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Scootagal
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31-03-2011 09:43 AM
Oops - getting my soreen and veda mixed up...don't like either in any case! Dulse on the other hand...mmmm....my fave! I bring it back too but have yet to find anyone else (generally my workmates!) who likes it! I did once find a yucky orange type worm in a bag that I put my finger through and started screaming....didn't eat it for some time after that...but got back on the wagon once I'd calmed down I now avoid paper bags of it...only the clear ones!! Although you do always get some sort of little shelled creature in there.... (Still beyond me why everyone doesn't like it...!)
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AMFM
Posts: 306
Joined: Oct 2007
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31-03-2011 10:49 AM
Veda! I'd forgotten all about it - I loved the stuff when I was little - Am going home in a month, must bring some back. Oh, and Southern Taytos are better than Northern. Just sayin'...
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rshdunlop
Posts: 1,111
Joined: Jun 2008
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31-03-2011 01:21 PM
Aren't they King Crisps in the South?
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Scootagal
Posts: 36
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31-03-2011 01:36 PM
Think they're still Tayto...I remember the oldee stylee bags when I went to visit my granny in Donegal - they were red white and blue ironically
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AMFM
Posts: 306
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31-03-2011 01:55 PM
Nope, King Crisps are another brand altogether - and not as good as Tayto.
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wendybradley
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03-04-2011 11:53 AM
Can I claim to be Northern Irish, my great grand dad came from a little town outside Belfast? I am not even living in Forest Hill at the moment, but hang on to my tiny studio so I can come back any time I want.
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seeformiles
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03-04-2011 12:01 PM
My grandma was from Enniskillen and my mum spent part of her childhood there. So I have a slightly tenuous link to this thread but I have been reading with interest. :-)
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rshdunlop
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03-04-2011 12:25 PM
Am sitting in Belfast International Airport waiting for flight back to Heathrow. In my luggage are two Veda, six bags of Tayto Cheese and Onion and two bags of Tayto Onion Rings. Who will start the bidding?
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Scootagal
Posts: 36
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03-04-2011 12:41 PM
I LOVE onion rings! A quid!
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Scootagal
Posts: 36
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03-04-2011 05:35 PM
Yeh I never really get the granny being from Ireland so am I Irish thing....cos my granny was from India and I don't feel at all Indian If you want to claim to be Northern Irish then by all means do - home is where the heart is! On another note - it was very sad about the young policeman killed in Omagh yesterday.
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davidl
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Joined: Oct 2007
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04-04-2011 01:36 PM
Another member of the diaspora here - from North Belfast to South-East London, via a few diversions. I've been in SE23 for 10 years now.
I mainly miss Tayto crisps (the ones from Tayto Castle in Tandragee rather than an industrial estate in Dublin are far nicer, in my own opinion). Also plain bread, which I've tried (in vain) to explain to my English wife - and you don't even seem to see at home any more.
Felt quite sad/angry about the murder of the policeman in Omagh this weekend, but the general reaction has been heartening.
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Scootagal
Posts: 36
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04-04-2011 02:26 PM
As a direct result of all this Tayto talk...I've been browsing the website and currently have in my basket...
- a box of cheese and onion
- a box of spring onion (you can't get spring onion anywhere!)
- a box of onion rings
- a box of 'real crisps' jalapeno flavour (not something i yearn for from home but something i yearn for from the foresters!)
However...I've just been forbidden from actually buying 100+ packets of crisps by my other half
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borderpaul
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05-04-2011 02:25 PM
I never knew there were two Tayto companies but I have googled it and there is even a Tayto Wiki, 2 Mr Taytos, personally I think the southern one looks friendlier and a Taytoland.
The founder is brilliantly named, he was Joe "Spud" Murphy who invented the Cheese and Onion flavour.
I off to Ireland for the royal wedding to have a crisp weekend.
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AMFM
Posts: 306
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05-04-2011 03:06 PM
We're off to Ireland for the royal wedding too! My (English) mother in-law is genuinely disgusted with us...
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roz
Posts: 1,796
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05-04-2011 03:53 PM
I have friends in Donegal who are holding Royal Wedding parties. so I wouldn't be too expectant about getting away from it all as a mega screen might just appear when you least expect it. Unfortunately even in the ROI there seems to be inexplicable pockets of support but maybe people just like a party. We tried to get to Paris but seems that everyone else is heading that way too! Perhaps we'll make do with Calais....
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Scootagal
Posts: 36
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AMFM
Posts: 306
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06-04-2011 09:32 AM
I have no objection to the wedding at all - good luck to them, I just think it's funny that my mother-in-law is so annoyed with us - she thinks we should be trekking up to Westminster to line the streets and wave our flags for a glimpse of William's bald patch in the distance.
As for fifteens - in small doses only - they're incredibly sweet (and I have a sweet tooth!)
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ForestHillier
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06-04-2011 01:33 PM
I have no objection to the wedding apart fron the fact that my taxes are paying for it, I thought the UK was skint, strange we can always find money for these parasites & to fight phoney wars in far off lands
Now not trying to cause any rows or upset anyone, yet I dont think they will have the bunting out in the Falls Road somehow and I for one, dont blame them after what the British have done to Ireland over the years, anyway back to happier things, come on Chelsea, beat the scum and win old big ears
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