Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > > "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote > > By the way on the back of the McCann's tin is says: >> Product of Ireland >> Odlum Group >> Naas, County Kildare, Ireland >> Www.mccanns.ie >> > > Ahh, the penny drops!! It's sold over here in Ireland as Odlums Pinhead > Oatmeal. To be sure to be sure, I asked the chief porridge buyer and > porridge maker in the house who spends all her waking hours ensuring that I > have the necessary nutrition in my body to have a fast shutter finger which > of course means porridge in the morning - and she had never heard of > McCanns > Oatmeal either. > > It must be sold under the name McCanns in the US as they probably thought > correctly Odlums doesn't sound a very Irish name. I know that a somewhat > similar story applied to Irish beer. Kilkenny beer was/is sold in Canada, > but not here, even though it's brewed here. The Irish variant of Kilkenny > is > Smithwicks. > They probably don't sell Irish Spring soap in Ireland either!!!! -- Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ Natchitoches, Louisiana (+31.754164,-093.099080) USA