Food from other cultures which you like and get here

Specialun

I love polish meat. Espically the kolbassa sausages. The shop also has Milka biscuits which are savage..and then also have white kit kats which i can never find in irish shops.btw I know kit kat doesnt really count as a different cultures foodWell AH is there any food from different cultures you like that you can buy here

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

coffee flavoured milk

used to be able to get it in shops here a few years ago but all of a sudden it just dissapeared

i guess no one but me liked it

Wacker The Attacker

Superquin sausages, kerrygold butter, batch loaf and a nice drop of scald.

with a bar of cadburys to follow


beat that other cultures

(p.s i forgot tayto, corned beef, and stew)

Shenshen

Ritter Sport chocolate. You can get one or two kinds of it here sometimes, but nowhere near the enormous variety I'd be used to from home. So I regularly get my mum to send some over.

Same goes for jams. Too little choice here
And I do love rosehip jam.

DrumSteve

They really don't serve poutine in enough places here.

AnonoBoy

Pizza is quite nice.

Pasta.

Hamburgers.

All lovely really and freely available for some time now due to trade routes.

MadsL

Specialun wrote: »

I love polish meat.

Have we not made any jokes about this yet? For shame AH.

DrumSteve

MadsL wrote: »

Have we not made any jokes about this yet? For shame AH.

He likes to polish meat?

Is that the joke?

dodderangler

DrumSteve wrote: »

He likes to polish meat?

Is that the joke?

No he likes polish sausage!
Kinda in the sentence

The Backwards Man

Corned beef. Irish pubs across the globe have it, you never see it here though.

Lawrence1895

German beer from the tab...I'm here for 9 years, never got any

jimgoose

Spam. England's greatest contribution to the culinary art since the beef'n'ale pie. Loves it fried, I does. Mmmm, angioplasty... :cool:

uch

Chicken Balls, sweet & sour sauce and Chips after a feed of Gargle on a Sunday afternoon

The One Who Knocks

Anything mexican/italian etc.

Muise...

sushi sashimi sushi sushi - even the names sound like a cute little pixie shushing a kitten.

Madam

Roquefort cheese - you can buy it here but it doesn't taste the same(like most things from abroad).

Herb Powell

Lars1916 wrote: »

German beer from the tab...I'm here for 9 years, never got any

Presume you meant tap, Erdinger and Paulaner are all over the place in Ireland.

Lawrence1895

Herb Powell wrote: »

Presume you meant tap, Erdinger and Paulaner are all over the place in Ireland.

Sorry, I meant 'tap' indeed

What about a decent German Lager, such as Warsteiner or Krombacher? Or 'Diebels Alt' (even if it's not a Lager, but very yummy)

hfallada

In fairness Irish food might be expensive but its incredible. You go the UK and the sausages are ****, you go to Germany and the butter is inedible ( the most popular butter in German is Irish made Kerrygold), you go to Italy and you miss a good burger.

The only food I miss, is Irish food on holidays. You can never beat Kerrygold or Irish beef.

Shenshen

Lars1916 wrote: »

Sorry, I meant 'tap' indeed

What about a decent German Lager, such as Warsteiner or Krombacher? Or 'Diebels Alt' (even if it's not a Lager, but very yummy)

Meh, keep the Warsteiner, but if you can find Radeberger on tap anywhere, do let me know.

biko

Sushi
Kebab
Meatballs

Ush1

Persian kebab from Zaytoon. Even tastes great sober.

Muise...

hfallada wrote: »

In fairness Irish food might be expensive but its incredible. You go the UK and the sausages are ****, you go to Germany and the butter is inedible ( the most popular butter in German is Irish made Kerrygold), you go to Italy and you miss a good burger.

The only food I miss, is Irish food on holidays. You can never beat Kerrygold or Irish beef.

this sounds like you: http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2013/11/03/foreign-milk-tastes-horrible-agrees-everyone/

Shenshen

hfallada wrote: »

In fairness Irish food might be expensive but its incredible. You go the UK and the sausages are ****, you go to Germany and the butter is inedible ( the most popular butter in German is Irish made Kerrygold), you go to Italy and you miss a good burger.

The only food I miss, is Irish food on holidays. You can never beat Kerrygold or Irish beef.

Well, if you can get butter in Ireland.
For some reason the Irish seem to be mostly content with "dairy spreads", to the point of even calling them butter.
I can honestly say I'd never before tasted anything so vile.

I'm not keen on either sausages nor burgers, so can't comment on that.

April O Neill

Shenshen wrote: »

Ritter Sport chocolate. You can get one or two kinds of it here sometimes

Ah now, you can get more than one or two types of it in Ireland. You'd regularly see 5+ varieties of it in shops here, or two or three at the very least.

Captain Farrell

hfallada wrote: »

In fairness Irish food might be expensive but its incredible. You go the UK and the sausages are ****, you go to Germany and the butter is inedible ( the most popular butter in German is Irish made Kerrygold), you go to Italy and you miss a good burger.

The only food I miss, is Irish food on holidays. You can never beat Kerrygold or Irish beef.

You must be kidding, a Cumberland Sausage beats any of the crap Irish ones any day of the week.

Irish beef takes some beating though.

Can pick up some great veg from some of the ethnic shops though, love me a bit of Okra.

Can't get enough exotic meats in Ireland. No zebra, ostrich, kangaroo or crocodile. Usually being them back with me from trips to the UK(Waitrose, how amazing you are...)

uch

Cumberland sausages taste like a mix of Sawdust and dog shíte

Lawrence1895

Shenshen wrote: »

Meh, keep the Warsteiner, but if you can find Radeberger on tap anywhere, do let me know.

Do you know this one here? :cool:

http://www.brinkhoffs.de/switch

Rud

I love the Brazilian drink Guarana which is available here

131spanner

Fahitas with a BBQ powder, mad for them.
The usual pizza's, pasta, burgers.

Madam

You can buy fresh ostrich in Ireland - there's a farm that breeds them in Donegal(nice if you can get it). Cumberland sausages are my favourite (the big curved one's that is:) but not as good as a nice Lorne slice on a roll in the morning).

April O Neill

Captain Farrell wrote: »

You must be kidding, a Cumberland Sausage beats any of the crap Irish ones any day of the week.

Nah, sausages in the UK are terrible, wherever you buy them. Crap Irish ones? There are loads of places to buy nice sausages here.

Hope you're joking about zebra meat, that wouldn't happen! If you think you've eaten zebra meat, I'd say stop smoking what you've been smoking. :pac:

Captain Farrell

April O Neill wrote: »

Nah, sausages in the UK are terrible, wherever you buy them. Crap Irish ones? There are loads of places to buy nice sausages here.

Hope you're joking about zebra meat, that wouldn't happen! If you think you've eaten zebra meat, I'd say stop smoking what you've been smoking. :pac:

http://www.exoticmeats.co.uk/zebra-meat.html says you are very wrong....


Also, wrong about the sausages. When I moved to Ireland over 10 years ago I was told how amazing the sausages are. They're a tasteless mess of salt and rusk. Rank.

Plazaman

Proper spanish tomatoes (or any tomatoes grown in a warm climate as they seem to taste sweeter). Great quick recipie for a light snack which is from Greece and I make a lot during the summer.

2 x thick slices of brown bread (actually soda bread is lovely)
Pour Olive Oil on bread
Slice up a large tomato and put on bread
Crumble Feta Cheese over it
Sprinked dried oregano over allonnomnomnomom

Aaaaallll the foods.

April O Neill

Captain Farrell wrote: »

http://www.exoticmeats.co.uk/zebra-meat.html says you are very wrong....

Gawd, people eat zebra. How awful. Not something I'd be proud of, TBH.

Captain Farrell wrote: »

Also, wrong about the sausages. When I moved to Ireland over 10 years ago I was told how amazing the sausages are. They're a tasteless mess of salt and rusk. Rank.

In this case not wrong at all.

Buy good quality Irish sausages and they absolutely *annihilate* any you will get in the UK. This is from extensively sampling both.

You seem to be talking about the crappy sausages you get in supermarkets here. Well, duh, what did you expect?

Whereas, no matter the source of the sausages I bought in the UK, from supermarket (inc. Waitrose) to various butchers shops, they were all tasteless. And I lived in pig country. (Geographical location can effect greatly the quality of produce in the UK)

Seriously, UK sausages, crap in the extreme.

Another fun fact - good sausages *need* a certain amount of rusk. It's what makes them sausages. You hear people banging on about their 90%+ pork sausages. Er, yeah, they're just cylindrical burgers...

Captain Farrell

April O Neill wrote: »

Gawd, people eat zebra. How awful. Not something I'd be proud of, TBH.




In this case not wrong at all.

Buy good quality Irish sausages and they absolutely *annihilate* any you will get in the UK. This is from extensively sampling both.

You seem to be talking about the crappy sausages you get in supermarkets here. Well, duh, what did you expect?

Whereas, no matter the source of the sausages I bought in the UK, from supermarket (inc. Waitrose) to various butchers shops, they were all tasteless. And I lived in pig country. (Geographical location can effect greatly the quality of produce in the UK)

Seriously, UK sausages, crap in the extreme.

In your opinion. I think it depends on what you were brought up with. In over 40 years on this planet I'vce tried sausages from all over, and honestly feel that irish are the worst, and German are the best, with british somewhere in the top to middle range. And yes, I buy mine from butchers, usually organic ones(the missus loves her organic stuff...)

And what's wrong with eating Zebra? It's lovely. I've also had ostrich, kangaroo, crocodile, dog, a selection of insects, snake and squirrel in my time.

All i am missing is the Giant Panda, but that's my ambition. Lovely tasty panda.

lertsnim

Chorizo is my most favourite thing about Spain

April O Neill

Captain Farrell wrote: »

In your opinion.

No shít.

Captain Farrell wrote: »

All i am missing is the Giant Panda, but that's my ambition. Lovely tasty panda.

Don't worry, Waitrose will be soon be stocking it for the self-conscious social climbers to cream themselves over.

lertsnim

April O Neill wrote: »

Gawd, people eat zebra. How awful. Not something I'd be proud of, TBH.

Would you eat beef? The indians wouldn't be proud of that

The question I want to ask is, why would you be proud of eating anything? Food is food.

Plazaman

Plazaman wrote: »

Proper spanish tomatoes (or any tomatoes grown in a warm climate as they seem to taste sweeter). Great quick recipie for a light snack which is from Greece and I make a lot during the summer.

Try piccolo tomatoes, usually grown in Ireland, they're the yummiest.

timthumbni

Gravy chip, pea and onion - anything Chinese really. :-)

MonstaMash

Captain Farrell wrote: »

Can't get enough exotic meats in Ireland. No zebra, ostrich, kangaroo or crocodile. Usually being them back with me from trips to the UK(Waitrose, how amazing you are...)

http://www.organicfoodsireland.com/gourmet_game.php

April O Neill

lertsnim wrote: »

Would you eat beef? The indians wouldn't be proud of that

The question I want to ask is, why would you be proud of eating anything? Food is food.

Well, this is it, but some people seem to wear trying unusual meats as a badge of honour. Strange, but there ya go!

As to why we shouldn't eat them? As of now, most subspecies of zebra *aren't* endangered but that can go south quite quickly, especially for species which aren't farmed specifically and who live in geographically harsh areas of the world.

salacious crumb

Deleted User wrote: »

Aaaaallll the foods.

I concur.

salacious crumb

I've had ostrich, kangaroo and crocodile in Dublin. Tante Zoe's and the Aussie BBQ to be precise. Haven't had zebra, but I regularly buy horse steaks from Temple Bar food market.

Ihatecuddles

Lychees!

Ilyana 2.0

I love manchego cheese, chorizo, serrano ham and paella but they're not really available here (except the chorizo).

Mexican food is lovely too, and Indian. Shame that it's hard to get the former outside Dublin, and the latter is so expensive.

Ihatecuddles

salacious crumb wrote: »

I've had ostrich, kangaroo and crocodile in Dublin. Tante Zoe's and the Aussie BBQ to be precise. Haven't had zebra, but I regularly buy horse steaks from Temple Bar food market.

I absolutely love crocodile. Its so good. My boyfriend loves kangaroo, I find it too chewy or something.

salacious crumb

mauzo! wrote: »

I absolutely love crocodile. Its so good. My boyfriend loves kangaroo, I find it too chewy or something.

Crocodile is quite tasty, but it tastes just like swordfish to me :pac:

P_1

Currywurst, it's alright making it homemade but I'd love to find a takeaway selling it or even a currywurst van