The price of food in Ireland: North and South

Poorer economy is cheaper. Not a particular shock.

Bars in Belfast are often dearer than Dublin due to there being even less competition, though.

For convivence food and takeaways there is not much difference, grocery seems to be cheaper up north alright, and as another person said Belfast is every bit as expensive as Dublin for a night out. Belfast hotels are cheaper though

so it was a 'B' lol

I go to Belfast for work quite a bit and find supermarket (convenience store) prices to be much higher for buying lunch. Pubs and restaurant prices are also higher.

Thanks for that, edited to clarify. Had just been reading about the match tonight so it was in my head.

Any word on the price of 2 small bottles of coke in Belfast?

A B&B isn't food.

We drove up to Tescos in Newry a month ago and I couldn't get over the prices there. Drink that was on special offer was cheaper, I expected that with MUP, and some toiletries and pain medication was cheaper there. Bulk trays of soft drinks too because they're 24 cans vs 18 here. Everything else I looked at was on a par or more expensive than here.

Also their lagers tend to be a lower % than down here too ie. Carlsberg 4.3% here, 3.4 in Newry.

The bottles served in pubs are now 200ml not 250ml. They used to be 330 but these are few and far between now.

You're still not answering how much it was up North for the same drink?

Lots of pubs had changed to 330ml cans in recent years, but re-turn may have made that too much of a faff. Coke doesn't take back the bottles to wash and refill anymore so its debatable which is better for sustainability - glass recycling and aluminium recycling both use a lot of power, but glass is much heavier to transport.

I've been to a lot of pubs and have seen cans quite a bit. They still charge through the nose for them.

You're the one talking about B&B's, what has that got to do with food?

It meant cracking open two bottles of 250 ml coke. And he said, just to be sure, that means opening TWO bottles of coke and pouring it into a pint glass.

You discussed Cocoa Cola as above.

If you're comparing the the prices of Northern Ireland and Ireland, you gave the price of the drink in Ireland, what was the equivalent in NI? If you don't give that they cannot be compared.