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Bord Bia mark

  • 23-08-2020 7:40am
    #1
    Ngannou54
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭


    Hi with this whole Covid situation I've had time to think about how I shop for my groceries. I was shocked at how many brands I had been buying were in fact produced or came from Greece or Germany or UK (despite being marketed with an Irish flag). I'd like to help our national economy as a consumer. Is the Bord Bia mark the only way of knowing a product is genuinely Irish? Thanks


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  • #2
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,721 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Ngannou54 wrote: »
    Hi with this whole Covid situation I've had time to think about how I shop for my groceries. I was shocked at how many brands I had been buying were in fact produced or came from Greece or Germany or UK (despite being marketed with an Irish flag). I'd like to help our national economy as a consumer. Is the Bord Bia mark the only way of knowing a product is genuinely Irish? Thanks

    I just always read the details.

    Country of origin is what i look for.

    But.
    What you can do is some local research into farms selling their own produce. That’s really supporting both Irish and better your local economy. It takes a little bit of time but the benifet it well worth it.


  • #3
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Yeah origin I look for too. Plenty of so called irish producers out there with their company name on the product but when you check the origin thats where you catch them out.

    I find it an interesting part of my shopping, people must think I'm nuts when I'm in the fruit and veg Isle. I mistakenly purchased two heads of York cabbage that came from Spain last year. Father threw them in the bin when he read Spain and said I'm not eating that muck.


  • #4
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,807 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    I think most dicerning consumers don't pay too much attention to Bord Bia labels these days.


  • #5
    jimini0
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    Was in a filling station earlier. Looked in the freezer for chicken nuggets for the kids. Pick up a bag of them while waiting in line i read the label. It had an Irish flag BUT packaged in Ireland using chicken sourced from eu country. Back in the freezer it went.
    Packaging on products is very misleading. When you see an Irish flag on it you would think its an irish product.


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