Why is food here in Ireland always so disgusting?

machaseh · 15-12-2022 12:49PM #1

'What the farmer doesn't know, the farmer doesn't eat' as we say. I am well aware of that and most poeple just want to eat what they are used to. But usually when I spend some more time in a foreign country, I get used to the local food and often start to prefer it but most certainly not Irish food.

Yuck why is it always so disgusting? It's always either way too salty or sometimes some things are the complete opposite and have all flavour boiled out of them. Yuck.

Today there was a christmas dinner served at work. I usually don't even bother eating any of the food there because it's always mank but okay because its almost christmas I was just giving it a shot.

Ugh what a deception. Ok one thing was good and those were the potatoes. I mean that's basically the only food yous had here for centuries so at least the potatoes are good. And I ate some of the salmon but the rest I had to throw straight in the bin. What an absolute disgrace.

Some kind of brown gloopy sauce that tasted like cardboard somehow covering some stodgy flour mess that was so vile I literally had to get up from my chair and run to the bin to spit it out. It was embarassing.

Trigger Happy · 15-12-2022 12:53PM

Sounds like you are projecting your lousy work canteen fare on the entire country. Maybe just eat your own food if you don't like what is available elsewhere?

15-12-2022 12:54PM

It isn't.

HeidiHeidi · 15-12-2022 12:55PM

For the umpteenth time, in the umpteenth thread - if things are so bad here, why do you stay?

I literally cannot think of a positive sentence in any of your posts that I've seen. And the subjects are many and varied.

Are you a masochist?

freshpopcorn · 15-12-2022 12:59PM

Your best off move to a country who's cuisine you'd enjoy and leave your gravy to me.

Dodge · 15-12-2022 01:03PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119999596#Comment_119999596

This is the point

Imagine defining a whole country by Christmas lunch in a work canteen

OP, get out into the fresh air and when you’ve come back, learn to cook and you can make everything to your own taste

Gregor Samsa · 15-12-2022 01:05PM

I imagine this isn't the first time you've made a scene in the canteen. I bet the chef saw you in the queue, and gave you the salmon with his own special "home made white salty sauce".

whisky_galore · 15-12-2022 01:07PM

Obvious wum is obvious.

machaseh · 15-12-2022 01:07PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119999609#Comment_119999609

I'm waiting until I am sacked to get the redundancy bonus if you want a real answer.

freshpopcorn · 15-12-2022 01:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119999660#Comment_119999660

There's not a chance of that happening.

They know what your like and take great pleasure out of making you miserable.

breezy1985 · 15-12-2022 01:20PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119999609#Comment_119999609

Because he is definitely Irish.

Barcley · 15-12-2022 01:23PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058275905/why-is-food-here-in-ireland-always-so-disgusting

"Ugh what a deception."

Deception is a bit of a faux ami, in French and possibly your language, it means disappointment but in English it means something that is deceiving.

As for food here always being so disgusting. We don't have a strong culinary tradition unlike many countries but you can still find excellent cuisine here and our meat and dairy ingredients are some of the best in the world.