Happy St Patrick's Day!

[Spaceghost]

Happy St. Patrick's Day, brought to you by Guinness and Guinness Extra Cold.

[Mikey]

and Guinness Extra Cold.

HEATHEN!
Guinness, like proper beer, should be cool if not slightly warm, definitely not 'Extra Cold'

M.

[Dandontdare]

Guinness, like proper beer, should be cool if not slightly warm, definitely not 'Extra Cold'

I heard of a Northern working men's club that was told by the brewery that they HAD to switch to Guinness extra cold. The old geezers objected, so they now have a microwave on the bar - a few seconds takes the chill off!

A workmate brought various Irish foodstuffs into work today for an office buffet - shortbread, soda bread and Kerrygold butter etc - and I had my first ever bag of Tayto crisps, which I've wanted to try for ages considering how much Irish people bang on about them. They were ... okay.

[johnnystress]

http://youtu.be/kY364HPFyDU

[johnnystress]

it gets aired once a year

[I, Cosh]

What did St Patrick say when he was driving the snakes out of Ireland?

[Mardroid]

I confess, I like my beer cold.

I'm hoping to meet up with a mate later. (I say 'hoping' as often these things tend to get put off to another day...) There was talk of going to the pub for a Guinness later. To be honest I find it a bit bitter tasting for my pallet (I usually drink either cider or the thicker ale type drinks) but I don't mind giving the black stuff a go every now and again...

[Spaceghost]

and Guinness Extra Cold.

HEATHEN!
Guinness, like proper beer, should be cool if not slightly warm, definitely not 'Extra Cold'

M.

I know that Guinness Extra Cold is an abomination Mikey, I was adopting the persona of a Guinness marketing cunt, eager to mention all variations of the product.

I forgot 'Guinness Draught'.

[Mikey]

A workmate brought various Irish foodstuffs into work today for an office buffet - shortbread, soda bread and Kerrygold butter etc - and I had my first ever bag of Tayto crisps, which I've wanted to try for ages considering how much Irish people bang on about them. They were ... okay.

Shortbread? 

Now these Tayto...it's important to know were they the real thing, made in Tayto Castle, Tanderagee, by Mr Tayto hisself (see Figure 1) or were they the illegitimate ones (see Figure 2) from the South? The southern ones are piss.

Figure 1 - The true Tayto, tasty and delicious as only the real Mr Tayto can make.


Figure 2 - Crap rip offs, trading on the good name of fine crisps.

I was adopting the persona of a Guinness marketing cunt, eager to mention all variations of the product.

Thank fuck for that!

M.

[Mikey]

And can anyone spot the mistake on this otherwise fine statement?



[spoiler]It should be "So I do", not "So it is!"[/spoiler]

M.

[Dandontdare]

Having checked the packet, it's definitely the first one and they're from Tanderagee.

[Mikey]

Must have been a duff batch Dan 

M.

[uncle fester]

Nothing wrong with Taytos...

[johnnystress]

Taytos has become THE word for crisps down South. Much like vacuum cleaners are called Hoovers.

Also-ice cold Guinness?...Ulster says no

[JOE SOAP]

Now these Tayto...it's important to know were they the real thing, made in Tayto Castle, Tanderagee, by Mr Tayto hisself (see Figure 1) or were they the illegitimate ones (see Figure 2) from the South? The southern ones are piss.

Absolute nonsense, I'll not hear of this nightshade blasphemy. Tanderagee is second-fiddle to Joe 'Spud' Murphy's & Tayto's innovative fried-tuber-manipulation. Thomas Hutchinson bought the Northern Ireland rights to the Tayto brand, including its famous potato-man mascot, from its southern founder, Joe 'Spud' Murphy, half a century ago for £250, spawning the tale of two Taytos.



The real southern 'Tayto' invented the first Cheese & Onion crisps as well as the process of the seasoned potato chip/crisps:

The potato chip remained otherwise unseasoned until an innovation by Joe "Spud" Murphy (1923–2001),[10] the owner of an Irish crisp company called Tayto, who developed a technology to add seasoning during manufacture in the 1950s. Though he had a small company, consisting almost entirely of his immediate family who prepared the crisps, the owner had long proved himself to be an innovator. After some trial and error, Murphy and his employee, Seamus Burke,[11] produced the world's first seasoned crisps, Cheese & Onion and Salt & Vinegar.

The innovation became an overnight sensation in the food industry, with the heads of some of the biggest potato chip companies in the United States traveling to the small Tayto company to examine the product and to negotiate the rights to use the new technology. Companies worldwide sought to buy the rights to Tayto's technique. The sale of the Tayto company made the owner and the small family group, who had changed the face of potato chip manufacturing, very wealthy.


An advertisement for Smith's Potato CrispsThe Tayto's innovation changed the entire nature of the potato chip, and led to the end of Smith's twist of salt.