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

[tysolna]

Thanks for the photos; but how did the other shoppers and the people working there to you taking pictures of the shop?

[dduane.livejournal.com]

Mostly I avoided taking any pictures of shoppers (though the people at the checkouts said to go ahead) and as regarded pictures in general, the store management didn't mind in the slightest. The manager was pleased, in fact. The only concern I heard voiced was from the butcher, who said, "You should come in tomorrow morning and get some more pictures: the meat case isn't as pretty right now as it will be then." (And indeed they were restocking some of the shelves after the weekend, so things were a little bare in places.)

By and large, European businesses are nothing like as insane as US ones seem to have gone about photography.

[tysolna]

It seems the shops in Ireland are much less anonymous as those here in Germany. If I tried this, I'd probably get a lot of cold shoulders and frozen looks.

[dduane.livejournal.com]

That I could understand. There seems to be much more of a feeling of needing to go through all the correct bureaucratic moves first...

[tysolna]

Alas, yes... Halfway through the shop, I'd probably be stopped and asked why I was taking pictures. We're a suspicious lot.
Going to have to try it now.