My friend is home visiting family in Ballyclare and just sent me this photo of the pickled onion range available at her local shop 😂
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@TheBreadmonkey
Based in Skegness, Lincolnshire
They seem gift & cheese orientated, but have chutney, alcohol – and fudge!
Never seen them.
Ballyclare in Co. Antrim?
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I'm curious about the four vase on the right. What the label says? Pick my what?
one of the things i love when going to a country i've not been to before is go right to the local convenience food store and hitting the pickles, snacks, and drinks aisles.
most grocery stores have pretty similar stuff (modulo local fresh produce). but it's in those snack aisles that different cultures most proudly strut their weird and unique.
there are things in the UK, japan, belgium, etc. where i look forward to the trip partially because of the snack foods i'll find only there.
@TheBreadmonkey their cheese must be...interesting
@TheBreadmonkey We used to call each other 'ring stingers' in High School lol
@TheBreadmonkey how to tell you're a white person, 😂
@TheBreadmonkey @paco I’m curious about crunchy pickled onions. Do you eat them whole like regular dill pickles, or do you slice them up for sandwiches and stuff (or maybe both)?
@TheBreadmonkey @paco You eat snakes whole?! 😉
@TheBreadmonkey the chuckling cheese company? more like the cutting cheese company
@TheBreadmonkey I saw a huge glass of pickled onions in the LH lounge of Heathrow years ago and was contemplating what would happen if anyone at any of those and went up to 30000 feet with much less air pressure. This could accelerate even a Concorde...
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Is it just me or are the jars in Ballyclare all lopsided now? They look like a row of Frenchmen in little berets
@TheBreadmonkey This is very confusing, these as reviewed by @theaardvark appear to have the same name from a different company, or perhaps it’s a rebrand:
https://theaardvark.co.uk/unjaring-fart-starters-ring-stingers-and-ass-blasters-pickled-onions.html
The pickle naming industry is chaos
That's very weird!
@TheBreadmonkey @theaardvark Hiring a private investigator to look into the links between the Funky Food Co and the Chucklinh Cheese Co as we speak.
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Definitely different companies. Funky Food Co is a small local producer in South Staffs. Been around for 15 - 20 years I think.
@TheBreadmonkey Someone on here does pickled onion reviews and may have covered these. Also, I’m from Ballyclare!
@TheBreadmonkey Give them to meeeeeeee!!!! 😍