200 bags of Tayto, 1,000 Lyons green label

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tuxy wrote: »

Bacon products are available in the USA.
If you're going to take such risks you need to import blackcurrant.

You can get blackcurrant in the States, Ribena via Amazon and the plants are available (not widely though).

con___manx1

I got bisto sent over when i lived away and lyons tea and tayto.

taytobreath

meanies

Fathom

RaySla wrote: »

Barry's tea and dairy gold butter is a must

Kerry Gold sold stateside in Trader Joe's.

Rubberchikken

i dont get this bringing over irish food. the whole point of living in a foreign country to me is eating foreign food. id never miss taytos or tea or sausages or whatever. just my take.

gar32

I live in Germany and after 8 years I have got used to the local food. It just nice to have a treat now and then to remind you of home.

I can buy Chocolate here now when I couldn't when I 1st move over. Tea here is OK but not as strong. I could live without Lyon's if needed but sure if I pack 120 pack each time why not.

I seat with a few Irish in work and we talk about food at home a lot. Stuff that is not here. Cakes are different, Take away's are not as nice. Chinese and Indian are made different then they would be in Ireland.

2nd to Family is food on the missed list

SandyMac1234

Rashers and sausages with Brennens bread! And kerrygold.

Donald Trump

tuxy wrote: »

Bacon products are available in the USA.
If you're going to take such risks you need to import blackcurrant.

Bacon is available but you will struggle to find either rashers or decent sausages. They don't do the cuts for the rashers unless you are somewhere like NY where they might have a fella supplying shops that do a lot of Irish (or UK) products. Either way, if you are caught trying to bring them in it's an automatic either $500 or $750 fine. Something of that magnitude

Kerrygold is something you can get in any half-decent supermarket over there. It'll be on the shelf in with all the American butter.


As for blackcurrants, I think that the absolute ban was removed a few years ago. I think the plant itself was banned rather than the berry itself. Fresh berries might be a problem maybe but if they're in jams or dried or processed in some way. But even then, I'm not sure the plant is still under a blanket ban


As for those Kinder surprise eggs................I think they are still illegal to import although there was some court case a year or two ago so maybe that changed since.

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Fathom wrote: »

Kerry Gold sold stateside in Trader Joe's.

It's cheaper in Costco!

Palmy

SandyMac1234 wrote: »

Rashers and sausages with Brennens bread! And kerrygold.

Kerry gold butter is in every Publix supermarket in Florida

micks_address

Palmy wrote: »

Kerry gold butter is in every Publix supermarket in Florida

Yep in the market baskets in new Hampshire to.. as are barrys tea bags...

Hoboo

Rubberchikken wrote: »

i dont get this bringing over irish food. the whole point of living in a foreign country to me is eating foreign food. id never miss taytos or tea or sausages or whatever. just my take.

It's a bogger thing. Same ones that wear gaa jerseys to the beach and sing the fields of anhenry and Galway girl after a few pints.

Donald Trump

Rubberchikken wrote: »

i dont get this bringing over irish food. the whole point of living in a foreign country to me is eating foreign food. id never miss taytos or tea or sausages or whatever. just my take.

What is the longest stretch that you have lived abroad for?

BailMeOut

if you like Irish tea and live abroad there really is no substitute available. If you were a coffee drinker you are grand but irish blend tea is unique and none of the foreign equivalents work as an alternative.

ceadaoin.

For tea drinkers living in the US, Trader Joe's have an Irish breakfast tea that's pretty good. I just discovered it recently. Saves a fortune on buying expensive Irish teabags!

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ceadaoin. wrote: »

For tea drinkers living in the US, Trader Joe's have an Irish breakfast tea that's pretty good. I just discovered it recently. Saves a fortune on buying expensive Irish teabags!

I drink it in work, it's not bad but not quite as good as the stuff from home.

Side note, Trader Joe's also do excellent non UHT milk which is on a par with home,

ceadaoin.

él statutorio wrote: »

I drink it in work, it's not bad but not quite as good as the stuff from home.

Side note, Trader Joe's also do excellent non UHT milk which is on a par with home,

Is there something wrong with the milk here? I always just buy the red top ones from various stores and don't taste any difference?

Third_Echelon

él statutorio wrote: »

Originally Posted by Fathom
Kerry Gold sold stateside in Trader Joe's.

It's cheaper in Costco!

In California its pretty much the same price in Trader Joe's vs Costco. In Costco you have to buy the 4 box mulitpack.

Pretty much anything you want you can buy online and get delivered these days. Amazon or Planet Candy in Cork ship.

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ceadaoin. wrote: »

Is there something wrong with the milk here? I always just buy the red top ones from various stores and don't taste any difference?

Yeah, most of the milk is UHT or "Ultra Pasteurized" which is pretty much the same as the little things of long life milk you get in hotel rooms. It doesn't taste the same as fresh milk. It doesn't need to be refrigerated either.

If you can find milk in glass bottles it's usually "regular" milk like we have at home. TJ's organic milk is like the stuff at home too.

You can usually tell by the dates on the milk, non UHT will usually be good for up to 10 days. UHT milk is typically a month or two.

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Third_Echelon wrote: »

In California its pretty much the same price in Trader Joe's vs Costco. In Costco you have to buy the 4 box mulitpack.

Pretty much anything you want you can buy online and get delivered these days. Amazon or Planet Candy in Cork ship.

True, we go through a lot of butter so Costco makes sense.

Wasn't aware of planet Candy in Cork, will have to check it out.

Third_Echelon

él statutorio wrote: »

True, we go through a lot of butter so Costco makes sense.

Wasn't aware of planet Candy in Cork, will have to check it out.

Yeah, usually go for the Costco pack, but if it's the only thing that you need it's not worth the trek to Costco just for one item. If it go in there I come out spending at least $200 every time, even if i just went in for one thing!

Planet Candy is good, but my wife goes mad on it sometimes. Might have to block the domain on our broadband router!!! :P:D:P

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Third_Echelon wrote: »

Yeah, usually go for the Costco pack, but if it's the only thing that you need it's not worth the trek to Costco just for one item. If it go in there I come out spending at least $200 every time, even if i just went in for one thing!

Planet Candy is good, but my wife goes mad on it sometimes. Might have to block the domain on our broadband router!!! :P:D:P

Sure I don't think anyone can leave Costco without spending at least $200. I love that place!

Third_Echelon

él statutorio wrote: »

Sure I don't think anyone can leave Costco without spending at least $200. I love that place!

Yeah, it's awesome! Go in for butter, milk and bog roll... come out with 4 slabs of beer, a BBQ, a canoe and a TV :-)

It's like the middle jackpot aisle of Lidl on steroids!

Fathom

What are rashers? Are they like Canadian bacon? Where to buy in SoCal?

Blueshoe

Turnips and misery

grindle

Fathom wrote: »

What are rashers? Are they like Canadian bacon? Where to buy in SoCal?

Canadian bacon, except tasty. It's the cured meat from the back of a pig. Canadian bacon is the SPAMified version. It's like comparing Xmas ham to luncheon meat ham or a chicken breast on the bone to a chicken nugget.

bobbysands81

BailMeOut wrote: »

We send my sister and her kids hula-hoops, cadbury tiffin and YR sauce. That's all they ever want.

They don’t sound Irish.

bobbysands81

Blueshoe wrote: »

Turnips and misery

1950’s are long gone.

the_syco

Fathom wrote: »

What are rashers? Are they like Canadian bacon? Where to buy in SoCal?

grindle wrote: »

Canadian bacon, except tasty. It's the cured meat from the back of a pig. Canadian bacon is the SPAMified version. It's like comparing Xmas ham to luncheon meat ham or a chicken breast on the bone to a chicken nugget.

Nope. Rashers are like peameal bacon, but often thinner. Found Canadian bacon to be what the Irish would call "streaky bacon".

Third_Echelon wrote: »

but if it's the only thing that you need it's not worth the trek to Costco just for one item.

The 40 pack of toilet roll was usually the primary objective, although I often got the Kirkland hotdogs, as well as a 20 pack of mandarins (in orange juice).

bobbysands81 wrote: »

They don’t sound Irish.

Who cares; you can't get them easily in Canada!

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Back to the topic at hand; teabags always went down well. Also, bring Cadburys chocolate. The stuff from Ireland tastes different than the stuff made in Toronto.

the_syco

Also, ask them if they want you to bring over one or two power bars. It was one thing I missed, as I had Irish plug electronics, but didn't enough adaptors to use them all.

Ensure the case you bring the crisps in is tough. You'll lose a few kg from your max weight, but otherwise the crisps will get battered in the hold.