In these days of economic crisis, I see signs like this in all the shops. Buy Me, I’m Irish. Irish grown. Support Irish industries. P.S. – We’re Irish. Hey, Mr. Cowen!, emblazoned on a Burger King Recession Special bus stop ad. Some of the stores even list Irish-made products separately on receipts so buyers can see how much money they’ve contributed to the national economy.
When I see signs like this, I’m torn. I want to help Ireland’s economy, I do. But is it even more important for me to buy American while living abroad? If the global economy weren’t suffering, I’d obviously go for only Irish products in the spirit of delicious acclimation to my new environment. But things are different now. Surely I should go for the Pringles, not the Taytos. The Sam Adams, not the Murphy’s. As an American, it must be my duty.
But the products are priced higher than they are back home. And they’re in Euro to boot.
Help me, Uncle Sam. I don’t know what to do.
Maybe I’ll just let Sean do the grocery shopping from now on.
I’m… not exactly sure I would feel a drive to support American while I’m not even living here. And we don’t export that much, so your disgustingly 3 pound splurge on oreos won’t make that much of a difference 😀 So unless it’s a craving nom those Taytos! 😀 My opinion, at least 😛
Liv <—- bleeding heart. It's a real horror show over here! 😀