A stroll through an Irish supermarket

[dianeduane]

For those of you who may be interested:

The Irish recipe pages at our European Cuisines website are constantly getting search-engine hits from people asking "What do Irish people eat?". With that in mind, we've put a new page up that talks about the subject -- in very broad strokes -- and links to a Flickr photoset of images from our local supermarket, Gillespies' SuperValu of Baltinglass, County Wicklow. (You can also view the images as a slideshow, if you like.) Anyway, if you've been wondering what a small-town supermarket in Ireland might offer, here's your chance to find out.

There are also links on the "What do Irish people eat?" page to our Irish recipe collections, if you're interested.

 

 

 

Comments

[spiritdancer]

I suspect the problem is actually importing the raw-milk cheeses, unless everyone involved in the making of that cheese has going thru some rather vigorous documentation and licensing. Mostly based on various diseases (off the top of my head, hoof & mouth disease, and tuberculosis), hence one of the rules being how long the cheese must have aged before import.

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

It's a risk I'm willing to take. :) The difference between raw and pasteurized is definitely there. There are few forms of bliss easier reached than a bit of Stilton with fresh, crips pear.