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Updated at 9.40pm
IRELAND’S FAVOURITE FRUITS and vegetables vary wildly from county to county.
While the people of Offaly eat potatoes and swedes, Sligonians prefer chillies and fresh herbs and in Donegal they at berries, oranges and sweet potato.
Supermarket chain Tesco have revealed the most purchased greens in their stores, with Dubliners plumping for kale and avocado over cabbage and apple.
With nearly 70 million sold in stores every year, bananas top the charts in most counties and just slip to second place in Clare, Donegal, Galway, Kildare and Mayo which favour fresh berries over bananas at the top of the fruit and vegetable charts.
Cauliflower and kale are the least popular across the country but that could all change this year with cauliflower tipped as a food trend for 2015.
Nutritionist Elsa Jones said that getting your fruit and vegetables will still help you be big and strong.
“It’s encouraging to see that Irish people are buying a wide variety of fruit and vegetables. Getting your five-a-day is one of the most important things you can do for your health. It’s also important to eat a variety of different coloured fruit and vegetables as each colour provides a unique set of nutrients. For optimal health, aim to eat the five colours of the rainbow every day – red, orange, yellow, green and purple.”
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The wife always buys massive cucumbers – I don’t know why, because nobody eats them here.
I’ve moved onto aubergine. They definitely fill you up.
I had asked my wife did she want me to chop up the cucumber – she asked me ‘what do you think i am? a f****ing slot machine?’ – never understand women.
50 shades of grey going on there I’d say
A butternut squash stuffs Ya right up!!!
I sell twelve times as many apples to people calling to our farm each day than our local Tesco does (according to the deliveries going in there). So Tesco has no clue how many apples are selling in this area.
Similarly our daily strawberry sales are four times the local Super Valu, (and Tesco is probably not much different).
Just silly that this can be considered an accurate bit of information.
Connie me lad, fair fecks to yah :-D
Nothing more than Tesco getting a bit of free(?) press for a faltering category. There’s barely any overlapping of items.
Kale and avocado?! Notions
I used to be in love with the Caramel Bunny.. she had a Jessica from Roger Rabbit vibe going on.
Roger Rabbit Vibe(rator)?
Cork ates spuds…..
Do people stool shop at tescos?
Still damn it
Yep, people are still stool shopping at tescos http://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=263639493
Pretty sure the rainbow has seven colours?
Where are ye from?
Donegal
How are your spuds?
Big and small
How do you eat them?
Skins and all
Does that not choke ye?
Not at all
Surely the answer to the first question is “Cark bai”
The second:
“Big and shmall”
“Shkins end awl”
and so on…
They eat the Blaa in Waterford.
You mean they eat like they talk? :P
Dear Tesco, if you’re going to do a press release (and by that I mean advertising posing as “information”) with an Irish map, please consider including all 32.
Inb4 “shinnerbot”
It’s far from Kale and avocado Dubs were reared!!
Notions!
[Additional predictable cucumber joke]
Work in veg shop has to be mandarins and bananas in fruit and broc and sweet potatoes in veg fine beans and mtu to
I love Kale but makes me fart all day. I love garlic, don’t like garlic breath. Avocado and Tofu is my favourite.
You sound like a fine and hygienic bloke – with loads of friends (!).
I will be whatever you want me to be if the price is right.
A leprechaun with thrush – how much?
That can be done. What would you like me to do on you?
No answer?
Tofu’s not a veg though, is it?
Tofu is pointless
“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad” Brian o’Driscoll
I’m almost sure that quote came from London Indo columnist Miles Kington. Has been repeated a lot over the years by others.
What about Cork, then? We do have vegetarians down here too (although I’m not one of them).
Heard it was the HIV blackspot of Ireland?
Dublin notionz! (I’m a Dub, btw)!
Paul, has it really come to this?!?
“With nearly 70 million sold in stores every year, bananas top the charts in most counties and just slip to second place in Clare, Donegal, Galway, Kildare and Mayo which favour fresh berries over bananas at the top of the fruit and vegetable charts.”
Which berries?
I’m from Kildare, and I need to know.
I’m sure the people of Clare, Donegal, Galway, and Mayo do too.
It’s ok – bananas ARE berries….
I nominate Jamie Bryson for Antrim’s favourite veg.
Our fruit & veg man kicked the bucket the other day,
there was a big turnip at the funeral,
the relatives had to say ‘lettuce alone’.
- I’ll get me cloak….
“”" Nutritionist Elsa Jones said that getting your fruit and vegetables will still help you be big and strong. “It’s encouraging to see that Irish people are buying a wide variety of fruit and vegetables.” “”
What would be more encouraging would be Irish people growing their own vegetables and fruits.
Why would ya bother going to Tescos ..? ..
Era we bayls de vege so much in Cark, de Tesco people cudn’t tell wat was in de pot.
The Dail and this government seem to be full of Cabbages?
Explains why they are so sour… lol.
Lovely greens
3 guesses… It has a c,u,n@t in it…
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