My flabber has been gasted!

[LookItsMeAgain]

I'm sitting listening to Elaine Paige on BBC R2 and there was a song from the musical "Oliver" called "Food Glorious Food" and straight after Elaine went into a list of foods that could be considered British and amongst the list of Yorkshire puddings and spotted dick, she listed "IRISH stew".

I mean really.

IRISH stew.

It even in the name that it's got nothing to do with British foods at all.

It has left me flabbergasted that a woman of even basic intelligence would think that something called IRISH anything would be considered a British food/meal. I think Elaine has more than basic intelligence.

Shocked so I am..

Then again,

Lancashire Hot Pot is much nicer, and I say that as a White Rose not a Red Rose.

My iniyial post was replying to a poster who said that the N Irish are not British because they come from the UK not GB. I was explaining why that wasn't true. Or not trying to denigrate or deny anyone nationalistic pride! The blanket approach is that people from the UK are British. I'm sure there are republicans in NI who don't choose to call themselves that which is fine to me. Same with nationalists from Scotland who don't ever refer or think of themselves as British.
But it doesn't make any of them any less British.

Ive never said that any of the 4 countires,are interchangeable with British. They're clearly not the same. Irish and British aren't interchangeable. But Welsh, English and Scottish aren't interchangeable with British, either, because they refer to specific areas. All these individual countries have just as much national pride and identity as the N Irish do. There are many instances when you'd choose to talk about your individual country, and therefore your nationality, rather than the UK. But people if you are from the UK, you are British.

If you make it in the UK, it's Uckish stew.

Anyway, Elaine Paige is a bit of a dumbo.

Nobody tell the op about Danish bacon...

Out of interest, what is 'Irish Stew' in Britain?

It's a bit more complicared in NI.
Article 1 of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA) states that the British and Irish governments must
…recognise the birthright of all the people of Northern Ireland to identify themselves and be accepted as Irish or British, or both, as they may so choose, and accordingly confirm that their right to hold both British and Irish citizenship is accepted by both Governments

However, the UK government is still automatically making everyone in NI a British citizen and making them pay several hundred pounds to renounce their British citizenship, which many don't think is right because of what the GFA says. There have been court cases fought about it...see Emma DaSouza's case for example.

On that argument, haggis is British, not Scottish.

My DF is from NI and makes a cracking Irish Stew. I'd like to see how you faired of you told her that she wasn't British

A scotch bonnet is not a wee cap 🧢

Meh I can’t get into a stew over this

Very true. We call it Vienna bread.