There’s a stereotype that we boil and overcook everything
My upbringing was dry chicken, dry beef, dry chops, boiled veg and I added butter to everything to give it back some taste lol
I’d say there’s a lot to the stereotype. It’s a bit antiquated now though. We have decent food nowadays. I personally bastardise a coddle with kimchi, garlic crisp and roast peanut.
We have a drinking culture for socialising, not a food culture. You can get good food in Ireland, but like much of northern Europe, we prioritize work over food. The good food is in countries that touch the Mediterranean.
In the UK and Ireland, we have more crumbs over our keyboards and shorter lunch breaks.
I personally like the orange boiled water my mother reduces carrots to
to be fair when I was growing up the red Chef sauce was considered a spice in my house … and the brown version was just for people with notions.
I know it’s obvious for most on here but whenever Americans refer to “the Irish” they’re typically referring to Bostonians who either emigrated from Ireland 40+years ago, or those whose parents emigrated 40+ years ago.
When you’ve emigrated that long ago it’s inevitable that you are nothing like what “real” Irish people are like.
Well we’re not fucking Italy are we
All that stuff at the front of your TV would do my nut in, sure that model ship is blocking some of the screen
Irish cuisine is shite enough, you have to admit.
Have you ever heard of coddle 🤢
In 2010 one of my work colleagues would order a plain burger when we went out for lunch on a Friday. Plain = meat and two buns. We used to slag him off about it, that he was typically Irish ☘️ So yeah, our inclination to cook and and eat bland food is real.
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There’s a stereotype that we boil and overcook everything
My upbringing was dry chicken, dry beef, dry chops, boiled veg and I added butter to everything to give it back some taste lol
I’d say there’s a lot to the stereotype. It’s a bit antiquated now though. We have decent food nowadays. I personally bastardise a coddle with kimchi, garlic crisp and roast peanut.
We have a drinking culture for socialising, not a food culture. You can get good food in Ireland, but like much of northern Europe, we prioritize work over food. The good food is in countries that touch the Mediterranean.
In the UK and Ireland, we have more crumbs over our keyboards and shorter lunch breaks.
I personally like the orange boiled water my mother reduces carrots to
to be fair when I was growing up the red Chef sauce was considered a spice in my house … and the brown version was just for people with notions.
I know it’s obvious for most on here but whenever Americans refer to “the Irish” they’re typically referring to Bostonians who either emigrated from Ireland 40+years ago, or those whose parents emigrated 40+ years ago.
When you’ve emigrated that long ago it’s inevitable that you are nothing like what “real” Irish people are like.
Well we’re not fucking Italy are we
All that stuff at the front of your TV would do my nut in, sure that model ship is blocking some of the screen
Irish cuisine is shite enough, you have to admit.
Have you ever heard of coddle 🤢
In 2010 one of my work colleagues would order a plain burger when we went out for lunch on a Friday. Plain = meat and two buns. We used to slag him off about it, that he was typically Irish ☘️ So yeah, our inclination to cook and and eat bland food is real.