Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Rat Catcher on February 04, 2019, 03:19:43 pm
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Been looking at the labels recently. Seems that most of the stuff I buy is produced in the UK, presumably in norn iron. The stuff from Tesco Lidl and McLouglin's is nice but the stuff from Super Valu and Applegreen is muck. I presume the former is from republican farms and the latter from protestants. Anywaysanall - one for the erm - will Brexit make the supermarkets source their stuff in the Republic and, if so, will retail prices increase?
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remember seeing this in the cinema.
we were in fuckin ribbons laffin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4sgImaJTlA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4sgImaJTlA)
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That movie is 23 years old..jaysus...still one of my favourites.
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Been looking at the labels recently. Seems that most of the stuff I buy is produced in the UK, presumably in norn iron. The stuff from Tesco Lidl and McLouglin's is nice but the stuff from Super Valu and Applegreen is muck. I presume the former is from republican farms and the latter from protestants. Anywaysanall - one for the erm - will Brexit make the supermarkets source their stuff in the Republic and, if so, will retail prices increase?
You unpatriotic son of a bitch.
Do you not check to see if it has the “Made In Ireland” logo. Which means fuck all actually.
They can get the milk from northern cows, transport it down here, put it in the cartons and call it Irish.
Dya remember the Guaranteed Irish Logo from years ago??
I wonder if some of us could put them on our taxis? My parents were Irish and my parents parents were Irish so I’m Guaranteed Irish
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Dya remember the Guaranteed Irish Logo from years ago??
You can put it on food packaging....Unfortunately if you put it on a taxi...you're asking for trouble!!
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Dya remember the Guaranteed Irish Logo from years ago??
You can put it on food packaging....Unfortunately if you put it on a taxi...you're asking for trouble!!
Bastards.
I am guaranteed Irish.
So they can be racist about foods but I can’t tell everyone that I’m guaranteed Irish.
Wouldn’t it be a great marketing ploy to get the “Guaranteed Irish” body to advertise on some taxis
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An interior light does the same job as a guaranteed Irish logo.
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An interior light does the same job as a guaranteed Irish logo.
Nah, the English and Nordies look just us, along with some of the other Europeans
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Dya remember the Guaranteed Irish Logo from years ago??
You can put it on food packaging....Unfortunately if you put it on a taxi...you're asking for trouble!!
I recall telling someone on Roy's that St Patrick is also the patron Saint of Nigeria.........best way to go now is bedecking the vehicle in Rainbow paraphernalia............lots of these lads don't like the connotations and nobody can say boo to you for doing it. MyTaxi are leading the way along with Google and Facebook in making it an integral part of our new identity. All done in the best possible taste.........
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The Applegreen one is Irish... but that's muck... not sure about Super Valu 'cos I haven't seen it for a while but it has the same sour note as the Applegreen one... I don't generally shop in Super Valu 'cos Moriarty has tried to poison me twice, once with rotten Chicken and once with sour Rashers and the food in his hotel is pure shite... Lidl is what I have in the fridge at the moment, that's UK (NI) and I'm pretty sure Tesco comes from the same dairy as it has the same creamy taste that I like. The one McLouglin's sell (not the Avonmore, the other one) is similarly acceptable... I find Avonmore inconsistent, sometimes OK, sometimes muck.
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Fukin milk connoisseurs we have here....who'd have thought!
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Pronounced Mulk as soon as you leave the Pale.
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What I'm really concerned about is the likelihood that the Super Valu one is Irish, from the same dairy as the Applegreen muck. Add in the assumption that the one McLoughlin's sell is from norn iron and I could be in a real pickle post Brexit. If Tesco, Lidl and McLoughlin's better supplier switch to the Irish muck sold by Applegreen (and maybe Super Valu) there's no choice but to put up with Avonmore's inconsistencies... let's hope it doesn't come to that.
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Where's the erm when there's Brexit related questions of serious consequence to address?
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He's dealing with first world problems!!
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Never heard anyone else moaning about Avonmore milk...........best milk out there in my opinion.
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I'd say the cows would love to hear yisser appraisals..
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Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't, LL. They probably produce the Applegreen muck too... and maybe slip some of that into their own brand as supply and demand dictates. Tesco and Lidl are consistently acceptable, much creamier taste than the others.... although I do have a gripe with Lidl's, the seal isn't always correctly applied, it can leak if laid flat on a shelf rather than being placed in the door holder of the fridge... that's happened to me twice.
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Sounds like a local issue there, Rats, Maybe Jethro and Benji just aren't up on proper merchandising procedures.
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Possibly, I don't buy Avonmore myself so it's generally in other people's gaff's I'd notice... more often than not in the Northside suburbs of the city. I should clarify, though, this is proper full fat milk I'm talking about, none of your mamby pamby low fat half skimmed organic shite. In general I am a sucker for organic but not when it comes to milk.
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Always reach as far back in as possible and run your finger around the top of the cartons in the fridge....if dry then leave. Petrol stations know people only buy milk as a last gasp option so they stick the older shite in the back knowing full well that Elspetha with the 3 changeling bastards in the back of her Nissan Picnic will reach in the back for the "fresher" over-priced milk.
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At the moment all I need to do is look at the dates in Tesco, Lidl or McLoughlin's to make sure I'm buying from the latest delivery... the product itself is A1... let's hope Brexit doesn't fuck that up.
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Not milk but Denny were caught out the other day selling chicken with "Made in Wicklow" on the package. When questioned on the origin it turned out the chicken was from Brazil and imported then packaged in Kerry Food Group (who own the Denny brand) in their factory in Shilleagh, Co.Wicklow. The lying pack of cunts. No skin off my nose as I never buy those shite Denny sausages or any of their other products. Makes you think though, we are having the wool pulled over our eyes when it comes to food labelling, its a crock of shite
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If it tastes alright I guess it doesn't matter where it comes from. I tend to go for free range chicken myself but that's probably subject to very loose definition. I like Kearns sausages, dunno if they're a Denny's product or not these days. I know the original producer went out of business a few years back and someone else took over the brand/recipe.
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If it tastes alright I guess it doesn't matter where it comes from. I tend to go for free range chicken myself but that's probably subject to very loose definition. I like Kearns sausages, dunno if they're a Denny's product or not these days. I know the original producer went out of business a few years back and someone else took over the brand/recipe.
Suprvalu sausages made from the old "Superquinn recipe"........nah no way. Best of the lot are locally made butcher's sausages. Rather hand them the extra 2 quid. Got a fillet of sirloin from me local butcher for 27 quid for a beef wellington on Xmas Eve. Fed 7 people with it plus a bit left over for the staffie. Aldi's sirloin steaks are very good but shrink on the Foreman.......get what you pay for.
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Rodent on the Milk conundrum have you checked to see if the milk you purchased is hommoginised milk or not or if it is semi homoginised .Some dairies extracy more of the cream for butter or cheese manufacture .Lakeland Dairies who would be Church Of Ireland extract only 60% of the purest cream which they supply to Bailies on the Nangor Road .which is why your milk consistency conundrum is also reflected in the Quality of Bailies Original Irish Cream over the cheap Lidel made in somewhere else stuff .In answer to your question visa vie Brexit Bainne .Im sure there will be a shortage of Church of Ireland Milk on the shelves of post brexit garages but more importantly post Brexit if there is a new Hard Border will Ireland s Rugby team continue to appease the Norn Eireann fan base with the singing of Irelands Call .Im sure Big Dommos Northers Cousin Big Allister will work out a way of marching his heard of Black and White Fresian Cows over the border into Monaghan for milking then smuggel them back over the line to eat grass and shit .
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Pasteurised and homogenised, erm. Are they not all like that these days?
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Church of Ireland farmers don't keep cattle........Presbyterians do. C of I men grow arable crops for production in high-end breweries etc.
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Size matters when it comes to roast sirloin, or any roast beef LL. Trying to roast anything under 2 kilos is a recipe for disaster... well, disaster might be a tad strong, it'll dry out too much... ideally 2.5 kilos plus is what you want with a nice coat of fat on one side so it'll baste itself.
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Size matters when it comes to roast sirloin, or any roast beef LL. Trying to roast anything under 2 kilos is a recipe for disaster... well, disaster might be a tad strong, it'll dry out too much... ideally 2.5 kilos plus is what you want with a nice coat of fat on one side so it'll baste itself.
Sounds like a Tinder profile.
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Cream content Rodent some dairies extract more of the cream while others leave a bit in and shake it up .When Big Dommos old lad was out of prison he would always slap the heads off the kids if they opened the neighbours milk before he got the cream off the top of the bottle for his porridge .I remember one time Dommo went over the wall into the good houses and took two bottles of milk from a doorstep and the oul one in the house seen him and chased him into the flats Dommo ran like a greyhound and got away his oul fella thumped him and made him bring them back because he shook themwhen he was running and the cream got all mixed up due to the centrafugal force of the agitation of the creammodules .
About two years late Dommos old man was out of Jail and Dommo was about 15 .They were having pints of Guinness in The Pub when Dommo who had done nearly three months in Jambo Secondary said to his oul fells .Da do you remembe before you were locked up you battered me for robbing the milk that was not creamy .Well I learned in school if you had of left the milk standing on the draining board while you went for your dole that day when you got home the milk would of floated back to the top because it is fat and heavier than the other milk just like oil floats on water .Dommos oulfella caught him a thump on the side of the head .Dont be such a fucking idiot ,never admit to robbing anything ,not even milk .Lesson Given lesson learned .
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It's a long time since I've seen a bottle of milk with the cream on top, I think it's all homogenised these days.
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It's a long time since I've seen a bottle of milk with the cream on top, I think it's all homogenised these days.
Does that mean the Queers have something to do with it ?
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No.
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Avanmore, Premier, Tesco and Dunnes' milk are the best. Premier milk is my favourite.
Applegreen's is tasteless muck.
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Not milk but Denny were caught out the other day selling chicken with "Made in Wicklow" on the package. When questioned on the origin it turned out the chicken was from Brazil and imported then packaged in Kerry Food Group (who own the Denny brand) in their factory in Shilleagh, Co.Wicklow. The lying pack of cunts. No skin off my nose as I never buy those shite Denny sausages or any of their other products. Makes you think though, we are having the wool pulled over our eyes when it comes to food labelling, its a crock of shite
But god forbid if ye didn't have DIN 13164 printed on your safety kit...or an E sticker on your fire extinguisher!!
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Commercial milk is also usually homogenized—a mechanical process that breaks the fat globules into smaller droplets so that they stay suspended in the milk rather than separating out and floating to the top of the bottle
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Is Dunnes produced in the UK? If not, it could be a post Brexit option... as could Premier (I thought they went out of business years ago)... Avonmore would be the option of last resort for me.
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Brother Ignatius used the Milk method to explain pulling your pole in First year sex education in Jambo.He said Homogonised is when you shake it up but dont extract the cream,semiskimmed is when you shake it up and ectract only a bit of the cream and skimmed is when you rattle the handle out of yourself destroy the sheets and are knackered so much that you cant even stuff your lad below your jock elastic before you roll ove and go to sleep .
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Dya remember the Guaranteed Irish Logo from years ago??
You can put it on food packaging....Unfortunately if you put it on a taxi...you're asking for trouble!!
I recall telling someone on Roy's that St Patrick is also the patron Saint of Nigeria.........best way to go now is bedecking the vehicle in Rainbow paraphernalia............lots of these lads don't like the connotations and nobody can say boo to you for doing it. MyTaxi are leading the way along with Google and Facebook in making it an integral part of our new identity. All done in the best possible taste.........
Ooh, you are awful...
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Rodent on the Milk conundrum have you checked to see if the milk you purchased is hommoginised milk or not or if it is semi homoginised .Some dairies extracy more of the cream for butter or cheese manufacture .Lakeland Dairies who would be Church Of Ireland extract only 60% of the purest cream which they supply to Bailies on the Nangor Road .which is why your milk consistency conundrum is also reflected in the Quality of Bailies Original Irish Cream over the cheap Lidel made in somewhere else stuff .In answer to your question visa vie Brexit Bainne .Im sure there will be a shortage of Church of Ireland Milk on the shelves of post brexit garages but more importantly post Brexit if there is a new Hard Border will Ireland s Rugby team continue to appease the Norn Eireann fan base with the singing of Irelands Call .Im sure Big Dommos Northers Cousin Big Allister will work out a way of marching his heard of Black and White Fresian Cows over the border into Monaghan for milking then smuggel them back over the line to eat grass and shit .
Sheesh, talking shite til the cows come home.
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Avonmore & Premier joined forces but still produce their milk separately.
My Lidl milk was produced in Donegal, it says “Produced In Ireland Using Irish Milk” so shouldn’t be affected by Brexit at all.
I only use milk in my tae so that probably masks a lot of this stuff that rodent speaks off.
As regards Superval(superquinn) sausages, I think they are manky
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galtee jumbo sausages are the nicest sausages I reckon.
think you get 8 in a packet for two euro.
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Sausages from Aldi are lovely....also get the jumbo ones aswell,the missus makes a mean sausage casserole in the slow cooker.
We buy Aldi low fat milk....€1.49 for two litres!!
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Strictly soya an almond milk..... Lovely stuff zero cholesterol.... Part of me participation in the save the planet along wit me semi hemi electric car..... You can produce 10 liters of soya on the same land that yu get 1 pint out of milk out of a dirty cow.... Did yu ever see them milking a cow? the tits are right beside the cows arse hole and it's all filty down there....
Specially the nordy cows are dirt
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Pasteurisation causes all the problems.......allergies. The real hardy bucks drink it straight from the cow like they do from their Mammies. Most Soy Beans are genetically modified......wake up some morning with an extra gonad or beside a woman with an Adam's apple.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2004/nov/07/foodanddrink.features7 (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2004/nov/07/foodanddrink.features7)
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That's nuts, Octy.
Strange that your Lidl is selling Republican milk, Vikkiz. Mine says "UK NI 224 M EC" in the little circle. I think it's the only brand they stock in the beautiful seaside resort town of Balbriggan. It does say "100% IRISH MILK" on the label which carries the brand name of Coolree Creamery - produced by Strathroy Dairy Ltd, Mountjoy East, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, BT79 7JD. - anywaysanall, it's good milk and not overpriced either.
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Strathroy import most of their milk from Donegal farmers.....most of them not tending sheep are indeed Protestants. The hills and shit land tend to be shepherded by drunken Donegal men with bad teeth and huge feet.
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Makes sense, LL. While there's no mention of Donegal on the label it does say "produced in Northern Ireland using Irish Milk"... hopefully Strathroy will find a way around any restrictions Brexit may impose on their exports to the Republic. I'm not going up to Sainsburys twice a week for me fucking milk!
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You won't have to.............there's a United Ireland in the offing according to Sean Graham.
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Jaysus I didn't know Sean Graham was still in business, what price is he offering?
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Hasn't gone away you know........Asda bought Sainsbury's keeping the Sainsbury's logo to keep the upper-lower classes content. They are rumoured to be eyeing up a site off the M50 somewhere. Warren Buffet's young fellow was seen out around the Cavan/Blanch exit. I can see them buying Dunnes out very soon.........3rd attempt.
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With the Sainsbury's influence they might do the deal this time. I know they had a huge issue with sharing anchor tenancies during at least one of their last attempts. They were focussed on the Walmart town killer model back then... ironically, one that has worked to some extent for Tesco Ireland in the interim.
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Heffernan's held out this long..........can't see them wanting Cornelscourt though........fancy sub-let franchises everywhere.....12 lids for 2 good quality steak and kidney pies. Got caught that day..........3 nightdresses and 2 pairs of joggers for the same price.
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The plot thickens... but not necessarily the milk. I was up above in Dublin last night for a pint (not milk) with a colleague/competitor. Had a look in the fridge I woke up to and there was two 3L plastic containers of milk, one nearly empty... both light or semi-skimmed shite.
Anywaysanall the first was Strathroy (in it's own name) with an address in Dublin 11 but despite the Guaranteed Irish logo on the container it clearly states "UK NI224M EC" in the now familiar oval mark. The second was from Aldi and carried the brand name Clonbawn with a similar 100% Irsh Milk logo as that used by Lidl. Again the small print is similar to Lidl's i.e. "produced in Northern Ireland using Irish Milk" but there's no address for the dairy, just says produced specially for Aldi Stores (Ireland) Ltd....
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Strathroy and Lacpatrick are the 2 biggies for Fenian cows in N.I. One was called Lecpatrick until a local D.U.P. elected official complained because it was construed as very "Irish"...sounded almost like "Mick" when the Ads were out...I kid you not.
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The plot thickens... but not necessarily the milk. I was up above in Dublin last night for a pint (not milk) with a colleague/competitor. Had a look in the fridge I woke up to and there was two 3L plastic containers of milk, one nearly empty... both light or semi-skimmed shite.
Anywaysanall the first was Strathroy (in it's own name) with an address in Dublin 11 but despite the Guaranteed Irish logo on the container it clearly states "UK NI224M EC" in the now familiar oval mark. The second was from Aldi and carried the brand name Clonbawn with a similar 100% Irsh Milk logo as that used by Lidl. Again the small print is similar to Lidl's i.e. "produced in Northern Ireland using Irish Milk" but there's no address for the dairy, just says produced specially for Aldi Stores (Ireland) Ltd....
You didn't have a root in his missusss knicker drawer aswell by any chance?
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No, I stayed in my parents' gaff, Hal.
I'll get the other one I like from McLoughlin's this afternoon as I'm running low, can't wait to see where it's produced...
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Has to be Glasgow with a name like that....son of the Viking............Mac Lochlainn.
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You need a fukin hobby RC....or build that bleedin shed!!
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McLoughlin's is the name of the Garage, not the milk... dunno what that's called, yet. To be completely honest the garage is actually the Sail In but it was bought by McLoughlin's - who own another garage a couple of hundred yards up the road, McLoughlin's Mace - so nowadays both are colloquially referred to as McLoughlin's.
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You need a fukin hobby RC....or build that bleedin shed!!
I'll be back to the landscaping when the weather picks up a bit... not sure if I'll get as far as building the shed this year though, it's hard to find the motivation to do any of it when you're just not green fingered.
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Matter of time now before it is called Obafemi's or Blessing's............probably 3 yrs away at most.
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I wouldn't think so, the McLoughlins have been in town for a long time. Rumoured to have turned down serious notes from Applegreen who have them surrounded with sites in Balrothery, Julianstown and Millfield, not to mention the M1 service stations.... if anyone gets it off them, I'd say Applegreen will.
I remember before they owned the Sail In, it was an old fashioned filling station with a mechanic on duty sign and a workshop where the "convenience store" is now... called in when I wasn't long living here and asked the boss if he could investigate a rattle in my motor... can you come back this afternoon and I'll see if I have a ramp free, says he, clearly taking the piss as he had one fucking "ramp" and there was no car on it... then asks me where I buy my diesel and complains that there's no loyalty from customers anymore when I tell him I shop around... I think his was at least 5p dearer than the next dearest around!
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You could walk to Gormanston back then without seeing a Feargal Sharkey.
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You still can at night... they're not the worst anyway, well integrated at this stage.
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A good heart is hard to find.............
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Most of the blacks are grand, they tend to make an effort to contribute to the community despite being in a pretty small minority.
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That must be Taz ........in the red there....is it?...........Watty said No...........
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Vik... he was the original Admin on here with TnT all those years ago...
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Grand..I wish him every success in his unbiased endeavours. John M was the only man for that job, in my opinion.
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Got the milk from McLoughlin's and it's good news, very good news. It carries the brand Dairyland Cuisine and is produced up above in Dublin, West Dublin in fact, Tallaght to be precise. The oval panel says"IE See Code Panel EC" so, seemingly, it's 100% Irish... and not in the Mick McCarthy 'undred percent Oirish sense.
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Ah Southside milk best, cant beat it
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It's good milk and not overpriced, under €2 for 2 litres.... could be my first choice after Brexit, will have to see what Strathroy/Lidl do... I'll probably be in Tesco tomorrow so I'll report back on theirs in due course.
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Rat you remind me of "Ernie the fastest Milkman in the West" , Remember him ?
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Indeedin' I do... an old boss of mine was called Ernie, needless to say we filled in the rest.
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Indeedin' I do... an old boss of mine was called Ernie, needless to say we filled in the rest.
Needless to say they called you Bert?
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Pasteurisation causes all the problems.......allergies. The real hardy bucks drink it straight from the cow like they do from their Mammies. Most Soy Beans are genetically modified......wake up some morning with an extra gonad or beside a woman with an Adam's apple.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2004/nov/07/foodanddrink.features7 (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2004/nov/07/foodanddrink.features7)
Ill take me chances with the soya milk lippy..... Rather that than chance drinking residue an detritus gick matter from a cows bum....
I wouldn't mind turnin into a woman an me mot told me she's bisexual an it could be a bit of crack.....
..better that than eatin gick and gettin heart disease
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:o
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Had a lovely stir fry wit rice, quorn and kidney beans an teriyaki sauce tonite...
I love Japanese an Thai food we'r all the lovely birds come from
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Diabetics are Lack Toes Intolerant!! 8)
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Ahh rats, I never even noticed the oval with the letters and numbers In it.
So the lidl milk I had is IE 1419 EC
I ventured in SuperValu the other day as the Lidl bread is very seldom fresh, (we should start another thread on that) and picked up a liter of their finest own brand milk and it’s code is the same as Lidl IE 1419 EC
It also states that it was “farmed in the Republic of Ireland”
Looking at the nutritional values and the SuperValu milk has slightly more Calaries(1 extra), carb(.1), saturated fats(.2), but less protein(.1) . All those values are minuscule considering they have the same codes so are they produced in the same plant.
You might like this nugget
https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/media/migration/foodsafetyconsumerissues/foodsafetypublications/ApprovedFoodBusinessOperators2008.xls (https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/media/migration/foodsafetyconsumerissues/foodsafetypublications/ApprovedFoodBusinessOperators2008.xls)
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That's interesting alright. The only ROI one I've studied to date is the McLoughlin's one. The oval said "IE See Code Panel EC". I didn't know what that meant other than it was produced in Ireland. Obviously the producer isn't too fussy where he gets it from but there is a number stamped on the lid with the date, 1405. The SS tells me this is from Glanbia, Drogheda... so the West Dublin address on the label is probably just an administrative office or maybe a distribution depot.
I'm still intrigued as to why your Lidl is selling ROI produced milk while mine id selling (albeit Irish) milk produced up in the UK... given that the Irish one is the same as Super Valu's I probably wouldn't like it but, as someone suggested earlier, my problem with Super Valu could be down to handling/storage. I previously concluded that Moriarty must be turning the fridges off at night after he tried to poison me with the Chicken and the Rashers and it's the sort of thing I'd expect of a miserable, penny-pinching cunt of his ilk.
Also interesting that the Clonbawn milk my parents got from Aldi in Coolock carries the same "UK NI 224M EC" as the Strathroy they also had in the fridge, I'm guessing they got that from Spar on Tonlegee Rd... and that is the same NI number as the one sold in my local Lidl so I know the whole lot of that is produced from Irish milk by Strathroy in Omagh up in the UK.
Just a thought, is your Lidl stuff light or semi-skimmed?
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I don't go to Tesco of a Monday as a rule because the dates don't stack up on any of the fresh stuff. It might be well within date but it's not as far ahead as any other day of the week in my experience so I've concluded that it's weekend leftovers or they don't stock the shelves of a Sunday night.
Hence I generally shop in Lidl of a Monday. The bread I get there is always from the bakery counter... usually a vienna roll which I slice with their machine selecting the medium setting. When I go to Tesco later in the week I usually get a French Stick (only lasts a day) and a loaf of old Mr. Brennan's sliced stuff which seems to last forever. If I need to top up on what I buy in the supermarkets I'd get Brennans from McLoughlin's... it's 50c dearer than Tesco but there's no walking/queuing involved and it wouldn't be all that often I'd need it, certainly not every week.
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Hate payin more than €1.49 for me milk and more than €1.50 for me Brennans sliced pan.
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Jesus Christ yes sound like a bunch of fckn Aul ones
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Jesus Christ yes sound like a bunch of fckn Aul ones
Fukin am......i pay for all the shopping,i hate goin to Aldi cos they don't have the self service checkouts when buying a small number of items....but Aldi it is for our big shop.
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I go to Dunne's and do the shoppn sometimes (but don't tell anyone)
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No shame in being the shopper....as i pay for all our shopping i can keep tabs on what's being spent(not in a controllable manner)....i know the price of stuff which seems to be a mystery to most men....LL will be along soon to tell us we're something or other!!
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I've always done the shopping, Mrs. Catcher works during the day.... sure I cook it so it makes sense for me to but it, I guess. I used to go to Tesco for everything until they fucked with my OCD a few years back by rearranging the store. I figured if I have to learn it all again I might as well go to Lidl and learn it there but Lidl its a bit too communist to do all the shopping in it, there's very little brand choice, they choose for you and they often run out of stuff so I quickly figured I have to use both Lidl and Tesco, I guess that's when I started learning prices as in what's better value in which store.
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Frawleys of Thomas Street are doing a lovley line in pinnies lads .
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I go to Dunne's and do the shoppn sometimes (but don't tell anyone)
Dunno how Dunnes' staff get their jobs... half of them can't speak ENGLISH and they haven't a clue where anything is in the store... The staff in Tescos are predominately Irish, although one of the managers is English... Lidl is a mixture of Eastern Europeans and Paddies.
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Back on topic, I got the Tesco one this afternoon. It's Irish (IE 1405 EC) which we now know to be from Glanbia, Drogheda - the same as McLoughlin's as it goes. That's good news, very good news.
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Back on topic, I got the Tesco one this afternoon. It's Irish (IE 1405 EC) which we now know to be from Glanbia, Drogheda - the same as McLoughlin's as it goes. That's good news, very good news.
So they run it through cat litter?
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That's interesting alright. The only ROI one I've studied to date is the McLoughlin's one. The oval said "IE See Code Panel EC". I didn't know what that meant other than it was produced in Ireland. Obviously the producer isn't too fussy where he gets it from but there is a number stamped on the lid with the date, 1405. The SS tells me this is from Glanbia, Drogheda... so the West Dublin address on the label is probably just an administrative office or maybe a distribution depot.
I'm still intrigued as to why your Lidl is selling ROI produced milk while mine id selling (albeit Irish) milk produced up in the UK... given that the Irish one is the same as Super Valu's I probably wouldn't like it but, as someone suggested earlier, my problem with Super Valu could be down to handling/storage. I previously concluded that Moriarty must be turning the fridges off at night after he tried to poison me with the Chicken and the Rashers and it's the sort of thing I'd expect of a miserable, penny-pinching cunt of his ilk.
Also interesting that the Clonbawn milk my parents got from Aldi in Coolock carries the same "UK NI 224M EC" as the Strathroy they also had in the fridge, I'm guessing they got that from Spar on Tonlegee Rd... and that is the same NI number as the one sold in my local Lidl so I know the whole lot of that is produced from Irish milk by Strathroy in Omagh up in the UK.
Just a thought, is your Lidl stuff light or semi-skimmed?
Yes it all seems very strange alright.
I must have a good look the next time 8m in Tesco, Dunnes or SuperValu at all th3 differ3nt brands of milk.
Oh and only full fat original milk for me, none of that multivitamin or skimmed or semi skimmed(watered down) shite for me
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That's interesting alright. The only ROI one I've studied to date is the McLoughlin's one. The oval said "IE See Code Panel EC". I didn't know what that meant other than it was produced in Ireland. Obviously the producer isn't too fussy where he gets it from but there is a number stamped on the lid with the date, 1405. The SS tells me this is from Glanbia, Drogheda... so the West Dublin address on the label is probably just an administrative office or maybe a distribution depot.
I'm still intrigued as to why your Lidl is selling ROI produced milk while mine id selling (albeit Irish) milk produced up in the UK... given that the Irish one is the same as Super Valu's I probably wouldn't like it but, as someone suggested earlier, my problem with Super Valu could be down to handling/storage. I previously concluded that Moriarty must be turning the fridges off at night after he tried to poison me with the Chicken and the Rashers and it's the sort of thing I'd expect of a miserable, penny-pinching cunt of his ilk.
Also interesting that the Clonbawn milk my parents got from Aldi in Coolock carries the same "UK NI 224M EC" as the Strathroy they also had in the fridge, I'm guessing they got that from Spar on Tonlegee Rd... and that is the same NI number as the one sold in my local Lidl so I know the whole lot of that is produced from Irish milk by Strathroy in Omagh up in the UK.
Just a thought, is your Lidl stuff light or semi-skimmed?
Yes it all seems very strange alright.
I must have a good look the next time 8m in Tesco, Dunnes or SuperValu at all th3 differ3nt brands of milk.
Oh and only full fat original milk for me, none of that multivitamin or skimmed or semi skimmed(watered down) shite for me
You know when you're drowning at a creamery
When its Pasteurise !!
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Bothering me a bit that two of the brands I like (Tesco and Dairyland Cuisine) are actually Avonmore (Glanbia, Drogheda) but I don't like Avonmore... might have to give Avonmore another go, doesn't make sense...
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Bothering me a bit that two of the brands I like (Tesco and Dairyland Cuisine) are actually Avonmore (Glanbia, Drogheda) but I don't like Avonmore... might have to give Avonmore another go, doesn't make sense...
Baffling
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Rodent are you looking for a new gig promoting Milk ?
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Rodent are you looking for a new gig promoting Milk ?
Guinness beat him to it for promoting water.
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Is On Board Bonya still around, erm?
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Rodent are you looking for a new gig promoting Milk ?
He milks Bulls.
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Ratser,
Out of curiosity do you purchase the clear plastic “bottle” of milk or the “tetra pak”
I found that the tetra paks have the codes on them, while the dear plastic ones would just say “See Code Panel”
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The plastic one, 3L in Lidl or Tesco, 2L in McLoughlin's. McLaughlin's is the only one I've come across so far that says "see code panel" or some such. In that case the code panel was the lid where I found the code 1405 which I could interpret as Glanbia, Drogheda thanks to the SS you posted. Glanbia is, of course, Avonmore. I think the Drogheda plant used to be part of Dundalk and Drogheda Dairies in the good old days.
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Not much milk used in this house so we use the Tetra paks.
Obviously the code is on the lid of the clear cartons as the label can be easily removed.
It all came from a cow but i like to know Twas an oirish cow
Like my eggs, they gotta be Free Range Irish eggs with an IE stamped on them
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Not on the lid of the ones I get from Tesco and Lidl yet those labels are easily removed. The see code panel on the McLoughlin's one gave me the impression that their supplier takes a flexible approach... perhaps Glanbia use different plants for it's cheap brands depending on capacity or whatever. By stamping the cap they don't need to print different labels for different plants?
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... or maybe it's just the way Glanbia do it. Obviously it's main Avonmore brand is produced in different plants around the country so it probably makes sense from a cost perspective to use the same labels across all plants and stamp the caps to differentiate as required.
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Yeah it would appear that way. Main reason I buy the Tetra Pak is because milk doesn’t like the light(so I was told years and years ago)
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Yeah it would appear that way. Main reason I buy the Tetra Pak is because milk doesn’t like the light(so I was told years and years ago)
Yeah Vik , I think Milk takes after the "White Milk Bottled" Irish people who don't like the sun
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Years ago we used to have fresh milk delivered to our doorsteps every day. Whatever they do to it these days it seems to last at least a week, even in the plastic containers. It was always pasteurised (at least in my lifetime) so I'm guessing it's the homogenisation process that has extended the shelf life. Having said that, milk floats weren't refrigerated in the good old days and the bottles were clear glass so probably more susceptible to light and apart from the big supermarkets it wasn't generally refrigerated in shops, just stacked in plastic crates.
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Ahhh yes the glass bottles with the cream at the top. But also we didn’t have global warming either
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Ahhh yes the glass bottles with the cream at the top. But also we didn’t have global warming either
The birds miss it most
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Magpies.. they were actually attracted to the bottle tops, not the cream.
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We used the bottle tops on string to stop birds flying down for the new grass seed.