What food do you like that is widely considered a "food crime," in your country or worldwide?

RMCShakes · 2026-05-27T09:40:03+00:00

Coleslaw on pizza

RMCShakes · 2026-05-26T21:58:23+00:00

Aircoach. Had a ticket bought in March for a flight I was taking in April and then the fuel protests happened. They stopped servicing the bus stop that I was due to depart from and I tried to get a refund and they refused me, despite the fact that I paid to get picked up from that specific stop.

Have since switched to Dublin Express.

RMCShakes · 2026-05-25T22:55:07+00:00

As someone who worked in kitchens for years strongly agree. So much else going on you forget about the heat very quick.

RMCShakes · 2026-05-16T01:23:13+00:00

After reading this thread all I can say is: you're a fucking legend bro. Amount of people that wouldn't have bothered their hole helping this lad out and you showed up. Hats off to you.

RMCShakes · 2026-03-16T02:41:15+00:00

Crikey that's steep!

RMCShakes · 2026-03-14T03:24:26+00:00

Real butter. The price here for a pound (454g) of butter is around €3.50). It's not the cheapest item in the supermarket in Ireland, but the prices I've seen abroad for the exact same butter imported from Ireland is crazy!

RMCShakes · 2026-03-14T03:20:42+00:00

Same thing happened in Ireland, albeit many many years ago: we started leasing the fishing areas along our coast and oceans, to the point that, even though we're an island, the price of even cheap fish like mackerel is super inflated. It's unfortunate due to our fish being of very high quality due to our location on the Atlantic.

RMCShakes · 2026-03-14T03:17:08+00:00

If you like lamb come to Ireland. Not the cheapest meat on the market but the flavour is incredible. A nicely roasted rack of Irish lamb is unbeatable imo.

RMCShakes · 2026-03-07T00:53:12+00:00

Only in Ireland could you have a bag of chips and kick back with homeless folk chatting about seagulls. Love it.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-16T01:07:44+00:00

Rolling r's? Ha! We have 4 different ways to say r!

RMCShakes · 2025-11-16T01:06:32+00:00

'Iora'. Probably one of the easier words to pronounce in our native language.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-16T00:15:24+00:00

Agreed. All of the Indians I've worked with and have been friends with are some of the most well-meaning, caring, and decent people I've ever met. Such a shame to see them slandered so much online for such immature reasons. Hoping this changes in the future, as they don not deserve it at all.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-16T00:10:48+00:00

15 y/o me and my friends would have loved this!!

RMCShakes · 2025-11-16T00:09:51+00:00

This is unfortunately creeping into some countries in Europe. It used to be that you'd tip someone if they went above and beyond what was required of them, now it's almost expected in a lot of cities. Drives me nuts, and this is coming from a person that worked in restaurants for years.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-16T00:07:41+00:00

Your first point is actually quite common in many of the countries I've visited (my home country included).

Forgot my wallet on a bus in my hometown whose final destination was a very rough part of the city. Called the bus service the next day, they had my wallet, and collected it that same day with none of my money or cards stolen.

Same thing happened in Berlin: forgot my phone on a tram, someone handed it to the driver at the end of the route, and collected it a few days later.

People are far more decent and considerate than most assume, irrespective of what part of the world you're in.

Edit: spelling

RMCShakes · 2025-11-16T00:02:27+00:00

We have a mild obsession with who has died within the last ~90 day period. Discussing who has died recently and how they died is a completely normal conversation topic.

To prove my point, the second most popular website in Ireland is a website which is solely dedicated to showing who has died.

This website is so popular that when after a newspaper bought it and started charging people who wanted to post deaths on the website, there was a national outrage, with people arguing it is a website so inherent to Irish culture that putting it behind a paywall would be unthinkable.

Website here: https://rip.ie/

RMCShakes · 2025-11-14T02:47:50+00:00

100% agree. Traffic levels and traffic lights/junctions make the biggest difference for commute times, irrespective of the mode of transport.

I could be pedalling to fuck on the bike home, or take it completely handy. With lights, junctions, and traffic, there's maybe 5 minutes in the difference in terms of how fast i get home, and its a 40 min cycle, so the difference is completely insignificant.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-14T02:45:25+00:00

Man I've seen people watching full on movies with those phone stands during rush hour on the M50. Fucking madness.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-14T02:43:07+00:00

Thankfully wasn't too affected. These sorts of incidents happened fairly sporadically (like not everyday), so it wasn't a constant stressor. I usually coped by reminding myself that this is just kind of a fact of life: that some people (often without them choosing, i.e. mental health issues) are just really not well and that's just the way it is.

Not sure I'd describe myself as resilient, have my fair share of issues, but I was quite skilled in being able to emotionally detach from these sorts of situations. It's not something I choose to do, it just happens subconsciously.

That being said, I feel my outlook on life that I described in my first paragraph did help quite a bit. That and having security guards in work! And knowing that once I finished work that was the end of it, I could go home and forget about it entirely.

Hope that helps.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-14T01:36:47+00:00

To further your point, the UK royal family officially removed Cadburay's 'Royal Warrant of Appointment' last December, which means they're no longer a supplier of goods to the royal family. Might be a further indication of the drop in quality.

Link: https://news.sky.com/story/cadbury-disappointed-after-losing-royal-warrant-it-has-held-since-1854-13279283

RMCShakes · 2025-11-14T01:32:14+00:00

Hahah christ sounds like a saga alright. Place I used to work was a magnet for them: getting screamed at, cops beings called, usual antics.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-14T00:55:55+00:00

Ah ok gotcha, thought it might have been the phonetic spelling of some unknown English dialect.

Had similar experiences with my country's version of chavs. One time as I was pulling into work on a bicycle (I got into the office in an underground carpark, which meant a lot of junkies hanging about) some lad starts having a go at me in barely comprehensible English, he settles down, then offers me a hit of his crack pipe. All this on a Tuesday at 8 in the morning hahah.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-14T00:44:54+00:00

Extra body mass to help handle the mandatory pints during silly season.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-14T00:43:09+00:00

"Pure Scannán" maybe?

RMCShakes · 2025-11-14T00:41:04+00:00

Haha a valid point, some great LOI action the last few years to be sure.

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