FACT: A lot of them like Irish food.
FACT: They are mostly not Spaniards.
FACT: They drink Irish Breakfast tea and if you try to fool them with English Breakfast they'll HIT YOU WITH A MERINGUE.
Wait, do you mean English breakfast tea or an actual full English breakfast? Because as long as I can tell them to not even bother sending me the beans a full English is still pretty good.
I'd complain about the lack of spices in the sausages, but it's still pretty good. I don't mind the beans I use the toast and sausage to sop up the bean sauce. The black pudding is only an occasional thing for me.
It might be my genetics, but I think good Irish or English sausages are quite flavorful, if not particularly hot. And the black pudding is one of my favorite parts!
So in 2019 I went to a wedding in Lincoln, the sausages there had 2 spices in them and were tasty. There are others I got imported through Parkers which were tasty. Irish bangers are ok, but basic English pork, rusk and salt are bland to me. The regionals may differ.
I'm vegetarian, but the rest of the house insist on Cumberland or Lincolnshire sausages, which are generally available with different herbs/spices
The local farm shop sells stuff with chilli in which the kid loves, "Welsh Dragon" is worth looking for apparently
OPINION: (mine, to be precise) Irish Breakfast tea is actually tastier than English Breakfast, I appreciate the stronger flavor~
However, being a gluttonous American, I will drink basically whatever tea is put in front of me without the throwing of whipped egg whites. 🤷♀️
It totally is and I am so annoyed that only the fancy store carries it and not all the time but everyone has the other stuff, by the same brand, in spades 😣
I was just there a few weeks ago and I did have a moment where I was around a lot of children, noticed more redheads than one would usually see, realized where I was, and then wondered why there weren’t even more
Wellll ackshilly, you were doing ok up until “They are mostly not Spaniards.” According to a medieval foundation myth, us Irish are indeed mostly Spanish. 🇪🇸 💃🏻🐂 ☘️
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milesia...
I had no idea of this myth, but I’m from the part of Spain where we play bagpipes (Asturias) and my beard grows red (now mostly white but still). So I always considered Irish kinda cousins so that’s cool!
There are apparently a DNA link between northern Iberian peninsula folks and Welsh and Irish folks. So like all good myths, a little truth is in there somewhere? 🌈💃🏻☘️🐂
The "descended from Spaniards" seems to have started with Isadore, a Spaniard.
It was so well thought out the invader rejoiced in the name of Mil Espagne, literally "Spanish soldier". So take with salt.
OTOH, there's a sorta kinda DNA link to Basque/Galicia, but it's more we share common ancestors.
A whole shaker of salt rather than a pinch, I’d say. 🧂😅
I notice the Wikipedia page outlines the myth first and then very firmly disses it. But the story’s too good.
There are some great ones out there. My favourite is how the Gaels, descendants of Goideal Glas, inventor of the Irish language, found themselves enslaved in Egypt.
Then one day, Moses led the Jews out of Egypt.
So while Pharoah was busy at the Red Sea, the Gaels ran off in the opposite direction.
More Irish facts:
*Most Irish people did not raise an army to drive back Viking pillagers, although some did
*If, while in Ireland, you shout "is anyone here Irish" you may get responses of "yes" or "huh?" but are very unlikely to hear "no"
*They do not contain the WHO RDA of potassium
FACT2 there is bumping up very strongly against my nagging insistence that there are, and ought to be, more Stephen Maturin-types in the world than any of us acknowledge.
(True story: she very much prefers Irish breakfast tea *specifically*, because when she was a grad student, she could overbrew it for higher caffeine content, and the resulting overextraction didn't make it taste disgusting to her, as was the case with other teas.)
I made a drastic mistake visiting family once by asking my Northern Irish uncle if he was making a full English breakfast.
The force of the "ULSTER FRY" shout blew my hair back
