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Food from other cultures which you like and get here

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  • #32
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    Captain Farrell wrote: »
    You must be kidding, a Cumberland Sausage beats any of the crap Irish ones any day of the week.

    Nah, sausages in the UK are terrible, wherever you buy them. Crap Irish ones? There are loads of places to buy nice sausages here.

    Hope you're joking about zebra meat, that wouldn't happen! :) If you think you've eaten zebra meat, I'd say stop smoking what you've been smoking. :pac:


  • #33
    Captain Farrell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭Captain Farrell


    April O Neill wrote: »
    Nah, sausages in the UK are terrible, wherever you buy them. Crap Irish ones? There are loads of places to buy nice sausages here.

    Hope you're joking about zebra meat, that wouldn't happen! :) If you think you've eaten zebra meat, I'd say stop smoking what you've been smoking. :pac:

    http://www.exoticmeats.co.uk/zebra-meat.html says you are very wrong....


    Also, wrong about the sausages. When I moved to Ireland over 10 years ago I was told how amazing the sausages are. They're a tasteless mess of salt and rusk. Rank.


  • #34
    Plazaman
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    Proper spanish tomatoes (or any tomatoes grown in a warm climate as they seem to taste sweeter). Great quick recipie for a light snack which is from Greece and I make a lot during the summer.

    2 x thick slices of brown bread (actually soda bread is lovely)
    Pour Olive Oil on bread
    Slice up a large tomato and put on bread
    Crumble Feta Cheese over it
    Sprinked dried oregano over allonnomnomnomom


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
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    Aaaaallll the foods.


  • #36
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    Captain Farrell wrote: »
    http://www.exoticmeats.co.uk/zebra-meat.html says you are very wrong....

    Gawd, people eat zebra. How awful. :( Not something I'd be proud of, TBH.

    Captain Farrell wrote: »
    Also, wrong about the sausages. When I moved to Ireland over 10 years ago I was told how amazing the sausages are. They're a tasteless mess of salt and rusk. Rank.

    In this case not wrong at all. ;)

    Buy good quality Irish sausages and they absolutely *annihilate* any you will get in the UK. This is from extensively sampling both.

    You seem to be talking about the crappy sausages you get in supermarkets here. Well, duh, what did you expect?

    Whereas, no matter the source of the sausages I bought in the UK, from supermarket (inc. Waitrose) to various butchers shops, they were all tasteless. And I lived in pig country. (Geographical location can effect greatly the quality of produce in the UK)

    Seriously, UK sausages, crap in the extreme.

    Another fun fact - good sausages *need* a certain amount of rusk. It's what makes them sausages. You hear people banging on about their 90%+ pork sausages. Er, yeah, they're just cylindrical burgers...


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  • #37
    Captain Farrell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭Captain Farrell


    April O Neill wrote: »
    Gawd, people eat zebra. How awful. :( Not something I'd be proud of, TBH.




    In this case not wrong at all. ;)

    Buy good quality Irish sausages and they absolutely *annihilate* any you will get in the UK. This is from extensively sampling both.

    You seem to be talking about the crappy sausages you get in supermarkets here. Well, duh, what did you expect?

    Whereas, no matter the source of the sausages I bought in the UK, from supermarket (inc. Waitrose) to various butchers shops, they were all tasteless. And I lived in pig country. (Geographical location can effect greatly the quality of produce in the UK)

    Seriously, UK sausages, crap in the extreme.

    In your opinion. I think it depends on what you were brought up with. In over 40 years on this planet I'vce tried sausages from all over, and honestly feel that irish are the worst, and German are the best, with british somewhere in the top to middle range. And yes, I buy mine from butchers, usually organic ones(the missus loves her organic stuff...)

    And what's wrong with eating Zebra? It's lovely. I've also had ostrich, kangaroo, crocodile, dog, a selection of insects, snake and squirrel in my time.

    All i am missing is the Giant Panda, but that's my ambition. Lovely tasty panda.


  • #38
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,101 ✭✭✭✭lertsnim


    Chorizo is my most favourite thing about Spain


  • #39
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    Captain Farrell wrote: »
    In your opinion.

    No shít.
    Captain Farrell wrote: »
    All i am missing is the Giant Panda, but that's my ambition. Lovely tasty panda.

    Don't worry, Waitrose will be soon be stocking it for the self-conscious social climbers to cream themselves over.


  • #40
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,101 ✭✭✭✭lertsnim


    April O Neill wrote: »
    Gawd, people eat zebra. How awful. :( Not something I'd be proud of, TBH.

    Would you eat beef? The indians wouldn't be proud of that

    The question I want to ask is, why would you be proud of eating anything? Food is food.


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
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    Plazaman wrote: »
    Proper spanish tomatoes (or any tomatoes grown in a warm climate as they seem to taste sweeter). Great quick recipie for a light snack which is from Greece and I make a lot during the summer.

    Try piccolo tomatoes, usually grown in Ireland, they're the yummiest.


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  • #42
    timthumbni
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    Gravy chip, pea and onion - anything Chinese really. :-)


  • #43
    MonstaMash
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    Captain Farrell wrote: »
    Can't get enough exotic meats in Ireland. No zebra, ostrich, kangaroo or crocodile. Usually being them back with me from trips to the UK(Waitrose, how amazing you are...)
    http://www.organicfoodsireland.com/gourmet_game.php


  • #44
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    lertsnim wrote: »
    Would you eat beef? The indians wouldn't be proud of that

    The question I want to ask is, why would you be proud of eating anything? Food is food.

    Well, this is it, but some people seem to wear trying unusual meats as a badge of honour. Strange, but there ya go!

    As to why we shouldn't eat them? As of now, most subspecies of zebra *aren't* endangered but that can go south quite quickly, especially for species which aren't farmed specifically and who live in geographically harsh areas of the world.


  • #45
    salacious crumb
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Aaaaallll the foods.

    I concur.


  • #46
    salacious crumb
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    I've had ostrich, kangaroo and crocodile in Dublin. Tante Zoe's and the Aussie BBQ to be precise. Haven't had zebra, but I regularly buy horse steaks from Temple Bar food market.


  • #47
    Ihatecuddles
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    Lychees!


  • #48
    Ilyana 2.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Ilyana 2.0


    I love manchego cheese, chorizo, serrano ham and paella but they're not really available here (except the chorizo).

    Mexican food is lovely too, and Indian. Shame that it's hard to get the former outside Dublin, and the latter is so expensive.


  • #49
    Ihatecuddles
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    salacious crumb wrote: »
    I've had ostrich, kangaroo and crocodile in Dublin. Tante Zoe's and the Aussie BBQ to be precise. Haven't had zebra, but I regularly buy horse steaks from Temple Bar food market.

    I absolutely love crocodile. Its so good. My boyfriend loves kangaroo, I find it too chewy or something.


  • #50
    salacious crumb
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    mauzo! wrote: »
    I absolutely love crocodile. Its so good. My boyfriend loves kangaroo, I find it too chewy or something.


    Crocodile is quite tasty, but it tastes just like swordfish to me :pac:


  • #51
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Currywurst, it's alright making it homemade but I'd love to find a takeaway selling it or even a currywurst van


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  • #52
    Seaneh
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Corned beef. Irish pubs across the globe have it, you never see it here though.

    Its an American thing.


  • #53
    CatLou
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    Portuguese pastries. All of them!


  • #54
    Cool Mo D
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    Lars1916 wrote: »
    Sorry, I meant 'tap' indeed ;)

    What about a decent German Lager, such as Warsteiner or Krombacher? Or 'Diebels Alt' (even if it's not a Lager, but very yummy)

    Definitely a few places in Dublin that do German Lagers on tap. I think Cassidy's on Westmoreland st do Fischer Helles, among others.


  • #55
    ALiasEX
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    Peanut puffs.


  • #56
    aidan24326
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    The foods I like that are not Irish and that I did not grow up with are too many to mention but here's a few:

    halloumi cheese
    paneer cheese
    feta cheese
    moroccan tagine
    merguez sausage
    chorizo
    serrano/parma ham
    bhajis/samosas
    gambas al pil pil spanish style
    mexican fajitas/burritos/tacos
    bolognese
    carbonara
    madras/jalfrezi/korma (or any Indian food really, it's all good)
    jalapeno peppers
    olives
    chilli con carne
    oregano


    Just a random selection of good stuff those foreigners have given us, and amazing to think I never had any of them growing up. True of many Irish people I'd imagine. I had good food alright, growing up in the countryside there was lots of nice fresh produce, but looking back it was very limited.

    Dishes like chilli con carne and carbonara would be things I'd consider run of the mill these days, dinner on a tuesday evening, yet I never had anything like that growing up in the 80s.


  • #57
    salacious crumb
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    Halloumi. I was only introduced to this this summer, bleedin' gorgeous.


  • #58
    Karl Stein
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    Preference for sausages is a cultural/local thing.

    I think they're all pretty disgusting.


  • #59
    April O Neill
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    Carlos Roca wrote: »
    Preference for sausages is a cultural/local thing.

    I think they're all pretty disgusting.

    Disgusting and soooo good.


  • #60
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    April O Neill wrote: »
    Disgusting and soooo good.

    The only time I'll chance a sausage is when they've been barbecued to death and I've had a few beers.

    I'm terrified of lumps of gristle.


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  • #61
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    April O Neill wrote: »
    Disgusting and soooo good.
    Carlos Roca wrote: »
    The only time I'll chance a sausage is when they've been barbecued to death and I've had a few beers.

    I'm terrified of lumps of gristle.

    One thing I know for a fact is that Denny got their gold medal from a second hand shop and merely pretend that it's there because they make nice sausages. :mad:


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