"Irish" Products No Longer Made Here.

Aussie Sean · 26-03-2011 04:28PM #1

How many Irish products are no longer made here? Lyons tea and HB ice cream are both done by Unilever in the UK,Jacobs biscuits made in the UK and I noticed the other day that Charliville and Calvita Cheese are produced up North. Sign of the times I suppose,but I'm sure a lot of people buy them believing them to be Irish.

Hande hoche! · 26-03-2011 04:30PM

Tis the same with Boyne valley and Fruitfield marmelade.

Mint Sauce · 26-03-2011 04:34PM

Aussie Sean wrote: »

How many Irish products are no longer made here? Lyons tea and HB ice cream are both done by Unilever in the UK,Jacobs biscuits made in the UK and I noticed the other day that Charliville and Calvita Cheese are produced up North. Sign of the times I suppose,but I'm sure a lot of people buy them believing them to be Irish.

Can. Open. Worms. Everywhere.

CreepingDeath · 26-03-2011 04:37PM

irish-stew wrote: »

Can. Open. Worms. Everywhere.

Are you saying they put worms in our food ?

Mint Sauce · 26-03-2011 04:39PM

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Are you saying they put worms in our food ?

Only the canned varaity.

Aussie Sean · 26-03-2011 04:42PM

irish-stew wrote: »

Can. Open. Worms. Everywhere.

LOL,thought that might pop up.We can claim the Six Counties as much as we like,but when it comes to business it is the British Economy that benefits.

Mint Sauce · 26-03-2011 04:44PM

Aussie Sean wrote: »

LOL,thought that might pop up.We can claim the Six Counties as much as we like,but when it comes to business it is the British Economy that benefits.

You mean the UK Economy. Britians a seperate Island.

ejmaztec · 26-03-2011 04:49PM

Donegal Catch used to be Irish-owned, but then got bought out by the U.K.'s Northern Foods. I'm a bit confused as to the nationality of the dead fish.

Hande hoche! · 26-03-2011 04:51PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

Donegal Catch used to be Irish-owned, but then got bought out by the U.K.'s Northern Foods. I'm a bit confused as to the nationality of the dead fish.

Some are caught in Irish waters and some in New Zealand.

Colilfc · 26-03-2011 04:58PM

Golly Bars :pac:

squod · 26-03-2011 04:59PM

Dubarry shoes and fruit of the loom t-shirts AFAIK

Hande hoche! · 26-03-2011 05:01PM

squod wrote: »

Dubarry shoes and fruit of the loom t-shirts AFAIK

Interesting seems the shoes are now made in Portugal.

Aussie Sean · 26-03-2011 05:03PM

irish-stew wrote: »

You mean the UK Economy. Britians a seperate Island.

I stand corrected

Mike 1972 · 26-03-2011 05:04PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

Donegal Catch used to be Irish-owned, but then got bought out by the U.K.'s Northern Foods. I'm a bit confused as to the nationality of the dead fish.

Daftest thing I ever saw was fish caught in Scotland. Packed in Poland only to be shipped back to the UK and sold in a shop called "Iceland"

Do fish have nationality though I mean the waters in which they were caught are not nexessairly those in which they were spawned. They might even have been caught on the high seas.

PogMoThoin · 26-03-2011 05:05PM

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Some are caught in Irish waters and some in New Zealand.

Yeah, and some in Peru and Chile, none in Ireland, nothing to do with Ireland

Peruvian Catch sounds good tho

Hande hoche! · 26-03-2011 05:09PM

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Yeah, and some in Peru and Chile, none in Ireland, nothing to do with Ireland

Peruvian Catch sounds good tho

Catch was a poor choice of words but is some of their salmon not farmed in Ireland along with Scotland ?

iPlop · 26-03-2011 05:14PM

Aussie Sean wrote: »

How many Irish products are no longer made here? Lyons tea and HB ice cream are both done by Unilever in the UK,Jacobs biscuits made in the UK and I noticed the other day that Charliville and Calvita Cheese are produced up North. Sign of the times I suppose,but I'm sure a lot of people buy them believing them to be Irish.

The Jacobs biscuit lines were transferred not only to the UK but all over eastern europe.Certain biscuit lines went to Manchester and others went to Poland ,Slovakia and places like that, some stuff even went to Malta.Jacobs was safe when Danone owned them.

As soon as fruitfield took over they couldn't wait to outsource everything

mike65 · 26-03-2011 05:31PM

Waterford Crystal.....though to be fair I'm not sure how many consumers outside Ireland really knew where it was made so it being produced in Germany and Croatia means little really. Except for the loss of thousands of jobs here of course.

Stinicker · 26-03-2011 05:37PM

I heard recently they make Guinness in Nigeria, I lol'd!

iPlop · 26-03-2011 05:39PM

Stinicker wrote: »

I heard recently they make Guinness in Nigeria, I lol'd!

One of the biggest Guinness brewerys is in Nigeria and it's the only place left that they can advertise "Guinness is good for you"

mike65 · 26-03-2011 05:42PM

Stinicker wrote: »

I heard recently they make Guinness in Nigeria, I lol'd!

Welcome to 1962

ejmaztec · 26-03-2011 05:53PM

Ford cars:D

ejmaztec · 26-03-2011 05:56PM

The Kerryman newspaper, and I expect a lot more regional rags are printed in the North as well.

Another empty Tralee factory.

Corsendonk · 26-03-2011 06:01PM

Chef Sauce, both brown and red. Like the biscuits Fruitfield outsourced throughout Europe, Scots Clans too and Z Candy(Cool Pops etc) moved to Poland awhile back.

ballsymchugh · 26-03-2011 06:03PM

The Incredible Fridge wrote: »

One of the biggest Guinness brewerys is in Nigeria and it's the only place left that they can advertise "Guinness is good for you"

it is the biggest brewery alright. but that's guinness for the rest of the world. guinness is still brewed in dublin for irish and uk market. they closed their british brewery a few years ago.

shouldn't some of the things mentioned come under those laws that say certain things can only be made in the area that gives it's name to it, like champagne? stuff made anywhere else has to be called sparkling wine.

brightspark · 26-03-2011 06:05PM

"Erin Soup" AFAIK it's now made in Kent,

Erin gravy and some sauces might be still Irish made though.

suicide_circus · 26-03-2011 06:14PM

Sucra.
Sugar beet is no longer grown here and the processing plant closed. Its just a brand name now.

byhookorbycrook · 26-03-2011 06:27PM

Talks of re-opening one of the sugar plants.
Am I right in saying Galtee is no longer Irish?

Corsendonk · 26-03-2011 06:27PM

ballsymchugh wrote: »

shouldn't some of the things mentioned come under those laws that say certain things can only be made in the area that gives it's name to it, like champagne? stuff made anywhere else has to be called sparkling wine.

Yes your right but a group of producers need to apply for protection of the product and say what makes it unique. Ireland has only applied and been approved for 4 food products.

Corsendonk · 26-03-2011 06:31PM

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Talks of re-opening one of the sugar plants.
Am I right in saying Galtee is no longer Irish?

Wrong, they are still Dairygold, they tried selling the brand to the Kerry Group but I think the government blocked it. During the pork dioxins they found out that Galtee used imported Pork from Holland/Denmark.

brightspark · 26-03-2011 06:41PM

Corsendonk wrote: »

Yes your right but a group of producers need to apply for protection of the product and say what makes it unique. Ireland has only applied and been approved for 4 food products.

In the case of products like 'Charleville Cheese' and 'Erin soups' the producer owns the brand name anyway and would not actually benefit by having the production site limited to the original production facility (that's if it ever was!).

But I wonder does the 'Charleville cheese advert' with the people dancing on the floor making cheese contravene the ASAI rules by implying that it is made in Charleville? Perhaps a few complaints to the ASAI are needed.

"Irish" Products No Longer Made Here.

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