Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
If we do not hit our goal we will be forced to close the site.

Current status: https://keepboardsalive.com/

Annual subs are best for most impact. If you are still undecided on going Ad Free - you can also donate using the Paypal Donate option. All contribution helps. Thank you.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

The Happy Pears twins

13468914

Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,741 ✭✭✭Effects


    Ah yes, but it's healthier if it's the Happy Pear and you tell everyone about it (see above posts queueing in rain for HP cups), as opposed to cooking it yourself or just, you know, being healthy.

    That's some people. I don't really care about people who want to be seen there or tell other people about it. At the end of the day they are still eating healthier, whatever the other motivating factors are.

    I don't always want to cook for myself, why shouldn't I eat healthy if I go out to eat?

    Last year at Body and Soul Festival they were hands down the healthiest and best value food there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Are these guys self taught because a lot of what i'm reading on their website goes against latest research into how we metabolise food.

    You don't have to be vegan to be healthy, our bodies are most efficient when deriving our energy from fat, not from quinoa and chia seeds.

    They are running a business I guess, the more magic beans they sell the better.

    You weren't kidding, some very dubious claims on that site that should set alarm bells off; reversing grey hair, eliminating strokes, and that old chestnust of "fighting cancer"

    I never care about what kinds of food or recipes people are selling or advertising, it's the superhuman health claims that always bug me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭tea and coffee


    Effects wrote: »
    That's some people. I don't really care about people who want to be seen there or tell other people about it. At the end of the day they are still eating healthier, whatever the other motivating factors are.

    I don't always want to cook for myself, why shouldn't I eat healthy if I go out to eat?

    Last year at Body and Soul Festival they were hands down the healthiest and best value food there.

    I wasn't specifically referring to you, but more generally to their target market.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,741 ✭✭✭Effects


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    some very dubious claims on that site that should set alarm bells off, that old chestnust of "fighting cancer"

    Except that there are studies showing a link between cancers and meat consumption.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭tea and coffee


    There is a world of difference between "meat may cause cancer" and "eating vegan fights cancer.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Effects wrote: »
    Except that there are studies showing a link between cancers and meat consumption.

    What's that got to do with what I said about the marketing chestnut of people promoting something with claims of fighting or killing cancer? (fighting cancer, in these guys case)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Had to google them.

    Seems decent chaps


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Effects wrote: »
    I know you're a sceptical and negative person and you like to complain on the internet. It's not a lot but it's not nothing.

    This is a thread on The Happy Pear Twins, it's not a place for you to air your thoughts on another member of boards.


  • Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    You weren't kidding, some very dubious claims on that site that should set alarm bells off; reversing grey hair, eliminating strokes, and that old chestnust of "fighting cancer"

    I never care about what kinds of food or recipes people are selling or advertising, it's the superhuman health claims that always bug me.

    Ah it sounds warm and fuzzy and they have degrees in finance or marketing or something...and the packaging is nice...and the handstands...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭The Bishop Basher


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    You weren't kidding, some very dubious claims on that site that should set alarm bells off; reversing grey hair

    Funny that.

    Only recently I'd noticed that the lads have started dying their hair..

    I thought it odd given their lifestyle, philosophy etc.

    Makes complete sense now though...

    Must have been the quinoa seeds all along :rolleyes:


  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭12Phase


    I don't know what all the annoyance is here.

    It's a well marketed food brand run by two personable, on trend and good looking guys.

    If you don't like it, buy something else.

    Claims should be science based always when it comes to food and health.

    Seriously upping your veggie intake though won't do you any harm and is likely to be a good thing for a lot of people.

    Simple enough rule to being healthy is just eat less processed junk, avoid too much refined sugars and don't over do the meat intake and bulk up on more veggies rather than processed carbs.

    It's not rocket science.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,971 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    It's outrageous.

    What's next!! People trying to sell you stuff you don't even need??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 117 ✭✭nobby grande


    ted1 wrote: »
    Passed three to get to Dalkey , but you need to include the Dalkey stop which means you live 4 stops away and still 6 from the other two options,

    When people want to live in an area they always shorten the distance to there. Are you sure you live in greystones and not Newtown mount Kennedy or kilcoole?

    Ted, you strike me as a moron. I don't deal with morons.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭kidneyfan


    It's rare but it does happen.

    The Northern Irish twins who run the (in)famous cereal café in London are both gay. Speaking of whom, I'd much rather eat some notionsy cereal than anything the Happy Pear lads are selling. I've had to stop buying boxes of cereal because they are like the food version of crack to me; one bowl turns into two turns into six. :o

    Also the Canadian music duo Tegan and Sara (who are also twins) are both lesbians.
    Thanks very interesting. If two siblings were going to be gay it might be unsurprising that they are identical twins as there may well be a genetic component to that sort of thing.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭kidneyfan


    Swanner wrote: »
    Funny that.

    Only recently I'd noticed that the lads have started dying their hair..
    My understanding is that their vegetarian diet reverses grey hair. Ghandi for example had a full thick head of black hair (like Mowgli) till the day he died as did Hitler.


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


    kidneyfan wrote: »
    My understanding is that their vegetarian diet reverses grey hair. Ghandi for example had a full thick head of black hair (like Mowgli) till the day he died as did Hitler.

    Some advertisement that.

    'Become vegan and keep your luscious locks, until the day you end up shot'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,741 ✭✭✭Effects


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    What's that got to do with what I said about the marketing chestnut of people promoting something with claims of fighting or killing cancer? (fighting cancer, in these guys case)

    Where's the proof that they said their food cures cancer?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    Hitler was not a vegetarian.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭The Bishop Basher


    Hitler was not a vegetarian.

    Ghandi was also bald as a coot and what little hair he did have was grey..

    I think the post was tongue in cheek....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    Their food is nice, not into vegan myself, I can't live without cheese, but fair play to them I say.


  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭12Phase


    Most of these diets make you pay more attention to what you eat and cut out heavily processed garbage and refined sugar.

    Hair, skin and all of those things tend to respond well to a diet with lots of good nutrients. The vegan bit is likely to be more coincidental than the main thing.

    That being said, there's a lot of proof out there that we are better off eating less meat and a lot more plant material. Doesn't mean that you should it out entirely but you definitely don't need tons of it and there are other sources of protein.

    Most of the processed food we eat actually is just a way of dressing up bad quality gunk in such a way that it triggers our brain to falsely recognise it as fruit or good quality meat by adding tons of sugars or other flavour enhancers.

    Dying food also makes otherwise unpalatable stuff look edible.

    If you're eating food that's close to natural or preparing it from scratch you'll tend to automatically make good food choices because your own instincts are doing the decision making.

    Basucally, trust your brain and don't screw with its ability to sense things!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Effects wrote: »
    Where's the proof that they said their food cures cancer?

    I didn't say they themselves made that claim because they didn't.......in fact, I said exactly this at the end of my post:
    Duggy747 wrote: »
    What's that got to do with what I said about the marketing chestnut of people promoting something with claims of fighting or killing cancer? (fighting cancer, in these guys case)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭kidneyfan


    Hitler was not a vegetarian.
    Thanks jam_mac_jam it seems to be an urgent legend.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 seoulone


    My good god, I actually really like the restaurant and love their basil pesto (I also agree that it's really easy to make) but this TED talk has boiled my blood. They spent so many years travelling, came back and just bought a greengrocers (yeah right, nobody can do all of that without a lot of financial help). They had a lot of money behind them for sure, and that's great but there are so many people who would love to do this and are simply too busy working really hard in a job they don't like to even try something like this.I do, however, agree with them on living your dream or at least really really trying your hardest. I am kind of stunned after listening to the talk, thanks for posting though :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,741 ✭✭✭Effects


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    I didn't say they themselves made that claim because they didn't.......in fact, I said exactly this at the end of my post:
    (fighting cancer, in these guys case)

    Sorry, it seemed like that's what you were saying. Maybe I picked it up wrong.
    Some very dubious claims on that site that should set alarm bells off. That old chestnut of "fighting cancer".

    I've never read anything about them saying a vegan diet fights cancer.
    If it was said, I would presume they meant it in a context that it is a preventative measure.
    I just asked to see where they said it.

    From your post it seemed like you were levelling that accusation at them, that they themselves did say that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,741 ✭✭✭Effects


    seoulone wrote: »
    This TED talk has boiled my blood. They spent so many years travelling, came back and just bought a greengrocers (yeah right, nobody can do all of that without a lot of financial help).
    They had a lot of money behind them for sure, and that's great but there are so many people who would love to do this and are simply too busy working really hard in a job they don't like to even try something like this.

    You can't blame them for having money behind them. It may have helped them but it's not what got them where they are today.

    I'm sure people could level a similar accusation at you. You probably had a better start in life than someone from a bad area and a broken home. Does that mean you don't deserve what you've made of your life?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭Eponymous


    I live in Greystones and don't frequent the Happy Pear. It's nothing to do with the lads, who are pretty sound, based on my occasional interactions with them. None of the food they serve in there appeals to me.

    But this nonsense of long lines for coffee makes no sense when there is much better coffee to be had elsewhere in the village (others have already cited Spendloves and Café delle Stelle), but I guess it's become a destination for many now.

    Whoever buys the Caviston site is going to have a job reclaiming the path at the front of that premises. They've taken that over too!

    Their second location in the Shoreline gym is a great spot if you fancy a visit to Greystones and giving their produce a go without the queues or the crowd!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭kidneyfan


    Effects wrote: »
    You can't blame them for having money behind them. It may have helped them but it's not what got them where they are today.

    I'm sure people could level a similar accusation at you. You probably had a better start in life than someone from a bad area and a broken home. Does that mean you don't deserve what you've made of your life?
    They say the best way to make a small fortune is to start with a big one!


  • Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Effects wrote: »
    I've never read anything about them saying a vegan diet fights cancer...

    Mung beans.

    Mung beans contains something or other that fights cancer at a cellular level.

    https://thehappypear.ie/our-products/

    That seems to me to be a pretty remarkable claim. Yes, I can understand the benefits of a healthy diet in keeping up ones health and strength during treatment for cancer...but in terms of actually reversing cancer...hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

    But hey, they do the handstands and they got the shorts and the granola is called "Cool Jim's"...


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,610 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I'm not a vegetarian but they have some lovely recipes on the website.


Advertisement