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What food/drinks are amazing but few people in Ireland consume?

  • 29-12-2014 10:19PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Fukuyama


    I've recently become a big fan of lemon tea and other mad teas. Aldi has a great selection of em. I'd say they're mostly consumed by women because when I brought the subject up with a few friends they gave me a raised eyebrow. So now I drink my girly tea alone where nobody can see me. :pac:

    Also, Riesen. They're in most shops but nobody ever buys them. I know this because I used to work in a shop. We ordered in a box and it took a year and a half to shift them. Beautiful, rich chewy toffee covered in dark chocolate that cracks and splinters when you bite into one.

    There's a little Pakistani shop on Parnell Street (the one in Dublin before anyone asks "which Parnell Street?"). They get mad stuff in. Like Wasabi KitKat. . I'm told that asian shops do em sometimes as well. Lovely. The shop itself might be a bit off putting because it's obviously targeted at middle eastern clientele (lot of non-english signs etc...) but the staff are sound. There's a fat guy with a mustache who's always happy on the till. They also have Mountain Dew in a glass bottle that's made with proper sugar cane as opposed to high-fructose muck.

    Anyone else eat stuff that most people don't but is gorgeous?


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Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭The Peanut


    I love bacon and cabbage. Really think it could take off if people gave it a try.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,158 ✭✭✭✭Degag


    Riesen are awesome. Only problem is there is only 6 in a pack.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    Bovril


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    Almond Milk. Probably due to it being hardish enough to find. Nothing better than the milk from almond's tits.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    If it doesn't grow in my garden or sh1te in my lawn I'll do without it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    Sushi. It's too expensive here though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭The Peanut


    If it doesn't grow in my garden or sh1te in my lawn I'll do without it.

    You have a tree that grows beer?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    you are treading dangerously into the "people who are passionate about food" territory


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,043 ✭✭✭Berserker


    Fry's orange cream. I see it in a local shop on the odd occasion but I think it is a top chocolate bar.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    Hot dogs Korean style


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 462 ✭✭wylie


    Liver and onion dip with a fresh turnover.

    Now I'm hungry.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    The Peanut wrote: »
    You have a tree that grows beer?
    I wouldn't exactly call it a tree, but beer does grow in fields.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭Iranoutofideas


    Rice A Roni - The San Francisco treat :pac:


  • Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Fish

    For an island its surprising how little fish we eat, considering the amount we export.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    Berserker wrote: »
    Fry's orange cream. I see it in a local shop on the odd occasion but I think it is a top chocolate bar.

    Actually the original chocolate cream would be an acquired taste I'd imagine. The auld lad loves them whereas I think they're rancid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Berserker wrote: »
    Fry's orange cream. I see it in a local shop on the odd occasion but I think it is a top chocolate bar.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭Dexter Bip


    Tomato Juice. Everybody seems to detest it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Green tea...great stuff

    Am always amazed by amount of people who flat out refuse to eat fish of any types...and also lamb...the amount that don't eat it is amazing!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Molester Stallone II


    If it doesn't grow in my garden or sh1te in my lawn I'll do without it.

    Wondered where my cat had gone you plick


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,043 ✭✭✭Berserker


    Green tea...great stuff

    Agree. Drink it everyday myself. Coconut water is another great drink.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 James16


    Vodka and coke


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    I used drink green tea daily as well. Two or three tea bags thrown into a pint flask and drink it before bed. Have stopped that ritual with the last few months. Must get back into it. Savage with some honey.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Sushi. It's too expensive here though.

    Most Japanese food is expensive here, I used to spend the equivalent of a fiver in some ramen bars and get a seriously good meal. The bulk of €20 for a tonkotsu ramen in Dublin though. Still, I'm happy that I can get a decent katsudon near me, even if it is a bit pricey. but that's how it goes, what's cheap and cheerful there costs a bomb here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,611 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Green tea...great stuff

    Am always amazed by amount of people who flat out refuse to eat fish of any types...and also lamb...the amount that don't eat it is amazing!!

    A friend of mine balked at the idea of eating lamb curry once, but the thing is he'd eat a lamb dinner, like roast lamb with mash and veg, but curry? He looked positively disgusted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭The Peanut


    I wouldn't exactly call it a tree, but beer does grow in fields.

    Did not know that. ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭Dexter Bip


    Wondered where my cat had gone you plick

    Subtle. Laughs out loud.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭heldel00


    Guacamole and hummus (sp?)

    Tesco do them in handy dip containers and they are gorgeous (must try makin my own)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭Solobally8


    Almond Milk. Probably due to it being hardish enough to find.

    Try the milk section in Dunnes. Not too hard to find there :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 294 ✭✭Breffnigolfer


    Haggis!

    It's gorgeous.


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