Siucra Sugar still grown in Ireland??

Slideshowbob

Is this the case?

Saw three different brands in Spar - two had guaranteed Irish label on them, the Siucra bag didn't and it doesnt seem to state on the Siucra bag that the sugar comes from Ireland?

It would be ironic if the brand with the Irish language name imported their raw material!

CJhaughey

AFAIK Greencore has sold both Carlow and Mallow sugar plants and imports cane sugar now,the two plants are both Idle IIRC. Hardly guaranteed Irish!

Kristopherus

There has been no sugar produced in Ireland since around 2005, ater the Gov. ( Mary Coughlan) sold the industry down the tubes at an EU meeting:eek:

TEDDY O KEEFFE

The Irish Sugar Company// Greencore sold their Sugar business to Nordzucker a German sugar manufacturer last year , The Siucre brand is up to 30 cent dearer than the other brands and more than likely all the sugar is coming out of the same packer , The Irish Shopper is being fooled to pay extra for an Irish name . Greencore and Nordzucker kept the deal as quiet as they could so as not to draw notice to what you have seen for yourself,

simonj

What was Mary Coughlan's involvement?

rubadub

Kristopherus wrote: »

There has been no sugar produced in Ireland since around 2005, ater the Gov. ( Mary Coughlan) sold the industry down the tubes at an EU meeting:eek:

I think it was meant to be totally non-viable and so should have been scrapped ages ago, most would say the sugar from beet is inferior compared to cane sugar which could be imported cheaper from S. America. It would be similar to growing pineapples here under grow lights, and subsidising farmers to do so just so they can keep a job -find something else to grow suited to the actual country!

I remember hearing one power station in the west took more energy to fuel it than what it could output, i.e. trucks were delivering fuel etc, it was just kept going to keep people in jobs -when really it should have changed to something else and give them jobs actually worth doing. That Penn & Teller show Bull*hit! had a name for such jobs.

Slideshowbob wrote: »

It would be ironic if the brand with the Irish language name imported their raw material!

I always wonder what people in the gaeltacht think of those corny names -suicra, madra, fiacla, solus. They must cringe going into the local shops, I'll have a bag of sugar sugar, tin of dog, tube of teeth and a light light bulb.

Voltex

I have the spec for Siucra caster on file...but AFAIK its processed in France.

Little Alex

Coincidentally we were talking about this in work earlier in the week.

After a brief google I found this.

CJhaughey

Sooo according to that article the Germans can grow sugar beet as a viable enterprise but not the Irish?

Slideshowbob

CJhaughey wrote: »

Sooo according to that article the Germans can grow sugar beet as a viable enterprise but not the Irish?

If that's what it says, why would you think they could not?

CJhaughey

Slideshowbob wrote: »

If that's what it says, why would you think they could not?

Because this was posted above:
I think it was meant to be totally non-viable and so should have been scrapped ages ago, most would say the sugar from beet is inferior compared to cane sugar which could be imported cheaper from S. America. It would be similar to growing pineapples here under grow lights, and subsidising farmers to do so just so they can keep a job -find something else to grow suited to the actual country!