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Rashers?

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  • #32
    jackiebaron
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    Columc wrote: »
    Was over in America last year. After maybe 3 weeks, you settle in and want to have that taste of home. Went up the the house mate and asked "Where would you get a nice pack of rashers" Que the strange look he gave. Took like 5 minutes trying to describe what I was looking for, ended up saying **** it and getting the streaky bacon... not the same :(

    The bacon you get in America is complete crap. Not a molecule of meat on the things. Only good for sticking on a cheeseburger. Might as well be eating scratchings.
    Gimme a Brennan's Bread and Galtee Rasher toasted rasher sambo with chef sauce and a steaming mug of Barry's anyday. Breakfast of champions. America, yez can stuff your vomitous pancakes and maple syrup up your holes.


  • #33
    jackiebaron
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    Fitzcaraldo wrote: »
    Nope - that was Gnasher - he had a pet pig called rasher though.


    Ya dopey pig!


  • #34
    Dr. Feelgood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 115 ✭✭Dr. Feelgood


    so what are the best rashers? and how do you cook them so the fat crisps up just the right amount?


  • #35
    PaddyBomb
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    Dr. Feelgood wrote: »
    so what are the best rashers? and how do you cook them so the fat crisps up just the right amount?

    Anyone elses mouth water reading this?


  • #36
    Banned Account
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    Dr. Feelgood wrote: »
    so what are the best rashers? and how do you cook them so the fat crisps up just the right amount?


    Fermanagh black bacon and grill them till you get crackling ... yummmmm


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  • #37
    Run_to_da_hills
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    I hate American Bacon. :mad:


  • #38
    TPD
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    I love streaky bacon when I can get it. Might be a bit sickening all the time though.


  • #39
    A V A
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    rashers have always been the Irish way and slang, from where i half grew up between summer hill/south circular road and blanch , everybody i have ever spoken to or had a general conversation with have sad rashers not bacon!! its great with all the foreign nationals in ireland but sometimes i think to my self the irish way of life and the slang is going slowly out the window!! even now it in blanch some foreign people in a deli or behind a meat/poultry bar don't understand you , even in a butchers and things alike!


    your were defo right in using the word rashers :) she must of been new to the job becuase i hear nothing but "rashers and sausages and sum brown/red sauce der love " hahaha


  • #40
    pickarooney
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    What's the confusion? They are rashers of bacon just like you have slices of toast and glasses of milk.

    Apparently 'rasher' is a type of fish in North America.


  • #41
    BaRcOe
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    jackiebaron wrote: »
    Gimme a Brennan's Bread and Galtee Rasher toasted rasher sambo with chef sauce and a steaming mug of Barry's anyday. Breakfast of champions. America, yez can stuff your vomitous pancakes and maple syrup up your holes.


    CHEF? Are you Serious? HEINZ all the way!!


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055997755


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  • #42
    Pace2008
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    Bad and all as we might think Ireland is, count yourself lucky you live in the only country in the world that has good milk and rashers.


  • #43
    Wazdakka
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    Brown sauce is far superior to ketchup on a rasher sambo..

    Reggae reggae sauce is always the preferred option.


    That is all...


  • #44
    NoHornJan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭NoHornJan


    Angels on Horseback is the way go...

    Be sure they are Irish oysters, though...


  • #45
    Procasinator
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    According to an dictionaries I look at the place of origin is unknown. Been around since the 16th century, however.

    http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=rasher


  • #46
    rossie1977
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    here is what i don't understand, ok we call em rashers and the yanks/brits/aussies etc call them bacon, fair enough but what do other countries call what we call bacon then??


  • #47
    Sergeant
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    I have seen the word rasher written on plenty of menus in greasy spoons in London, Bath etc.


  • #48
    pickarooney
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    As in bacon and cabbage? That's also bacon. Why is so hard for people to understand that the meat is called bacon and that a slice of this meat is called a rasher?


  • #49
    Banned Account
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    As in bacon and cabbage? That's also bacon. Why is so hard for people to understand that the meat is called bacon and that a slice of this meat is called a rasher?


    "Can I haz a rasher of bacon please good sir."


    "Sorry bud, a what? I haven't a rashers what you're on about"


  • #50
    chosen1
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    Sergeant wrote: »
    I have seen the word rasher written on plenty of menus in greasy spoons in London, Bath etc.
    Yea seen it plenty of times too across the water. Usually called a rasher of bacon. Have seen turkey rashers on sale too, probably meaning it refers to a slice of meat


  • #51
    NoHornJan
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    My OH calls thinly sliced rashers cats ears ...


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  • #52
    bonerm
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    rossie1977 wrote: »
    here is what i don't understand, ok we call em rashers and the yanks/brits/aussies etc call them bacon, fair enough but what do other countries call what we call bacon then??

    Sounds like a Seinfeld bit (were it not for all the mentions of bacon of course).


  • #53
    Rabies
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    I miss Irish rashers.
    Bacon just isn't the same :(

    Streaky bacon = sadness


  • #54
    A V A
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    Rabies wrote: »
    I miss Irish rashers.
    Bacon just isn't the same :(

    Streaky bacon = sadness

    i second that


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