The guy in the video is always very enthusiastic but not always 100% correct. Irish stew is usually made with lamb, but I’ve also had it made with beef. It’s more common to have boiled potatoes with it, but you can sometimes get mash. Colcannon is mash with cabbage mixed in, champ is mash with spring onions/scallions mixed in. Both are worth trying. Shepherd’s pie and cottage pie look the same but Shepherd’s pie as the name suggests is made with ground/minced lamb, ie sheep, whereas cottage pie is made with ground/minced beef. Both incorporate diced veg like carrots and onions and a tasty gravy. Pies in a pastry crust are also popular with fillings like chicken and ham, or beef with Guinness. These are usually served with potatoes, mashed or boiled. Yes we eat a lot of spuds, but they are very good here. Pubs are a great place for food all day long. At lunch time you’ll often get a really good soup of the day with soda bread. It’s usually quite cheap and very filling. Leek and potato, vegetable, carrot and coriander, and homemade tomato soup are some of the popular options. Dairygold butter is just another brand of very good Irish butter. It’s widely sold in Ireland as is Kerrygold. Ireland has amazing dairy produce, so butter, milk, cream, yoghurt, cheese are all top quality. Make sure to try some of the local cheeses wherever you visit. Seafood and fish are widely available but I don’t like them so can’t comment. Many restaurants now also make use of locally sourced seaweed to season or accompany dishes. Chip shops or chippers as we call them are plentiful and along with fish, usually cod, haddock or plaice, they will often have fried chicken and battered sausages. Spice bags are a peculiarly Irish option too, they’re thin strips of battered chicken in a bag with chips and covered in a spicy powdered seasoning. The full Irish breakfast rarely has chips, and beans are optional as they’re not quite as popular as in the UK. Usually you’ll get, sausages, bacon rashers (yes they’re a bit like Canadian bacon, but nicer), fried or scrambled eggs, black and or white pudding, toast and possibly mushrooms, grilled tomatoes and hash browns, the last three, along with beans are not always served. Guinness may be the best known stout in Ireland, but Murphy’s and Beamish are also very popular. If you don’t like stout or ales, there are also numerous local lighter beers and lagers. Lastly, most dessert things flavoured with Guinness tend to be aimed at tourists. Apple pies and things like sticky toffee pudding are very common often served with custard or ice cream. A good Bailey’s cheesecake is also worth trying. The food here is top notch and the quality of the ingredients is fantastic. Enjoy!
Excellent summation... I would add 'tap' water from a kitchen tap is perfectly fine to drink (hotel/bar/restaurant etc). It comes from the mains supply which is in constant use. Never us water from a non-mains tap to drink... ie hotel bathrooms/ public washrooms etc. It is held in tanks for longer periods and not certified as safe for drinking and not filtered in the same way... it's perfectly ok for brushing your teeth or showering etc. consuming small quantities is ok.
SHEPHERDS pie is made with LAMB mince. COTTAGE pie is made with BEEF mince. American bacon is what we call STREAKY bacon. We don't serve it rock hard like you do though. White pudding in Ireland is completely different from white pudding in Scotland. Scottish white pudding ( mealie pudding) is made from oatmeal, onions and spices, where an Irish pudding is made from pork shoulder. We call OATMEAL...PORRIDGE.
We have loads of fish and chip shops here in Ireland, known locally as 'the chipper', where fish and chips alongside burgers, battered sausages, chicken etc is sold. It's usually cod or haddock offered. You don't normally get french fries with a full Irish breakfast, unless you go to a restaurant that serves an 'all day full Irish' then they usually add fries.
Full Irish Breakfast is black and white pudding, mushroom, hash brown, beans, sausages, eggs, rashers, taken with bread, either brown or white taken with tea.
Common fish used in Fish 'n Chips are Cod & Haddock. Some areas may also offer fish like Plaice. When I was young Rock Salmon was also common - it was normally Dog fish our what was then cheaper cuts of fish.
To put it simply and it goes against stereotypes, The 'Full Irish' doesnt have potato such as chips, hash brown, Fried potato but instead has Black and White pudding. The 'Full English' would have potato and no black and white pudding. For this reason The 'Full Irish' wins for me as i adore black and white pudding.. The black puddings a superfood.
the 3 main fish that you get in a Chippy are Cod, Plaice and Haddock. I think the reason that he brought up the Water was, depending where you are they have different minerals in it. so it will taste different depending what type of soil/stones it may have filtered through.
I've been watching a lot of videos of Americans reacting to British places and they always seem to be fascinated to see all the sheep in the fields. I'm assuming sheep farms aren't as popular in the states as cattle farms are, so maybe that's why they don't eat a lot of lamb. Or I could be completely wrong, just a guess really.
Guiness etc is technically called a 'porter' beer but widely known as stout. One of the components is roasted to give the dark colour and adds to the flavour. Do the tour around the brewery in Dublin. Don't drive afterwards.
To be fair, compared to most porters and stouts, Guinness, Beamish etc......aren't very strong at 4.1 to 4.2%. Although the African and West Indies stuff are a different matter?
Your comment about potatoes bought back a wonderful holiday we had in Ireland some years ago. We decided to have a pub lunch and decided, from the menu, the steak in Guinness pie with seasonal veg would be our choice. The pie was absolutely delicious and the seasonal veg that arrived with it were:- boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes, roast potatoes and chips! It still makes me giggle even after all this time, but we really enjoyed it.
@@wallythewondercorncake8657 😁😁 Sadly, no. It was packed with locals all scoffing the same as us. We had a fab time - so friendly and welcoming. And have been lucky enough to visit Ireland quite often, which has always been fun.
I want to try something called an irish spice bag. It seems to be basically chips, shredded fried chicken, onions and chillies put in a bag with some spices and shaken. It looks to me to be very similar to chinese salt & pepper chips, with the addition of chicken. Happy coronation day, Steve! 🎉 🥳 👑
The bread on the side of the plate with the bowl of soup was Wheaten Bread and not Soda Bread. The Full Irish Breakfast was more of a continental breakfast. A traditional breakfast would be Thick Back Bacon, Sausage, Egg, Soda Bread, Potato Bread, Mushrooms and possibly beans with Black Pudding and Tomato.
in Dublin at least, we call that cut of bacon a "rasher". A rasher is an old word meaning a thin slice so youd ask for a "rasher of bacon", a thin slice of bacon.
I spent a week in Donegal last year... Everything we had to eat was beautiful. I can't speak for Irish fish and chip shops but in Scotland If you just ask for fish and chips, you'll generally get Haddock while in England it'll be cod (though most chippies will let you choose your fish). I don't like Guiness (not even the fresh stuff at the Guiness storehouse), but Guiness cake and Guiness brownies are amazing and very easy to make.
Traditionally, Irish Stew was made using mutton, not lamb. It was a way to use meat that would be tough as old boots if you grilled or fried it. Lamb was (and still should be) very seasonal. I didn't see potato bread in any of the photos, also known as potato farls. It's basically left over potatoes mixed with flour and cooked on a griddle with a little oil (or bacon fat). Soda bread is made with bicarbonate of Soda and an acid, usually buttermilk (yoghurt can be substituted if you can't get hold of buttermilk). That's why it's called Soda bread, so there are many variations using different flours. Some are cooked in the oven, some on a griddle. It can be light or dark in colour and smooth or rough texture. Regardless of what type you get, slather it with butter and it the perfect accompaniment to a bowl of soup or a bowl of chilli. For visitors to Northern Ireland, I'd recommend a visit to a local bakery, or 'home bakery' as they're often referred to. You'll see a range of local breads and cakes you won't find in supermarkets or restaurants. If you have a sweet tooth, tray bakes are must try... you'll have to google it, cuz I can't explain adequately. 'Fruit slims' are a bit like scones, ((small soda farls (griddled soda) with raisins)), and go down great with a mug of tea. Toasted Treacle Farls with hot butter are my favourite tea break snack, but I'm not allowed a toaster at work! Fresh filled soda's are amazing as a sandwich. They use soda farls, split in two and filled with bacon or sausage and a fried egg (cooked easy). So much fun getting messy and licking egg yolk off your wrists! And it is super-delicious. Our version of mashed potato is known as champ. It contains Scallions (spring onions) with lots of milk and butter, and a pinch of salt. I use my grannies old recipe, I leave out the milk and crack a raw egg in at the end, then whisk hard with a fork and the egg cooks in the residual heat. It gives a totally different texture. Great with any meat, either as a side or as a pie topping.
@@eddieaicken5687 I was fed it enough times! I wasn't overly paying attention to the preparation, though I dug, peeled, boiled and mashed incalculable numbers of spuds...
Love potatoes..stew is cooked more by older generation but on a cold winters day there's nothing like a beef stew served with mash potatoes. We love fish here xx
HI STEVE DEBRA HERE FROM SOUTH WALES UK. If you do want to try lamb you need to come to Wales where Welsh lamb is famous, after all there are 3 sheep to every 1 person in Wales and we are famous for our lamb. We serve it roasted with a nice delicious gravy dinner and marinated with rosemary and/or mint sauce. We also like lamb in a: SHEPHERDS PIE, which is lamb mince, vegetables (peas, carrots, onions, etc), then topped with buttery mashed potatoes and browned until bubbling in the oven COTTAGE PIE is the same as Shepherds pie but with beef mince and topped with cheesy mashed potatoes. BACON the bacon that is generally consumed in the UK is called BACK BACON, what you Americans eat over here is called STREAKY BACON, and is generally more fat than meat.
Hi from Northern Ireland! Just an FYI, we don't eat corned beef with cabbage here. Corned beef is usually served in sandwiches, slathered in HP brown sauce! Cabbage and Bacon with mashed spuds is a massive favourite though. Colcannon as well. As for bread, look up Soda farls and potato bread, those are standard additions to a full fry. Never had chips with a fry-up. Everything else there is good though. Oh and a standard fish+chips has battered cod, or haddock if they offer it. Stew that my family has made forever is with beef, diced potatoes, carrots, onions and seasoning. Sometimes add a thick brown gravy to it, sometimes not. It tastes damn good either way.
I'm from England. I have the Irish breakfast and soda bread every time I'm in Dublin. I'm from the England. The British Isles have the best food in the world. From all over the world.
Ireland is not a British Isle/Island. This is an outdated Imperialistic and Possesive term that is not recognised by the Irish Government nor by the Majority of Irish people living in Ireland.
Ffresh Cod,Smoked Cod,Haddock,Whiting,Ray,in most chippers. There is always a chipper close to a pub. Some streets would have different chippers,Roma,Macari, Would be the most prolific. There are many others. Shepperds pie is mince and vegtables in gravy topped with potatoes that is baked on top. Not an upside stew. A stew is lamb and a few vegtables gravy can be made with porter or Guinness. Some restaurants offer fish with a Guinness Batter. Here in Ireland we also have a coddle,patoes Sausages rashers in gravy made with just these ingredients and water boiled. Some put a flour mixed dough called dumplings in too.Then there is a mince stew.patatoes,mince,oinion and gravey with a packet of dried soup like oxtail added some throw in a oxo cube or two to darken.
Irish Stew is traditionally made with Mutton and is delicious. I have never had chips with my Breakfast but I must admit that most of my time has been spent in Northern Ireland, my missus is from Belfast and if you go into a Caffe there you can order a Full English Breakfast or an Ulster Fry. The Ulster Fry is amazing, you get Soda Farls and Potato bread as well as White pudding and after a few pints of Guinness it`s just what the Doctor ordered 👍👍
Irish stew is traditionally made with lamb or mutton (which is meat from mature sheep) not beef. Also Shepherd's pie is ALWAYS lamb - hence the name 'shepherd' as this is what would be available to a shepherd to eat....The similar pie with beef is called 'cottage pie'. Shepherd's pie is minced (ground) lamb, cooked with onions, carrots and maybe peas, in a rich meat gravy, and topped with mashed potato. The main types of fish used in 'fish'n'chips' is cod or haddock. There are often other white fish on offer too. I oftten choose rock salmon - which is not salmon-like at all, but is another white fish. It's also known as 'huss' or 'dog-fish'. Our perception here is that US folks are much more likely to buy bottled water than we are in UK - it's available, but we don't buy it by the gallon from the grocery store. Interestingly, in the UK we don't tend to talk about the 'ocean' unless we are referencing a named ocean (Atlantic, for example). Generally we talk about the 'sea' and sea fish. We talk about going to the 'seaside' rather than 'the beach' too- unless we are nearby, and just being specific about our location.
Agree with everything you said apart from the seaside/beach thing. As children we often called it the seaside, but as adults the beach is more common. Yes we rarely/almost never say ocean.
Roast beef, my other half who's Italian LOVES that in the pub near where we live (been living in Dublin now over 20 years). I always go for stuffing 😊😊. He loves that with lot of gravy
We love food that warms you up, fills your stomach, is tasty and comforting, a nice Irish stew or shepherds pie are great examples. Shepherds pie is made with lamb, not beef by the way
Even if you're not keen on shellfish generally, do try the scallops in Ireland. The texture is similar to filet of beef - so nothing unfamiliar there. Pan fried in butter they are fantastic.
White pudding is absolutely delicious, my neighbour was irish, and she would go home every year to Wexford, my gift she bought me back was, white pudding.
Irish stew differs from county to county and even house to house. It mainly consists of beef onions carrots parsnip and stock all boiled in a pot. The potatoes are boiled separately. My tip is to serve the stew in a bowl with the potatoes separate. Salt the stew to suit, add pure butter to the potatoes. Eat them both on the same fork. Save some of the soup and eat it with fresh soda bread smothered in butter by dipping it. Nutritious and delicious.
Black pudding is a blood based sausage that tastes nothing like blood and is absolutely delicious (trust me). White pudding is more like a traditional sausage with some spices and seasonings. The two usually come together on a breakfast.
Chips would be part of a mixed grill but that wouldn't usually have toast and would have a lamb chop or something with it too. Full irish (and there are regional variationsis: Sausage, Rashers of Back Bacon(canadian bacon), Black &or White pudding, Potato Farl/bread/boxty (all variations of potato + flour, fried), beans, Saute'd mushrooms and fried tomato. With Tea & Toast on the side. Ulster (North) would have a fried soda too and other places would have soda bread as a choice or fried bread too. Dublin would have scallop potatoes quite often (left-over boiled potato, scalloped and fried). While you will probably enjoy any of these.. I have always found that a good butcher will give you far better stuff than most hotels / cafe / restaruant. If you come and have cooking facilities.. make your own IMO... Also regional variances in how they are made.. White pudding in dublin tends to be more pastey and spiced more than else-where. (excellent spread on toast) Don't judge by the mass market stuff sold in the shops.. It's not a touch on the real deal.. even the fancier brands/packages don't hold a light to it. If you are ever near manchester.. go to Bury market. Famous black pudding there, worth the trip on it's own. On Potatoes: The Irish were associated with eating them due to the suitability of growing them here and their ability to support alot of people on very little land. The Irish grew most common crops but had to sell the others to pay the brittish landowners rent. Hence the famine when potato failed. It's still very common to see, especially with farming or builders etc to see a large dinner plate half filled with mash and then some veg, meat & gravey. Basic but very tasty and filling dinner. Though modern times have shifted many towards healthier portions, especially as work and travel are often less strenuous than in the past. There are actually a tonne of traditional dishes that he didn't talk about and wouldn't be found in the rest of the UK generally. But when your dealing with many of the same ingredients and fine dining wasn't a thing in the way it is now. Many dishes will be similar with regional twists or have blended into the most common variation. Typical Irish dinner: Bacon & cabbage (both boiled and the cabbage done in the same water) with potato(boiled or mashed) and sauce (white sauce / parsley sauce / mustard) maybe other veg but thats the basic. Stew. Meaty gravey sauce with cubed beef or lamb or mince, usually carrots and onion. You can add whatever else you want though. Peas, corn, broccili, egg... You can basically throw anything in there thats around and needs rid of.. I've seen someone put anchovies in.. Was lovely, they melted away totally and added a lil salty tang to it. Coddle. Basically a casserole made with sausage. (again more a dublin thing and probably not V common these days) To name but a few Generally meat 2 veg gravey and lots and lots of spuds is V typical.. Though rice / pasta based dishes are V common home cooked dinners too these days On Fish and chips, The most popular is cod. Hands down but it's also common to have maybe 2 or 3 options in a proper chipper. I would expect to see cod, haddock and then either ray or skate or something like that. Leo Burdocks in Dublin is V famous and worth a visit if your in the city centre, right beside Christchurch and 110 years old. Also look out for spice-burgers and batered sausages if going to chipper, especially near dublin / in the south (don't really get spice burgers up north). Finally.. on Lamb.. It's class, try it every which way you can.. But if you want the tastiet cut.. Breast of lamb has to be it.. Not a very common cut to get though, used to have 2 butchers in the family and the breast never made it to the display.. Either they had it themselves or had it put away for the fave customers.
A few things i think are unique to Irish "chip shops" vs th UK: 1. We call them "chippers" i.e. "Do you want anything from the chipper?" 2. In my experience a "snack box" is more popular than fish and chips. This is 2 pieces of KFC-style southern fried chicken in a box with chips. This was popular in Ireland way before the first branches of KFC opened here (and they are way tastier, fresher and less steroidy). 3. We don't generally serve peas or gravy. Curry, garlic or taco sauce would be the more popular sauces. 4. Spice burgers-this is a bunless burger sort of like breaded stuffing.
Guinness is a type of stout. Murphys and Beamish being the other major ones although craft beers and stouts have exploded in recent years to really challenge the dominance of the "big" breweries.
Leg of lamb so good but see if you can get lamb shank we have minted lamb shank. We have a condiment called mint sauce. Lamb. People normally have battered cod, but people also have rockfish we call it just rock haddock, place, skate, Dover sole, lemon sole, you must put malt vinegar on the chips first then the salt quite a bit a few shakes of vinegar and salt. But not on the fish. Move some chips to one side and vinegar and salt them to try before putting all over it. You can always ask someone they will show you. Water good out of cold tap we have very very good hygiene in our tap water. We don't tip. Not done in uk unless you want to also no added tax what it says is what you pay.
Ireland now has restaurants that rival those of any large city in the world. Irish chefs have nearly all worked for famous restaurants in Paris, New York, Sydney etc.and then have come back to Ireland to set up their own restaurants. My friend James worked for Gordon Ramsay, for years, then returned to Dublin. He's now Chef at one of Dublin's most expensive restaurants.
Irish fish and chips is the best.. we normally have cod or haddock. Ireland is the only place I've had mushy peas with mint in, so good. Irish curry is amazing too
That looks like back bacon which has less fat than the other option, streaky bacon. I'm surprised champ wasn't mentioned. Mashed potato with spring onions(scallions). Guinness is a stout.
I am lucky, I can get to the sea 7 miles to the north, and about 15 miles to the east and south, its a few hundred miles to the west though. Also in that 7 miles north we have whitstable- home of the whitstable oysters, go to an oyster restaurant in whitstable, and the oysters will only be hours old, not days.
There are places in the uk that have really old pipes, generally there are signs and bottled water in your rooms and in communal spaces to take to drink.
Stew is a popular Irish dish mainly due to the famine. When there wasn't any potatoes or food coming in you can make a stew and it will last for about 4-5 days if necessary
Usually cod is for fish and chips but haddock is also a thing. So you'd ask for a large cod and whatever size chips (chunky fries) you want. Also people often say we call all fries chips, we don't, thick fries are chips, buy I would call thin chips fries and then potato chips are crisps, cos they're super crispy
I cannot recommend a properly cooked lamb shank enough .They are slow cooked until the meat is falling off the bone and incredibly tender .Often served with mashed potato ,a meat stock gravy and vegetables .Both Shepherds pie and cottage pie are wonderfully comforting ,perfect cold day food .If you find yourself chilly ,damp (it rains a lot ) and tired ,either of these dishes will be exactly what you need .
Cod is the most sold fish in batter, I prefer Haddock, also they sell plaice (flat fish) in breadcrumb normally, be careful when you buy any fish and chips that do not state what fish it is, pollock is great as it tastes & looks just like cod but some cheaper places will just use 'white fish' which is often Basa which comes from the dirtiest river in Vietnam!
Honestly when it comes to food British & Irish food are very similar with only slight differences between each version. Granted those differences are definitely noticeable, but generally if you can find the dish in the UK generally Ireland will more than likely have it to and the reverse is true too
Cod, hake and haddock for fish and chips. But we have a lot of salmon, trout, mackerel and monkfish that we eat at home rather than in batter from a fish and chip shop.
White pudding is broadly similar to black pudding, but does not include blood. Modern recipes consist of suet or fat, oatmeal or barley, breadcrumbs and in some cases pork and pork liver.
If you ever visit the UK you must go to Mevagissey, great fish & chips shops that are family run. We watched our fish come off the boat and into the fryer. Can’t get fresher!
Uk traditional pies Shepherds pie = lamb veg (carrots, onion, turnips/swede/rutabaga, parsnips) topped with mash Cottage pie = beef veg and mash Fisherman's pie = cheapest fish sometimes smoked not always Admirals pie = expensive fish frequently salmon, large prawns etc Gardeners pie = vegetables Hunters pie = rabbit, venison or other game animals Game pie = game birds Stargazy pie = herring traditionally with fish heads showing through the pie Farmhouse pie = white sauce pie with various things chicken, mushrooms, spinach, bacon, peas, sweetcorn, sauted leeks any combination you fancy Steak pie = steak often with beer, ale or stout Steak and kidney = steak and kidneys in a brown gravy often with beer, ale or stout Mince pie = minced beef and brown gravy Cheese and onion pie = flaky pastry filled with cheese and onion Cornish pasties - flaky pastry with a meat and potato filling Most of the fish in our fish and chips is haddock or cod a white meaty fish
We have back bacon and streaky -back is from what I have found most similar to Canadian bacon streaky is layers of fat and meat, both are cured and sometimes smoked not always White pudding is oatmeal, suet, spices Black pudding is blood pudding Haggis is served in a full Scottish breakfast and is minced offal with oatmeal and spice. You might also find fruit pudding this is very similar to white pudding with a smoother texture and sultanas and raisin in it Tattie scones are a common addition in Scottish and Irish full breakfasts. In Scotland you would get square sausage known as lorne sometime also with link sausage Traditional British breakfasts normally have bacon, sausage, mushroom, hash browns or some potato product, baked beans, mushrooms, grilled or fried tomatoes, eggs fried, scramble or poached and regional specialties Guinness is a stout. We have ales, stouts, lager and IPAs as standard in most pubs. If you do make it to Aberdeen and like whiskey you should go to The Grill as they have an amazing selection of whiskeys. There is a short film called No Ladies Please about the 70s battle to allow women to go into this pub women could serve there but not enter to drink.
That's quite an impressive list of pies. The only one i suppose i've never heard of is Gardeners pie ... makes perfect sense though - I assume is has a white sauce?
@@hardywatkins7737 yes normally a veg stock thickened with a roux and occasionally enhanced with a little double cream (I believe that is USA heavy cream)
Irish farmers produce enough food for 50millipn people,so it's likely agreat or majority goes to the UK as we only consume about a tenth of that ourselves
Ireland is not a British Isle/Island. This is an outdated Imperialistic and Possesive term that is not recognised by the Irish Government nor by the Majority of Irish people living in Ireland.
@@calador1918 Those islands that are politically British are the British isles. That doesn't include 5/6ths of the island of Ireland and it's islands. So by definition, Ireland isn't a "British" Isle.
@@Kitiwake there is no such thing as the "British Isles" and no that is not what people mean when they use the term. Again it is a colloquialism that is not recognized by any country or international body
The Irish do really eat a lot of potatoes. My Irish mate in London alway served boiled potatoes with dinner, no matter what it was lol. Even the spag bol had them underneath 😂
Hi from Northern Ireland! Spuds with Spag bol?! What on earth lol I had a friend years ago who destroyed Spag Bol with ketchup. She never ate at my house again 😂
@@101steel4 ahh fair enough! I just find that a bizarre addition. Saying that, ever had just the bolognese without spaghetti, over chips? Now, there's a dish of deliciousness right there! 😋
Willing to bet the spuds with spag bol was either cos the ran out of pisgetti or as a joke.. Spuds with beef spagetti sauce is quite good.. Chilli is better though IMO :)
No Irish Stew in any restaurant will taste near as good as your Granny's slow cooked stew you'd get at the weekends. When are you coming to visit Ireland?
If you do get a stew you will often see it served with dumplings rather than mashed potato's. It's one of those things where it depends on the restaurant you are at.
Shepherds pie is minced lamb cottage pie is ground beef
Exactly that of course is why it's called "Shepheds" Pie.
It's in the name! Ffs
@@marshallmuir4380 I broke a tooth on a brick in cottage pie. 😁
@@elemar5 Mine was too hot. I think they'd left the heating on.
So annoying that Americans just cannot grasp this.
I have never seen a full Irish breakfast with chips and I live in Ireland
Lol me either, hash browns would be normal and way tastier
Been to Kinsale twice! Once for a drinking holiday and then again for a walking holiday with my wife.... Kinsale is absolutely beautiful ❤️
What you call Bacon is commonly known as Streaky Bacon -the bacon in the clip is Back bacon
I think the back bacon is what we call Canadian bacon. I like both types.
The guy in the video is always very enthusiastic but not always 100% correct.
Irish stew is usually made with lamb, but I’ve also had it made with beef. It’s more common to have boiled potatoes with it, but you can sometimes get mash. Colcannon is mash with cabbage mixed in, champ is mash with spring onions/scallions mixed in. Both are worth trying.
Shepherd’s pie and cottage pie look the same but Shepherd’s pie as the name suggests is made with ground/minced lamb, ie sheep, whereas cottage pie is made with ground/minced beef. Both incorporate diced veg like carrots and onions and a tasty gravy.
Pies in a pastry crust are also popular with fillings like chicken and ham, or beef with Guinness. These are usually served with potatoes, mashed or boiled. Yes we eat a lot of spuds, but they are very good here.
Pubs are a great place for food all day long. At lunch time you’ll often get a really good soup of the day with soda bread. It’s usually quite cheap and very filling. Leek and potato, vegetable, carrot and coriander, and homemade tomato soup are some of the popular options.
Dairygold butter is just another brand of very good Irish butter. It’s widely sold in Ireland as is Kerrygold. Ireland has amazing dairy produce, so butter, milk, cream, yoghurt, cheese are all top quality. Make sure to try some of the local cheeses wherever you visit.
Seafood and fish are widely available but I don’t like them so can’t comment. Many restaurants now also make use of locally sourced seaweed to season or accompany dishes.
Chip shops or chippers as we call them are plentiful and along with fish, usually cod, haddock or plaice, they will often have fried chicken and battered sausages. Spice bags are a peculiarly Irish option too, they’re thin strips of battered chicken in a bag with chips and covered in a spicy powdered seasoning.
The full Irish breakfast rarely has chips, and beans are optional as they’re not quite as popular as in the UK. Usually you’ll get, sausages, bacon rashers (yes they’re a bit like Canadian bacon, but nicer), fried or scrambled eggs, black and or white pudding, toast and possibly mushrooms, grilled tomatoes and hash browns, the last three, along with beans are not always served.
Guinness may be the best known stout in Ireland, but Murphy’s and Beamish are also very popular. If you don’t like stout or ales, there are also numerous local lighter beers and lagers.
Lastly, most dessert things flavoured with Guinness tend to be aimed at tourists. Apple pies and things like sticky toffee pudding are very common often served with custard or ice cream. A good Bailey’s cheesecake is also worth trying. The food here is top notch and the quality of the ingredients is fantastic. Enjoy!
My Colcannon also has big chunks of ham in it.
Excellent summation... I would add 'tap' water from a kitchen tap is perfectly fine to drink (hotel/bar/restaurant etc). It comes from the mains supply which is in constant use. Never us water from a non-mains tap to drink... ie hotel bathrooms/ public washrooms etc. It is held in tanks for longer periods and not certified as safe for drinking and not filtered in the same way... it's perfectly ok for brushing your teeth or showering etc. consuming small quantities is ok.
SHEPHERDS pie is made with LAMB mince.
COTTAGE pie is made with BEEF mince.
American bacon is what we call STREAKY bacon. We don't serve it rock hard like you do though.
White pudding in Ireland is completely different from white pudding in Scotland. Scottish white pudding ( mealie pudding) is made from oatmeal, onions and spices, where an Irish pudding is made from pork shoulder.
We call OATMEAL...PORRIDGE.
White pudding in Cornwall is called Hogs pudding, lovely
The easy way to remember Shephard's and Cottage pie, is that Shephard's pie is Sheep and Cottage pie is Cow.
Beef (cow) l amb (sheep) 👍
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@@jerrycapstick3654 Same in Devon, ... we call it hogs pudding.
We have loads of fish and chip shops here in Ireland, known locally as 'the chipper', where fish and chips alongside burgers, battered sausages, chicken etc is sold. It's usually cod or haddock offered. You don't normally get french fries with a full Irish breakfast, unless you go to a restaurant that serves an 'all day full Irish' then they usually add fries.
Yes, most of the time you get saute potatoes with a full breakfast.
Yes kerrygold butter is from kerry South of lrish I live in this town best butter in the world
Full Irish Breakfast is black and white pudding, mushroom, hash brown, beans, sausages, eggs, rashers, taken with bread, either brown or white taken with tea.
It's not a full Irish breakfast without fried potato bread and soda bread.
Common fish used in Fish 'n Chips are Cod & Haddock. Some areas may also offer fish like Plaice.
When I was young Rock Salmon was also common - it was normally Dog fish our what was then cheaper cuts of fish.
I think that french fries are made of reconstituted potato, then reshaped to thin fries but chips are pieces of whole potato.
cabbage and potato mixed together, and fried on a pan, it is known as bubble and squeak.
You can't beat a well cooked lamb shank in rich gravy
Lamb is just a superior meat, such a beaut! Love me some chops and gravy
To put it simply and it goes against stereotypes, The 'Full Irish' doesnt have potato such as chips, hash brown, Fried potato but instead has Black and White pudding. The 'Full English' would have potato and no black and white pudding. For this reason The 'Full Irish' wins for me as i adore black and white pudding.. The black puddings a superfood.
Ignore the guy in the video... Cottage pie is ground/minced beef and Shepherds pie is made with lamb/sheep.Never listen to tourists about tradition 😂😂
Steve, regards distance from the sea, in England no place is more than 80 miles from the sea, so a max of about a 2 hour drive.
While visiting my father in Ireland he took me to Kinsale. Though close to Cork city it is a very different vibe, well worth a visit.
the 3 main fish that you get in a Chippy are Cod, Plaice and Haddock.
I think the reason that he brought up the Water was, depending where you are they have different minerals in it. so it will taste different depending what type of soil/stones it may have filtered through.
One of the dishes we regularly enjoy in England is 'Irish stew'.
I love your videos. So many interesting facts and information. I like how interested you are about learning about your roots
One thing you should try in Ireland is batch bread. Its a type of bread that is made using beef drippings.
Colcannon made properly is amazing.
always blows my mind when americans say they've never tried lamb
I've been watching a lot of videos of Americans reacting to British places and they always seem to be fascinated to see all the sheep in the fields. I'm assuming sheep farms aren't as popular in the states as cattle farms are, so maybe that's why they don't eat a lot of lamb. Or I could be completely wrong, just a guess really.
Guiness etc is technically called a 'porter' beer but widely known as stout. One of the components is roasted to give the dark colour and adds to the flavour. Do the tour around the brewery in Dublin. Don't drive afterwards.
To be fair, compared to most porters and stouts, Guinness, Beamish etc......aren't very strong at 4.1 to 4.2%. Although the African and West Indies stuff are a different matter?
Your comment about potatoes bought back a wonderful holiday we had in Ireland some years ago. We decided to have a pub lunch and decided, from the menu, the steak in Guinness pie with seasonal veg would be our choice. The pie was absolutely delicious and the seasonal veg that arrived with it were:- boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes, roast potatoes and chips! It still makes me giggle even after all this time, but we really enjoyed it.
I think they clocked you as a tourist and were just fucking with you a bit 😂
@@wallythewondercorncake8657 😁😁 Sadly, no. It was packed with locals all scoffing the same as us. We had a fab time - so friendly and welcoming. And have been lucky enough to visit Ireland quite often, which has always been fun.
I want to try something called an irish spice bag. It seems to be basically chips, shredded fried chicken, onions and chillies put in a bag with some spices and shaken. It looks to me to be very similar to chinese salt & pepper chips, with the addition of chicken.
Happy coronation day, Steve! 🎉 🥳 👑
Thats about it.. I suggest scallions/spring onions though if your doing it yourself, though that may just be personal preference.
Funky monkey actually do a tumbler of seasoning now for that- It’s spot on.. pretty sure u can get it online
The bread on the side of the plate with the bowl of soup was Wheaten Bread and not Soda Bread.
The Full Irish Breakfast was more of a continental breakfast. A traditional breakfast would be Thick Back Bacon, Sausage, Egg, Soda Bread, Potato Bread, Mushrooms and possibly beans with Black Pudding and Tomato.
in Dublin at least, we call that cut of bacon a "rasher". A rasher is an old word meaning a thin slice so youd ask for a "rasher of bacon", a thin slice of bacon.
He didn't mention traditional Irish Stew...delicious ❤❤
I spent a week in Donegal last year... Everything we had to eat was beautiful. I can't speak for Irish fish and chip shops but in Scotland If you just ask for fish and chips, you'll generally get Haddock while in England it'll be cod (though most chippies will let you choose your fish). I don't like Guiness (not even the fresh stuff at the Guiness storehouse), but Guiness cake and Guiness brownies are amazing and very easy to make.
Traditionally, Irish Stew was made using mutton, not lamb. It was a way to use meat that would be tough as old boots if you grilled or fried it. Lamb was (and still should be) very seasonal.
I didn't see potato bread in any of the photos, also known as potato farls. It's basically left over potatoes mixed with flour and cooked on a griddle with a little oil (or bacon fat).
Soda bread is made with bicarbonate of Soda and an acid, usually buttermilk (yoghurt can be substituted if you can't get hold of buttermilk). That's why it's called Soda bread, so there are many variations using different flours. Some are cooked in the oven, some on a griddle. It can be light or dark in colour and smooth or rough texture. Regardless of what type you get, slather it with butter and it the perfect accompaniment to a bowl of soup or a bowl of chilli.
For visitors to Northern Ireland, I'd recommend a visit to a local bakery, or 'home bakery' as they're often referred to. You'll see a range of local breads and cakes you won't find in supermarkets or restaurants. If you have a sweet tooth, tray bakes are must try... you'll have to google it, cuz I can't explain adequately. 'Fruit slims' are a bit like scones, ((small soda farls (griddled soda) with raisins)), and go down great with a mug of tea. Toasted Treacle Farls with hot butter are my favourite tea break snack, but I'm not allowed a toaster at work!
Fresh filled soda's are amazing as a sandwich. They use soda farls, split in two and filled with bacon or sausage and a fried egg (cooked easy). So much fun getting messy and licking egg yolk off your wrists! And it is super-delicious.
Our version of mashed potato is known as champ. It contains Scallions (spring onions) with lots of milk and butter, and a pinch of salt. I use my grannies old recipe, I leave out the milk and crack a raw egg in at the end, then whisk hard with a fork and the egg cooks in the residual heat. It gives a totally different texture. Great with any meat, either as a side or as a pie topping.
I was checking to see if someone mentioned champ.
I believe buttermilk was a common addition to it.
@@colinmorrison5119 I think you're right
@@eddieaicken5687 I was fed it enough times! I wasn't overly paying attention to the preparation, though I dug, peeled, boiled and mashed incalculable numbers of spuds...
Irish stew and dumplings is shared with England too
lol whats dumplings we don't have them in ireland
@@BoB10yes we do, lots of restaurants serve them with stew
Love potatoes..stew is cooked more by older generation but on a cold winters day there's nothing like a beef stew served with mash potatoes. We love fish here xx
White pudding is absolutely gorgeous
HI STEVE
DEBRA HERE FROM SOUTH WALES UK.
If you do want to try lamb you need to come to Wales where Welsh lamb is famous, after all there are 3 sheep to every 1 person in Wales and we are famous for our lamb.
We serve it roasted with a nice delicious gravy dinner and marinated with rosemary and/or mint sauce. We also like lamb in a:
SHEPHERDS PIE, which is lamb mince, vegetables (peas, carrots, onions, etc), then topped with buttery mashed potatoes and browned until bubbling in the oven
COTTAGE PIE is the same as Shepherds pie but with beef mince and topped with cheesy mashed potatoes.
BACON the bacon that is generally consumed in the UK is called BACK BACON, what you Americans eat over here is called STREAKY BACON, and is generally more fat than meat.
Hi from Northern Ireland! Just an FYI, we don't eat corned beef with cabbage here. Corned beef is usually served in sandwiches, slathered in HP brown sauce!
Cabbage and Bacon with mashed spuds is a massive favourite though. Colcannon as well. As for bread, look up Soda farls and potato bread, those are standard additions to a full fry. Never had chips with a fry-up. Everything else there is good though. Oh and a standard fish+chips has battered cod, or haddock if they offer it.
Stew that my family has made forever is with beef, diced potatoes, carrots, onions and seasoning. Sometimes add a thick brown gravy to it, sometimes not. It tastes damn good either way.
I think corned beef and cabbage is probably served in the really touristy places,which is why he thinks it's a normal everyday dish
@@Joseph130-br6jc that's a fair point, really. It shouldn't be encouraged though lol
Do you cook the cabbage and bacon together in a skillet/frying pan? Is any water added or not?
Dumplings in the Irish Stew. Made from flour and boiled with the stew.
7:00 cod, haddock and plaice in the chippy (that’s how we refer to the chip shop in Nottinghamshire)
Chippy in Devon too.
I'm from England. I have the Irish breakfast and soda bread every time I'm in Dublin. I'm from the England. The British Isles have the best food in the world. From all over the world.
Ireland is not a British Isle/Island. This is an outdated Imperialistic and Possesive term that is not recognised by the Irish Government nor by the Majority of Irish people living in Ireland.
There is no such thing as the "British Isles" it's a British colloquialism not recognised by any international body or nation
Ffresh Cod,Smoked Cod,Haddock,Whiting,Ray,in most chippers. There is always a chipper close to a pub. Some streets would have different chippers,Roma,Macari, Would be the most prolific. There are many others. Shepperds pie is mince and vegtables in gravy topped with potatoes that is baked on top. Not an upside stew. A stew is lamb and a few vegtables gravy can be made with porter or Guinness. Some restaurants offer fish with a Guinness Batter. Here in Ireland we also have a coddle,patoes Sausages rashers in gravy made with just these ingredients and water boiled. Some put a flour mixed dough called dumplings in too.Then there is a mince stew.patatoes,mince,oinion and gravey with a packet of dried soup like oxtail added some throw in a oxo cube or two to darken.
Irish Stew is traditionally made with Mutton and is delicious. I have never had chips with my Breakfast but I must admit that most of my time has been spent in Northern Ireland, my missus is from Belfast and if you go into a Caffe there you can order a Full English Breakfast or an Ulster Fry. The Ulster Fry is amazing, you get Soda Farls and Potato bread as well as White pudding and after a few pints of Guinness it`s just what the Doctor ordered 👍👍
Which doctor is that? I’m also Irish, and my doctor’s a boring health fanatic, I want your doctor instead 😆
@@carolinebarrett4736 He`s highly Recommended Caroline, it`s just a pity you can`t get it on Prescription 🤣🤣👍👍
What about pearl barley in Irish stew? Is that not a thing?
@@hardywatkins7737 I have never seen it with Pearl Barley myself but I suppose you could put a small amount in to act as a Thickener.
Irish stew is traditionally made with lamb or mutton (which is meat from mature sheep) not beef. Also Shepherd's pie is ALWAYS lamb - hence the name 'shepherd' as this is what would be available to a shepherd to eat....The similar pie with beef is called 'cottage pie'. Shepherd's pie is minced (ground) lamb, cooked with onions, carrots and maybe peas, in a rich meat gravy, and topped with mashed potato.
The main types of fish used in 'fish'n'chips' is cod or haddock. There are often other white fish on offer too. I oftten choose rock salmon - which is not salmon-like at all, but is another white fish. It's also known as 'huss' or 'dog-fish'.
Our perception here is that US folks are much more likely to buy bottled water than we are in UK - it's available, but we don't buy it by the gallon from the grocery store.
Interestingly, in the UK we don't tend to talk about the 'ocean' unless we are referencing a named ocean (Atlantic, for example). Generally we talk about the 'sea' and sea fish. We talk about going to the 'seaside' rather than 'the beach' too- unless we are nearby, and just being specific about our location.
Agree with everything you said apart from the seaside/beach thing. As children we often called it the seaside, but as adults the beach is more common. Yes we rarely/almost never say ocean.
I'm from Tipperary (the middle of the island) and i eat Moldovan and Thai food almost every day. I do love spuds in every form though.
Roast beef, my other half who's Italian LOVES that in the pub near where we live (been living in Dublin now over 20 years). I always go for stuffing 😊😊. He loves that with lot of gravy
We love food that warms you up, fills your stomach, is tasty and comforting, a nice Irish stew or shepherds pie are great examples. Shepherds pie is made with lamb, not beef by the way
Full irish rashers, eggs, black and white pudding beans, optional, and potato cakes.
Fish and chips in Ireland is generally Cod. For the est Fish and Chips ever is Spooneys in Lahinch,Co.Clare.
Cod and Haddock are used for great British fish and chips
Even if you're not keen on shellfish generally, do try the scallops in Ireland.
The texture is similar to filet of beef - so nothing unfamiliar there.
Pan fried in butter they are fantastic.
White pudding is absolutely delicious, my neighbour was irish, and she would go home every year to Wexford, my gift she bought me back was, white pudding.
Where do you live? We have white pudding in England too and in Devon we call it hogs pudding.
Irish stew differs from county to county and even house to house. It mainly consists of beef onions carrots parsnip and stock all boiled in a pot. The potatoes are boiled separately. My tip is to serve the stew in a bowl with the potatoes separate. Salt the stew to suit, add pure butter to the potatoes. Eat them both on the same fork. Save some of the soup and eat it with fresh soda bread smothered in butter by dipping it. Nutritious and delicious.
Steve, my Mum's Irish and the first time I saw you on RUclips I thought God he looks Irish !! Take it as a compliment (As it is one !!!)
Mainly, in England, Chip shops serve ' cod' when plentifully - otherwise, they serve 'haddock '.
Black pudding is a blood based sausage that tastes nothing like blood and is absolutely delicious (trust me). White pudding is more like a traditional sausage with some spices and seasonings. The two usually come together on a breakfast.
Oooh Irish stew and shepards pie are savage good. Sooo tasty.
Chips would be part of a mixed grill but that wouldn't usually have toast and would have a lamb chop or something with it too.
Full irish (and there are regional variationsis:
Sausage, Rashers of Back Bacon(canadian bacon), Black &or White pudding, Potato Farl/bread/boxty (all variations of potato + flour, fried), beans, Saute'd mushrooms and fried tomato.
With Tea & Toast on the side.
Ulster (North) would have a fried soda too and other places would have soda bread as a choice or fried bread too.
Dublin would have scallop potatoes quite often (left-over boiled potato, scalloped and fried).
While you will probably enjoy any of these.. I have always found that a good butcher will give you far better stuff than most hotels / cafe / restaruant.
If you come and have cooking facilities.. make your own IMO...
Also regional variances in how they are made.. White pudding in dublin tends to be more pastey and spiced more than else-where. (excellent spread on toast)
Don't judge by the mass market stuff sold in the shops.. It's not a touch on the real deal.. even the fancier brands/packages don't hold a light to it.
If you are ever near manchester.. go to Bury market. Famous black pudding there, worth the trip on it's own.
On Potatoes: The Irish were associated with eating them due to the suitability of growing them here and their ability to support alot of people on very little land. The Irish grew most common crops but had to sell the others to pay the brittish landowners rent. Hence the famine when potato failed. It's still very common to see, especially with farming or builders etc to see a large dinner plate half filled with mash and then some veg, meat & gravey. Basic but very tasty and filling dinner. Though modern times have shifted many towards healthier portions, especially as work and travel are often less strenuous than in the past.
There are actually a tonne of traditional dishes that he didn't talk about and wouldn't be found in the rest of the UK generally. But when your dealing with many of the same ingredients and fine dining wasn't a thing in the way it is now. Many dishes will be similar with regional twists or have blended into the most common variation.
Typical Irish dinner:
Bacon & cabbage (both boiled and the cabbage done in the same water) with potato(boiled or mashed) and sauce (white sauce / parsley sauce / mustard) maybe other veg but thats the basic.
Stew. Meaty gravey sauce with cubed beef or lamb or mince, usually carrots and onion. You can add whatever else you want though. Peas, corn, broccili, egg... You can basically throw anything in there thats around and needs rid of.. I've seen someone put anchovies in.. Was lovely, they melted away totally and added a lil salty tang to it.
Coddle. Basically a casserole made with sausage. (again more a dublin thing and probably not V common these days)
To name but a few
Generally meat 2 veg gravey and lots and lots of spuds is V typical.. Though rice / pasta based dishes are V common home cooked dinners too these days
On Fish and chips, The most popular is cod. Hands down but it's also common to have maybe 2 or 3 options in a proper chipper. I would expect to see cod, haddock and then either ray or skate or something like that. Leo Burdocks in Dublin is V famous and worth a visit if your in the city centre, right beside Christchurch and 110 years old.
Also look out for spice-burgers and batered sausages if going to chipper, especially near dublin / in the south (don't really get spice burgers up north).
Finally.. on Lamb.. It's class, try it every which way you can.. But if you want the tastiet cut.. Breast of lamb has to be it.. Not a very common cut to get though, used to have 2 butchers in the family and the breast never made it to the display.. Either they had it themselves or had it put away for the fave customers.
If you come to Dublin, looking for an Irish breakfast go to the kingfisher cafe.. .mmm
What's that Cafe called that Sinead O'Connor used to work in? Do you know that one?
Kerry gold butter and Soda bread is Irish and fantastic
It's coronation day, so I wondered if you had been watching
Cheers! From England!
A few things i think are unique to Irish "chip shops" vs th UK:
1. We call them "chippers" i.e. "Do you want anything from the chipper?"
2. In my experience a "snack box" is more popular than fish and chips. This is 2 pieces of KFC-style southern fried chicken in a box with chips. This was popular in Ireland way before the first branches of KFC opened here (and they are way tastier, fresher and less steroidy).
3. We don't generally serve peas or gravy. Curry, garlic or taco sauce would be the more popular sauces.
4. Spice burgers-this is a bunless burger sort of like breaded stuffing.
In Devon we call them Chip Shops generally, but often 'The Chippy' and no doubt some call them other things. Curry sauce is standard.
Guinness is a type of stout. Murphys and Beamish being the other major ones although craft beers and stouts have exploded in recent years to really challenge the dominance of the "big" breweries.
Mashed potato mixed with cabbage is called 'Bubble and squeak'
A stew for me would also include dumplings
Maybe in england,but it's colcannon in Ireland
@@Joseph130-br6jc is colcannon just a mixture of the 2 ingredients, or is it fried like bubble n squeak?
@@VampireJack10no it's not fried and often it's scallions rather than cabbage
@@Joseph130-br6jc I see, the 2 dishes are related but not exactly the same.
My dad came from Ireland and he loved onions in mashed potato.
@@VampireJack10that's champ
Cod is the most popular at fish and chips shops but a lot of them will do haddock or plaice to order
Leg of lamb so good but see if you can get lamb shank we have minted lamb shank. We have a condiment called mint sauce. Lamb. People normally have battered cod, but people also have rockfish we call it just rock haddock, place, skate, Dover sole, lemon sole, you must put malt vinegar on the chips first then the salt quite a bit a few shakes of vinegar and salt. But not on the fish. Move some chips to one side and vinegar and salt them to try before putting all over it. You can always ask someone they will show you. Water good out of cold tap we have very very good hygiene in our tap water. We don't tip. Not done in uk unless you want to also no added tax what it says is what you pay.
White pudding is the best. And Irish sausage is amazing
Ireland now has restaurants that rival those of any large city in the world. Irish chefs have nearly all worked for famous restaurants in Paris, New York, Sydney etc.and then have come back to Ireland to set up their own restaurants. My friend James worked for Gordon Ramsay, for years, then returned to Dublin. He's now Chef at one of Dublin's most expensive restaurants.
Irish fish and chips is the best.. we normally have cod or haddock. Ireland is the only place I've had mushy peas with mint in, so good. Irish curry is amazing too
@@brianbrotherston5940 eh? What makes you say that?
I'm from and live in the North East of England, went to Ireland and liked what i had there.. and yes I have travelled far
@Brian Brotherston I'm aware I just thought the best I've had was in Ireland.. just putting in my opinion
@@brianbrotherston5940 I didn't just travel for fish and chips, I just had them when I was there and thought they were the nicest I'd had.. Jesus
the fish in chip shops is mainly either cod or place.
British & Irish bacon is called back bacon (from the pigs back) American streaky bacon is from the belly of the pig
That looks like back bacon which has less fat than the other option, streaky bacon.
I'm surprised champ wasn't mentioned. Mashed potato with spring onions(scallions).
Guinness is a stout.
Shepherd's pie made with beef would be cottage pie. Both delicious and can also be made with just vegetables in a thick tasty gravy.
I am lucky, I can get to the sea 7 miles to the north, and about 15 miles to the east and south, its a few hundred miles to the west though. Also in that 7 miles north we have whitstable- home of the whitstable oysters, go to an oyster restaurant in whitstable, and the oysters will only be hours old, not days.
Dairygold is another irish butter brand. We're lucky here that our standard butter is all like kerrygold. Cant beat real irish butter on fresh bread
Oh no its wolter. Totally clueless wherever he goes 🤣
There are places in the uk that have really old pipes, generally there are signs and bottled water in your rooms and in communal spaces to take to drink.
Stew is a popular Irish dish mainly due to the famine. When there wasn't any potatoes or food coming in you can make a stew and it will last for about 4-5 days if necessary
Are you mad, you think people made destitute during the famine had access to the ingredients for a stew🤦🏻
Usually cod is for fish and chips but haddock is also a thing. So you'd ask for a large cod and whatever size chips (chunky fries) you want. Also people often say we call all fries chips, we don't, thick fries are chips, buy I would call thin chips fries and then potato chips are crisps, cos they're super crispy
I cannot recommend a properly cooked lamb shank enough .They are slow cooked until the meat is falling off the bone and incredibly tender .Often served with mashed potato ,a meat stock gravy and vegetables .Both Shepherds pie and cottage pie are wonderfully comforting ,perfect cold day food .If you find yourself chilly ,damp (it rains a lot ) and tired ,either of these dishes will be exactly what you need .
I did mine in vodka once, on holiday in the caravan, it was the best ever. In Wales by the way. 😆
Guinness is a stout, a dark beer.
Cod is the most sold fish in batter, I prefer Haddock, also they sell plaice (flat fish) in breadcrumb normally, be careful when you buy any fish and chips that do not state what fish it is, pollock is great as it tastes & looks just like cod but some cheaper places will just use 'white fish' which is often Basa which comes from the dirtiest river in Vietnam!
Tap water is safe but there is flouride and lots of chloride in it!
And it tastes of NOTHING.
In Northern Ireland Westwood never have chips with breakfast, this is back bacon.
If there's no spice bag mentioned then this is a crime 😂
When I lived in France we didn't drink tap water. Everybody buys bottled water, but in the UK tap water is fine
our family (Gallagher's) moved over from Ireland to the uk when the potato famine was on.
Honestly when it comes to food British & Irish food are very similar with only slight differences between each version.
Granted those differences are definitely noticeable, but generally if you can find the dish in the UK generally Ireland will more than likely have it to and the reverse is true too
We have Kerry gold butter in uk . I like cod for my fish. In uk we don't have chips with our English bteakfast. Love from uk.
Cod, hake and haddock for fish and chips.
But we have a lot of salmon, trout, mackerel and monkfish that we eat at home rather than in batter from a fish and chip shop.
White pudding is broadly similar to black pudding, but does not include blood. Modern recipes consist of suet or fat, oatmeal or barley, breadcrumbs and in some cases pork and pork liver.
If you ever visit the UK you must go to Mevagissey, great fish & chips shops that are family run. We watched our fish come off the boat and into the fryer. Can’t get fresher!
This is about Ireland.
Duh.
@@Kitiwake you seem troubled
@@CeltSfodster Hehe, ... stealing their thunder.
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Breakfast roll
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Chicken fillet roll with mayo qnd cheese
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Spice bag
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Garlic cheese and chips or fries for you Americans
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Batter sausage
Yea need to come to northern ireland to get soda bread and potatoe bread. Best country in the world
Uk traditional pies
Shepherds pie = lamb veg (carrots, onion, turnips/swede/rutabaga, parsnips) topped with mash
Cottage pie = beef veg and mash
Fisherman's pie = cheapest fish sometimes smoked not always
Admirals pie = expensive fish frequently salmon, large prawns etc
Gardeners pie = vegetables
Hunters pie = rabbit, venison or other game animals
Game pie = game birds
Stargazy pie = herring traditionally with fish heads showing through the pie
Farmhouse pie = white sauce pie with various things chicken, mushrooms, spinach, bacon, peas, sweetcorn, sauted leeks any combination you fancy
Steak pie = steak often with beer, ale or stout
Steak and kidney = steak and kidneys in a brown gravy often with beer, ale or stout
Mince pie = minced beef and brown gravy
Cheese and onion pie = flaky pastry filled with cheese and onion
Cornish pasties - flaky pastry with a meat and potato filling
Most of the fish in our fish and chips is haddock or cod a white meaty fish
We have back bacon and streaky -back is from what I have found most similar to Canadian bacon streaky is layers of fat and meat, both are cured and sometimes smoked not always
White pudding is oatmeal, suet, spices
Black pudding is blood pudding
Haggis is served in a full Scottish breakfast and is minced offal with oatmeal and spice. You might also find fruit pudding this is very similar to white pudding with a smoother texture and sultanas and raisin in it
Tattie scones are a common addition in Scottish and Irish full breakfasts.
In Scotland you would get square sausage known as lorne sometime also with link sausage
Traditional British breakfasts normally have bacon, sausage, mushroom, hash browns or some potato product, baked beans, mushrooms, grilled or fried tomatoes, eggs fried, scramble or poached and regional specialties
Guinness is a stout. We have ales, stouts, lager and IPAs as standard in most pubs. If you do make it to Aberdeen and like whiskey you should go to The Grill as they have an amazing selection of whiskeys. There is a short film called No Ladies Please about the 70s battle to allow women to go into this pub women could serve there but not enter to drink.
That's quite an impressive list of pies. The only one i suppose i've never heard of is Gardeners pie ... makes perfect sense though - I assume is has a white sauce?
@@hardywatkins7737 yes normally a veg stock thickened with a roux and occasionally enhanced with a little double cream (I believe that is USA heavy cream)
@@flushedphoenix81 Ok, yep. Thanks.
Fish and chip shop fish is usually cod here in Ireland.
Guinness is a draught stout
That's a great looking beef stew, but a tradition Irish stew is lamb or mutton cooked with potatoes and carrots cooked together in one pot.
As others have said, the food across the British Isles is very similar although there are local specialities.
Irish farmers produce enough food for 50millipn people,so it's likely agreat or majority goes to the UK as we only consume about a tenth of that ourselves
Ireland is not a British Isle/Island. This is an outdated Imperialistic and Possesive term that is not recognised by the Irish Government nor by the Majority of Irish people living in Ireland.
There is no such thing as the "British Isles" it is a British colloquialism, highly offensive and not recognised by any international body
@@calador1918 Those islands that are politically British are the British isles.
That doesn't include 5/6ths of the island of Ireland and it's islands.
So by definition, Ireland isn't a "British" Isle.
@@Kitiwake there is no such thing as the "British Isles" and no that is not what people mean when they use the term. Again it is a colloquialism that is not recognized by any country or international body
The Irish do really eat a lot of potatoes.
My Irish mate in London alway served boiled potatoes with dinner, no matter what it was lol.
Even the spag bol had them underneath 😂
Truth we do 😂😂😂
Hi from Northern Ireland!
Spuds with Spag bol?! What on earth lol
I had a friend years ago who destroyed Spag Bol with ketchup. She never ate at my house again 😂
@@AdeleD79 he was from Ireland. Well his parents were anyway. I'm guessing he got his recipes from his mum 😁
@@101steel4 ahh fair enough! I just find that a bizarre addition. Saying that, ever had just the bolognese without spaghetti, over chips? Now, there's a dish of deliciousness right there! 😋
Willing to bet the spuds with spag bol was either cos the ran out of pisgetti or as a joke..
Spuds with beef spagetti sauce is quite good.. Chilli is better though IMO :)
You should react to kneecap. They are a Catholic rap group from Belfast who rap in the Irish language 🇮🇪
No Irish Stew in any restaurant will taste near as good as your Granny's slow cooked stew you'd get at the weekends. When are you coming to visit Ireland?
My dad was Irish and he made a lovely stew hence Irish stew.
If you do get a stew you will often see it served with dumplings rather than mashed potato's. It's one of those things where it depends on the restaurant you are at.
I'm pretty sure they were actually dumplings and not mash in that first photo!?