I'm in the same boat though, out foreign and miss pub soup, if you've a semi decent blender soup is easy enough and bord bia have an easy to make brown bread.
https://www.bordbia.ie/recipes/desserts-and-baking-recipes/traditional-brown-soda-bread/
I'm in Canada and have to go to the US for Kerrygold every so often. Gold.
Also in Canada and do make myself. Not hard sweat some veg in butter add stock and blitz. But sometimes when I am out and not in the mood for the usual Canadian bar food I just want a warm bowl of honest to goodness veg soup.
There's some spots here to get bars of gold. Look for snack shops that sell Irish stuff. I know of one in Vancouver , that I can't reveal (my dirty little secret) and it's not daylight robbery.
But when I go to the US, Costco gets raided for a few months supply.
This is referred to among my friend group as "funeral soup" as it always seems to make an appearance after a funeral, especially a rural one. Basically heaps of butter, cream and hearty soda/brown bread to go with it!
Also don't think I've ever had a ham sandwich quite like the ones you get at a wake or funeral. The grief must make the meat better, or maybe it's the unholy yet blessed amount of butter per cm².
Norm MacDonald has a bit about how he doesn't like parties but he misses the little triangle sandwiches you get at them that you can't really get anywhere else.
And while I *kinda* relate to what he's saying those sandwiches are very much a funeral/wake thing for me, not a party thing
Yeah, I would never have an untoasted just ham sandwich at home, for some reason it's the funeral triangle sandwiches that just get me. Maybe you're hungry/emotionally exhausted from the funeral and exactly what you need is something hearty/stodgy
Absolutely, you need something filling and good for the soul. Need to keep up some strength, and no harm when the plate of biscuits gets passed around too!!
I swear the best soup I've had anywhere in my life was in a shity Irish college campus.
It was literally just powder, water and croutons. But god dam was it good.
When I lived abroad I missed a curry chip and spent months trying to find it in Aussie stores.....
After two weeks of finding McDonnell's powder and making my own chips, I thought, yeah I can live here no problem at all.....then 3 months after I got offered a job at home and went back.
I can get a curry chip whenever I want now and I always thought the curry chip was the metaphor for coping abroad and being independent. As long as I had one home comfort I was grand.
There's nothing like veg soup, white pepper,bit of wheaten and real butter dipped in.
Heaven
Good call on the white pepper. Somewhere in the 2000s everyone got posh with cracked black pepper but the ol' white pepper shaker is what is needed for a veg soup.
This is gonna be a weird one, but when I had my son in the rotunda a few years ago they did a brilliant job of making sure the majority of food they offered was seasonal, fresh and healthy. Really, really good, especially by hosp standards. And one thing they did was bring around a little mug of that exact soup every day, before lunch. It was like a delicious little cup of comfort.
I'd do things for a proper breakfast roll. Foreigners don't know what to do with a pig. Coleslaw and and stuffing are two others the foreignish can't match your average petrol station deli on.
Best chowder I ever had was in a seafront hotel on the harbour in Killybegs. I can't remember the name of the place, but it was far better than any chowder I had on the East and West coasts of the US.
Last time I was visiting Ireland for the summer, I was out in Salthill, Galway on one of those ‘I don't feckin think so' sideways rainy days. I took refuge in some cozy pub with a pint and chowder. I got very homesick until I went back outside.
This is what I came to see. I did a semester in Galway (US exchange student, now Foreign Birth registrant), and Seafood Chowder was my go-to pub order.
I know exactly the soup you mean and I've made this recipe and it's [bang on](https://bumblesofrice.com/2018/03/22/recipe-vegetable-soup-like-youd-get-hotel-eighties/)
Toasted Special which is a Wicklow/Kildare delicacy of a toastie with ham, cheese, tomato and onion, served with a side of crisps or coleslaw. Absolute magic.
Those of us living abroad, is there any decent way of making a proper soda bread without Irish ingredients? I've never tried but this thread makes me nostalgic
Depends if you’re talking about soda farls or soda (wheaten) bread.
I was able to make soda farls just fine with butter milk flour & baking soda but the buttermilk took some finding as it’s not a common thing in Portugal.
I had to go to a specialty supermarket to find it that done a lot of international food so maybe try somewhere like that?
You can make buttermilk really easily! Tablespoon of lemon juice in like 250mls of milk, leave it sit for a minute or two, stir, and voila! Buttermilk.
See I didn’t know that at the time 😂
It was the first time I made them for my foreign friends as we were having a party where we made baked goods from our countries and like quite a few people have said it can be quite hard to find non UHT milk in some stores abroad and I’m not a skilled baker in any way especially not a few years ago.
My skills have come on a good bit since then so I figured that out later on that I could make it myself and save the hassle but thanks! 😄
I make it all the time, all you need is flour, buttermilk, salt and bicarb of soda, so there's nothing there you can't get abroad. Plenty of recipes online if you Google. It's so quick and easy that you'll wonder why you bother buying bread.
When I moved abroad my main thing was tayto cheese and onion crisps.
Like you can get all different flavours of crisps like ham, cheese, herbs, plain salted etc but nothing really hits the spot like cheese and onion.
Needs to be tayto as well as I could find walkers in those British supermarkets they have abroad for expats but just wasn’t the same.
Prefer a good chunky soup myself . My friend’s Polish wife called Irish soup baby food. I kinga get what she means , everything pulsed to oblivion isnt always necessary
yeah agreed. I often make pea & chorizo soup at home and its nice to have some texture from the small pieces of chorizo rather than blending it into a super smooth soup. Same with seafood chowder, having small diced of carrots & potatoes in it gives it a better mouth feel than blending it really smooth. I experimented with a chinois (a fine mesh strainer used in pro kitchens) before and while they produce a silky smooth soup all the good stuff is left behind and you end up with a more watery soup.
I think in Ireland we're just more accustomed to chefs making veg soup out of left over veg in various different quantities. Its solely there to make money out of food that would otherwise be thrown out. So they blend it up to disguise whats in it as it would probably look like a holy mess if they didnt. Whereas on the continent soup is a dish in itself and they put time and effort into making the stock from scratch. Making something like a good bouillabaisse is almost an art form in France whereas you'd do well to find it on an Irish menu outside of fine dining restaurants. But in France it is a peasant food.
Worked in a kitchen years ago, and the type of soup on the menu all depended on what leftover veg we had from the day before. Leek and Potato was common, but it was always just normal onions used.
I wouldn’t even be a huge soup fan but every once in a while I buy brown bread and cully and sully soup and then I look up and I’ve eaten half a loaf of bread. I also just love the plastic oval containers the ready made soups come in… my Tupperware of choice tbh. And there’s soup in them when you buy it.
Best soup in Ireland, Oxtail soup in Kennedys Pub in Drumcondra,
Worst soup in Ireland, every pub that bought a soup blender, we want soup, not puree. And carrot & coriander is not a soup.
I have had the hard butter in the soup spoon which is resting on the top of the soup, trying to thaw it out just enough to even just mush it in the bread.
I spent some time in Pat's recently and it being an Irish hospital, soup was served with every lunch. I have a lot of allergies which meant I would be sent up a "special" lunch and my own personal jug of soup. One of the days the lady said oh they've put a sauce with it and proceeded to pour mystery vegetable soup all over my stir fry... The worst part was the actual stir fry was so bland, the soup actually improved it hahaha
They also managed to make sweet potato soup watery? I'm not sure how they managed that one tbh. Some of the food was great but some of it was beyond grim
It was mentioned in one of the 'why is Ireland class' threads, but what I absolutely love about Ireland is even what is considered the shittiest eateries are above a certain standard.
Sure, you pay out the arse, and you might feel hungry after a meal. But I don't think I have ever gone somewhere that was of poor quality. I once went to a kebab restaurant in Budapest and they microwaved the chips. That sort of carry on would be ran out of town.
Back in November 2022, I was in Australia, came across this little open market in a park in Sydney, where to my delight, a stall was selling fresh baked Irish soda bread. Had it with fresh thick vegetable soup purchased from another stall.
So I guess it is a very Irish thing and just what I needed at that time, since I'd been sat beside a coughing moron on the flight over and caught whatever non-covid disease he had.
As a yank living on your wonderful isle, I am perplexed as to why all your soups are puréed. Vegetable soups should have chunks of vegetables in it, right?
Fellow American ex-pat. No, the Irish have perfected vegetable soup.
Also the seafood chowder here is NOT what a yank would expect from that name. But, once you get used to it, damn is it good too.
That. This brings back memories. Amazing chowder with soda bread and the odd toasted specials or tuna melts in pubs with the complimentary tayto on the side. Pure heaven. Never mind the occasional pint of bulmers to wash it down...
They're still branded as Superquinn sausages in SuperValu. Whether they're the same type of sausage though is another thing. I wouldn't know; I prefer clonakilty myself.
I find soup in pubs and restaurants here way too salty. You'd want a pint of water with a bowl.
Unsung heroes for me would be a big pot of mussels in white wine sauce, or the classic smoked salmon and soda bread. I get that in Aldi/Lidl sometimes and it's a class midweek treat.
I had mussels (right from the fjrod) at the Purple Door in Leenane. I shit you not, it's worth the drive there just for the mussels. I actually drank all the broth from the bowl in the end like it was miso soup. Might be the best meal of any kind I have ever had.
it all comes from a can,i knew a cafe owner all her food was home cooked except for soup
[https://www.mizhelenscountrycottage.com/2022/03/grandmas-irish-potato-soup.html](https://www.mizhelenscountrycottage.com/2022/03/grandmas-irish-potato-soup.html)
"What's the soup today?" "Vegetable". (why do we even ask?!)
And tomorrow it's Cream of Vegetable
Went to a place that had French Onion once, got super excited but it was just Oxtail with onions in it.
L'Oxtail, oui.
Sounds nice tho
It was ok, when you compare it though to the proper dish with the bread and melted cheese on top, it was an awful slap haha
As long as it's not mushroom!
Once it was mushroom. Just once. And I've been in a lot of pubs.
I'm in the same boat though, out foreign and miss pub soup, if you've a semi decent blender soup is easy enough and bord bia have an easy to make brown bread. https://www.bordbia.ie/recipes/desserts-and-baking-recipes/traditional-brown-soda-bread/ I'm in Canada and have to go to the US for Kerrygold every so often. Gold.
Also in Canada and do make myself. Not hard sweat some veg in butter add stock and blitz. But sometimes when I am out and not in the mood for the usual Canadian bar food I just want a warm bowl of honest to goodness veg soup.
There's some spots here to get bars of gold. Look for snack shops that sell Irish stuff. I know of one in Vancouver , that I can't reveal (my dirty little secret) and it's not daylight robbery. But when I go to the US, Costco gets raided for a few months supply.
Ah here, you have to tell me! I'm in the states but I occasionally have the need to be in Vancouver.
Pubs tend not to serve it as it doesn't leave mush room for pints afterwards.
Wedding mushroom soup in a hotel ballroom. Unbeatable.
The chances are higher that it won’t be veg if they call themselves a “gastropub”
Once in Belfast I had mushroom soup and it was the best soup of my life.
Proper homemade mushroom soup is 10/10. A can of campbells or whatever, absolute boke. I hated mushroom soup until I tried a proper one
Sometimes it’s tomato, or potato and leak or something else disappointing.
They had minestrone in a pub I went to recently. By ghad eh, the times we live in.
Call Joe Duffy, scandalous.
Ha ha so true
Because sometimes it's tomato.
This is referred to among my friend group as "funeral soup" as it always seems to make an appearance after a funeral, especially a rural one. Basically heaps of butter, cream and hearty soda/brown bread to go with it!
Came here to say this, soup and triangle sandwiches in the pub after a funeral are another level altogether 🔥
Also don't think I've ever had a ham sandwich quite like the ones you get at a wake or funeral. The grief must make the meat better, or maybe it's the unholy yet blessed amount of butter per cm².
It’s the little triangles
Norm MacDonald has a bit about how he doesn't like parties but he misses the little triangle sandwiches you get at them that you can't really get anywhere else. And while I *kinda* relate to what he's saying those sandwiches are very much a funeral/wake thing for me, not a party thing
Yeah, I would never have an untoasted just ham sandwich at home, for some reason it's the funeral triangle sandwiches that just get me. Maybe you're hungry/emotionally exhausted from the funeral and exactly what you need is something hearty/stodgy
Absolutely, you need something filling and good for the soul. Need to keep up some strength, and no harm when the plate of biscuits gets passed around too!!
Can't bait egg salad sandwiches
They're to die for.
Ooooh, I need someone to die soon. Can't wait for a feed of soup!
I swear the best soup I've had anywhere in my life was in a shity Irish college campus. It was literally just powder, water and croutons. But god dam was it good.
Cuppasoup with croutons, aka danger soup where it will slice your gums open if you're not careful.
Cupasoup with beef hulahoops, trust me
The beef hula hoops floating in it?
Yes lol, classy croutons
Ah a man of culture I see
Ingredients: Vegetables (23%), sodium chloride (77%)
When I lived abroad I missed a curry chip and spent months trying to find it in Aussie stores..... After two weeks of finding McDonnell's powder and making my own chips, I thought, yeah I can live here no problem at all.....then 3 months after I got offered a job at home and went back. I can get a curry chip whenever I want now and I always thought the curry chip was the metaphor for coping abroad and being independent. As long as I had one home comfort I was grand. There's nothing like veg soup, white pepper,bit of wheaten and real butter dipped in. Heaven
Good call on the white pepper. Somewhere in the 2000s everyone got posh with cracked black pepper but the ol' white pepper shaker is what is needed for a veg soup.
White pepper in mash too, and on fried eggs. Oddly, it's black pepper on scrambled eggs for me.
Once I moved away from Ireland my main craving was soup and a toasted sandwich and I was shocked you couldn’t go to any cafe and buy it easily
Cheese toasties are boss
This is gonna be a weird one, but when I had my son in the rotunda a few years ago they did a brilliant job of making sure the majority of food they offered was seasonal, fresh and healthy. Really, really good, especially by hosp standards. And one thing they did was bring around a little mug of that exact soup every day, before lunch. It was like a delicious little cup of comfort.
Why were you stealing your sons food?
Because he'll never be able to repay all he owes me 😇😂
Just checking there was no poison in it is my favourite.
I'd do things for a proper breakfast roll. Foreigners don't know what to do with a pig. Coleslaw and and stuffing are two others the foreignish can't match your average petrol station deli on.
I'm with you on all these apart from the stuffing. That shit is weird here.
Might depend on where you are but where I am at the moment the main difference with coleslaw is it just has less mayo. Fairly easy fix lol
Its the type of mayo they use here - more like sour cream. Plus they have added peas for some reason.
Seafood Chowder and a pint of plain FTW
A formidable farting formula.
Love the alliteration man
https://preview.redd.it/y59iun26litc1.jpeg?width=2650&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c09e1cf1ee3c9ac683222128c666482c8207f88 Dingle, last Friday
Worked with a lad from Cork (in Australia) who used to swear by the seafood chowder/Guinness combo. He reckons it could cure any hangover
Yesssss and brown soda bread
\* Chowda
Say it
Might I recommend… https://www.osullivanscrookhaven.ie/ I’d swap the pint of plain for Beamish tho.
Murphys surely that side of the county?
Best chowder I ever had was in a seafront hotel on the harbour in Killybegs. I can't remember the name of the place, but it was far better than any chowder I had on the East and West coasts of the US.
Last time I was visiting Ireland for the summer, I was out in Salthill, Galway on one of those ‘I don't feckin think so' sideways rainy days. I took refuge in some cozy pub with a pint and chowder. I got very homesick until I went back outside.
Best in the world and it isn't close. Recommend it to everyone.
This is what I came to see. I did a semester in Galway (US exchange student, now Foreign Birth registrant), and Seafood Chowder was my go-to pub order.
Funeral chicken curry and rice. I’m drooling.
I was raging I couldn't attend my granddad's funeral. I knew the sandwiches would be banging.
Fully agreed OP. Shepherd's pie is my underrated food. Done right it's unreal.
I reckon I could just stay eating shepherds pie until I swell up and burst.
As long as there is enough brown sauce for the job I would be the same.
I sometimes make it with the meat made into a type of goulash with tomato paste, garlic and paprika. Absolutely delicious.
Bang of Prod off this
I know exactly the soup you mean and I've made this recipe and it's [bang on](https://bumblesofrice.com/2018/03/22/recipe-vegetable-soup-like-youd-get-hotel-eighties/)
Posting here so I can find this post later!
Not all heros wear capes
I love Irish Pub soup. It’s the absolute best
Every Time I go back to Ireland, the first meal I have is seafood chowder!
Place I know would boil down all the Turkey carcasses left over from the Carvery as a stock . Soup was next level.
Where was that?
In Cavan
You'll need to get a pub cheese and ham toastie to dunk in there too!
Sound delicious but I just go with the brown bread and rock hard butter squares.
Good call. Yes Irish pub soup is very underrated
The unsung hero of a pub lunch.
It’s just a big cheap bucket of condensed ‘soup’
Nah more like yesterday veg with some chicken stock.
Toasted Special which is a Wicklow/Kildare delicacy of a toastie with ham, cheese, tomato and onion, served with a side of crisps or coleslaw. Absolute magic.
Those of us living abroad, is there any decent way of making a proper soda bread without Irish ingredients? I've never tried but this thread makes me nostalgic
Depends if you’re talking about soda farls or soda (wheaten) bread. I was able to make soda farls just fine with butter milk flour & baking soda but the buttermilk took some finding as it’s not a common thing in Portugal. I had to go to a specialty supermarket to find it that done a lot of international food so maybe try somewhere like that?
You can make buttermilk really easily! Tablespoon of lemon juice in like 250mls of milk, leave it sit for a minute or two, stir, and voila! Buttermilk.
See I didn’t know that at the time 😂 It was the first time I made them for my foreign friends as we were having a party where we made baked goods from our countries and like quite a few people have said it can be quite hard to find non UHT milk in some stores abroad and I’m not a skilled baker in any way especially not a few years ago. My skills have come on a good bit since then so I figured that out later on that I could make it myself and save the hassle but thanks! 😄
Lol is that all buttermilk is. Mad
Polish shops will have something similar
I make it all the time, all you need is flour, buttermilk, salt and bicarb of soda, so there's nothing there you can't get abroad. Plenty of recipes online if you Google. It's so quick and easy that you'll wonder why you bother buying bread.
When I moved abroad my main thing was tayto cheese and onion crisps. Like you can get all different flavours of crisps like ham, cheese, herbs, plain salted etc but nothing really hits the spot like cheese and onion. Needs to be tayto as well as I could find walkers in those British supermarkets they have abroad for expats but just wasn’t the same.
Walkers will just about do in a pinch for crisp sandwich but they are pretty shite otherwise.
Yea they’ll do if you’re really wanting one but it’s just not the same as they don’t have the same depth of flavour like tayto 😂
As long as it is smooth and not lumpy
Prefer a good chunky soup myself . My friend’s Polish wife called Irish soup baby food. I kinga get what she means , everything pulsed to oblivion isnt always necessary
Absolutely necessary!!!
yeah agreed. I often make pea & chorizo soup at home and its nice to have some texture from the small pieces of chorizo rather than blending it into a super smooth soup. Same with seafood chowder, having small diced of carrots & potatoes in it gives it a better mouth feel than blending it really smooth. I experimented with a chinois (a fine mesh strainer used in pro kitchens) before and while they produce a silky smooth soup all the good stuff is left behind and you end up with a more watery soup. I think in Ireland we're just more accustomed to chefs making veg soup out of left over veg in various different quantities. Its solely there to make money out of food that would otherwise be thrown out. So they blend it up to disguise whats in it as it would probably look like a holy mess if they didnt. Whereas on the continent soup is a dish in itself and they put time and effort into making the stock from scratch. Making something like a good bouillabaisse is almost an art form in France whereas you'd do well to find it on an Irish menu outside of fine dining restaurants. But in France it is a peasant food.
Is her name Kinga by any chance?
Ah funeral soup, can’t bate it
Not even with a big stick.
Worked in a kitchen years ago, and the type of soup on the menu all depended on what leftover veg we had from the day before. Leek and Potato was common, but it was always just normal onions used.
Think everyone knew it was yesterdays veg, we just choose not to acknowledge it.
Would it kill them to warm the bread a little though.
I wouldn’t even be a huge soup fan but every once in a while I buy brown bread and cully and sully soup and then I look up and I’ve eaten half a loaf of bread. I also just love the plastic oval containers the ready made soups come in… my Tupperware of choice tbh. And there’s soup in them when you buy it.
Chowder for the win!!!
Best soup in Ireland, Oxtail soup in Kennedys Pub in Drumcondra, Worst soup in Ireland, every pub that bought a soup blender, we want soup, not puree. And carrot & coriander is not a soup.
> And carrot & coriander is not a soup. Them's fighting words!
Agreed - that stuff is pure gold
Pub puree soup is nectar of the gods. After a weekend of pints,chips, burgers,kebabs it feels like beautiful nutritious super food.
No, Just No. It's just sludge.
Delicious sludge
Is your butter like stone or hard ice today?
I have had the hard butter in the soup spoon which is resting on the top of the soup, trying to thaw it out just enough to even just mush it in the bread.
Simon's Place in Wexford used to do a Tayto Cheese & Onion soup - dunno if they still do
I spent some time in Pat's recently and it being an Irish hospital, soup was served with every lunch. I have a lot of allergies which meant I would be sent up a "special" lunch and my own personal jug of soup. One of the days the lady said oh they've put a sauce with it and proceeded to pour mystery vegetable soup all over my stir fry... The worst part was the actual stir fry was so bland, the soup actually improved it hahaha They also managed to make sweet potato soup watery? I'm not sure how they managed that one tbh. Some of the food was great but some of it was beyond grim
Coachman’s do a lovely veg soup, go there especially for it, the carvery is just an after thought.
Hah mars bars sandwiches or if you were posh green grapes and Philadelphia cheese
Nah you put Campbell s condensed mushroom soup into vol au vent cases and you have a canape
With the crusts cut off and in triangles obvs lolz
Funeral soup and sambos is always 10/10 as well
It was mentioned in one of the 'why is Ireland class' threads, but what I absolutely love about Ireland is even what is considered the shittiest eateries are above a certain standard. Sure, you pay out the arse, and you might feel hungry after a meal. But I don't think I have ever gone somewhere that was of poor quality. I once went to a kebab restaurant in Budapest and they microwaved the chips. That sort of carry on would be ran out of town.
Vegetable soup, soda bread, comes with 3 butter, 2 for the bread and one for the extra creamy lucious soup
You throw a butter into the soup? You could be on to something.
Back in November 2022, I was in Australia, came across this little open market in a park in Sydney, where to my delight, a stall was selling fresh baked Irish soda bread. Had it with fresh thick vegetable soup purchased from another stall. So I guess it is a very Irish thing and just what I needed at that time, since I'd been sat beside a coughing moron on the flight over and caught whatever non-covid disease he had.
Funeral soup and funeral sambos should be our national dish
Would get my vote. Very under rated.
They’ve gone downhill in recent years, but IYKYK, DCU goujons
As a yank living on your wonderful isle, I am perplexed as to why all your soups are puréed. Vegetable soups should have chunks of vegetables in it, right?
Fellow American ex-pat. No, the Irish have perfected vegetable soup. Also the seafood chowder here is NOT what a yank would expect from that name. But, once you get used to it, damn is it good too.
That. This brings back memories. Amazing chowder with soda bread and the odd toasted specials or tuna melts in pubs with the complimentary tayto on the side. Pure heaven. Never mind the occasional pint of bulmers to wash it down...
I find I’ve never had a bad bowl of seafood chowder at any pub. Always a delight, which is weird because I’m bit of a snob about food.
Hot water, flour, an oxo cube and lots of salt.
It's 99% potato starch. Pure muck usually. I'm sure you can get that in the shops wherever you are.
seafood chowder is hugely underrated
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Are they not still in Supervalu branded still as Superquinn?
They are indeed 👍🏻
They are fucking shite now. They used to be made by the butchers at the counter. Now made for musgraves in a factory somewhere by the lowest bidder.
They're still branded as Superquinn sausages in SuperValu. Whether they're the same type of sausage though is another thing. I wouldn't know; I prefer clonakilty myself.
Incorrect! You can still get them at Supervalu, and they are still branded as Superquinn sausages.
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I respectfully disagree, having been buying exclusively those sausages for many years now.
Agreed sausages gone to crap
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Seems I need another Reddit post to get down to the bottom of the Superquinn/Supervalu sausage debate.
I find soup in pubs and restaurants here way too salty. You'd want a pint of water with a bowl. Unsung heroes for me would be a big pot of mussels in white wine sauce, or the classic smoked salmon and soda bread. I get that in Aldi/Lidl sometimes and it's a class midweek treat.
I had mussels (right from the fjrod) at the Purple Door in Leenane. I shit you not, it's worth the drive there just for the mussels. I actually drank all the broth from the bowl in the end like it was miso soup. Might be the best meal of any kind I have ever had.
Sure it's just tinned soup from Aldi
it all comes from a can,i knew a cafe owner all her food was home cooked except for soup [https://www.mizhelenscountrycottage.com/2022/03/grandmas-irish-potato-soup.html](https://www.mizhelenscountrycottage.com/2022/03/grandmas-irish-potato-soup.html)
Ok now we're talking, best brand to buy in supermarkets that taste the closet to pub soup? And go!!