Was it because butter was cheaper on one side of the border or was it because butter was non-existent on one side of the border [that had you once upon a happy day running borders with butter-in-bag?]
My grandad tookl my granny to the north for their honeymoon…Turns out it was just so he could fill the boot of the car with butter to sell on his shop..
I remember the queue’s from Newry to Dundalk before Christmas as a line of traffic bumper to bumper buying butter, drink, petrol and they had a Smyth’s toy store…🤷♀️
Condoms too, in the recent past, it’s almost like the past plays in the collective brain of a generation, waiting for the hand of mammie to guide them.
When we have a United Ireland I think we should keep the price of cans lower in the 6 counties for nostalgia sake.
So it always was.
I remember 15 years ago a local supermarket had offers on bottles of Bailey’s, selling them for £10 each. A lad from Dublin arrived up to be shown around the warehouse. He went directly to 5 pallets of Baileys, 1500 bottles to a pallet.
“So how much would that be for a pallet?”
“15,000. We can’t drop the price any as we aren’t in bulk distribution I’m afraid,” siad the manager.
“Grand so. I’ll take 3 pallets.”
45 grand was exchanged and a Merc Sprinter LWB full of Baileys bottles was soon on its way to Dublin.
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Was it because butter was cheaper on one side of the border or was it because butter was non-existent on one side of the border [that had you once upon a happy day running borders with butter-in-bag?]
My grandad tookl my granny to the north for their honeymoon…Turns out it was just so he could fill the boot of the car with butter to sell on his shop..
I remember the queue’s from Newry to Dundalk before Christmas as a line of traffic bumper to bumper buying butter, drink, petrol and they had a Smyth’s toy store…🤷♀️
Condoms too, in the recent past, it’s almost like the past plays in the collective brain of a generation, waiting for the hand of mammie to guide them.
When we have a United Ireland I think we should keep the price of cans lower in the 6 counties for nostalgia sake.
So it always was.
I remember 15 years ago a local supermarket had offers on bottles of Bailey’s, selling them for £10 each. A lad from Dublin arrived up to be shown around the warehouse. He went directly to 5 pallets of Baileys, 1500 bottles to a pallet.
“So how much would that be for a pallet?”
“15,000. We can’t drop the price any as we aren’t in bulk distribution I’m afraid,” siad the manager.
“Grand so. I’ll take 3 pallets.”
45 grand was exchanged and a Merc Sprinter LWB full of Baileys bottles was soon on its way to Dublin.
May the flood of DL plates commence