However there are those few items you sometimes wish you could get your hands on, although there’s always the friendly neighbourhood internet to help in such cases…
Here’s my list, and if you see any of these in a Maltese supermarket be sure to let me know:
5. Butler’s Chocolate
Bit of a luxury product to kick off with, so not exactly an everyday staple, but these chocolates are pretty special. I got a box of them in the post last summer from my generous aunt, and even though the Maltese sun had turned them into an amorphous glob, they still tasted great. That, my friend, is the sign of good chocolate.
4. Barry’s Tea
The tea which even advertises itself as the Irish emigrant’s favourite. Maybe it’s just being brought up on Barry’s, but *insert name of popular UK tea manufacturer here* just doesn’t quite do it for me.3. Ballymaloe Country Relish
If you’ve never tried this, then I feel bad for you. It goes with everything.
2. Draught Guinness (from a pub in Ireland)
Guinness is everywhere in Malta, but it’s just not the same, is it? You know what I mean, Irish people out there. There’s something special about a Guinness pulled in The Long Hall or Mulligans on Poolbeg Street in Dublin. Difficult to order this one on-line.
1. White Pudding
On this website I guess the winner just had to be a part of the traditional Irish breakfast. For the uninitiated, this is a sort of cousin-in-law to Scottish favourite ‘haggis’. It’s made from… well, never mind what it’s made from, because frankly that makes the delicious white pudding sound rather unappetising.
Just try it next time you are in Ireland eating your fried breakfast.
I kind of want some immediately.
Now I know what the Irish among you are thinking:
What about the Taytos!?
This brand of crisps has taken on almost religious qualities, such is the esteem in which it is held by the Irish diaspora. No brand can have appeared in more care packages dispatched to home-sick Irish across the globe.
So why isn’t it on my list?
Well, I do like them, but I was always more of a ‘King Crisp’ man myself, and these days don’t eat many of the things at all. Mind you, a packet of Smokey Bacon sounds pretty good right now…
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What no Cheese and Onion Taytos…think Ill cancel July move over there :-p
Don’t worry, there are other compensations
One of the “How You Know You’re Irish” videos on youtube has a segment with two guys in a fistfight over Taytos vs. Kings. 😀 You Irish are all mad, though – nothing beats Ruffles.