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— Taraustralis 🇺🇦 (@Taraustralis) March 23, 2022
What!?
Tayto and the butcher’s apron.
This is an abomNOMNOMNOMNOM
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Apparently tayto are owned by a company in the UK but keoghs in the republic
I just looked it up and was surprised but no matter how we want it the fact is Northern Ireland is part of the UK
Let’s call them Northern Irish
…from wiki, so take with a sachet of salt
“In 2015, Ray Coyle sold his remaining shares of Largo foods to German food company Intersnack, ending the Irish ownership of the company.[3] In Northern Ireland, Tayto Limited is still Northern Irish-owned, being owned and run by the Hutchinson family.”
Keoghs independently owned and run in ireland,
last time I checked…
*licks fingers*
We could also say the same of Guinness owned by Diageo
And the history of Guinness is that it’s a porter and named as such after the people who drunk the tipple in England who were ethnic porters who worked in markets in England
Historically it can be argued as an English concoction and Arthur Guinness opened the brewery in st James gate Dublin
My grump about Diagio is it’s a ruthless multinational and at the drop of a hat would do a wedge wood job like they did with Waterford crystal and manufacture an Irish international brand in Nigeria or China where it costs buttons to produce it
Years ago they tried to shut down st James gate in favour of Park Royal but there was outrage and quite rightly so
I suppose that’s what happens when our national silver is flogged off
“Protestant Porter”
“…Brennan claimed that analysis had revealed the brewers of anti-Popery porter had mashed up Protestant Bibles and Methodist hymnbooks in the brew, thus impregnating the porter with the pure ethereal essence of heresy. Over the years, he said, the Guinnesses had consumed 136,000 tons of Bibles and 501,000 cartloads of hymn books and Protestant catechisms. The analyst concluded that drinkers of this tainted brew suffered lax bowels and “sang praises to the Lord through the nose”…”
https://guinnessdownunderanz.co.nz/stories/stories-that-missed-the-cut/46-protestant-porter
That explains the brew but not the colour
John Jameson of Jameson whiskey was a Scot. And a scoundrel.
your grump about diageo being a multinational could also apply to guinness. the guinnesses funded works to the royal and grand canals to ship their beer around the country, eventually leading to the closure of hundreds of local breweries nationwide.
they were like the starbucks of the 19thC beer world.
Apparently they have a warehouse that contains all the memrobillia of the small breweries they acquired and destroyed
Like a cereal killer they I assume kept momento’s of their victims to look at when boredom crept in
Many breweries existed along the Liffey in the 1800s
Such a shame we had no camra like the UK that fought tooth and nail to protect the small family brewers from the vulture
Thank god today we see a sort of renascence of what’s now called craft beer
A fairly new one to watch is Sullivan
It now has descendants of the smithwick family involved and the retired judge paul smithwick was trying to challenge the out and out cartels blocking craft brewers from getting their beers into pubs
He died a couple of weeks ago
You had me at “Hey fam”
How many more outrages do we have to take?
These days I am trying to give rather than take them but it’s kind of difficult.
:(
But to answer your question, 33RPMs.
Why do people get triggered by this nonsense?
They’re Irish.
Never not happy unless they can complain about the Brits.
It’s what you do.
We just laugh and it seems to inflame you even more.
Which is why we laugh even more.
Get off your knees™
for the last time, three-tit – we have no problem with brits, it’s the fukn tans that annoy us.
Tin pan no Irishman has ever trade marked being on your knees
But you have trade marked being on your knees by the TM
I suggest plenty of sudo cream for the chaps on your knees
Australians genuinely have no idea the Republic is an independent country.