Why don't Irish people like seafood?

[Santino]

Bollocks, sea weed is quite popular in parts of this country ffs.

You're thinking of Japan. Easily done. Both island-based countries at the edge of the Eurasian super-continent. Both have unhealthy relationships with booze. Both launched unprovoked naval attacks on the US during the 1940s.

 

[Detroit City]

There is an element of truth in the stereotype that the Irish don't like Seafood. The experience of poor landless farmers mentioned above is probably a factor. I think Catholicism is also a factor. In many households, white fish was eaten reluctantly once a week on a Friday. Clearly this isn't the experience of every Catholic country (cf. Spain, Portugal or Croatia).

I think poverty is still a factor today. Despite being on the North Atlantic coast and within spitting distance of fishing ports in Antrim and Donegal, Derry City still doesn't have an independent fishmongers, or at least one I have managed to find on regular visits. Your best bet for fish there seems to be a fairly basic selection at Sainsburys.

hmm...interesting

 

[Chairman Meow]

There is an element of truth in the stereotype that the Irish don't like Seafood. The experience of poor landless farmers mentioned above is probably a factor. I think Catholicism is also a factor. In many households, white fish was eaten reluctantly once a week on a Friday. Clearly this isn't the experience of every Catholic country (cf. Spain, Portugal or Croatia).

I think poverty is still a factor today. Despite being on the North Atlantic coast and within spitting distance of fishing ports in Antrim and Donegal, Derry City still doesn't have an independent fishmongers, or at least one I have managed to find on regular visits. Your best bet for fish there seems to be a fairly basic selection at Sainsburys.

Yeah, but that's Derry for you. Its probably one of the worst places in Ireland for decent food. What is there, not even half a dozen good restaurants in a city with a population of over 100k? I'm from there myself and when I visit family we got to Limavady to eat in the Lime Tree, or Portrush to eat in the Ramore, or Donegal, because Derry is so dreadful for eating out. So I'm not surprised no-one eats fish.

Down here in Cork ( pop. about the same as Derry) we have apparantly got one of the longest wet fish counters in Europe in the English market, so there is buckets of the stuff being eaten here.

Here's one section of the fish market in Cork.

 

[Detroit City]

Down here in Cork ( pop. about the same as Derry) we have apparantly got one of the longest wet fish counters in Europe in the English market, so there is buckets of the stuff being eaten here.

yea but the thread is about Ireland as a whole, not one area...

 

[isitme]

Why don't Irish like picnic baskets?

Because they might be Mr Rangers

 

[Chairman Meow]

yea but the thread is about Ireland as a whole, not one area...

Yes, and I was contrasting Derry at one end of Ireland, with Cork at the other end. Fish and seafood is widely eaten pretty much everywhere, although I was pointing out why Derry may be an exception.

Yo udo know Ireland is famous for oysters and guinness?

 

[Cid]

Yeah, but that's Derry for you. Its probably one of the worst places in Ireland for decent food. What is there, not even half a dozen good restaurants in a city with a population of over 100k? I'm from there myself and when I visit family we got to Limavady to eat in the Lime Tree, or Portrush to eat in the Ramore, or Donegal, because Derry is so dreadful for eating out. So I'm not surprised no-one eats fish.

Down here in Cork ( pop. about the same as Derry) we have apparantly got one of the longest wet fish counters in Europe in the English market, so there is buckets of the stuff being eaten here.

Here's one section of the fish market in Cork.

Mmmm... misleadingly named shellfish.

 

[Chairman Meow]

Mmmm... misleadingly named shellfish.

Sorry the lobster tanks are just out of photo range.

 

[Fedayn]

You're thinking of Japan. Easily done. Both island-based countries at the edge of the Eurasian super-continent. Both have unhealthy relationships with booze. Both launched unprovoked naval attacks on the US during the 1940s.

Dulse is seaweed eaten in parts of Ireland.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

I fucking doooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

 

[panpete]

I love seafood, and so does my Dad, and there is Irish on both my mums and Dads side.

 

[seeformiles]

Dulse is seaweed eaten in parts of Ireland.

Particularly during "The oul' Llamas Fair at Ballycastle-O!"

 

[Chairman Meow]

Particularly during "The oul' Llamas Fair at Ballycastle-O!"

"Will you treat your Mary -Ann to some dulse and yellow man?"

 

[narcodollars]

Why don't Irish People like seafood?

Because they can't cook it. My mother's half-Irish.

Did I mention somewhere else here that I don't eat a lot of meat anymore?

 

[narcodollars]

That reminds me, the Greeks are excellent at preparing seafood.

 

[seeformiles]

"Will you treat your Mary -Ann to some dulse and yellow man?"

Ah - nothing rips out fillings like yellowman

 

[Chester Copperpot]

I'm not Irish but I have an Irish name. I quite like most seafood.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Anyways, i was watching this show last nite on tv about Irish food. They said the Irish traditionally haven't liked seafood....why is this?

It's because a fish doesn't resemble a potato.


DC, you should give yourself a slap.

 

[likesfish]

there afraid of the sea its bitterly cold and where the English come from

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The puffer fish looks something like a potato, but if you eat it, you die.

 

[Chairman Meow]

It's because a fish doesn't resemble a potato.

Oh my aching sides.

 

[Detroit City]

It's because a fish doesn't resemble a potato.

DC, you should give yourself a slap.

 

[joustmaster]

i went here and spent a 4 days in the west coast eating nothing but sea food and drinking nothing but guinness and spirits... poor insides.

http://www.galwayoysterfest.com/

 

[Detroit City]

i went here and spent a 4 days in the west coast eating nothing but sea food and drinking nothing but guinness and spirits... poor insides.

http://www.galwayoysterfest.com/

looks like fun

 

[George & Bill]

Potatoes don't grow in the sea and you can't make Guinness out of prawns.

 

[Santino]

How many potatoes does a fish resemble?

None.

 

[Fedayn]

It's because a fish doesn't resemble a potato.


DC, you should give yourself a slap.

Is that why lost of black people don't eat seafood because it doesn't look like fried chicken......?

The puffer fish looks something like a potato, but if you eat it, you die.

Well apart from the fact that if you eat 'fugu', prepared properly by a trained fugu chef, then you don't die as a result of the toxins from various organs, the liver and ovaries especially.They have also bred non-toxic fugu.

 

[George & Bill]

Is that why lost of bl;ack people don't eat seafood because it doesn't look like fried chicken......

Are you implying that 'black' is an equivalent classification to 'Irish'?

 

[Fedayn]

Are you implying that 'black' is an equivalent classification to 'Irish'?

No, i'm replying to one stupid generalisation and stereotype with another.

 

[Cheesypoof]

The programme you watched was wrong. Irish people love seafood like any other nation, and Irish seafood is pretty spectacular, particularly in the hundreds of dedicated restaurants that are packed throughout the West Coast.