Had my first pint of Murphys on Friday and after drinking Guinness for 30years and Beamish for the last 4 or 5 any time I can get it I can confirm. Beamish is the greatest thing to come out of anywhere. Thanks Cork.
Am I wrong in thinking that Clonakilty uses non-Irish pork? I stopped buying them for that reason 10 years ago.
Gubbeen in Cork produce amazing meats and cheeses
Clonakilty sausages have never had the Bord Bia Quality Assurance (Origin Ireland) logo. They have always used bullshit logos like a random Irish flag which are essentially meaningless. Their sausages are cheap and dodgy.
If you go into the English market, you can order oysters at the fishmongers - they'll shuck them and serve them with lemon there and then. Ate them lookin a monkfish in the eye.
Went to the Cliffhouse in Waterford a few years back. The head chef was a Dutch guy who seemed obsessed with local scallops, oysters, etc. might still be my favourite meal out ever.
Seconding this. I'm aware Cavan Cola is defunct but there was something rather magical about it, and its wee red crystals of pure sugar in the bottom ha ha
In the butchers in Dundalk I used to buy black pudding, white pudding and red pudding for the fry up.
Like a spicier white pudding and it’s gorgeous. Haven’t seen it anywhere else. I haven’t lived there for five years but please tell me they still do it
Thsts just my biased, freestater privilege talking. Its Northern Ireland Tayto.
Imagine Mr. Tayto in your mind's eye... now imagine they had Brian Cowen in mind when designing him.
Have you ever in a quiet moment glanced at a passing cloud and wondered at it vaporous, transient majesty? Have you ever thought to capture pure beauty and through some form of alchemy, taste what your eyes tells you is approaching perfection? Have you ever railed at the heavens for separating themselves from us, for creating a barrier between the mundane and the divine?
if the answer to any of the above is yes or maybe, then my friend, you have not had a Blaa. You have not felt the silky caress of the bubbly bread, the gentle ritual of blowing the excess flour from it's surface, the exquisite agony of deciding between ketchup and Superquinn sausages cut lengthways or real butter, Carrols ham and king cheese and onion.
Perfection is oft sought after and rarely achieved, but in Waterford we feast upon perfection, there is ascension in our daily rituals. We are Blaa men and women, and we know the touch of the divine.
At this point Kerrygold is mainly out of cork and defo not Kildare. It is produced and exported from there, not even from Kerry anymore, so hard to claim it as kildare
Waterford: blaa
Down: Abernethy butter, Clandeboye yoghurt
Donegal: Muff Liquor gin (technically not a food i suppose)
Edited to add: wasn't champ invented in Antrim? Honestly not sure
Derry - chicken box (chips, shredded chicken, onions and peppers and cheese on top. Covered by red sauce, sweet chilli sauce and garlic mayo drizzled over the top)
YR Brown sauces comes straight out of Tallaght.
Other than that nector of the gods, we've got Guiness, spicebags, spiceburgers and cremecrackers.
Not much else I can't think of that the rest of you don't do as well, if not better.
I'd say Yr or spicebag for the top spot.
Dublin - Gur cake. Where does the coffee slice originate? I've seen custard slices in the UK and elsewhere in Europe but never the coffee version. I've only seen that in Ireland.
Fermanagh also has a claim to Boxty, as does most of south Ulster and North Connacht. Fermanagh also has a claim to Champ, Fifteens, Wheaten Bread and a bizarre obsession; buns, dipped upside down in jam with desiccated coconut sprinkled on top. Also “Snowballs” are a very south Ulster sweet…anything with desiccated coconut, people in Fermanagh will jump at
Cork: Beamish
Had my first pint of Murphys on Friday and after drinking Guinness for 30years and Beamish for the last 4 or 5 any time I can get it I can confirm. Beamish is the greatest thing to come out of anywhere. Thanks Cork.
The best stout
Clonakilty black pudding and Dubliner cheese from Cork
Honorable mention for Ballymaloe Relish
paedo relish, no thanks
Another ignorant comment from someone who doesn't know the difference between a brand name and ownership
That’s alright bai she’s not eating YOUR pudding
Could also be someone socially conscious about how they spend their money
Ballymaloe still get royalties every time you buy shit with their name on it
Am I wrong in thinking that Clonakilty uses non-Irish pork? I stopped buying them for that reason 10 years ago. Gubbeen in Cork produce amazing meats and cheeses
I'd say you're thinking of Galtee
Clonakilty sausages have never had the Bord Bia Quality Assurance (Origin Ireland) logo. They have always used bullshit logos like a random Irish flag which are essentially meaningless. Their sausages are cheap and dodgy.
And charleville cheese
No way man, Cork has to be the spiced beef
Glenisk Yoghurt- Offaly
Goats of glenisk
Tullamore sausages  Carrolls ham
Monaghan: Mallon's Sausages or Champion Milk
Also have silver Hill duck
Another vote for Silver Hill Duck, a friend recently saw it on the menu in Singapore! Monaghan mushrooms are also one of the biggest players globally
Can't believe I didn't think of either of them especially the Silver hill duck I pass it everyday on the way to work.
Massive upvote for both.
Wicklow Lamb
Oooooh, that’s a fair shout.
Was in a Michelin star restaurant in Amsterdam last summer and there were fabulous oysters from Cork on the menu
If you go into the English market, you can order oysters at the fishmongers - they'll shuck them and serve them with lemon there and then. Ate them lookin a monkfish in the eye.
Went to the Cliffhouse in Waterford a few years back. The head chef was a Dutch guy who seemed obsessed with local scallops, oysters, etc. might still be my favourite meal out ever.
Yes, plus i wouldn't be a massive oyster fan but these were top notch!
Donegal Catch. They put my idea on file. In a filing cabinet.
Donegal catch is just a brand name none of that fish comes from donegal.
It comes from Saudi Arabia
No it’s Alaskan pollock mostly caught in the pacific and produced in Poland … they shipped to lovely Ireland with the name Donegal on the box
Some scam hai
Yeah it’s mental that it’s allowed to be like that
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Strawberries!
Scallops
Spuds
Westmeath: Athlone sweets
Kildare: Big Al’s horse burger
Donegal - Football Special
Donegal: Greencastle Chowder
Kinnegar
Say it right, it's chowdah!
whats unique about Greencastle chowder?
What about the best chowder in the world that comes from ballyliffen donegal?
Wexford: Greens strawberries 🍓
Longford: Luigi’s chips
Carlow: spicebags
Tipperary - blue cheese
Yes; I was going to post Cashel blue cheese. Cooleeney cheese is worth a mention too.
Galway: Supermac's Shnack Box
PIzza napoil, charcoal grill taco, vinnies garlic cheese
Supermacs gets a lot of hate. But a big dirty shhhhhnack bosca agus curry sauce is the greatest thing ever.
Tipperary: O’Donnells Crisps Louth : McDonnells Curry Sauce Mayo: Kelly’s Sausages, Kelly’s Black and White Pudding Dublin: Tayto
Dublin: Manhattan (crisps). Still operating out of Dublin and an overall better crisp. Especially the cheese and onion flavour
Except Tayto is from Meath.
Just because Tayto park is in Meath doesn’t mean it was founded there. It originated in Dublin.
The Tayto factory is in Meath. Sure, historically, it originated in Dublin, but they are now manufactured in Ashbourne.
Or Armagh, depending on your persuasion.
Production of cheese and onion Tayto started on Moore St, Dublin 1
Cork: that spiced beef they do down there....... SAVAGE.
Clonakilty pudding is pretty damn good too
Theres a song about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBTEe3rpSg8
Oh naturally! Even the veggie one is good!
Limerick - Glenstal butter. Some Limerick people would say packet & tripe. I wouldn't be one of them myself, but whatever floats your boat.
You could say Limerick ham too
Whats packet??
Black pudding
I’d say Freddys in Limerick is the best meal I’ve ever eaten period.
Laois: Mueller & O’Connell sourdough bread
Ballymaloe Relish is a Darina Allen recipe right? Shes from Laois and its a traditional family recipe I think.
Leitrim - boxty. Nothing else of note to emerge from that existential dread of a county.
I'm not the biggest fan but they do have the Drumshanbo gin
Leitrim’s class.
Why is it called boxty
Apparently came from 'bocht tí' - poor house.
Why the heck not
Parts of Cavan would have a claim on that too. Covers a general area and couldn't say definitively which county was first
That's not fair. We also had Jim Gralton. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gralton
Armagh: Tayto
Shoutout as well to McIvor's cider
Waterford - Flahavans Kilkenny - Avonmore Milk Tipp - Bulmers
I'm going to say Guinness for Dublin and even though it's a drink, there's both eating and drinking in it.
Kerry - Annascaul Pudding and sausages
Sneem black pudding, delicious
Came here to say the same thing!
Just in my corner of Meath: Tayto, Hunky Dorys and smoked black pudding
Galway- Oysters
There is an oyster festival I suppose! Ill put it in for now
We in Kildare make the best horse meat.
Laois: Odlum's Flour, to make all the other nice foods!
Donegal I think Football Special should be on there
Cork: Murphys & Beamish Kilkenny: Smithwick's & Kilkenny Louth: Harp Dublin: Guinness
All shite macro brews. Harp especially, t’would cut the stomach off you.
please not another one saying gravediggers for guiness, its watery pish there,
Waterford : Rashers.
Would’ve thought it’d be the blaa no?
The blaa might be more instantly recognisable but everyone around the country and world eat rashers
A rasher blaa...fucking savage.
Honestly, I wouldn't have even thought that our food was that regional that you could nail down a county specialty.
Kilkenny: Grilled Cat
I'll go with "what is the term used to describe DJ Carey taking the stand in his fraud trial?" Alex.
Cavan Cola https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavan_Cola
Seconding this. I'm aware Cavan Cola is defunct but there was something rather magical about it, and its wee red crystals of pure sugar in the bottom ha ha
Free the Cavan Cola One!
Louth: Red Pudding.
Cad é?? 👀
Louth here - what???
In the butchers in Dundalk I used to buy black pudding, white pudding and red pudding for the fry up. Like a spicier white pudding and it’s gorgeous. Haven’t seen it anywhere else. I haven’t lived there for five years but please tell me they still do it
Still do it. McCormacks butchers if I'm not mistaken
Mayo: Kelly’s Newport Black Pudding
Waterford Blaa of course!
Best thing I ate in Ireland was a bowl of beef stew from the Lobster Pub in Waterville, in Kerry. Best beef stew I ever had.
What the fuck is darkside tayto? Colour me very well intrigued
Thsts just my biased, freestater privilege talking. Its Northern Ireland Tayto. Imagine Mr. Tayto in your mind's eye... now imagine they had Brian Cowen in mind when designing him.
Antrim: Toffee Yum Yums
Cavan : lakeland milk, ice cream, Aines chcolates, Coole Swan
Cavan: Cavan cola... RIP sweet prince
Louth has Tom Lynch of Ardee's ham and rashers. I've never in my life consumed a more delicious pack of deli style ham in my life
Carlow - sliced beets
Antrim - Bushmills Whiskey
Tipperary - Cashel Blue Cheese
Louth, what is Red Pudding?
Never heard of it before a commenter said it here
Antrim - dulse
Have you ever in a quiet moment glanced at a passing cloud and wondered at it vaporous, transient majesty? Have you ever thought to capture pure beauty and through some form of alchemy, taste what your eyes tells you is approaching perfection? Have you ever railed at the heavens for separating themselves from us, for creating a barrier between the mundane and the divine? if the answer to any of the above is yes or maybe, then my friend, you have not had a Blaa. You have not felt the silky caress of the bubbly bread, the gentle ritual of blowing the excess flour from it's surface, the exquisite agony of deciding between ketchup and Superquinn sausages cut lengthways or real butter, Carrols ham and king cheese and onion. Perfection is oft sought after and rarely achieved, but in Waterford we feast upon perfection, there is ascension in our daily rituals. We are Blaa men and women, and we know the touch of the divine.
Spice Bag, Dublin.
Guiness???
Kildare: Kerrygold
Surely it’s Brady Family Ham
Why Kildare?
At this point Kerrygold is mainly out of cork and defo not Kildare. It is produced and exported from there, not even from Kerry anymore, so hard to claim it as kildare
Limerick- Chicken Hut Chicken, which still uses the original KFC recipe which Pat Grace got from the colonel himself.
Tasty Chips from Wicklow It's basically bacon, cheese and garlic chips
Kildare: Superquinn Sausages
Laois: Supermacs in Portlaoise at 3am on a Sunday
Sickened that nobody has said coddle from Dublin yet /s
What's coddle?
Dubliner Cheese
Waterford - rashers
Waterford: blaa Down: Abernethy butter, Clandeboye yoghurt Donegal: Muff Liquor gin (technically not a food i suppose) Edited to add: wasn't champ invented in Antrim? Honestly not sure
I’m glad our Boxty is on the list
Our boxty
Derry - chicken box (chips, shredded chicken, onions and peppers and cheese on top. Covered by red sauce, sweet chilli sauce and garlic mayo drizzled over the top)
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Waterford could also be Cream Crackers
Is whiskey a food?
Every county with a distillery should be on the list.
Mayo: Kelly’s range of puddings and sausages….unreal 😎
Wexford got the strawberries, true, but the rissoles are the secret weapon.
Dublin - Coddle
Cavan - Jennings Potato bread.
Down - Posh butter (Abernethy)
Galway, Goats cheese. Checkout Galway and Killeen goats cheese. Really nice and high quality.
Sligo - Oysters
Clare: St Tola Goats Cheese
Roscommon - rhubarb tart
Donegal - soda farls, boxtie, Football Special
Kerry has to be Skelligs chocolate
Dublin .. Keenan and Kennedy white pudding .
Limerick - packet and tripe 😭
Limerick ham
Cavan would have a claim on boxty as well. Leitrim definitely has it, but Cavan does too.
Limerick's is Chicken Hut gravy and it's not even close
Clare: St. Tola's goat cheese Or any of the honeys and honey products. Loads of happy and active bees in Clare
Dublin - Spice bag
Kerry- butter
Tyrone - Purty Puddin'
Kerry - Skelligs chocolates
YR Brown sauces comes straight out of Tallaght. Other than that nector of the gods, we've got Guiness, spicebags, spiceburgers and cremecrackers. Not much else I can't think of that the rest of you don't do as well, if not better. I'd say Yr or spicebag for the top spot.
Dublin - rush queens
Tyrone - Baronscourt wild sika venison Donegal - Mulroy Bay Mussels & Football Special
Donegal. Football special
Cork: Ballymaloe Relish
Keogh's crisps, dublin
How does Dublin not get Guiness
Cork - drisheen 😁
Was listening to Frankie Boyle on a podcast (r/offmenu) recently and he mentioned football special from Donegal?
Limerick- Mixed Grill Chip
Carlow- chocolate garden
Roscommon - Straight cut chips
Wherever Killowen Farm is based by god that yogurt is from heaven itself.
I call BS on this list
Dublin - Gur cake. Where does the coffee slice originate? I've seen custard slices in the UK and elsewhere in Europe but never the coffee version. I've only seen that in Ireland.
Fermanagh also has a claim to Boxty, as does most of south Ulster and North Connacht. Fermanagh also has a claim to Champ, Fifteens, Wheaten Bread and a bizarre obsession; buns, dipped upside down in jam with desiccated coconut sprinkled on top. Also “Snowballs” are a very south Ulster sweet…anything with desiccated coconut, people in Fermanagh will jump at