Category: Product Reviews
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What are you eating this summer? Neon's Chu Chee Curry
Here’s a quick recommendation from my favourite local takeaway, Neon on Camden Street. The Chu Chee curry. F**k yeah. Cheap? Meh, not particularly, takeaways are rarely cheap. But this curry – extra hot, with vegetables, lime leaves, hot chilli paste, and your choice of chicken, beef, tiger prawns and tofu – was a stark and…
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Bring Back Wibbly Wobbly Wonders… and Tiger Tots
Where are Wibbly Wobbly Wonders? Easily my favourite childhood ice-pop, combining banana and strawberry ice-creams, lemon jelly, and chocolate on the same stick. Every year, HB take over public spaces with their summer ad campaign, encouraging Ireland to pretend that it’s not going to rain all summer, and to eat copious amounts of ice-cream. But…
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Product Review: Donnelly's Salads
Food writers are lucky enough to receive lots of samples in the post from time to time. These samples tend to consist primarily of fatty and sugary foods. Recently, we received a big giant box of many different salads from a PR company representing Donnelly’s Salads, an Irish owned company based in north Co. Dublin,…
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Tayto Chocolate: A Thing That Exists
The evil geniuses at Tayto recently pulled off a PR masterstroke while simultaneously going into bold new flavour combination territory, with their Tayto chocolate bar. This bar is milk chocolate with shards of cheese and onion crisps throughout it. The combination of salty and sweet is long established; and works beautifully with things like salted…
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Christmas at Aldi: Feed the family for under €30
A few weeks ago, Aldi laid on a banquet for Irish Times consumer affairs editor Conor Pope: Thousands of people blow unconscionable sums in Marks & Spencer, McCambridge’s, Morton’s, Donnybrook Fair, Fallon Byrne and all the other high-end food shops across the country that sell us the promise of a premium Christmas at a premium…
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Product review: Aruna sauces
Some of you may have seen Sarajit Chanda and his wife Sarah on Dragons’ Den earlier this year, a charming couple pitching, and winning investment for, their budding business, Aruna sauces. I’ve been wanting to try their sauces for a while, especially since I’m a spectacularly lazy curry cook and usually use one of the…
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Product reviews: Smoothies, steak, booze and more at Aldi
Cheap, reliable, delicious, good value food? Aldi and Lidl are hard to beat. Aldi now commands a bigger share of the Irish grocery market than Lidl or Superquinn, and is growing rapidly in Ireland. Although Lidl have many delicious items – their Greek yoghurt is spellbinding – it’s Aldi that are winning the plaudits. In…
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Skinflint’s firebee honey
See? It still looks like I’m here in Ireland, but I actually wrote this in the past and sent it for publication to the future. Right now, I should be somewhere in Japan. Anyway… last month, Kat from The Purple Page blog brought a long-overdue review of Skinflint, Joe Macken’s pizza joint, to these pages.…
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Product review: Guzzle Puzzle
Guzzle Puzzle is for kids, right? So when, oddly, a few packets of The Natural Confectionary Company’s new product arrived in my letterbox from a PR company, I figured I’d ask my nephew for his opinion. Here’s his view: Guzzle Puzzle Review By Jacob Haskins, aged 9 Guzzle Puzzle tastes exactly like Jelly Worms, made…