What Irish product do you miss the most when you travel abroad?

TimeUp

to Spain, France, England...?

What is it you can't live without that is only sold in Ireland?

Del2005

Proper Tea

MilesMorales1

They really don't do 'proper' tea outside of Ireland or the UK. It always tastes a little bit off.

bananabread12

The incensed begrudgery at the success of others.

It's always a delight to see the sad fvckers stewing in their own contempt.

yer man!

Caramel chocolate digestive biscuits

geraardo

Tea , definitely tea

HalloweenJack

Black and white pudding.

I'm in England at the mo and it's impossible to find either. They sell the black stuff sliced up but not in the normal packaging. The white stuff is nowhere to be seen.

SeantheMan

I live in South Korea, the last 4 years or so.

Truthfully...the products I miss are

- Tea (but I can order Barry's via a site called IHerb - so it's a non-issue, in Europe on short hols we used to bring tea with us)
- Sausages , hard to get decent saussies in Asia, it's all Hotdog or Wursts
- White pudding - no chance of finding it
- Batch loaf
- I'd say Kerrygold butter, but there are good alternatives albeit a bit expensive
- Cheese and Onion crisps / Salt and Vinegar you can find the odd time if you're lucky
- Cordial , cuppa soups, and decent biscuits too

I actually use a site called BritishCornerShop to get stuff sent over to keep my goin every so often.
This arrived last week

murpho999

bananabread12 wrote: »

The incensed begrudgery at the success of others.

It's always a delight to see the sad fvckers stewing in their own contempt.

That is human nature, not a product and not unique to Ireland.

How do you see people stewing in their own contempt, post makes you sound quite sad.

branie2

Club orange

Tokyo

Depends on where I happen to be living. Some countries have decent approximations of stuff from home, others not so much.

At the moment I live in Myanmar, and probably the things I miss the most are tea, certain meat products (sausages, rashers, pudding etc) and decent dairy products (milk and butter).


[edit]Forgot about Cidona. Have never seen it anywhere else I've lived.

OldMrBrennan83

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Mars Bar

SeantheMan wrote: »

- I'd say Kerrygold butter, but there are good alternatives albeit a bit expensive

I went shopping today for the first time since I moved to Kuwait and even I found Kerrygold in a random co-op!

Sue Pa Key Pa

Proper milk

uli84

Sue Pa Key Pa wrote: »

Proper milk

Oh pls do tell where in Ireland they sell proper milk?

matchthis

Rashers and sausages. Even in some Irish hotels, the breakfast can taste wired

branie2

Taytos

jamesthepeach

Usually the large portions of begrudgery are nowhere to be seen.

That and chipsticks.

Never see them when abroad.

Unless you meet another paddy who has brought some along.

Anesthetize

matchthis wrote: »

Rashers and sausages. Even in some Irish hotels, the breakfast can taste wired

I don't like wires in my breakfast either.

OldMrBrennan83

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Tell me how

Going on holidays for month tomorrow. Thanks for reminding me. Tea bags are going in the bag!!

Anesthetize

Patww79 wrote: »

Best bet is a big shop called Tesco, there's loads of them about. There are other options but these ones tend to have the longest opening hours.

Do they sell raw milk in Tesco?

OldMrBrennan83

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Stephen15

Nothing most countries have much better food to make up for it

munchkin_utd

At this stage in Germany it's hard to say I'd miss anything. After you're abroad for a while you'll settle for a decent approximation, so not too put out to eat a small bratwurst and American style bacon rather for a fry if needs be. (And have a stash of proper irish rashers and sausage in freezer for special occasions)
The one thing I suffered with was crap butter. There was kerrygold but in most shops only unsalted. An odd place had a salted kerrygold but it was barely salted and really not much use.
Now (since maybe 5 years ago) kerrygold have a buttery spread which has a salted version that is unbelievably popular and very easy to find. So popular that Lidl and aldi have own brand versions!
Obviously the tea abroad is no addition but we always have a Barry's tea open with a spare box in reserve, topped up on spins to ireland or by visitors, so with that and butter catered for we are happy enough to be honest.

Tea (but I usually bring tea bags), good Guinness and all parts of a fry up. A roll from any random petrol station is also far better than the sandwiches you can get anywhere in some counties.

Anesthetize

Patww79 wrote: »

:rolleyes:

Grab an avocado there and go have a lie down.

I'm only after lunch

I thought the sale of proper milk i.e. raw/unpasteurised milk was tightly-controlled, no?

Rumple Stillson

Anesthetize wrote: »

Do they sell raw milk in Tesco?

Raw milk? I think you mean milk. I grew up with "raw milk", it's not that nice. Pasteurised milk is much more palatable and pasteurised milk in Ireland is much closer to real milk than abroad and is all the better for it.

AndyBoBandy

King crisps
Batch bread
Sliced pan
(Irish made) cadburys chocolate
Tea
Sausages
SuperQuinn sausages
Rashers
White pudding
Decent Guinness (although in fairness the rest of the world seems to have gotten its act together)
Chipsticks

Kerry Gold (though I did find this while living in Lithuania & America, it seems to be a global brand now)

SeantheMan

Sue Pa Key Pa wrote: »

Proper milk

Most countries sell decent milk

MadYaker

matchthis wrote: »

Rashers and sausages. Even in some Irish hotels, the breakfast can taste wired

Eating breakfast when you're still wired is no good

AndyBoBandy

SeantheMan wrote: »

Most countries sell decent milk

They do, problem is only about 3% of what's on display is fresh, the rest is UHT, there's just no demand for that here though

Anesthetize

Rumple Stillson wrote: »

Raw milk? I think you mean milk. I grew up with "raw milk", it's not that nice. Pasteurised milk is much more palatable and pasteurised milk in Ireland is much closer to real milk than abroad and is all the better for it.

No, I meant raw milk. Why did you assume I meant milk?

A person mentioned above that you can find proper milk i.e. raw milk in Tesco, but I very much doubt it.

OldMrBrennan83

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muddypaws

HalloweenJack wrote: »

Black and white pudding.

I'm in England at the mo and it's impossible to find either. They sell the black stuff sliced up but not in the normal packaging. The white stuff is nowhere to be seen.

Try Morrisons. Some Tesco stores sell white pudding as well, depends what area you're in

Anesthetize

Patww79 wrote: »

Raw milk isn't proper milk.

Yes it is.

Filmer Paradise

Proper tea,proper bread & when I smoked,proper fags like Carrolls or Major.

osarusan

Soda bread. Couldn't get it, couldn't get the ingredients to make it.

Where I lived proper milk and decent cheese was available, but cost a bomb.

McCrack

SeantheMan wrote: »

I live in South Korea, the last 4 years or so.

Truthfully...the products I miss are

- Tea (but I can order Barry's via a site called IHerb - so it's a non-issue, in Europe on short hols we used to bring tea with us)
- Sausages , hard to get decent saussies in Asia, it's all Hotdog or Wursts
- White pudding - no chance of finding it
- Batch loaf
- I'd say Kerrygold butter, but there are good alternatives albeit a bit expensive
- Cheese and Onion crisps / Salt and Vinegar you can find the odd time if you're lucky
- Cordial , cuppa soups, and decent biscuits too

I actually use a site called BritishCornerShop to get stuff sent over to keep my goin every so often.
This arrived last week

Thats some amount of ****e to be eating

Sam Kade

Did anyone mention Guinness yet? Or should I say a properly poured pint of Guinness, I went to Manchester from Cork a few years ago, I ordered a pint of Guinness at the airport before leaving and there were 3 Brits at the counter as well savouring pints of Guinness It didn't take long to figure out why they were drinking Guinness on their departure, the Guinness in Manchester was poured straight into the glass and severed immediately, tasted like dyke water. I tried explaining to the barman about how to pour a pint of Guinness but is was a waste of time.

OldMrBrennan83

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Tell me how

McCrack wrote:

Thats some amount of ****e to be eating

Doubt it's going to eaten in one meal.

fmpisces

I lived in Portugal for several months years ago and the one thing I missed was a decent sausage! All I could get were these very pink "sausages" that just did not measure up to the real Irish sausage.
Other than that the food was gorgeous.

Patww79

Patww79 wrote: »

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You can get good Guinness if you know where to go. There are always pubs that will have it decent you just need to find out which ones in your locality.

The most realiable will be rural pubs or in rural towns. But the cities have a few go to places too. I do agree though that it's hard and I just can't understand why it varies so much from place to place.

Arthur Daley

I always find it a bit amazing that continental countries with large dairy farming/chocolate/cheese making traditions such as France, Italy, Germany etc , parts of the states also, drink so much bloody UHT and not so much 'proper' fresh milk as we are used to in Ireland, (and the UK)

dudara

Butter. I can put up with not having tea, and proper crisps, but I do miss proper butter

Schwanz

Packet a King/Tayto

Carry

Barry's tea, and I'm not even Irish ...

There is nothing more soothing than a mug of hot, black-as-tar Barry's with a dash of milk

Dr Brown

Arthur Daley wrote: »

I always find it a bit amazing that continental countries with large dairy farming/chocolate/cheese making traditions such as France, Italy, Germany etc , parts of the states also, drink so much bloody UHT and not so much 'proper' fresh milk as we are used to in Ireland, (and the UK)

The milk in the UK is also crap.

Ordinary Irish milk tastes better than British "organic" milk.

Wanderer2010

Tayto
Finches
Homestead

blueser

McCrack wrote: »

Thats some amount of ****e to be eating

I'd love to see his cholesterol and bloodsugar readings!