Fresh Irish scallops, we’ve such great seafood.

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  1. Irish food, especially seafood is unmatched, I live in Canada and get jealous as fuck when I see stuff like this 🤣 enjoy it, I’m sitting here raging 🤣

  2. Speaking as a chef, Irish food and produce is the best in the world for one reason and that is simplicity. No complications, which makes ingredient quality and seasonality the most important things as they should be.

  3. The biggest problem I have with irish scallops is the price. Was in Nova Scotia a few years back and on all the docks were booths selling scallops and chips with huge portions of about 15-20 scallops for feic all (can’t remember the exact cost but it was cheap). Starter here would be about three scallops for €15.

  4. Delish. I absolutely love fresh seafood, but it’s tricky to get good stuff in my home town. Even though its a seaside town. Only option is supermarket stuff which just ain’t the same.

  5. It’s an absolute shame that it’s actually difficult to get fresh Irish seafood in most places here. A country so small should have fresh seafood all over the place, but it’s even hard to find it along the coasts. Mind boggling.

    Edit: An island country so small

  6. Unfortunately they’re caught by dredging the sea floor absolutely wrecking all other forms of life. Catching these is completely wrecking our sea life.

    Diving to get them works apparently but then you wouldn’t be able to get them in the same numbers.

    Good article on it here – [https://www.tcd.ie/tceh/projects/foodsmartdublin/recipes/March_Scallops/sustainability_scallops.php](https://www.tcd.ie/tceh/projects/foodsmartdublin/recipes/March_Scallops/sustainability_scallops.php)

    So yeah, I don’t eat them, they’re fucking up our seas

  7. I had some of the best seafood I’ve ever tasted when I visited Ireland a few year ago. I still think about those mussels.

  8. Honestly, given we’re an island it should be a lot more common. Seems like battered cod is the only fish most Irish folk eat on the regular. Plus the odd smoked salmon I guess.

  9. As an Irish American adoptee, who went to a little seaside town on Long Island as a toddler, the seafood in Ireland is hands down the very best. I’ve eaten seafood at home, and places around the globe. I still dream of Irish lobster and scallops. Cheers ☘️

  10. I don’t think dredging scallops is the Grrrrreat Irish seafood we need, hand dived are way more expensive, I tend not to buy farmed Vietnam prawns because they are produced with devastating consequences, nets have holes so smaller fish can escape well the net holes are so small they catch all the small fish and make a prawn feed from the minnows. I seen a show on channel 4 about farming prawns. Don’t buy Vietnamese prawns they unsustainably farmed.

  11. Watched a video recently of a guy free diving, cracking a scallop under water and eating it there and then. All I was think was what’s the point like you can’t even taste it.

  12. Scallops are about as unique to Ireland as snails. They are filter feeders and clean all of the dirt out of seawater in the same manner as oysters. Not appetising to me.🤮🤪

  13. Ooh, delicious. My favourite way to eat them is with a *tiny* little bit of soy sauce – the salt brings out the flavour, and there’s also a little something extra as well that just makes the whole thing 😗🤌

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