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What is one souvenir you would give to a visitor of the country of residence or origin? (lemmy.world)
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I'm a Zimbabwean 🇿🇼 who has stayed half of her life in Malawi 🇲🇼

If I could pick one souvenir food wise it would be this garlic sauce from here in Malawi.

Will make a series of posts on this.

A bottle of Nali Garlic Sauce from Malawi
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[–] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Guinness is the most famous I suppose but the thing most Irish emigrants want brought to them when you visit is tea or crisps. People get (fun) heated about which variety is best.

Tea it's either Lyons or Barry's. I'm Barry's gang.

Crisps (aka chips) it's Tayto or King.

King cheese and onion is best for a crisp sandwich IMO. Tayto with a pint.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    The one that surprised me the times I've been over was your tinned beans.

    I misspent my youth as an unenlightened eater of canned "Boston baked beans" (which are always way too sweet with corn syrup and weirdly thin sauce, but actually really lovely if made properly at home from scratch). I was certainly beans-n-toast-curious before those trips, but now I'm full-Irish bean-pilled!

    I've tried all the English brands we have here, and some of those are nice, but almost any Irish tin will beat any of those. We can reliably get batchelor's here in the States, so I'm fully graduated now to cracking open that greenish blue tin, heating on the stove til "stodgy", just a shot of Worcestershire to kick up the umami, and on to hot BUTTERED toast, oh man. If I'm feeling fancy I'll even grate some Dubliner reserve or something and crack some white peppercorns over the top. Perfect with a cuppa on these snowy and frigid New England days. Chef's kiss 🤌

    Please do let me in on any other Irish bean recs if you have em. My "actually Irish" peeps eventually got sick of my ranting about something as mundane as tinned beans but I felt like Anthony Bourdain discovering some long lost dish from an ancient cuisine for a minute. I do love a great deal more about your country than just the bean tins lol, but it's nice to have that accessible at home to "feel Irish" for a minute haha.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Hahahaha. That is true love. Bachelors is definitely the peak here and I fully agree they are really great.

    Somehow I ended up having a discussion on here about beans with some English folks and they swore blind that Branston were amazing and far better than HP so I must try them also but it is hard to beat Bachelors.

    They used to have a constant ad campaign running here in the 80s with their mascots "Beanie and Barney"

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