat up across the country during the summer months, we strongly advise our customers, who live outside of the two-day shipping area*, to select Next Day or Second Day air when shipping candy or chocolate covered cookies.

The reason for this is that we do not have any control over the handling of your order once it is handed over to UPS. UPS do NOT have any kind of refrigerated methods of transportation that we know of.

We will pack all chocolate orders in an insulated container and we will include ice packs. Orders containing chocolate will only ship Monday through Wednesday so that they do not sit in a hot warehouse over the weekend.

http://www.foodireland.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=SHIPPING&Store_Code=FI

Food Ireland will ship perishable food items, such as sausages and rashers that are ok going from A to B as long as they are kept cool with appropriate packing. I never said that they didn't. What they do not do (as far as I am aware) is ship frozen items that are shipped out frozen, and are still frozen when they arrive at their final destination, the customers home. They don't do this as they don't use a shipping company that has the refrigerated warehouses and trucks that you need to keep the items fully frozen.

I am totally open to being corrected on this, as I have family in the States who would love to be able to order these items. So if someone can show me link on the FoodIreland website where you can order items that are still frozen when they arrive, I'd be more than happy to munch on some humble pie.

Ruu

I ordered black pudding, rashers and waffles in one order. Ichose 2nd day air and got them two days from the order date. They were still frozen in the container and box, obviously if you are concerned that they will be in transit too long, choose a faster shipping method.

Dr Turk Turkelton

Ruubot2 wrote: »

I ordered black pudding, rashers and waffles in one order. Ichose 2nd day air and got them two days from the order date. They were still frozen in the container and box, obviously if you are concerned that they will be in transit too long, choose a faster shipping method.

A faster method than delivery by plane?
I cant see NASA sending the Challenger over to Ireland to pick up a dozen boxes of frozen waffles no matter how good they taste!

Ruu

Hilarious stuff, food Ireland are based in New York.

ProudDUB

Cuchulainn1. wrote: »

I cant see NASA sending the Challenger over to Ireland to pick up a dozen boxes of frozen waffles no matter how good they taste!

No, neither can I, seeing as it was one of the Space Shuttles that blew up !

[-0-]

I can't find the waffles on the site. Where are they?!?

silja

Yeah I have ordered frozen stuff from websites before, they are usually very careful with the way they package. I still wouldn't order June- August when it gets super hot here in Arkansas, but other than that you should be ok.

gowley

ProudDUB wrote: »

I am not saying that frozen foods can not be shipped ever. Of course they can if you have your own fleet of refrigerated containers/boats/planes/trucks etc etc. The product that the OP is looking for is not sold in the US. So it would have to be imported from Ireland by a company such as foodireland.com. The item would then be purchased by the OP from their website & shipped to the OP's home.

This is done via the US postal service and the likes of UPS & FedEx. Companies such as those do not offer a method to ship frozen foods safely & securely, as there would be all kinds of health and safety permutations involved. That is what I meant by their not being able to ship frozen goods. I was speaking in the context of a ordering from a company such as foodireland. Of course large companies can move frozen food products from A to B, but a small company such as foodireland couldn't ship frozen foods to their customers. It wouldn't be cost effective.

they clearly state on their website that they can ship frozen food. donegal catch is just one example. all you do is select next day air.

jack presley

I could be wrong here but aren't there zero potatoes in American waffles, i.e. the ones in every breakfast diner or Waffle House. They are 2 different things, just both happen to be waffle shaped and called waffles.

dave2pvd

jack presley wrote: »

I could be wrong here but aren't there zero potatoes in American waffles, i.e. the ones in every breakfast diner or Waffle House. They are 2 different things, just both happen to be waffle shaped and called waffles.

Correct.

Potato waffles are mostly a UK/IRL phenomenon.

punchdrunk

thanks for all the feedback folks, I'm so close yet so far!

not seeing them listed on the food Ireland site!

[-0-] wrote: »

I can't find the waffles on the site. Where are they?!?

likewise!

silja

It's possible that they are not available during the summer months. I know a German online business I occasionally buy from, and their frozen/ chilled section is severely restricted during the summer due to issues shipping in the heat, even with 2nd day air.

punchdrunk

silja wrote: »

It's possible that they are not available during the summer months. I know a German online business I occasionally buy from, and their frozen/ chilled section is severely restricted during the summer due to issues shipping in the heat, even with 2nd day air.

you could be right! I've emailed them anyway so I'll see what they say!

I'm flying over in august, I wonder couldI find a method of shipping some stuff in my suitcase?

spideog7

Unlike most frozen things potato waffles don't quickly go bad once they thaw. When I was in college we used to keep waffles in the fridge if we ran out room in the freezer, although it's harder to cook them in the toaster if they're not frozen.

OU812

Saw this over on lifehacker

MadsL

Or stop adding expense and unnecessary food miles to your crappy frozen food, and make fresh delicious real food.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/potato-waffles/

GradGirl27

Been in the states now 9 months and haven't seen any american equivalent to these but those pictures are making me crave them now!!! I mean they eat sweet waffles here for breakfast its gross but hey what we like and what they like are always going to differ. Theres a lot of similar kind of products and those waffle fries are kind of similar but they arent the exact same just have to do without im afraid. It's America though and they have EVERYTHING else you could ever want

Dr Turk Turkelton

Was in the Butcher Block in Sunnyside today and there are loads of Green Isle potato waffles in the freezer.They taste pretty much the same as birdseyes ones.

edit:just realised i mentioned this place itt already.Im not connected to it just helping with cravings!