Independent and shopping up north article

Ive had many a great night out in Belfast. One of my favourite cities due to the people. Great crowd.

kneemos

alias no.9 wrote: »

I'd never dream of buying my olives in a supermarket, farmers market all the way for me, you have to know where these things are coming from. I like to make my own humus too so the farmers market is my go to for chickpeas. As for sun dried tomatoes, support your local producers.

Olives are all imported?

kneemos wrote: »

Olives are all imported?

Haven't seen much sun here in Galway for drying tomatoes. Not many people producing chickpeas either?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

FortySeven wrote: »

I be had many a great night out in Belfast. One of my favourite cities die to the people. Great crowd.

I assume that's a typo.

Garrett Weak Klutz wrote: »

I assume that's a typo.

An unfortunate one. Cheers.

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murpho999

alias no.9 wrote: »

I'd never dream of buying my olives in a supermarket, farmers market all the way for me, you have to know where these things are coming from. I like to make my own humus too so the farmers market is my go to for chickpeas. As for sun dried tomatoes, support your local producers.

You do realise that not one single olive or chickpea in Ireland is grown here.

The "farmer" is selling you an imported product just like the supermarket?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

alias no.9 wrote: »

I'd never dream of buying my olives in a supermarket, farmers market all the way for me, you have to know where these things are coming from. I like to make my own humus too so the farmers market is my go to for chickpeas. As for sun dried tomatoes, support your local producers.

I suppose you buy your bananas and oranges direct from the farmer too.

Let's face it. With the exchange rate today, shopping is unfortunately more attractive in the North right now. Citing travel cost etc is all very well but many people live close to the border, or closer than to Dublin. The savings are certainly there at present but I like to spend locally myself even at a premium.

kneemos

Garrett Weak Klutz wrote: »

I suppose you buy your bananas and oranges direct from the farmer too.

Let's face it. With the exchange rate today, shopping is unfortunately more attractive in the North right now. Citing travel cost etc is all very well but many people live close to the border, or closer than to Dublin. The savings are certainly there at present but I like to spend locally myself even at a premium.

Actually saw a woman selling Bananas at a farmers market once.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

kneemos wrote: »

Actually saw a woman selling Bananas at a farmers market once.

As have I many times. It just proves the whole nonsense of the things.

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alias no.9

murpho999 wrote: »

You do realise that not one single olive or chickpea in Ireland is grown here.

The "farmer" is selling you an imported product just like the supermarket?

Did the post really need sarcasm tags?

alias no.9

kneemos wrote: »

Actually saw a woman selling Bananas at a farmers market once.

Now we're starting to get it. Some farmers markets have some local producers but anybody with a clue of what is in season and what can conceivably be produced in Ireland, even in polytunnels, will see the sham that is most farmers markets.

biko wrote: »

Unfortunately "shop local" for some people means to spend their money in foreign chains that happens to have local presence.

They go to Tesco, Lidl and Aldi instead of local Irish shops. In 10 year or less when the local shops are all killed by the major chains they will complain that "there is no local competition", "high street shops all the same" when in fact it was they themselves that helped kill small businesses.

I doubt anybody who uses the term "high street" would ever have buying Irish as a priority. As for buying in foreign chains this is 100% the fault of the gougers who run Ireland's largest retail chain, Super Valu. They have the economies of scale to easily compete with the Brits and Germans but the billionaire Musgrave family ( who also own Centra etc) would rather fleece Irish consumers. No price-conscious Irish shopper would do their regular shopping in Super Valu. As for the Apartheid lovers who own Dunnes Stores - some of us aren't going to forget what that family (and the cokehead, hooker-loving individual who ran the firm and now tries to present himself as affable) did. The idea of giving business to the average tax-avoiding, offshore-account holding super rich Irish firm simply because they're Irish never appealed to me. Equally, I would never shop in M&S because, aside from being all fur coat and no knickers, they buy next to nothing from Irish producers.

biko wrote: »

Get local eggs, bread, fish etc Only get from chains what you can't get from local farmer or shops.
Do the bulk of the veg shopping at farmer's markets.

This I agree with 100%. Well said.

Capt'n Midnight

kneemos wrote: »

Actually saw a woman selling Bananas at a farmers market once.

They are most likely Irish because they are manufactured in Ireland.

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Patww79 wrote: »

Yeah right. Like that is a real option.

It is for those of us who have enough knowledge of remedial geography to know that Belfast is in Ireland.

Specialun

That journo is known to be a stupid tool. He wrote article a while back about poker and gambling..it had zero facts and complete rubbish

I used to work in a freezer warehouse. Our role was to split pallets of imported meat and stack it half and half with Irish meat and then relabel it as Irish meat.

25kg blocks on pallets. 52% fat. Heading for McDonald's. Go figure.

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kneemos

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I doubt anybody who uses the term "high street" would ever have buying Irish as a priority. As for buying in foreign chains this is 100% the fault of the gougers who run Ireland's largest retail chain, Super Valu. They have the economies of scale to easily compete with the Brits and Germans but the billionaire Musgrave family ( who also own Centra etc) would rather fleece Irish consumers. No price-conscious Irish shopper would do their regular shopping in Super Valu. As for the Apartheid lovers who own Dunnes Stores - some of us aren't going to forget what that family (and the cokehead, hooker-loving individual who ran the firm and now tries to present himself as affable) did. The idea of giving business to the average tax-avoiding, offshore-account holding super rich Irish firm simply because they're Irish never appealed to me. Equally, I would never shop in M&S because, aside from being all fur coat and no knickers, they buy next to nothing from Irish producers.

This I agree with 100%. Well said.

Not sure I see any great advantage from buying in Irish owned stores either.
No idea what the Dunnes and MusGraves do with their profits but I imagine it's invested in similar areas as Tesco and Aldi.

stimpson

Deleted User wrote: »

Equally, I would never shop in M&S because, aside from being all fur coat and no knickers

I think you might be quite surprised with M&S. They actually have an extensive lingerie department and I'm fairly sure they don't sell fur.

Patww79 wrote: »

And it's not by the way. Islands are not countries (and Belfast is in the UK, it can't be in two countries)

Indeed. By the precise same thinking Dublin mustn't have been in Ireland before 6 December 1922, then. Ireland must have been invented in 1922.

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