TWEET: Gerry Adams sparks debate about how to make a fry in the “British occupied six counties”
Always concerned with the serious issues is Gerry.
With the election coming up and Pierce Brosnan doing his best to look like him, we’ve been seeing and hearing a lot about Gerry Adams lately and will be for a good while yet.
As such, there is likely to be more focus placed on the somewhat eccentric tweets that Gerry sometimes posts on his Twitter account, like the one about what goes in an Ulster fry last night.
No beans in a fry. Especially an Ulster fry. Unless it's a British occupied 6 counties fry. Oiche mhaith xoxozzzzzzzz
— Gerry Adams (@GerryAdamsSF) January 17, 2016
We’re not sure what prompted Gerry’s tweet in the first place; it could have something to do with #beangate and #UlsterFRYday hashtags doing the rounds on Twitter or maybe he was just getting some Sunday night hunger pangs.
In any case, his observation that there are no beans in an Ulster fry, unless it’s a “British occupied 6 counties Ulster fry” was retweeted over 700 times and had a lot of people talking (mostly making fry-based puns) last night.
@GerryAdamsSF we should get folk to sign up to The Good Fry-Day Agreement. Cross community support for no beans on an Ulster Fry. We're in.
— The Ulster Fry (@UlsterFryNI) January 17, 2016
@GerryAdamsSF what is your stance on mr bean
— rbca (@rebeccatkeane) January 17, 2016
@GerryAdamsSF your heads fried brother
— Daniel O'Neill (@DanielONeill95) January 17, 2016
Now, we’re no experts but a little research on the matter tells us that Gerry is right in saying that there should be no beans in an Ulster fry – as there often are in a “full Irish” breakfast or its “full English” equivalent – because all of the ingredients are required to be fried in bacon fat.
Like we said, we’re no experts on the matter so does Gerry have a point here or is he just talking waffle, another ingredient that some would happily add to their breakfast nosh.
