Irish chicken is fresher and better quality - please buy Irish

Pompey Magnus · 02-11-2011 03:28AM

KeithAFC wrote: »

Every farmer in Ulster is Irish? Gosh..

Not all farmers in Ulster are Irish, I'm sure there are a few English and Scots with farms there too, most Ulster farmers are Irish though.

norrie rugger · 02-11-2011 03:33AM

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Northern IRELAND isn't foreign. The clue is in the name.

The money goes to the UK treasury. Yes it is foreign.
Does not matter that the UK sends money back into its own land. It is UK based and they are UK farmers

Cavehill Red · 02-11-2011 03:39AM

norrie rugger wrote: »

The money goes to the UK treasury. Yes it is foreign.
Does not matter that the UK sends money back into its own land. It is UK based and they are UK farmers

It helps if you read the whole thread.

norrie rugger · 02-11-2011 03:41AM

Cavehill Red wrote: »

It helps if you read the whole thread.

helps if you let people read the whole thread and come back to their post.
I buy Irish chicken (Free Range). I avoid British chicken though

Chuck Stone · 02-11-2011 03:46AM

I refuse to eat Muslim chickens.

kowloon · 02-11-2011 05:20AM

I tend to be more concerned with welfare than buying Irish.
Choosing locally would be next in line.

Most wouldn't care less either way as long as it's cheap.

uberalles · 02-11-2011 11:44AM

Ste_D wrote: »

If chicken can be imported from Thailand for 1/5th the price then its not hard to see why the Irish farmers are not doing well.

They have low wages and questionably low standards and its 6+ days older when it gets here!

We have very few rendering plants left here. The super markets wont pay more yet the fuel bills for gas etc are rising year on year. Shame if we lost our Chicken farming.

Most of the imports end up with no label on it. Sandwich bars, restaurants etc . (no one asks where are your chickens sourced there)

Dyr · 02-11-2011 12:10PM

One thing I remember out being out in Asia is that the chicken actually tasted like...chicken. Unlike that bland white meat that passes for chicken in ireland

Wertz · 02-11-2011 12:19PM

Only ever buy fresh whole raw chickens... how anyone can complain about the price (usually €5-6 a pop) for a medium sized bird is beyond me.
I mean for just under an hour's work at minimum wage rates, you can have something that took a month or more's work and feeding to produce, never mind packaging it and making a profit (which I have to think many poultry farmers are not, due to supermarket price pressure).

Like someone else said, it's most likely that the foreign chicken in question is used in bulk catering, frozen/chilled breaded portions, and in fast food supply chains.
All that asian stuff is also pumped with water before it's frozen to bulk the weight and you'll know it when you taste it because it doesn't have anywhere close to the flavour of Irish poultry...

Logical Fallacy · 02-11-2011 12:27PM

I can't understand why anyone would buy meat in a Supermarket, it's always poor quality and terribly priced. You local butcher is a much better bet.

laoch na mona · 02-11-2011 12:33PM

we buy irish and it works out cheap
supervalue has the best meat and always has an offer tesco are good to

laoch na mona · 02-11-2011 12:33PM

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

. You local butcher is a much better bet.

much dearer as well

RangeR · 02-11-2011 12:37PM

smk89 wrote: »

No we aren't willing to pay more. We just aren't given a choice. LIDL and tesco both give no options of non Irish chicken.

You ARE given a choice. You have a choice to purchase your meat in your local butcher rather than the big multi's. You just CHOOSE not to.

Fratton Fred · 02-11-2011 12:43PM

People always want to buy cheaper and this will mean the producers sourcing cheaper produce.

If you buy a made in Ireland ready meal, sandwich or even sliced meat, it is practically a cert that the chicken did not come from Ireland.

This is mainly due to cost, but also volume, the Irish farmers can't produce enough to keep the food factories supplied.

Lord Trollington · 02-11-2011 12:43PM

smk89 wrote: »

No we aren't willing to pay more. We just aren't given a choice. LIDL and tesco both give no options of non Irish chicken.

There are far more shops out there than Lidl and Tesco believe it or not.

Broaden your horizons a little.

bamboozle · 02-11-2011 12:51PM

Lord Trollington wrote: »

There are far more shops out there than Lidl and Tesco believe it or not.

Broaden your horizons a little.

if we want to do more for Irish producers in general then avoiding shopping in Tesco is a good starting point.

Local butchers for meat, although superquinn always have a good meat counter.

Fratton Fred · 02-11-2011 12:51PM

Bambi wrote: »

One thing I remember out being out in Asia is that the chicken actually tasted like...chicken. Unlike that bland white meat that passes for chicken in ireland

In Asia they use the redder meat from the legs, in northern europe we use breast meat.

Dyr · 02-11-2011 12:52PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

In Asia they use the redder meat from the legs, in northern europe we use breast meat.

This was the whole chicken...think they were running them over for us

Fratton Fred · 02-11-2011 12:53PM

bamboozle wrote: »

if we want to do more for Irish producers in general then avoiding shopping in Tesco is a good starting point.

Local butchers for meat, although superquinn always have a good meat counter.

It doesn't make any difference. Tesco, Lidl, Dunnes etc all buy their stuff from the same people.

Fratton Fred · 02-11-2011 12:55PM

Bambi wrote: »

This was the whole chicken...think they were running them over for us

Run over, stuck on a stick and grilled on a bike at the side of the road.

You can't beat Bangkok Chicken lollipops.

Lord Trollington · 02-11-2011 12:59PM

bamboozle wrote: »

if we want to do more for Irish producers in general then avoiding shopping in Tesco is a good starting point.

Local butchers for meat, although superquinn always have a good meat counter.

I agree 100%. Tesco do not give a flying fock about Irish farmers or butchers.

I know of a Tesco in a particular town that opened up recently and was selling products cheaper than Super Value down the road.

Of course this took its toll and it closed, once it closed they gradually put their prices back up.

Duke Leonal Felmet · 02-11-2011 12:59PM

I eat free range only, which always comes from Irish (or at least British) farms. I wouldn't put non-free range near my mouth. For a euro or two more per free range chicken you get a world of difference in quality.

ItsAWindUp · 02-11-2011 01:18PM

Don't buy any chicken!

Logical Fallacy · 02-11-2011 01:20PM

laoch na mona wrote: »

much dearer as well

I disagree.

In my local butchers i get a pound of mince beef for 3 euro, it's closer to 4 in Dunnes.

I can get two sirloin steaks for 5.50, a half pound of fillet steak for 6 euro, 2 large chicken breasts for 2.50.

I have always found the butcher to be cheaper.

old hippy · 02-11-2011 01:23PM

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Northern IRELAND isn't foreign. The clue is in the name.

It sort of is, though.

Duke Leonal Felmet · 02-11-2011 01:26PM

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

laoch na mona wrote: »

much dearer as well

I disagree.

In my local butchers i get a pound of mince beef for 3 euro, it's closer to 4 in Dunnes.

I can get two sirloin steaks for 5.50, a half pound of fillet steak for 6 euro, 2 large chicken breasts for 2.50.

I have always found the butcher to be cheaper.

Butchers tend to be 20% cheaper, in my experience, with knowledgeable staff and superior produce.

neilthefunkeone · 02-11-2011 01:26PM

All tastes the same to me in a curry!!!.. Big bag of frozen fillets from aldi is where it at!

4leto · 02-11-2011 01:28PM

Its one of my great mysteries in life. I do see a chicken in Tesco for 2 to 3 euros and I think HOW, how do they feed and water the little critter, then gut, pluck and transport the bird to a Tesco shop who I imagine get a cut as well for 3 euros, surely it has eaten more then 3 euros worth of feed.

How the fkuc do they do it.

Duke Leonal Felmet · 02-11-2011 01:31PM

neilthefunkeone wrote: »

All tastes the same to me in a curry!!!.. Big bag of frozen fillets from aldi is where it at!

Lord no. That must be one god damn hot curry. Give a free ranger a go. Such a massive difference.

themadchef · 02-11-2011 01:39PM

We eat FAR too much meat. Shead load of mince for €3? :eek: bargain? Think not. People stop feeding your faces with crap. Beans, pulses, vegetables. Meat used to be eaten twice maybe and i mean MAYBE 3 times a week not three meals a day ffs.

We need to give the piggy a rest and let the John Wayne revoloution begin. Might get a bit blustery :pac:

Irish chicken is fresher and better quality - please buy Irish

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