Sunday 26 May, 2013
A SURVEY BY the Love Irish Food campaign has revealed that shoppers are frankly baffled by the products in their baskets.
There’s widespread belief that some items are Irish-made, when they are in fact nothing of the kind.
And it’s not just the shopping, either:
And the final insult:
YouTube/haribokey
Neither Sally O’Brien nor the way she might look at you are made in Ireland. The actress, Vicki Michelle, is English. So the Harp Lager guy’s yearning’s are TOTALLY misplaced.
Does this country even exist anymore?
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If Lyons tea isn’t made Ireland why does the tv ad show the HQ then it shows the masterblender and another employee making the teabag and they are both Irish? hmmm.
Sad really as Lyon tea and HB were once made in Ireland but the factories closed
That’s not a harp ad …. This is a harp ad …Take a look at this video on YouTube:
Well, I was pleasantly surprised to notice that the packet of tic tacs I bought in Germany on Tuesday were “hergestellt in Irland” or made in Ireland. How about looking at things made in Ireland which would equally surprise you …?
Sure remember during the pork scare everything was pulled off the shelves except galtee as they only used Spanish pork
You mean Sally O’brien is Michelle from allo allo
Irish officially exists as just a marketing slogan now. Hence the Gathering.
In regards to the honey support local bee keepers Irish honey is far tastier than other eu and Asian honey that is being sold in this country
Remember watching who do u think you are that Nigella Lawson is connected to Lyon tea.
Other things people think are Irish but aren’t include, De Velera, begrudgery, TV3, Rockall island, selection boxes………
When you purchase “Irish” meat, poultry and dairy products, check the licence number in the oval to see its origin.
You’d be surprised what products which appear to be Irish are UK sourced or EU sourced.
Even cheese labelled with the names of Irish towns come from UK.
Own label milk in some supermarkets comes from UK.
Bread comes from UK.
Lots of Christmas turkey I’d imported. That’s a big shame.
is there not also the opposite effect, ie products made here but packaged elsewhere and labelled UK or wherever? i remember watching a programme on C4 (i think) and they were packing Charleville/Coleraine cheese but its all the same, made in Ireland but packed in England and as such labelled GB?
Really liked that cully sully stuff ,and was a Lyons man too,will be avonmore and Barry’s now ,fair play for dispelling those myths ,any chance of going with the guys ideas above and telling us what is Irish ?perfect timing as we all stock up with the fancy biscuits and stuff for the crimbo
You missed the big one Guinness originally from Wales and now owned by diagio
As the opener says , a survey by Love Irish Food….. The folks that promote only Irish brands ,so it surely can’t be long before they plan to inform us of the Irish brands rather than the non Irish brands , it’s not that surprising many people “think” certain brands like HB are Irish as the advertising or history of many of these brands are very Irish ,Hughes Brothers , the farm in Rathfarnham , blocks of HB ice cream on a Sunday after mass was very Irish tradition of my grandparents / parents ….I love Irish brands and usually hate when they shift production to UK or something , they went and ruined jaffacakes since they switched to UK.
How about the guaranteed Irish sybol, not worth the paper it’s printed on, Someone in my house bought Topaz milk, all across the front are 100% Irish, Promoting jobs in Ireland & the guaranteed Irish sybol, then on the side is the EU stamp of origin= UK (NI) so OK you can get away with it being irish but I always thought that the GI symbol meant it had been produced in the Republic?
Feck the way the country is being diluted with immigration soon Irish people will be extinct.
Eg try to find a real Londoner, soon Dublin will be like this with the baby boom.
Ahhhh look at all the do gooder fools reply comments. That’s what has the country the way it is. Be careful not to say the word black, Some Irish idiots will come after your head. They also want to replace Irish football players with foreign… ahhh but its grand.
Nice to see freedom of opinion is alive and well.
Derrick is well entitled to his view and that idea that ‘thousands of Irish emigrated so its ok’ is nonsense.
Times were different and I am not taking the guilt of previous generations on my shoulders
Everyone is entitled to their opinion of course, and in airing it on a public forum should be prepared to have that opinion challenged, especially one as close-minded as that aired by Derrick. And ‘Previous Generations’? Have you just missed what’s been going on the last few years?!
Shane your comment is nothing more than a babbling racist rant (but you’re well entitled to it).
My granny used to say
“Whist, the chast is on” or “whist, the newsy nawsy on” meaning be quiet, the news is on.
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