yea it must be...seemed sort of strange to me that they said that. maybe they were jesting and i didn't realize it
Why don't Irish people like seafood?
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yea it must be...seemed sort of strange to me that they said that. maybe they were jesting and i didn't realize it
George & Bill
semiotically superfluous
I agree that my remarks, taking the piss out of a neighbouring country, amount to a 'stupid generalisation'. Would you dismiss racism with an euqally light touch?
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Kevin Barry Avenue is in Ennis. Maybe there's lots of Kevin Barry Avenues/Roads
N_igma
Epistemic nuisance
First of all Johnny_Canuck is not English, he's Canadian. There is no playful slagging between Ireland and Canada like you get between Ireland England. He constantly finds ways to slag the Irish, the famine, the fact that we love potatoes and so on and so forth so I think Fedayn's comment was justified.
actually ireland is doing fairly well these days. someone said it was ranked the #1 place to live in the world (overall)
Chairman Meow
Perth, WA
That was a survey a couple of years ago. It is a nice place to live ( although it rains too much), except we're heading screaming into recession along with everyone else. The Celtic Tiger is long gone I'm afraid.
And the Irish/potato thing is about as enlightened as calling all Canadians Labatts swigging mounties.
George & Bill
semiotically superfluous
Sorry I was being rather self-centred and seeing the exchange in terms of my own Irish/potatoes remark.
Although how any Irishman/woman could do anything but chortle at being called underdeveloped by a Canadian is beyond me
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Just because we're not supposed to eat it (if we keep kosher), doesn't mean that we don't like it.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
Is that why lost of black people don't eat seafood because it doesn't look like fried chicken......?
DC should give himself a slap for making a boneheaded generalization, which was what I was trying to point out.
Johnny Canuck3
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Johnny Canuck3
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Do irish people actually love potatoes?
Fedayn
Well-Known Member
Aah right gotcha, sorry fella.
That isn't a punchline to a joke about bread is it?
fogbat
The Talibum
Nah. They just say that to get them into bed.
If anyone would like to construct an argument based on facts here are some figures:
"Nutrition: Annual food supply per capita from fish & fishery products"
http://earthtrends.wri.org/searchable_db/index.php?theme=1&variable_ID=50&action=select_countries
FWIW, Ireland (18.0 kg) (along with Germany and Austria) when compared with other high income countries (average 32.1kg/year) does look low in terms of fish consumption within this group.
At the other end the real fish-eaters are Japan/South Korea, Iceland/Norway & Spain/Portugal (no surprises there).
The UK (23.2), US (21.3), Canada (25.8) and Israel (22.0) are all similar and roughly in the middle.
"Nutrition: Annual food supply per capita from fish & fishery products"
http://earthtrends.wri.org/searchable_db/index.php?theme=1&variable_ID=50&action=select_countries
FWIW, Ireland (18.0 kg) (along with Germany and Austria) when compared with other high income countries (average 32.1kg/year) does look low in terms of fish consumption within this group.
At the other end the real fish-eaters are Japan/South Korea, Iceland/Norway & Spain/Portugal (no surprises there).
The UK (23.2), US (21.3), Canada (25.8) and Israel (22.0) are all similar and roughly in the middle.
And the Irish/potato thing is about as enlightened as calling all Canadians Labatts swigging mounties.
If you ignore the fact that anywhere *Irish* you go to eat they stick mash on your plate and then ask if you want potatoes expecting you to choose some other option alongside and if you're quick enough to say "no potatoes" before they got to any of the options, they'll then ask if you want any of each type individually with rising incredulity as you say no to every variety on offer!
It's multifunctional.
I was told a joke with that punchline by a friend who's a very strange person, I'd assumed he was just being his usual wierd self.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
because traditionally in Gaelic-speaking culture shellfish is poverty food - what the poor dispossessed had to eat because they got booted off their farmland and couldn't raise cattle. In Scotland there was a long-running feud between the MacDonalds and the Campbells - the MacDonalds used to insult the Campbells by calling them 'shelly-mouthed' which is a double insult, implying they had to grovel for oysters and also punning on the meaning of the name - Campbell=caim beul, 'crooked mouth'
Chairman Meow
Perth, WA
That's really interesting, I didn't know that! Not sure how much it holds water now though.
Chairman Meow
Perth, WA
If you ignore the fact that anywhere *Irish* you go to eat they stick mash on your plate and then ask if you want potatoes expecting you to choose some other option alongside and if you're quick enough to say "no potatoes" before they got to any of the options, they'll then ask if you want any of each type individually with rising incredulity as you say no to every variety on offer!
Do you want fries with your fries?
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