Ireland's revenge

FrankTheHealer , 5 months ago

[The Irish liked that]

mashbooq , 5 months ago

Éirinn go Brách

Dasnap , 5 months ago

We don’t need punishment because we punish ourselves enough.

ivanafterall , 5 months ago

Example: British food.

Dasnap , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

We had rationing into the 50s which fucked with people’s views on food for decades. It’s fine now but I’d assume most food people eat here is foreign inspired.

Funnily enough I think Ireland had the same issue. Being an island was helpful during the war but not the years after.

hitmyspot , 5 months ago

No, Irelands relationship with food was more influenced by Britain taking our food to sell, while forcing millions to die due to potato blight. The great hunger. You might have forgotten, but we didn’t.

Dasnap , 5 months ago

I’m talking about post WWII specifically though. I know about the blight. We’re taught about it in schools here, at least I was.

sugar_in_your_tea , 5 months ago

IDK, I love corned beef and cabbage.

WilloftheWest , 5 months ago

It’s fine now but some “staples” of our cuisine are trash. If you value your low blood pressure, don’t go into threads about people asking for food recommendations while visiting Britain. It’s just full of people recommending actual garbage like fish and chips from a take away. Are people delusional? I’ve been to dozens of chippies across the country, and save one meal at the Magpie in Whitby, I’ve never had a chippy tea that’s lived up to expectations.

Recommend a good haggis or something rather than the bland meme food.

vext01 , 5 months ago

Is it possible you just don’t like fish and chips?

WilloftheWest , 5 months ago

I like fish and chips from an actual restaurant or homemade. With the exception of the Magpie in Whitby, which is a restaurant with an attached take away, every take away fish and chips I’ve had has been flavourless chunks of varying textures.

Guntrigger , 5 months ago

So you’re saying fish and chips is trash, but you like a nice fish and chips?

WilloftheWest , 5 months ago

Sure, if you insist. Though the barrier for “nice” is really low. If you like beer that isn’t Stella or Carling, you’re not calling beer trash in general.

Guntrigger , 5 months ago

Your comparison doesn’t make sense. You are saying and chips in general is trash, but you like it when it’s high quality. However, beer in general is not trash, but you only like it when it is at least medium quality.

It sounds like you like both things, just not when they are bad.

WilloftheWest , 5 months ago

That’s what I’ve been saying. I’ve only ever been calling bad things bad. I was saying that fish and chips from a take away is bad and shouldn’t be recommended as some exemplar of British cuisine

Mr_Blott , 5 months ago

The Wee Chippy in Anstruther and Oh My Cod in Larnaca, Cyprus are the two best chippies in the world

EnderMB , 5 months ago

It amazes me how Americans seem to have no clue about our food, despite it being pretty well-documented that we don’t eat spotted dick, and that our baked beans are absolutely nothing like the beans they eat.

Ummdustry , 5 months ago

Example: British comedy.

Dasnap , 5 months ago

I’m gonna assume you’re talking about scripted television because English standup is probably some of the best in the world. Half of English TV after the watershed is basically ‘let’s get a load of standup comedians in a room and let them piss about for a bit’.

EnderMB , 5 months ago

Brexit

theodewere , 5 months ago

gotta respect a girl who thinks her stuff is good enough to avenge entire nations

moistclump , 5 months ago

Maybe she recognizes that it’s a good start and maybe if we all did our part like this brave woman we would be able to make a difference in this world.

Mr_Blott , 5 months ago

You’d be a cunt and you’d make it worse

driving_crooner , 5 months ago

From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs (or how much they deserved it).