Stuff you miss about Ireland when abroad

Foxhound38

Proper milk, proper tea, proper sausages - try as I might, I just can't seem to get these things easily while on the continent.

What about ye? What stuff do you think we do better than other countries?

Sheep Lover

The cronyism and lack of time keeping.

Frito

Supermacs cheese and garlic chips.

Mr_Muffin

Easy girls.

Irish girls need no charming.

Donkey Oaty

Mammies and Miwadi.

JacquesDeLad

Wishing I was somewhere it didn't rain so much.

Tigger

Sheep Lover wrote: »

lack of time keeping.

i'm lazy and late
so i moved to the west and now i'm normal

The Diabolical Monocle

Hate how you have to respect the law when abroad or you might end up in prison

like really actually in a real prison

ancapailldorcha

Tea,
RTE,
Guinness,
Tayto,
The feel of Irish towns. English ones just aren't the same.

biko

Foxhound38 wrote: »

Proper milk, proper tea, proper sausages

By "proper" do you mean certain brands? I find tea and milk in England just as good as Irish. And sausages in Germany better than Irish.
Your miles may vary

That said, I do miss the way we do fry-ups when I'm away.

Sunnyisland

Sometimes the rain,and green fields,the friendliness of most people.

Tigger

biko wrote: »

By "proper" do you mean certain brands? I find tea and milk in England just as good as Irish. And sausages in Germany better than Irish.
Your miles may vary

mileage

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Lapin

Grumpy and unhelpful staff in Bus Éireann and Irish Rail.

kfallon

Club 'odinge'

Banjo String

Pubs.

And I don't mean an 'Irish themed' pub, I mean my proper, local pub.

I could (don't live at home now) stroll into my own local with no cash on me, order a pint of beer and get the pint with change from a twenty. (which would be repaid later on in the week)

In my local it is not unknown for the barman (owner) to have to go somewhere for an hour or two, and leave the bar unattended with a plastic dish with change, we served ourself from the bar and threw in the cash, change was there if required.

I just don't get that level of attention in any other bar, in any other place I've lived.

O.A.P

Irish people mostly,
We have a sense of humor that not everybody gets.
Stick with it though make friends and be yourself,

Tigger

Banjo String wrote: »

Pubs.

And I don't mean an 'Irish themed' pub, I mean my proper, local pub.

I could (don't live at home now) stroll into my own local with no cash on me, order a pint of beer and get the pint with change from a twenty. (which would be repaid later on in the week)

In my local it is not unknown for the barman (owner) to have to go somewhere for an hour or two, and leave the bar unattended with a plastic dish with change, we served ourself from the bar and threw in the cash, change was there if required.

I just don't get that level of attention in any other bar, in any other place I've lived.

honor and trust
something that's lost to a lot of people

DoYouEvenLift

The laid back, easygoing attitude...that's about it really, nothing else special about the place

Novella

Chipper chips.
Chicken balls from the Chinese.
Lucozade.
Cadbury's chocolate.
Milk.
Superquinn sausages.
Proper baked beans.
My mam's Sunday roast.

Aside from food and drinks, I miss the Irish attitude. Living in the US, I get sick of all the chirpy, "How is your day going?", "Have a great day!". I miss a casual Howaya that doesn't require a response or being able to say I'm grand and that being enough.

I miss sarcasm. Americans think they get it but they don't really. I've tried to make my husband (who is American) understand "I will yeah!" and he tries to say it sometimes but when he says it, it sounds like he means it and not at all like he's saying no.

I'd like to be able to refer to someone as yer man or yer one and not have to go into great detail about who I mean. Irish people just get it.

I miss everything about Ireland.

PNA

It has to be the black stuff

Usually tea and milk. Though I was in Dubai last week and the tea was so much better than here. I've actually ordered some of it online it was so nice.

My doggy.

Good Guinness.

AlanS181824

I live in Carlow, you pass someone on the streets here you'd say hi, you can't walk down Tullow Street without bumping into a relative or something ye know.

I was in Berlin recently and someone actually walked right into me and then continued walking, not a sorry or an excuse me to be heard.

.....So manners.

Autosport

Manners
Our sense of humour
Lucozade
Club orange and the beautiful Irish countryside

William F

decent mobile phone data

Augmerson

Sally O' Brien and the way she might look at you.

Karl Stein

The twinkle in a pig's eye.

CJ Haughey

mass.

j80ezgvc3p92xu

Irish pubs is a big one. Just the feel of them, the smell of the old wood and furniture mixed with a smell of spirits. You do not get that anywhere else. I also love the "sure its all grand" attitude of the people. Then the funny contradictions like everyone giving out about the government and the recession but you will find it tough to get seats in caffes and restaurants at lunchtime.

Ireland is awesome.

ceadaoin.

Superquinn sausages, chippers, curry sauce, club orange, Birdseye waffles. Most other things I can get here for an extortionate price like Heinz beans and Lyons tea which suddenly doesn't seem so nice that it's worth $7 for a small box!

And pubs

riclad

I think there,s a lot of things avaidable in irish shops,
tayto, red lemonade ,irish biscuits .
that are not avaidable in other countrys.
Irish pubs are friendly ,its easy to meet people ,or talk to strangers .
if you want to.
if some one likes you ,you,ll know it.

other countrys may have pubs ,but its not the same .
no other country has pubs like a real irish pub.
For such a small country we produce alot of good quality radio programs .
And some good tv programs .

When I lived in the UK, I really missed the Irish driving.
In the UK, most drive on the left lane and you get hounded out of it for hogging the middle or outer lane.
In the UK, you have to stop when the light turns red, you don't have that extra 5 seconds after the light turns red.
In the UK, you are not allowed to drive your tractor on the motorway. Learner drivers get taken off the motorways by Police!
I could go on but glad to be back in Ireland with its much more flexible approach to driving and the lack of enforcement.

Sam Mac

Nothing?

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Gaeilge.

osarusan

Of course, some things will be available in places other than Ireland, but where I'm living, I can't get (or can't afford):

soda bread
good cheese
good butter
good milk
good sausages and rashers
whole chickens for roasting
buttermilk
coleslaw
lamb

rainbow kirby

Brown soda bread and a cold frosty can of Club Orange.

cloud493

Irish bacon
Irish people and their general casualness of everything, I love it.
Breakfast rolls, they don't make em right in Liverpool.

Lollipops23

I would sell my firstborn to satan for a Superquinn sausage sambo on decent sliced pan and a can of Club Orange.

I also miss Penneys like you wouldn't believe.

thelad95

Irish pubs are definitely unique. Most pubs in England are either populated by unfriendly regulars or is just a soleless generic branch of a franchise.

Hankerings: Fish and chips. Guinness. Breakfast rolls.

Actual things: Being able to own a car. Easy banking. Easy insurance. Being a citizen. Safe roads. Real alcohol. Real goods. Real documents. No bribes. Competence. Police do police work. Amazon.

InTheTrees

Lamb.

Amazing to me that the americans dont really eat it much. Lamb is about as poplar in america as Duck. You can get it and its good qualty but its a specialized item.

Iranoutofideas

Augmerson wrote: »

Sally O' Brien and the way she might look at you.

Karl Stein wrote: »

The twinkle in a pig's eye.

Ah here Sally mightn't be the best looking but....:D

Egginacup

Snogging a Dublin girl.

DoYouEvenLift

[Deleted User] wrote: »

When I lived in the UK, I really missed the Irish driving.
In the UK, most drive on the left lane and you get hounded out of it for hogging the middle or outer lane.
In the UK, you have to stop when the light turns red, you don't have that extra 5 seconds after the light turns red.
In the UK, you are not allowed to drive your tractor on the motorway. Learner drivers get taken off the motorways by Police!
I could go on but glad to be back in Ireland with its much more flexible approach to driving and the lack of enforcement.

Never go to Poland if you think the English are bad for this. They drive right up to the back of your car, literally within a foot, and barely allow you to change lanes before speeding up to pass.

Gonzo

our pubs (foreign pubs don't come close to ours)
Bread (bread just ain't great in the continent)
Guinness (it's never as good as home)
Galway ( I don't live there but there is nowhere else in the world like it)
my bed (it's always too warm for sleeping overseas)
Superquinn Sausages

deise08

Decent ketchup!

decent bread. Not that sweet stuff.

mulbot

Taco sauce,
Kerrygold butter,
Decent tv channels,
Manners,
humour,
The "I" in aluminIum!!!

Asarlai

What I miss about home, is the rain and the greenness, and the pint of Harp.
And the evening before us, and friends coming in, and the pint of Harp.
And joining the chorus, and the pint of Harp.

Oh, the money is good, and the suntan is free.
You could fry and egg on the stones here, if you had an egg.
And you could certainly sink a pint of Harp.
If you had a pint of Harp.


I never really liked Sally O'Brien. I always thought she was a bit of a tease.

biketard

The craic
Speaking English
Nambarrie
Decent sausages
Brown sauce
Decent bread
Proper chips
Ironically enough (given that I live in Taiwan), I miss Chinese food. That's the Chinese food that's been adjusted to our own tastes, of course.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and charity shops.

languagenerd

Cidona, Red Lemonade, chicken fillet rolls after a night out - actually, deli counters in general! - decent bread, being able to order Lucozade in pubs (they have it in shops where I am but not pubs), noodle bars or burrito bars for a cheap lunch (not Irish, I know, but they're on every corner in Dublin and there are none here), etc.

Non-food: being able to say "yer man" without having to explain, throwing a casual cúpla focail into conversation and the "ah sure it'll be grand!" attitude.

lc180

AlanS181824 wrote: »

I live in Carlow, you pass someone on the streets here you'd say hi

I'm from Donegal but i've been living in Dublin for the last 3 years. I tried explaining to my father how random strangers don't say hello or even acknowledge each other in the city and he can't believe it. There's something so... nice about how nice people are in small town Ireland. It really is something that I missed when I lived in Canada for a year. People in Dublin are lovely too, just a little more tough skinned.

Wompa1

Having Irish problems. Protesting water meters is a big deal. Which I'm not being a d1ck about, I think that's great. It's better than drone strike kills 20 school children or tensions rise with Russia.

I'm in the US. I earn a fair amount but in the end my tax is around 36% on the entire lot between state and federal. That money is going towards wars and the interests of corporations. Not to social programs to help those who need it. I know, in Ireland when I was there, I'd get fed up with the high taxes and having grown up in Galway, fed up with the people who take unemployment as a life choice. BUT that's better than people who genuinely need help here, having very few options for support.

That certain Irish person that is a great story teller, would you give you the shirt off their back and is humble. There's less of them around now but still, great when you find them.

The Climate. Yes, it rains often BUT there's no real extremes. In my entire life in Ireland, it only got very, very cold once. Back about 5 years ago or so. Yes, you need to get the scraper out for the car when the ice comes but it's not as bad as many other places. Also, we don't get much sun but living in Arizona right now, it beats getting the amount of sunshine we have here. We get 5 months of Heaven here, followed by 7 months of Hell.

The Air!...The very first thing I missed from Ireland and something I had never heard others talk about before. The Air quality in most other countries I've been to has been awful. I'm assuming because we have actually humidity with the cold, that dampness makes the air a lot softer