Blaa gets protected status

Pinch Flat

A good news story for Waterford....

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/local-campaigners-secure-prestigious-protective-status-for-waterford-white-bread-rolls-29766929.html#!

Fridge

Every time I see a picture of those I just want to butter one and stuff it in my face.

mike65

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057086337

Wanderer2010

Cant beat the aul ham blaa with lashings of butter and ham, washed down with some lovely tay.....Jesus could I be any more local

Finnbar01

Pinch Flat wrote: »

A good news story for Waterford....

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/local-campaigners-secure-prestigious-protective-status-for-waterford-white-bread-rolls-29766929.html#!

Why do you think this is a good news story?

wellboytoo

Finnbar01 wrote: »

Why do you think this is a good news story?

Ffs are you playing semantics or just cranky?

Finnbar01

wellboytoo wrote: »

Ffs are you playing semantics or just cranky?

Do you actually know what semantics means?

Anyway, I don't get why this is a good news story? What difference does it make?

Pinch Flat

Finnbar01 wrote: »

Do you actually know what semantics means?

Anyway, I don't get why this is a good news story? What difference does it make?

yeah, whatever

mooseknunkle

Finnbar01 wrote: »

Do you actually know what semantics means?

Anyway, I don't get why this is a good news story? What difference does it make?

Its not good news,its great news!! the humble blaa that all us Waterfordonians have eaten for generations is finally getting recognised internationally..we should actually have a national blaa day for this its that important

The blaa being made in M&D's http://www.aspectphotography.net/blog/2011/11/the-waterford-blaa/

Dicky Pride

Finnbar01 wrote: »

Do you actually know what semantics means?

Anyway, I don't get why this is a good news story? What difference does it make?

The blaa has become a significant culinary commodity in Waterford, in the same way that Parma ham and Parmesan cheese in Italy. This ruling means that Waterford's bakers won't have to worry about blaas appearing all over ireland. They are the only people who will be able to make blaas now.

It's good news for many reasons, that being the obvious one...but the fact that the blaa has been internationally recognised is a great boost too.

wellboytoo

Finnbar01 wrote: »

Do you actually know what semantics means?

Anyway, I don't get why this is a good news story? What difference does it make?

the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. The two main areas are logical semantics, concerned with matters such as sense and reference and presupposition and implication, andlexical semantics, concerned with the analysis of word meanings and relations between them.

Yes I do actually, I presumed you were arguing whether this story could be construed as just a newspaper article or a piece of good news, or you were just plain cranky there is another answer I suppose but boards rules prevents me from pointing it out.

STIG83

Bought some today, going to have them later when I get home from work with ham and heaps of butter.,

An Coilean

So, where do you think does the best Blaa in Waterford?

Wanderer2010

An Coilean wrote: »

So, where do you think does the best Blaa in Waterford?

Has to be Blaa Boy down near the Mercy school, absolutely divine and Michael will fill it with ham/cheese etc for a lovely snack. I never got the love for Hickeys bread or blaas to be honest, a bit thrown together for my taste.

tombliboo83

An Coilean wrote: »

So, where do you think does the best Blaa in Waterford?

I get mine in the corner shop..crusty ones for me and soft for the daughter.

.Henry Sellers.

I'd usually get Blaa's down the corner shop too because its handy but the nicest Blaa's I've eaten we're from Greer's cake shop in Michael street, Jesus I'd love one now.

Jason Todd

I'd love one now too. A nice fluffy soft one, but I'd cut it open and grill the inside for just under a minute, have it crispy but still soft, then the butter would melt on it, nice wedge of red cheddar and some ham... Jaysus, I'm starting to sound like the food version of 50 Shades of Grey.

Don't know whether I'm hungry or horny now :pac::pac::pac:

mooseknunkle

An Coilean wrote: »

So, where do you think does the best Blaa in Waterford?

Texaco garage on Military road at 6am have the nicest crusty blaas ive tasted not sure which bakery they are from though

wellboytoo

Hickeys bakery for me.

Pinch Flat

wellboytoo wrote: »

Hickeys bakery for me.

Yep same here, will be popping in for 6 crusty and 6 floury the next weekend I'm down. :pac:

opti76

so basically there baps.

Dicky Pride

*they're

And no, they're not.

.Henry Sellers.

opti76 wrote: »

so basically there baps.

You're some bap.

Potential-Monke

opti76 wrote: »

so basically there baps.

That's what i called them when i first came to Waterford. I reckon you need to be from Waterford to truly get the fuss. Most of the time they're too floury for my liking.

hardybuck

I've noticed that the Blaa has been making an appearance in Dublin restaurants recently.

One place toasts them as part of a lunchtime sandwich effort, another was using a 'Waterford Blaa Bap' as a burger bun.

wellboytoo

hardybuck wrote: »

I've noticed that the Blaa has been making an appearance in Dublin restaurants recently.

One place toasts them as part of a lunchtime sandwich effort, another was using a 'Waterford Blaa Bap' as a burger bun.

Had pulled pork in a Waterford blaa in Gotham City off Grafton Street the other dsy. Nice to see it.

hardybuck

wellboytoo wrote: »

Had pulled pork in a Waterford blaa in Gotham City off Grafton Street the other dsy. Nice to see it.

I got the burger with a blaa bun in Gotham as well. Delicious.

marlin vs

opti76 wrote: »

so basically there baps.

No they are Blaa's.

Sulla Felix

Never had one, don't particularly like overly floury baps, so sounds like I mightn't like these either?

I am pie

Are they significantly different to the sort of baps they have in Belfast, imaginatively titled Belfast Baps. At first glance the belfast bap looks lack a blaa with a slightly darker or burnt top.....which is the part I like least in the Belfast bap.

Intrigued.

wellboytoo

They are mainly different in that there are no preservatives added so its an early morning eat or they are stale, a kinda one shot job, no 7 day shelf life.

Pinch Flat

wellboytoo wrote: »

They are mainly different in that there are no preservatives added so its an early morning eat or they are stale, a kinda one shot job, no 7 day shelf life.

They also go stale as soon as you cross the bridge into Ferrybank:pac:

MRnotlob606

harneys blaas ftw

Sulla Felix

wellboytoo wrote: »

They are mainly different in that there are no preservatives added so its an early morning eat or they are stale, a kinda one shot job, no 7 day shelf life.

So not much potential for marketing them outside the county then? Why did they go for protected status then, isn't it usually to protect the commercial export potential of foodstuffs?

hardybuck

I asked the woman running one of the restaurants in Dublin how they were getting them up in light of their shelf life.

She advised that they were coming up half-baked Cuisine de France style.

hardybuck

Sulla Felix wrote: »

Why did they go for protected status then, isn't it usually to protect the commercial export potential of foodstuffs?

As much of anything, to give the protection that's eluded to in the name. You don't want other bakeries claiming to be producing blaas when they are actually making replica products.

Sulla Felix

Was that a problem previously? I know with say, cornish pasties, it was, because there were factories outside of cornwall trading on the name. I've never seen a blaa for sale though.

hardybuck

hardybuck wrote: »

As much of anything, to give the protection that's eluded to in the name. You don't want other bakeries claiming to be producing blaas when they are actually making replica products.

Similar products were popping up, aside from the obviously similar baps. I presume they wanted to distinguish themselves from these products, make sure nobody else was claiming to make blaas now or in the future, and also generate publicity.

It's a mark of prestige as well don't forget, and recognises the craft of the bakers.

Jesus Wept

breadrolls are claaa to be fair.

marlin vs

hardybuck wrote: »

I asked the woman running one of the restaurants in Dublin how they were getting them up in light of their shelf life.

She advised that they were coming up half-baked Cuisine de France style.

Well done now you have the point.

Paco Rodriguez

Learned to bake them in Palmerstown. Were lovely with rocket, prosciutto and relish! Having a great laugh with my Dublin work colleagues about it!

My lecturer said they are not made in trad fashion......that they should be baked individually and not 'joined together' as sold in many Waterford bakeries......ie you get a batch of six and you peel them off eachother....

JaneDoe111

Its a marketing ploy and a good one...restaurants, shops etc can push the blaa as a local delicacy!

marlin vs

Paco Rodriguez wrote: »

My lecturer is a dope

My lecturer,Ohh holy Jasus Boy.Fixed it for you.What the hell would a person from outside Waterford know about a Blaa.

fenris

The place on Stephens Green is called Hatch & Sons and they seem to have proper blaas, I went in there for lunch one day and they thought I was mad because I didn't want them to toast it, I just wanted a blaa and didn't are to much about the filling.

Went in to a restaurant in Greystones where they had "Wicklow Lamb burger on a Waterford Blaa", happy days I thought, but no, when I asked where they got the blaas I found out that they came in once or twice a week from some bakery in blanch and were kept in the freezer until they were needed, tasted like it too, dried out and crumbly, would have been better off with Bundy's from tesco.

I used to like the high blaas, I think that they came from Walsh's back when the hardest decision of the day was to decide on which of the 5 different type of blaa that they had in the canteen in the glass for breakfast.

johnnykilo

The Donnybrook Fair chain in Dublin is another place that is selling "Waterford Blaas". I'd be amazed if they were actually from Waterford however. Anyway personally I think this is good news; a foodstuff that's synonymous with Waterford (and hence Waterford) has been give a bit of publicity. How bad!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ugLNB0THLQ

mooseknunkle

Blaas are being sold in Dubai now

http://www.independent.ie/life/travel/ireland/the-waterford-blaa-now-available-in-dubai-30762436.html

100,000 blaas are made in Waterford each week and long may it continue