Political Shopping January 2, 2017
Posted by irishelectionliterature in Irish Politics.trackback
I am currently Reading about Rural Electrification and learnt that when the electricity came Fianna Fail people got Phillips Radios and Fine Gael people got Bush Radios . …. I gather too that FF ate Bolands biscuits…and FG people ate Jacobs. There’s supposedly a Lyons/Barrys Tea divide also. Any other products or brands (Newspapers aside) that were associated with one party or the other. Or indeed similar from further afield?
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“Fianna Fail people got Phillips Radios and Fine Gael people got Bush Radios” why?
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I’m afraid no reason was given in the book.
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rival regional departments stores that stocked the different radios? owned by different politically aligned people?
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What were the prices of the brands?
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Up here unionists tended to avoid any product with a “taigy” name.A relative of mine worked in a pub in Ballymena and he recalls customers telling him in their Ulster Scots dialect – ” Dinne be givin me a Portglenone boy” (The product in question was ” Monk export ” which they associated erroneously with the cistercian monastry in nearby Portglenone!”)
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Speaking of rural electrification, have you ever seen the gear they used to climb the poles? There’s a brief clip in this video:
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Pole men and women still use that gear on wooden poles. The safety harness is a bit improved.
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Here locally the line is the boycotting of Coors.
https://teamster.org/blog/2016/06/teamsters-pride-work-look-back-coors-boycott
http://www.cpr.org/news/story/coors-boycott-when-beer-can-signaled-your-politics
The irony is that there are plenty of Berners who think drinking Coors original is hip and cool. Because it’s not a craft beer and it’s not Pabst Blue Ribbon (which is very much associated with urban hipsters), although some of us rednecks drink it too. I always like the fact that it still says “union made” right on the can.
Here’s another piece on what drinks are union made.
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As an addendum I’m a Budweiser man as they have a big brewery in northern Colorado and are union.
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I never new that about Budweiser YC.
I like the Czech Budweiser – but I doubt that Budvar is a trades union brewery.
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Over here Czech Bud is sold as Czechvar lager. One of my favorites. As for not being organized, well it’s a new year and hope springs eternal.
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FF and FG supporters eat liquorice allsorts; left of centre voters suck bullseyes; floating voters chew marshmallows. Political pundits who get their forecasts wrong eat sour grapes. Happy New Year. Gobstoppers are best for people who talk political gobshite.
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I heard there was a big drop in sales of Toffo around Bellaghy after the split.
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Any form of gum was banned from our house thereafter!
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The quality of dressmaking declined in our house. My ma wouldn’t have a pin about the place!
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