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

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Do the Irish eat the Finnish-American delicacy pasties?

In the Upper Midwest (and in Colorado, and probably parts of Canada), Cornishmen were the experts on mining and immigrants from elsewhere learned from them. And along the way, they picked up pasties -- which are apparently quite handy for eating under the ground.

So: In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, there's Toivo and Eino's Pasty Sauce. Toivo and Eino are the standard names in jokes about Finnish-Americans; equivalent to Pat and Mike or Ole and Sven.

In Minneapolis supermarkets, the Mexican food sections include: 1) Food imported from Mexico; 2) Food from Texas with labels partly in Spanish, including such exotica as spaghetti; 3) Taco Bell sauces.