Downey's is now a pizza shop?!

[loveisnoise]

HAHAHA! How irish-

So, I'm going through the money mailer coupons(yeah, I'm the one guy who actually looks through them before tossing them). I see a thing for Downey's "Drinking House Dining Saloon".

It says, "We Deliver... See our Pizza Menu on Back". So, now they have a list of 22 'wood burning brick oven' pizzas that they deliver. I guess it is irish since the page list is surrounded by cute little shamrocks.

Oh-and on the front they are promoting $10 miller lite buckets everyday.

[hkp]

Are Irish mice part of the toppings menu?

[loveisnoise]

Shhhhhh.... those are just peppercorns in the spicy sauce!!!

[hubba1]

If they have REAL Irish food, then I should be able to get a "tobacco pipe" from them also! No?? Then they are Irish Imposters!

[loveisnoise]

if they have real irish food, then i should be able to get a "tobacco pipe" from them also! No?? Then they are irish imposters!

hahahaha!

[ArcticSplash]

HAHAHA! How irish-

So, I'm going through the money mailer coupons(yeah, I'm the one guy who actually looks through them before tossing them). I see a thing for Downey's "Drinking House Dining Saloon".

It says, "We Deliver... See our Pizza Menu on Back". So, now they have a list of 22 'wood burning brick oven' pizzas that they deliver. I guess it is irish since the page list is surrounded by cute little shamrocks.

Oh-and on the front they are promoting $10 miller lite buckets everyday.

My love and fascination with plastic paddys in Philadelphia knows no limits. I know few people can really afford the plane trip to visit the home counties, but come 'on. There's folks who really have just a loose Scots-Irish ancestry (like moi) who cling on to this stuff like white on rice.

They wouldn't be able to answer what "The Pale" is.

Or what a "peace wall" is, and few are really aware of anything that really goes on back in the home counties.

Granted, my ancestry is protestant Ulster, but like a bad marriage, my pre-famine Scots-Irish Ulster ancestors got on the boat and screwed anything that smelled like money so they wouldn't live broke in a foreign country, because it really sucked making a crappy living as overseers on land they didn't own so they took every advantage of buying property they could get their hands on because they were tired of sending rent to England. That's also why a big chunk of them headed for Texas, started a couple of towns and bought up land all over that state, Mississippi, and Massachusetts. And the second generation dropped the brogue like a bad habit. It was the Catholic famine Irish who keep up the affinity display which populated the East Coast cities. My folks landed in Philadelphia and got the hell outta dodge and turned into landlords as fast as they could. This generation of Irish is what pushed into West Virginia, Pittsburgh and settled the Midwest.

The Irish who got here 3 generations later, slapped bricks together didn't travel inland so much and a lot of them stayed put. They put up a lot of nice buildings, but they also brought stuff into America that we could have done without (like Tammany Hall in New York). The offspring of those folks is what is still with us today.


Still, I take my cloverleafs down off my windows the day after St. Patty's. I don't feel the need to tattoo one on my neck.



And the whole "Irish food" thing is just a big friggin' insult, IMO. Whenever I've gotten the desire to go visit Ireland, it's always Northern Ireland and I'll visit the Free State for a day trip. A trip to Belfast is a pretty unique experience; definitely not for everyone. As an outsider it's so remarkable when you visit both sides of the peace walls and talk with folks and get to know the problems a little better. I dunno---I'm a different kind of tourist. Some people are just happy decorating themselves in cloverleaves or putting a tricolor out in front of their house and leaving it at that. Understanding WHY your ancestors made the big decision centuries ago to book it and head for someplace better is more spiritual than drinking at a watering hole with health code violations that happens to call itself an "Irish Pub". When you go to a REAL Irish pub and experience the real McCoy and talk with real people, the plastic paddy stuff looks even more idiotic when you take the Aer Lingus flight back home.

[loveisnoise]

In fairness, Downey's was pretty authentic until the original owner, Jack Downey, sold it to retire when he was 87 or 88. Also in fairness-the place even had mice back then! hahahaha

I just never understood why anyone would buy it to run into the ground with pasta and lobster specials. That place had amazing customer loyalty that was destroyed by the new owner. The parties that used to take place upstairs alone would pay for the place-but all of that business dried up after one too many screwups and no re-investment back into the building.

My love and fascination with plastic paddys in Philadelphia knows no limits. I know few people can really afford the plane trip to visit the home counties, but come 'on. There's folks who really have just a loose Scots-Irish ancestry (like moi) who cling on to this stuff like white on rice.

They wouldn't be able to answer what "The Pale" is.

Or what a "peace wall" is, and few are really aware of anything that really goes on back in the home counties.

Granted, my ancestry is protestant Ulster, but like a bad marriage, my pre-famine Scots-Irish Ulster ancestors got on the boat and screwed anything that smelled like money so they wouldn't live broke in a foreign country, because it really sucked making a crappy living as overseers on land they didn't own so they took every advantage of buying property they could get their hands on because they were tired of sending rent to England. That's also why a big chunk of them headed for Texas, started a couple of towns and bought up land all over that state, Mississippi, and Massachusetts. And the second generation dropped the brogue like a bad habit. It was the Catholic famine Irish who keep up the affinity display which populated the East Coast cities. My folks landed in Philadelphia and got the hell outta dodge and turned into landlords as fast as they could. This generation of Irish is what pushed into West Virginia, Pittsburgh and settled the Midwest.

The Irish who got here 3 generations later, slapped bricks together didn't travel inland so much and a lot of them stayed put. They put up a lot of nice buildings, but they also brought stuff into America that we could have done without (like Tammany Hall in New York). The offspring of those folks is what is still with us today.


Still, I take my cloverleafs down off my windows the day after St. Patty's. I don't feel the need to tattoo one on my neck.



And the whole "Irish food" thing is just a big friggin' insult, IMO. Whenever I've gotten the desire to go visit Ireland, it's always Northern Ireland and I'll visit the Free State for a day trip. A trip to Belfast is a pretty unique experience; definitely not for everyone. As an outsider it's so remarkable when you visit both sides of the peace walls and talk with folks and get to know the problems a little better. I dunno---I'm a different kind of tourist. Some people are just happy decorating themselves in cloverleaves or putting a tricolor out in front of their house and leaving it at that. Understanding WHY your ancestors made the big decision centuries ago to book it and head for someplace better is more spiritual than drinking at a watering hole with health code violations that happens to call itself an "Irish Pub". When you go to a REAL Irish pub and experience the real McCoy and talk with real people, the plastic paddy stuff looks even more idiotic when you take the Aer Lingus flight back home.

[Alley]

HAHAHA! How irish-

So, I'm going through the money mailer coupons(yeah, I'm the one guy who actually looks through them before tossing them). I see a thing for Downey's "Drinking House Dining Saloon".

It says, "We Deliver... See our Pizza Menu on Back". So, now they have a list of 22 'wood burning brick oven' pizzas that they deliver. I guess it is irish since the page list is surrounded by cute little shamrocks.

Oh-and on the front they are promoting $10 miller lite buckets everyday.

I noticed this in the money mailer soon after the tv show updates at Downey's. An Irish Pizza shop that looks like it should be a fancy restaurant I don't get it. The location of that place and the upstairs outside seating are such assets not sure why they don't step it up and get their act together. Would have been a great spot for Stella Pizzeria.

[loveisnoise]

Believe it or not, it was actually considered a fancy restaurant at one time. They used to have a live piano playing at dinner, everyone would have dinner jackets at the bar, etc! hehehe amazing how times have changed.

I noticed this in the money mailer soon after the tv show updates at Downey's. An Irish Pizza shop that looks like it should be a fancy restaurant I don't get it. The location of that place and the upstairs outside seating are such assets not sure why they don't step it up and get their act together. Would have been a great spot for Stella Pizzeria.

[BeardScraper]

isnt the chef there italian? i saw the bar rescue episode. he was a classically trained italian chef. owning an irish pub. a juicy contradiction....

[OutOfContext]

My love and fascination with plastic paddys in Philadelphia knows no limits. I know few people can really afford the plane trip to visit the home counties, but come 'on. There's folks who really have just a loose Scots-Irish ancestry (like moi) who cling on to this stuff like white on rice.

They wouldn't be able to answer what "The Pale" is.

Or what a "peace wall" is, and few are really aware of anything that really goes on back in the home counties.

Granted, my ancestry is protestant Ulster, but like a bad marriage, my pre-famine Scots-Irish Ulster ancestors got on the boat and screwed anything that smelled like money so they wouldn't live broke in a foreign country, because it really sucked making a crappy living as overseers on land they didn't own so they took every advantage of buying property they could get their hands on because they were tired of sending rent to England. That's also why a big chunk of them headed for Texas, started a couple of towns and bought up land all over that state, Mississippi, and Massachusetts. And the second generation dropped the brogue like a bad habit. It was the Catholic famine Irish who keep up the affinity display which populated the East Coast cities. My folks landed in Philadelphia and got the hell outta dodge and turned into landlords as fast as they could. This generation of Irish is what pushed into West Virginia, Pittsburgh and settled the Midwest.

The Irish who got here 3 generations later, slapped bricks together didn't travel inland so much and a lot of them stayed put. They put up a lot of nice buildings, but they also brought stuff into America that we could have done without (like Tammany Hall in New York). The offspring of those folks is what is still with us today.


Still, I take my cloverleafs down off my windows the day after St. Patty's. I don't feel the need to tattoo one on my neck.



And the whole "Irish food" thing is just a big friggin' insult, IMO. Whenever I've gotten the desire to go visit Ireland, it's always Northern Ireland and I'll visit the Free State for a day trip. A trip to Belfast is a pretty unique experience; definitely not for everyone. As an outsider it's so remarkable when you visit both sides of the peace walls and talk with folks and get to know the problems a little better. I dunno---I'm a different kind of tourist. Some people are just happy decorating themselves in cloverleaves or putting a tricolor out in front of their house and leaving it at that. Understanding WHY your ancestors made the big decision centuries ago to book it and head for someplace better is more spiritual than drinking at a watering hole with health code violations that happens to call itself an "Irish Pub". When you go to a REAL Irish pub and experience the real McCoy and talk with real people, the plastic paddy stuff looks even more idiotic when you take the Aer Lingus flight back home.

So...Is ye a Fenian or is ye a loyalist?

[Bean Counter]

Forget Irish food, but in Ireland and the U.K. I get a hash brown on my KFC sandwich...

KFC.co.uk | A Tower Of Chicken Spice | So Good



Mmmmm

[ArcticSplash]

So...Is ye a Fenian or is ye a loyalist?

Ye is a don't give a f_ck.

If they would force all the kids in Belfast and Derry to stop segregating the schools, the kids would make more friendships that cross along the peace walls and the older generations of idiots would die off and the peace walls would come down. The whole us vs. them crap begins when the kids hit 5 years of age and then get split up and segregated for the rest of their lives. Stay with Britain, don't stay with Britain. It's not like life will get better by swapping over to the Free State.

Especially now. You got Free State Irish sneaking into the U.S. as aliens because the unemployment outside Dublin is bad.

[OutOfContext]

Ye is a don't give a f_ck.

If they would force all the kids in Belfast and Derry to stop segregating the schools, the kids would make more friendships that cross along the peace walls and the older generations of idiots would die off and the peace walls would come down. The whole us vs. them crap begins when the kids hit 5 years of age and then get split up and segregated for the rest of their lives. Stay with Britain, don't stay with Britain. It's not like life will get better by swapping over to the Free State.

Especially now. You got Free State Irish sneaking into the U.S. as aliens because the unemployment outside Dublin is bad.

I don't disagree with what you're saying in the least. I was mainly just joking by using a famous incident on top of the Crumlin Rd jail on Bloody Friday.

Also, I do love how you refer to Eire as the "Free State". (and yes, I know where the term comes from)

[ArcticSplash]

In fairness, Downey's was pretty authentic until the original owner, Jack Downey, sold it to retire when he was 87 or 88. Also in fairness-the place even had mice back then! hahahaha

I just never understood why anyone would buy it to run into the ground with pasta and lobster specials. That place had amazing customer loyalty that was destroyed by the new owner. The parties that used to take place upstairs alone would pay for the place-but all of that business dried up after one too many screwups and no re-investment back into the building.

Maybe the murder upstairs was an omen.

[bobhughes25]

Is the pizza any good?

[loveisnoise]

Is the pizza any good?

Why, are you planning to clean their wood oven chimney with your big, blatant advertisement?

[Hospitalitygirl]

Is the pizza any good?

He's donated pizzas to the fundraisers for the South St Mini Station and people actually like the pizza.

[Marilyn]

Why, are you planning to clean their wood oven chimney with your big, blatant advertisement?

Some people just don't get marketing/PR, my friend.