QuoteI just bought two packs of Jacob's Bourbon Creams yeaterday.
Does anyone buy Irish goods these days or do you care?
I just bought two packs of Jacob's Bourbon Creams yeaterday.
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I dont really care, i know i should but i don't
If I feel the Irish manufacturer or provider isn't screwing me, yes. Unfortunately that can be quite rare.
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Definately, especially with yougarts.
What the **** is wrong with Irish cow?
everywhere i look I see Danone on the shelves.
**** Danone and BUY IRISH!
Have always tried to do so since I became 'socially aware' as a kid.
Used to cajole/force my parents into buying Irish products.
I still do myself when I can and when the choice is relevant - even if it does seem less important in the age of the Celtic Tiger.
I'd expect Eircom League fans to be more likely than 'barstoolers' to have this mindset. A lot of us support our teams through a sense of local/national pride.
What really fecks me off is people buying Walkers crisps - Tayto are the best, as confirmed by numerous English people I've tried them on....
Superquinn sausages lad - the best in the world !!! Irish pigs sliced and diced and made..Originally Posted by jorge
Rashers thrown in too...
Any big irish supermarlets provide the irish feoil agus arán, pasta is anyones guess, prataí are usually irish grown along with the vegetables, thats what goes on my plate..
non edibles... I do what I can, goes back to business studies for junior cert, buy irish, help irish and all that.
Am conscious about it, and do try to adhere to the principlies.. so yes i dos buy irish as much as possible...
Never mind superquins or the other supermarkets and their "irish" products...
We buy all our meat from the local butcher, buy our bread (and lovely cakes, jams etc) from the local sale of work, get our veg from either the local butcher or farmers markets...
All support the local economy, but above all the quality of it all is far far better, across the board.....
If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.
As a child of the old Guaranteed Irish campaigns, I would always buy Irish as far as is humanly possible, except where the quality is hazardously poorer.
More a King man than Tayto, but either are far better than Walkers in that crisp bracket. And how the likes of Muller or the Danone's are doing well here over Yoplait or Glenysk (the finest yoghurt in Ireland, IMO) baffles me. I was on holidays in Norway, and even there they had Yoplait, and I can tell you, it was the finest yoghurt available there.
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
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Yes, to a certain extent, but on the whole, well, probably, but I've stopped checking tbh!
Sitting pretty!!!
I rarely check anymore although might check when i've already purchased. I don't like the "packed specially for Tesco/Dunnes..." things on packets as I should know where produce comes from.
I don't think i'd ever buy irish for the sake of it as when it comes to fleecing off the consumer the irish producer will do it just as quickely as a foreigner. Whats the difference of Tesco or Dunnes making profit from me?
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There's a huge difference Pete.
Tesco's profits get shipped over to Enfield and Cheshunt, north of London. Beyond salaries, locally sourced products and their other local costs, nothing remains in Ireland.
As an Irish -registered company, ALL of Dunnes profit remains in Ireland, along weith the salary, haulage etc costs. They pay tax on that profit in Ireland (though no doubt at a level lower than they probably should, given good Accountants, but it's revenue for this country none-the-less).
There's a very, very clear difference, and one has a much bigger benefit to the Irish economy than the other.
usually go with whatever is better value
walkers cripss are absoulute muck. king (but hate the odd few packs where theyr cut too thin) then tayto. walkers..rather not eat anything than them.theyr the same as those sh!tty american crisps "lays"
AFAIK Tesco operate in the Republic as 'Tesco Ireland'. from what i've seen they buy a lot of local produce brands as well as branded under Tesco. We can't possibly know how much tax Dunnes pay or whether their Directors spend the cash in Ireland or the Bahamas.
Its like suggesting people used East mobiles because were irish owned (denis O'Brien payed feck all tax here) as opposed to Vodafone.
What i'm saying is just because companies nominally owned by irish citizens rarely makes a difference.
No difference in my mind between Tesco and Dunnes - only corporation Tax that's any difference, and sure we all know what lengths Dunnes would go the avoid paying that.
The "moral" choice of the Irish supermarkets would be superquin, since they pay (by far) the best wages of the three.
If you want to buy local produce, you have to buy locally from independent retailers - anything else you're just kidding yourselves tbh.
If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.
I generally focus on the quality of the product rather than where it comes from. With regards to fresh produce that would obviously tend towards Irish.
The real reason you should support your local butcher over the supermarket is that it's generally both cheaper and a better quality of product.
This is a bizarre one but a fact no less. Economies of scale should favour the larger operator, the supermarket, and with most produce they do but meat still favours the butcher and the only possible explanation is that the growing logisitical chain is having an effect on larger providers. But even this is questionable as it doesn't affect other groups.
Now I'm aware some folk, including Macy, might assume it's the supermarket trying to screw people over but it doesn't make sense to do it with meat goods. Generally the more staple 'dinner' goods are where they try to outdo the local joe and any rises are usually elsewhere.
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Cos Im over in the UK, i tend to look out for Irish brands and buy those for nostalgia purposes! (Kerrygold, Denny etc.) And I agree on Taytos, far better than Wa*kers crisps.
'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
Emigrant-nostalgia can be a strange thing.
I made a point of buying Taytos whenever I came home from Scotland, and I was only there for a year.
Even stranger still I really missed...DUTCH GOLD.
Couldn't get the stuff over there at all, and yes I am aware it's not "buying Irish" but I was a student and in those days (technically still in them) it was as Irish as a cup of tea or hang sandwiches.
It's my preferred foul tasting cheap import.
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