Cruising Ireland and Britain. Meat and Potatoes.

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We've heard visiting Ireland by cruise ship is a visit like no other.
Yep, its true.
My mom worked 44 years with Disney and occasionally 40% off Disney cruise ship cabins for retirees arrives in the mail from time to time. Good for the whole family, book as many cabins as you want.

We book the cheapest cabin and take the 40% off employee discount. One heck of a deal.

The Disney ship serves foods like you encounter on it's current destinations.
If you're cruising to Cabo it's Tex Mex and Mexican food, Hawaii it's Teriyaki and the like, China all the great food they offer. .

Plain meat and potatoes for this cruise.
Man o man it was bland. Even the prime rib. Brutal.

TSA approved knives are required on the ship that in the past cruises have cut well. Nope, not this time servers had to go from table to table to cut meat for passengers with a proper steak knife.
Like eating old brown shoes.

Salt and pepper helped a bit, found some soy sauce and even a quart of the chefs own BBQ sauce made it to our table nightly.
A blast of that in the canned Heinz beans served with most meals took it over the top too.

Coveted bottle of Cholula given to us by one of the bartenders was the highlight of the meals.
Same bartender reserved the last case of my favorite beer just for me in the walk-in. A $5 tip goes a long way.

Daughter said "As Soon as we touch down in the USA I'm heading to Taco Bell." Yeah it was all that bland and we never, ever eat at Taco Bell. Read that never.

In towns like Cork Ireland the food was amazing and good and the people the best folk you'll ever encounter. The British Towns couldn't find Cod nor Halibut fish n Chips, just some Tilapia kinda fish that I'll pass on.

The closer you get to Guinness Brewery the better it tastes is true.
"Doesn't travel well" say the locals.

Son got his moms side of the family good looks and height and bunked up pretty quick with a nice looking nurse passenger on the cruise. Girls way out-number the guys on cruises and he was descended on quick.
I had single dad neighbors and they all met fine women on cruises that they eventually married. Good place to meet women.

My Iphone is mis-firing, I'll come back with some pictures when we get it straightened out.
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Thanks for saving me some money and time. I don't need a wife, I've got a wonderful one for 41+ years, and I've been on enough cruises in my life...😄
The 13 hour flite to the ship and 13 hours back was pretty tough. I'll never do it again.

I've always felt cruises should have amazing, outstanding food.
My wife of 30 years never had a bad day nor a bad meal in her life.
Nothing lost on her.

I belong to a community service club and a retired British Embassy Chef joined the club. Or he claimed he was. We have a bar at the clubhouse and we raise money for a local special needs school from its profits and some functions we throw.

The retired cook told us if we buy 20 special ovens we can have a Prime Rib dinner function open the the public once a month to raise money for the special needs children's school.
We did just that.
Off the chain, amazing tasting Prime rib and often all the meat is donated by one of the many provision houses in Cali.

All volunteer servers and cooks, we raised some serious bank with the most amazing Prime Rib I've ever tasted. Always sold out lines out across the parking lot and cars parked around the block.

It's not that hard to do and can't understand why the cruise ship couldn't do the same or even near the same.
 
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The 13 hour flite to the ship and 13 hours back was pretty tough. I'll never do it again.
One time, we flew from Honolulu non-stop to Atlanta and then to Charleston. NEVER, EVER again. Left Maui in the afternoon for Honolulu and flew from daylight through the night until daylight the next day. We were absolutely exhausted...
It's not that hard to do and can't understand why the cruise ship couldn't do the same or even near the same.
They don't have this...
British Consulate cook
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