Irish all’estero: ‘Un locale mi ha chiamato un mangiatore di patate. . . Ironia della sorte, all’epoca stava mangiando patatine fritte ‘ – The Irish Times

Was told to go back to Ireland, by an Indian whilst living in Australia

Do other countries have this inane obsession with young people who moved abroad for a couple of years? They all end up coming back anyway. 

It’s hard for me to debate the use of “potato eater” since I eat multiple forms of potatoes on most days, and one of irelands most popular brand mascots is Mr Tayto…

Other stereotypes are annoying, but I’m fond of an ould spud to be fair.

Drank a pint fast once, just a habit I have even with water I drink fast. I didn’t go get another drink right away because I was talking to colleagues at a work event. I had a second drink 20-30 minutes later and again drank it fast.

Had someone ask me if I had a drinking issue…

Jesus wept if the person came to a pub here on a Saturday night. They’d think we are crazy.

We do eat a large amount of spuds to be fair. Just lighten up for feck sake, life will be easier.

In a NYC Irish bar, heard an Irish American tell the bartender how he’d been to Ireland and it ‘had changed’. Bartender, fair play to him, knew exactly what he was getting at, and was having none of it. He called yer man out after he was heard commenting on another staff member; ‘Jesus, they let fuckin’ Puerto Ricans pull pints here’.

I had 2 men in London tell me to go back to Ireland and stop taking their jobs. Blew my mind. Nevermind I was actually born in London.

I was called Mr Potato by an Italian so I started calling him a spaghetti muncher. We ended up good friends

Loved living abroad, as an Irishman – the sight of another spud headed lad bouncing down the main street of Brisbane, Boston or Bahrain 🙌🏻🙌🏻 “hup tay fuck, ya boy ya” 🕺🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼

That was an article about nothing, what a waste of ink on paper

I’ve been called a potato n-word, by a charming Scottish chap

lol. i’ll weigh in on this. irish at home have a very very small reference to how irish’s are seen abroad. those that they meet are yanks coming home to find themselves or other foreigners wanted to experience shite weather and worse service.
when you get outside of the bubble you start to see that we aren’t looked at favorably in a lot of places. i’ll speak from my son experience.
i’ve been stateside for a long time. when i first arrived and the accent was thick i’d get a lot of compliments. i was also attracted to the spots that irish would have a historical home – boston and nyc.
once my novelty wore off i started to hear and see that “white trash” is basically how irish are seen across the US. it’s not untrue. a lot of irish came here dreaming of a new life but this system doesn’t give a fuck. most were stuck in menial jobs and never got going.
vast swaths of the south are old irish, same with the Appellations. hemingway destitute i mean like the worst of the worst.
we have carved out a place on history and we deserve it but it’s not all rainbows and butterflies.

i’ve had many many potato jokes. many famine jokes. many british jokes. it’s just part of the game over here. water of a ducks back.

it was that moment when i realized we were what was seen as “white trash” that hit hard.

this is slightly off topic but you know how we are described as “friendly” well i think that’s because of a long colonial history where we had to be friendly. i dont see the irish welcome in any other culture – could be wrong – maybe its isolated to colonized peoples…