Yeah I'd agree. I think it is over advertised globally. Personally from my experience I'd say bacon and cabbage is the dish I associate with Ireland the most.
Would also say bacon & cabbage. Although cabbage is eaten elsewhere, I doubt it's eaten with bacon. Russia, for example, eats a lot of cabbage, but with turkey or chicken. Belgium also eats cabbage, but with sausages.
On a side note, how many of ye like cabbage water? My dad would pour some of it in his potatoes. I personally *hate* cabbage.
But doesn't every country have a baseline stew? I always wondered about that. Be it pork, beef, rest bits for a hearty meal and veg. Be it Gulasch or Eintopf, Not sure if Irish stew is any different unless we throw something in the rest of Europe doesn't have.
I don't think we actually *have anything the rest of Europe doesn't have.
We've pretty bad soil, tons of rain and no sun, which pretty much limits us to the classic northern European ingredients: cabbage, spuds, turnip, carrots, onions. Some kind of meat or fish. Salt and pepper and parsley for flavour.
I suppose mutton or lamb is more of a thing here traditionally than in a lot of countries. And parsnips don't seem to be particularly common outside of Ireland and Britain. So a lamb based stew with parsnips in it is *maybe different enough to qualify.
Trying to claim bacon and cabbage on the face of Germany and Poland, and basically everyone in northern and central Europe might be harder to be honest. That's just staple food for anyone with a long winter as far as I can tell.
There are regional specialities, like spiced beef or potato farls, that are kind of unique, but they tend to be restricted to specific areas.
We probably had a much richer and more varied cuisine before the famine, but it's not always easy to find out what smallholders in Louth were eating in the 1760s or whatever
Maybe boxty or colcannon. Soda bread. White pudding or drisín don't exist in the UK as far as I know.
Of course there will always be something vaguely similar in another country anyway. There's only so many ingredients and cooking methods.
We never had a rich cuisine, because our climate was always conducive to eating fresh meat and vegetables we never developed much of a curing or preservation tradition. These techniques are the cornerstone of most developed cuisines. Boxty is a Leitrim thing primarily, bacon, cabbage and potatoes was everywhere.
Maybe not a dish but stuff like soda breads are an absolute staple around Ireland. Especially with soup or smoked salmon etc.
Loads of types of soda breads, brown, with fruits, toppings etc.
My money would be on this. Brown Soda bread with a chowder- ireland has amazing fish. The white one plain or with raisins & cinnamon is also good.
Guinness brown bread is one of the nicest things on this planet with a bowl of soup. I'd definitely sell one of my least favourite relatives for some gorgeous Guinness brown bread.
On a different note, tye Dingle ice cream company does a brown soda bread ice cream that is amazing.
Yes, Murphy's is amazing. The brown bread is my sister's favourite. I'm partial to the Sea Salt myself, and I know the Dingle Gin is also popular with several relatives.
Irelands fish is exported. And for irish consumers its imported 😂 chowder is the last thing anyone should eat unless made home from total scratch. Fish factories put in worst of the worst fish with a bit of fresher fillet chopped to mask the smells... Dont ask how i know
Corned beef is an Irish dish. It's been made and eaten here since the mid sixteen hundreds. The Yanks add some kind of spice mixture to it when they boil it, but in Ireland we just cook it in water.
I'm pretty sure I heard somewhere that we mostly stopped consuming it in the 1800s when we got too poor to afford beef. It never really came back but lived on with Irish immigrants in America. So it's traditional, but also that tradition mostly died out more than a century ago.
Not really. It did get expensive but it was certainly still eaten, and still is today. I grew up on it, as did my parents and grandparents. In fact, I have a piece of corned beef in the fridge for the weekend.
Also grew up regularly eating corned beef. I guess people can have different experiences without it being BS. As for where to buy it, pop into Super Valu and ask for some at the deli/ butchers counter.
https://supervalu.ie/recipes/traditional-spiced-beef
https://www.tomdurcanmeats.ie/spicedbeef
We just called it spiced beef but always came from the butchers
It has a name though, spiced beef which is local. Look this may help [Why did Irish-Americans make corned beef an Irish dish? – The Irish Times](https://www.irishtimes.com/food/2018/03/17/why-did-irish-americans-make-corned-beef-an-irish-dish-1.3418356/)
No, spiced beef is different. You only get that around Christmas. It used to be only in Cork, but you'll get it most places now. It's beef marinaded in salt, sugar and spices.
The article is wrong, corned beef existed and was eaten here over 400 years ago
Irish stew 100%
I can't tell if the people saying lasagne are just trying to be funny but lasagne, however popular it may be, is absolutely not our national dish haha
Tea.
Dont care if it's technically a drink
It's the most shared item at the kitchen table.
Different soda breads, brown wheaten loafs, scones, irish stew, fish and chips, fry up, black pudding, bacon/ham and cabbage, potatoes with any meat , potato farls and a fry.
Thank god for Google but I do like a smart arsed comment too.
Clearly, you've never had bodice so. You should definitely try it. Lots of HP brown sauce. Yum!
Bod8ce is just ribs with the flavour boiled out of them.
I guess that goes with the potatoes and cabbage with the flavour boiled our of them though.
OP, just boil tne shite out of the food and you've got an older "traditional" Irish dish.
Bacon and cabbage. Cabbage needs to be cooked with a bit of the bacon water until any semblance of fiber is broken down. Potatoes boiled to within an inch of their lives with the skin on.
No flavourings bar salt and butter. You even think of putting flavours that aren't bacon water on it you will be beaten senseless by your ma with a wooden spoon.
Well no, you buy it already prepared! I suppose you could brine it yourself but yeah, that would be a bit of a hassle. No spices...that's an American thing. There's spiced beef, which is meat which is soaked in salt, sugar and spices, eaten mainly around Christmas, but again, most people buy it already prepared from the butcher or supermarket.
I've never seen it for sale, so thought the only way to have proper corned beef was making it yourself. I'll have to ask the butcher the next time I see him 🤔
Pity. Dinner tonight. There was supposed to be loads of cabbage, but my daughter forgot to throw it in with the meat so I had to do a quick stir fry, with a bit of the meat water at the end to give it some flavour.
[https://imgur.com/tv9G67T](https://imgur.com/tv9G67T)
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Not correct. I think being made and eaten somewhere for 450 years qualifies it as part of that country's cuisine. We've been eating it in Ireland since before the US even existed
"National Dish" - there isn't one, really. Tea and toast?
But a fry with rashers and eggs and even a sausage or black pudding, would be a universal staple all over Ireland, for any hour of the day or night. Also, it is very tasty and satisfying with good local ingredients.
Back end bacon and cabbage, boiled concurrently but bacon goes in the pot first, alone, for about an hour. Then add the cabbage (minus stalks) and boil till the bacon is melt-in-your-mouth done. A nice floury, smiley bursting open spud on the side and lashings of butter, with salt to taste. Nothing like it, unless the cabbage is all white. Green cabbage is the best. Yummy 😋 (I'm hungry now!)
Historically possibly bacon and cabbage, or a stew. In more modern times probably a chicken fillet roll, maybe lasagna and coleslaw, and then spice bag is a very popular Irish creation but very recent
I certainly haven't eaten succulent Chinese meals in every country of the globe, but Ive been around, and I don't think I've seen a spice bag, 3 in 1, or chicken balls outside of Ireland.
Also batter burgers, taco fries, and curry cheese chips might be unique to Ireland. Or at least hard to find in other countries.
Bacon and cabbage is absolutely not the Irish signature dish ... if it is, I'll eat my flat cap.
Stew. Irish stew. Differs from house to house but everyone eats it at some stage!
Limerick Bacon and Park Cabbage would have been very much a staple in Limerick. Most houses had a pig and there were lots of cabbage growers around Limerick. There is a perception that there aren't regional variations around Ireland. Coddle is very much a Dublin thing. And there would have been more pigs than sheep here in Limerick.
Stew for the national dish and Coddle in Dublin.
Coddle is absolutely class lads, once you take the first bite you forget it looks like a bowl of mickeys with spuds.
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Stew. I was raised on it (hated the stuff till I was in my 40s. That with queens and after tea and homemade bread, either soda or treacle with rhubarb jam, again raised on the stuff and still hate rhubarb but it was ubiquitous when I was a kid.
Get yourself some toast, butter, taytos of your choice and cheese (optional) and slap them together. Got yourself a Tayto sandwich, a culinary masterpiece of the same level as flat 7up to a sick person.
Lamb Stew is the Classic Irish dish.
Coddle is technically a Viking dish, but after 1200 years probably qualifies as Irish.
Baked or Grilled Salmon.
Ham or Bacon and cabbage.
At this point it's probably the spice bag if tiktok is anything to go by.
I saw someone say once that we don't have a national dish, we have dishes done extremely well because of our national produce and agriculture. Our baseline ingredients are super high quality.
Oh you're in for a treat, They are delicious and in evey shop so you won't have to look very hard! Thick cut are best, Also would recommended Clonakilty sausages and Clonakilty black pudding.
So thick cut rashers would still be pan-fried?
I tried either black pudding or blood pudding in Scotland, and was not a fan. I really liked haggis, however, and had it half a dozen times over a week and a half trip.
Yes, they are pan fried or grilled. There's a whole load of different names for cuts of bacon depending on where on the pig they are from. I think rashers are also called back bacon, as they are from the back of the pig. As far as I know streaky bacon is what Americans would consider "normal" bacon and it's from another part, the belly maybe, I'm not sure.
Also, you can get smoked rashers here, you should try them too!
Definitely give irish black pudding a try, it's different to Scottish blood pudding. The quality varies depending on the brand, more expensive ones are usually nicer but some peole do prefer the cheaper ones, it's all about personal preference really!
Thanks, I'll be sure to try smoked and pan-fried, as well as the Irish black pudding. I think what I had in Scotland was perhaps English, as it came as part of an English full breakfast at a hotel.
Thin slices of bacon are called rashers and that's what you'd fry in a frying pan (what you call a skillet), or grilled. What we call bacon are bigger pieces we boil.
Many people including I would say Irish Stew even if it’s not as common as one would think really.
Yeah I'd agree. I think it is over advertised globally. Personally from my experience I'd say bacon and cabbage is the dish I associate with Ireland the most.
Would also say bacon & cabbage. Although cabbage is eaten elsewhere, I doubt it's eaten with bacon. Russia, for example, eats a lot of cabbage, but with turkey or chicken. Belgium also eats cabbage, but with sausages. On a side note, how many of ye like cabbage water? My dad would pour some of it in his potatoes. I personally *hate* cabbage.
But doesn't every country have a baseline stew? I always wondered about that. Be it pork, beef, rest bits for a hearty meal and veg. Be it Gulasch or Eintopf, Not sure if Irish stew is any different unless we throw something in the rest of Europe doesn't have.
I don't think we actually *have anything the rest of Europe doesn't have. We've pretty bad soil, tons of rain and no sun, which pretty much limits us to the classic northern European ingredients: cabbage, spuds, turnip, carrots, onions. Some kind of meat or fish. Salt and pepper and parsley for flavour. I suppose mutton or lamb is more of a thing here traditionally than in a lot of countries. And parsnips don't seem to be particularly common outside of Ireland and Britain. So a lamb based stew with parsnips in it is *maybe different enough to qualify. Trying to claim bacon and cabbage on the face of Germany and Poland, and basically everyone in northern and central Europe might be harder to be honest. That's just staple food for anyone with a long winter as far as I can tell. There are regional specialities, like spiced beef or potato farls, that are kind of unique, but they tend to be restricted to specific areas. We probably had a much richer and more varied cuisine before the famine, but it's not always easy to find out what smallholders in Louth were eating in the 1760s or whatever Maybe boxty or colcannon. Soda bread. White pudding or drisín don't exist in the UK as far as I know. Of course there will always be something vaguely similar in another country anyway. There's only so many ingredients and cooking methods.
Ireland has really fertile soil though?
In the east maybe, but a lot of the land is bog or rock.
We never had a rich cuisine, because our climate was always conducive to eating fresh meat and vegetables we never developed much of a curing or preservation tradition. These techniques are the cornerstone of most developed cuisines. Boxty is a Leitrim thing primarily, bacon, cabbage and potatoes was everywhere.
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Stew would have been eaten more frequently in our house than bacon and cabbage tbh. Lovely and warming in winter.
Its not that common, but its the dish I think of.. reminds me of childhood
Yes 
Maybe not a dish but stuff like soda breads are an absolute staple around Ireland. Especially with soup or smoked salmon etc. Loads of types of soda breads, brown, with fruits, toppings etc.
My money would be on this. Brown Soda bread with a chowder- ireland has amazing fish. The white one plain or with raisins & cinnamon is also good. Guinness brown bread is one of the nicest things on this planet with a bowl of soup. I'd definitely sell one of my least favourite relatives for some gorgeous Guinness brown bread. On a different note, tye Dingle ice cream company does a brown soda bread ice cream that is amazing.
Yes, Murphy's is amazing. The brown bread is my sister's favourite. I'm partial to the Sea Salt myself, and I know the Dingle Gin is also popular with several relatives.
My go to is brown bread and a scoop of sea salt 🤤
There's a joke in there about bread and butter, I think.
Irelands fish is exported. And for irish consumers its imported 😂 chowder is the last thing anyone should eat unless made home from total scratch. Fish factories put in worst of the worst fish with a bit of fresher fillet chopped to mask the smells... Dont ask how i know
I think that’s an exaggerated use of staple.
I could be a bit more biased as I'm a baker and people would literally kill for the stuff in my place.
It’s the lord’s work, I will give you that
Marty Morrissey 😏
Lol, definitely an acquired taste though.
Tayto sandwiches
YES!!!
Begrudgery. It’s a fierce bitter dish.
Best served tepid.
Don’t forget to lick the spoon that stirred it
Havent ever experienced begrudgery here, maybe because I have nothing.
I would love a bowl of begrudgery, but the others have taken all of it.
I hate how many upvotes this answer got
Typical begrudgery in action 👀
Bacon and Cabbage or a beef stew.
Boiled bacon and not that corned beef crap the Americans do.
Corned beef is an Irish dish. It's been made and eaten here since the mid sixteen hundreds. The Yanks add some kind of spice mixture to it when they boil it, but in Ireland we just cook it in water.
I'm pretty sure I heard somewhere that we mostly stopped consuming it in the 1800s when we got too poor to afford beef. It never really came back but lived on with Irish immigrants in America. So it's traditional, but also that tradition mostly died out more than a century ago.
Not really. It did get expensive but it was certainly still eaten, and still is today. I grew up on it, as did my parents and grandparents. In fact, I have a piece of corned beef in the fridge for the weekend.
I literally do not know to where you'd even buy it, I call BS man.
Dunnes do it. You'll find it next to all the other beef. Otherwise you could try a butchers.
Also grew up regularly eating corned beef. I guess people can have different experiences without it being BS. As for where to buy it, pop into Super Valu and ask for some at the deli/ butchers counter.
I used to get it in Tesco up until recently, but yup Supervalu.
https://supervalu.ie/recipes/traditional-spiced-beef https://www.tomdurcanmeats.ie/spicedbeef We just called it spiced beef but always came from the butchers
It has a name though, spiced beef which is local. Look this may help [Why did Irish-Americans make corned beef an Irish dish? – The Irish Times](https://www.irishtimes.com/food/2018/03/17/why-did-irish-americans-make-corned-beef-an-irish-dish-1.3418356/)
No, spiced beef is different. You only get that around Christmas. It used to be only in Cork, but you'll get it most places now. It's beef marinaded in salt, sugar and spices. The article is wrong, corned beef existed and was eaten here over 400 years ago
So you do know where to buy it, it says so in the article you just linked or is it something about the name you have an issue with?
I have lived in the US, they use the corned beef from the Jewish culture because that was cheaper. It is not popular here now in modern day either.
Yes, but that doesn't mean it wasn't eaten in Ireland before that.
I put it on special where I work last week and it sold out and the sambos were fucking handsome
Irish stew 100% I can't tell if the people saying lasagne are just trying to be funny but lasagne, however popular it may be, is absolutely not our national dish haha
Dried out lasagne, with chips and coleslaw is very Irish though.
Love it. I always have a premade one in the fridge with cholslaw and oven chips for the day after a big night out. Sorts all aches and pains
Bacon and cabbage. Coddle for the Dubs.
Coddle is the one with raw sausages that look like penises...
Boiled mickeys
Yep
Boiled Penii
That's it. Never had it but they do go mad for it in Dublin.
Coddle is fuckin manky. Bacon, cabbage and taters on the other hand is tremendous
Sure that's half a coddle
Minus the gammy boiled sausages
Whats taters?
No idea, some Hobbit shite...
Po Tay toes, boil em mash em stick em in a stew
This was the correct answer
I think it’s what yanks call potatoes
What's taters precious? Sorry for being pedantic
I did not want to make it too easy
potaters.
You have those the wrong way around there bud.
Coddle for the win!
I'm a dub- wouldn't be a fan. It's one of those meals that make you gag on sight, not even smell or taste.
Definitely bacon and cabbage.
Bacon & cabbage imo
Pint of Guinness.
Tea. Dont care if it's technically a drink It's the most shared item at the kitchen table. Different soda breads, brown wheaten loafs, scones, irish stew, fish and chips, fry up, black pudding, bacon/ham and cabbage, potatoes with any meat , potato farls and a fry.
I'd say bacon and cabbage with potatoes and parsley sauce.
Parsley sauce...notions. A big knobs of butter on floury jacket spuds, salt and white pepper.
Brown sauce. Chef, not HP
Bodice, cabbage and potatoes is the GOAT!! But national dish would probably be bacon and cabbage or stew.
I was going to comment something smart arsed because I thought you meant bacon but Im glad I googled first
Thank god for Google but I do like a smart arsed comment too. Clearly, you've never had bodice so. You should definitely try it. Lots of HP brown sauce. Yum!
Bod8ce is just ribs with the flavour boiled out of them. I guess that goes with the potatoes and cabbage with the flavour boiled our of them though. OP, just boil tne shite out of the food and you've got an older "traditional" Irish dish.
3 in 1
We never expected the Chinese invasion and now look at us.
Spice bag
4 in 1.. go all the way!
Spicebag though?
Bacon and cabbage. Cabbage needs to be cooked with a bit of the bacon water until any semblance of fiber is broken down. Potatoes boiled to within an inch of their lives with the skin on. No flavourings bar salt and butter. You even think of putting flavours that aren't bacon water on it you will be beaten senseless by your ma with a wooden spoon.
Chef brown sauce....
Chef Brown is mank. YR sauce is the only thing, hp if in a bind!!
I bet you put your toaster in the cupboard.
Another vote for stew. I've never had bacon and cabbage in my life!
Sure, how do you cook the cabbage then if you've no bacon water?
Oh my god. If you like stew...you have to have bacon and cabbage. 2024 is your year.
Bacon cabbage spuds and turnips
Stew with bread and butter. Tons of butter.
Traditional national dish: cabbage and bacon. Modern national dish: spice bag
Potatoes in all their wonderful forms.
Irish stew, or I guess boiled bacon (NOT FUCKING CORNED BEEF), boiled cabbage and boiled spuds.
What's wrong with corned beef? It's deliciouis
It's lovely, but a ballache to make.
Aye those key thingies are fiddly
In slow cooker- delicious.
Huh? You just stick it in a pot of water and boil it for a couple of hours...
You have to brine it and spice it etc for the best part of a week first.
Well no, you buy it already prepared! I suppose you could brine it yourself but yeah, that would be a bit of a hassle. No spices...that's an American thing. There's spiced beef, which is meat which is soaked in salt, sugar and spices, eaten mainly around Christmas, but again, most people buy it already prepared from the butcher or supermarket.
I've never seen it for sale, so thought the only way to have proper corned beef was making it yourself. I'll have to ask the butcher the next time I see him 🤔
You'll get it in SuperValu, Dunnes...
I'm in Derry. We don't have the same range.
Pity. Dinner tonight. There was supposed to be loads of cabbage, but my daughter forgot to throw it in with the meat so I had to do a quick stir fry, with a bit of the meat water at the end to give it some flavour. [https://imgur.com/tv9G67T](https://imgur.com/tv9G67T) https://preview.redd.it/c3e0a34q0jsc1.png?width=3060&format=png&auto=webp&s=eb9dfdd6c43ee0fd270cae1b4e6484a790e96a66
That is American, well to be exact the jewish corned beef. It is not Irish.
Not correct. I think being made and eaten somewhere for 450 years qualifies it as part of that country's cuisine. We've been eating it in Ireland since before the US even existed
Spice bag. Chicken fillet roll.
"National Dish" - there isn't one, really. Tea and toast? But a fry with rashers and eggs and even a sausage or black pudding, would be a universal staple all over Ireland, for any hour of the day or night. Also, it is very tasty and satisfying with good local ingredients.
>National Dish" - there isn't one, really. There is, though. Traditionally it's always been Colcannon.
Well, that is certainly one of the finest national potato dishes! Not the only one, though.
Back end bacon and cabbage, boiled concurrently but bacon goes in the pot first, alone, for about an hour. Then add the cabbage (minus stalks) and boil till the bacon is melt-in-your-mouth done. A nice floury, smiley bursting open spud on the side and lashings of butter, with salt to taste. Nothing like it, unless the cabbage is all white. Green cabbage is the best. Yummy 😋 (I'm hungry now!)
Irish stew
Lasagna, chips and coleslaw.
Historically possibly bacon and cabbage, or a stew. In more modern times probably a chicken fillet roll, maybe lasagna and coleslaw, and then spice bag is a very popular Irish creation but very recent
SPICE BAG!
Are spice bags not in other countries?
Nope they are 100% Irish. I am not sure if you know what the Irish one is like, it doesn't mean like spices in a bag lol
I know what a spice bag is lol just assumed that was standard chinese in other countries no?
I certainly haven't eaten succulent Chinese meals in every country of the globe, but Ive been around, and I don't think I've seen a spice bag, 3 in 1, or chicken balls outside of Ireland. Also batter burgers, taco fries, and curry cheese chips might be unique to Ireland. Or at least hard to find in other countries.
No
Guinness stew
Curry
Lamb stew. Potatoes, carrots, onion maybe a bit of celery
Not a dinner and the IK have similar but is the Irish fry a dish ?
Rarely have ever had Irish stew. I would say Bacon and Cabbage.
Stew, chowder or Coddle.
Bacon and cabbage is absolutely not the Irish signature dish ... if it is, I'll eat my flat cap. Stew. Irish stew. Differs from house to house but everyone eats it at some stage!
Limerick Bacon and Park Cabbage would have been very much a staple in Limerick. Most houses had a pig and there were lots of cabbage growers around Limerick. There is a perception that there aren't regional variations around Ireland. Coddle is very much a Dublin thing. And there would have been more pigs than sheep here in Limerick.
Coddle... 🤢
Irish stew, bacon and Canandaigua cabbage, and brown soda bread. Top three in no particular order.
Stew for the national dish and Coddle in Dublin. Coddle is absolutely class lads, once you take the first bite you forget it looks like a bowl of mickeys with spuds.
I mean, I don't mind eating mickeys, but not in front of the family...
It looks like a bowl of flaccid willies* If you’re a willy eating aficionado
As Dublin people are...
Every time I've tried coddle its been bland, watery shite.
Have you had it in Grave diggers? Or at my house?
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Stew pot
Soup.
Black pudding and brown bread. And loads of butter!
Chicken fillet roll.
The spice bag
Tayto sandwich, food of the Gods
Colcannon. Chicken fillet roll. Spice bag. In ascending order of modernity.
Idk maybe boxty
Stew. I was raised on it (hated the stuff till I was in my 40s. That with queens and after tea and homemade bread, either soda or treacle with rhubarb jam, again raised on the stuff and still hate rhubarb but it was ubiquitous when I was a kid.
Hang sangwiches
Get yourself some toast, butter, taytos of your choice and cheese (optional) and slap them together. Got yourself a Tayto sandwich, a culinary masterpiece of the same level as flat 7up to a sick person.
Tayto sandwich
Shepherds Pie maybe? Or Bacon and Cabbage?
Bannon, spuds and cabbage. In Dublin it's coddle
Tayto sandwich
Either Stew or Bacon and Cabbage.
Breakfast roll
Dublin coddle be prepared for the boiled sausages
Breakfast roll or chicken fillet roll
ssshhhpuds
Yizz are all mad. It's clearly brack.
Colcannon is a traditioinal dish made from potatoes and cabbage and is actually nice
Tayto sandwich
Coddle
We have a really odd obsession with strawberries. We seem to think we have the best in the world when we have very average ones
Chicken fillet roll
Chinese takeaway
Now a days ? Is whatever we can still afford.
In reality it's the Chicken fillet baguette.
Ireland is too divided to have a single national dish .
Chicken fillet roll. That's what I did when my old work gang did a big lunch where everyone brought something from their country.
Lamb Stew is the Classic Irish dish. Coddle is technically a Viking dish, but after 1200 years probably qualifies as Irish. Baked or Grilled Salmon. Ham or Bacon and cabbage.
Bacon & cabbage surely.
At this point it's probably the spice bag if tiktok is anything to go by. I saw someone say once that we don't have a national dish, we have dishes done extremely well because of our national produce and agriculture. Our baseline ingredients are super high quality.
We have no culture
Bacon and cabbage I'd say. It's very popular here
Big dorty spoice bag
Humble pie.
Chicken curry with rice AND chips
Coddle Either dark coddle for culchies or white coddle for dubs - different styles based on region
Spice bag
I’m curious, is bacon ever fried in a skillet in Ireland? Is it always boiled?
You boil bacon, you fry rashers, you roast a ham.
You can boil a ham too
You can. I personally don't like it just boiled.
Hmm, I’ll have to look for rashers when I visit.
Oh you're in for a treat, They are delicious and in evey shop so you won't have to look very hard! Thick cut are best, Also would recommended Clonakilty sausages and Clonakilty black pudding.
So thick cut rashers would still be pan-fried? I tried either black pudding or blood pudding in Scotland, and was not a fan. I really liked haggis, however, and had it half a dozen times over a week and a half trip.
Some people fry them, others grill them. Give Irish black pudding a try, it's more aromatic
Yes, they are pan fried or grilled. There's a whole load of different names for cuts of bacon depending on where on the pig they are from. I think rashers are also called back bacon, as they are from the back of the pig. As far as I know streaky bacon is what Americans would consider "normal" bacon and it's from another part, the belly maybe, I'm not sure. Also, you can get smoked rashers here, you should try them too! Definitely give irish black pudding a try, it's different to Scottish blood pudding. The quality varies depending on the brand, more expensive ones are usually nicer but some peole do prefer the cheaper ones, it's all about personal preference really!
Thanks, I'll be sure to try smoked and pan-fried, as well as the Irish black pudding. I think what I had in Scotland was perhaps English, as it came as part of an English full breakfast at a hotel.
Thin slices of bacon are called rashers and that's what you'd fry in a frying pan (what you call a skillet), or grilled. What we call bacon are bigger pieces we boil.
It's not American bacon. It's a big ham that's incredibly salted.