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Jul 31, 2015 12:01 PM CST Learning something new every day...
Phoenix
PhoenixPhoenixBelfast....., Antrim Ireland274 Threads 65 Polls 6,948 Posts
I am listening to BBC Radio Ulster and the only place in the world where they make "potato bread" is in the O6C...
Jul 31, 2015 1:00 PM CST Learning something new every day...
Phoenix: I am listening to BBC Radio Ulster and the only place in the world where they make "potato bread" is in the O6C...



So the making of potato bread is extinct in other words?
Jul 31, 2015 1:02 PM CST Learning something new every day...
Phoenix
PhoenixPhoenixBelfast....., Antrim Ireland274 Threads 65 Polls 6,948 Posts
snowlynx: So the making of potato bread is extinct in other words?


Short answer is "yes" .....
Jul 31, 2015 1:03 PM CST Learning something new every day...
mjpd67
mjpd67mjpd67galway, Galway Ireland181 Threads 5 Polls 6,550 Posts
Phoenix: Short answer is "yes" .....
would that be potato bread that goes with an Ulster fry ?ireland
Jul 31, 2015 1:07 PM CST Learning something new every day...
Fraya
FrayaFrayaCork, Ireland1 Threads 3,762 Posts
Is potatoe bread another word for boxty? (unsure of spelling)
Jul 31, 2015 1:09 PM CST Learning something new every day...
Fraya: Is potatoe bread another word for boxty? (unsure of spelling)


Don't think so. I think boxty is just mashed potato basically.
Jul 31, 2015 1:11 PM CST Learning something new every day...
Phoenix: Short answer is "yes" .....




Then it's gone the way of Dublin 'coddle'!
Jul 31, 2015 1:14 PM CST Learning something new every day...
mjpd67
mjpd67mjpd67galway, Galway Ireland181 Threads 5 Polls 6,550 Posts

jayus its bad when the yanks have to show us paddys how to make potato bread
Jul 31, 2015 1:14 PM CST Learning something new every day...
Fraya
FrayaFrayaCork, Ireland1 Threads 3,762 Posts
snowlynx: Don't think so. I think boxty is just mashed potato basically.


I had triangles of it with a breakfast in Antrim years ago. It was fried with onion in it. Yum! A bit like farls but not. It rattled in my gut like a lump of lead until lunchtime though
Jul 31, 2015 1:17 PM CST Learning something new every day...
Fraya: I had triangles of it with a breakfast in Antrim years ago. It was fried with onion in it. Yum! A bit like farls but not. It rattled in my gut like a lump of lead until lunchtime though


Lol, would be a bit heavy alright, I remember it here, or something like it anyway.
Jul 31, 2015 1:17 PM CST Learning something new every day...
Phoenix
PhoenixPhoenixBelfast....., Antrim Ireland274 Threads 65 Polls 6,948 Posts
Fraya: I had triangles of it with a breakfast in Antrim years ago. It was fried with onion in it. Yum! A bit like farls but not. It rattled in my gut like a lump of lead until lunchtime though


Ladies I rest my case.....

What about vegetable roll from your local butchers.....?
Jul 31, 2015 1:47 PM CST Learning something new every day...
Fraya
FrayaFrayaCork, Ireland1 Threads 3,762 Posts
Phoenix: Ladies I rest my case.....

What about vegetable roll from your local butchers.....?


I don't understand the question Phoenix. Where am I going with a vegetable roll? and what is it? laugh
Jul 31, 2015 4:27 PM CST Learning something new every day...
WittyandWise
WittyandWiseWittyandWiseDerry, Donegal Ireland15 Threads 2 Polls 3,364 Posts
Fraya: I had triangles of it with a breakfast in Antrim years ago. It was fried with onion in it. Yum! A bit like farls but not. It rattled in my gut like a lump of lead until lunchtime though


No onion in it and it is beautiful thumbs up
Jul 31, 2015 4:37 PM CST Learning something new every day...
Fraya
FrayaFrayaCork, Ireland1 Threads 3,762 Posts
WittyandWise: No onion in it and it is beautiful


The onion did me in I think
Jul 31, 2015 4:39 PM CST Learning something new every day...
WittyandWise
WittyandWiseWittyandWiseDerry, Donegal Ireland15 Threads 2 Polls 3,364 Posts
Fraya: The onion did me in I think


Are you sure that was not a hash brown you had?
Jul 31, 2015 4:41 PM CST Learning something new every day...
Fraya
FrayaFrayaCork, Ireland1 Threads 3,762 Posts
WittyandWise: Are you sure that was not a hash brown you had?


laugh No, twas a triangular thingy they called boxty. I asked earlier if that was the potatoe thing Phoenix was referring to
Jul 31, 2015 4:53 PM CST Learning something new every day...
WittyandWise
WittyandWiseWittyandWiseDerry, Donegal Ireland15 Threads 2 Polls 3,364 Posts
Fraya: No, twas a triangular thingy they called boxty. I asked earlier if that was the potatoe thing Phoenix was referring to


No onion in potatoe bread Fraya, boxty is different wave
Aug 2, 2015 2:30 PM CST Learning something new every day...
Phoenix
PhoenixPhoenixBelfast....., Antrim Ireland274 Threads 65 Polls 6,948 Posts
There Are Now Just Four Northern White Rhinos Left On Earth

July 29, 2015 | by Aamna Mohdin



Zookeepers have announced the death of one of the last five northern white rhino left on Monday. The death of Nabiré, a 31-year-old female, means this incredibly rare species is now one step closer to extinction.

Authorities at the Dvur Králové Zoo in the Czech Republic have confirmed that Nabiré died as a result of a ruptured cyst, which zookeepers say was too large to treat.

“It is a terrible loss. Nabiré was the kindest rhino ever bred in our zoo. It is not just that we were very fond of her. Her death is a symbol of the catastrophic decline of rhinos due to a senseless human greed. Her species is on the very brink of extinction,” said Premysl Rabas, the director of the zoo, in a statement.

Nabiré was born in 1983 at the Czech Zoo and spent her entire life there as part of a breeding program. Though she was bred in captivity in hopes of saving her species, the large cysts in reproductive organs prevented her from conceiving naturally. Conservationists are now hoping that they can make an embryo by harvesting eggs from her left ovary, which appeared to be healthy. The tissue samples have been taken to a specialized laboratory in Italy.

“It is our moral obligation to try to save them. We are the only ones, perhaps with San Diego Zoo, who have enough of collected biological material to do so. We are aware that our chances are slim, but the hopes are still alive,” Rabas says.

In 1960, there were more than 2,000 northern white rhinos, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Poaching and habitat loss has decimated the population over the last few decades.......
Aug 2, 2015 3:20 PM CST Learning something new every day...
WittyandWise
WittyandWiseWittyandWiseDerry, Donegal Ireland15 Threads 2 Polls 3,364 Posts
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