Alice Cronin of Cutie Pies NYC had a surprise hit on her hands when she baked 20 ‘Irish Car Bomb’ pies, based on the alcoholic drink of the same name, to sell at Brooklyn’s Smorgasburg food market on Saturday.
The new flavor outsold her other daily pies, and was gone by 3pm, “which is early for us, because we’re dessert,” she told IrishCentral.com.
The drink named ‘Irish Car Bomb’ has been widely criticised as racist and offensive to victims of violence during the Troubles.
Cronin has Irish roots on both sides of her family, she said, probably from Co Cork.
But neither Cronin nor those purchasers of ‘Irish Car Bomb’ pies seemed seriously offended by its name—at least, not enough to change it or not purchase the baked goods.
Two Irish women who hadn’t heard of the drink version before balked a little at the name, Cronin said. They said it “probably wouldn’t be called that in Ireland,” Cronin told IrishCentral.
But the women bought the pie anyway.
Cronin said she “toyed with” naming the pie something else, but since the pie was based on the ingredients of the drink, she felt that calling it an ‘Irish Car Bomb’ pie would be the simplest way of explaining its flavor and ingredients.
Most of her customers in their 20s and 30s knew immediately what the pie would taste like, based on the name, while her older customers “who maybe don’t go to bars” didn’t know what to make of it.
The pies are based on a chocolate cookie crust, with a Guinness-infused ganache layered atop it. A Baileys-infused pastry cream (think éclair filling) forms the bulk of the pie. Cronin topped the creation with whipped cream and a whiskey-caramel drizzle.
What kind of whiskey? “Jameson,” she said, smiling.
Although she’d intended the ‘Irish Car Bomb’ as a one-off deal, the pie’s unparalleled success prompted Cronin to make more for Sunday’s Brooklyn Flea Market, held on the same Williamsburg grounds as weekly food market Smorgasburg.
IrishCentral.com nabbed the last slice. The bitterness of the Guinness worked especially well in the chocolate ganache, adding real sophistication. The Baileys pastry cream tasted exactly how you would expect: it’s Baileys in a silky, puddingy form. Although the caramel drizzle certainly added something to the pie, I couldn’t taste the Jameson at all, which was disappointing. Perhaps in the next batch it’ll be stronger—Cronin said she’s still perfecting her recipe.
Even at this stage, the pie solves the problem with the original alcoholic drink (besides its racist, offensive name): the drink curdles and can’t be savored slowly, but the creamy pie encourages lingering.
The flavor combination has prompted many to translate the drink into a baked good; the second Google suggestion for ‘irish car bomb’ is ‘Irish car bomb cupcakes,’ followed by ‘Irish car bomb cake.’
Since Cronin bakes some personal-sized pies, she monitors cupcake trends, which is where she got the idea for the ‘Irish Car Bomb’ pie, she said. She debuted it Saturday to coincide with Smorgasburg’s celebration of National Ice Cream day.
Despite the name’s offensiveness to many, the ‘Irish Car Bomb’ remains one of the most popular ‘bomber’ cocktails in the US. It has spawned many variations, including the ‘Belfast Bomber,’ which adds Kahlua to the regular lineup of Guinness-Baileys-Jameson.
Willie Frazer, spokesman for Fair, an IRA victims group, has stated that “It is disgusting that IRA car bombs which killed and maimed so many in Northern Ireland are being trivialized or celebrated in this way,” IrishCentral previously reported.
"I would have expected Americans, of all people, to behave more sensitively and responsibly. How would they like it if we developed the Al-Qaeda car bomb, the Twin Towers cocktail, or the 9/11 ice-cream sundae?"
The bartender who allegedly invented the drink in 1979, Charles Burke Cronin Oat, has apologized for the name he gave his creation, IrishCentral previously reported.
"Of course today I would take that name back. Of course—there's no question about it," Oat said.
When I studied in Dublin, one of my most ill-informed American friends ordered an ‘Irish Car Bomb’ at The Bleeding Horse on Camden St.
“You’ll have to go to Belfast for that!” the bartender snarled.
But regardless of the deserved outcry, most seem to vote with their wallets and palates, perpetuating the name in pursuit of the taste.
Cronin’s pie is an excellent new vehicle for the flavors, allowing the creaminess of the Baileys to come through in a way that neither a cake nor the drink itself allow. The pie was so popular that she said she’ll keep baking it—stop by Smorgasburg or Brooklyn Flea on weekends to try a slice.
Check out our photo gallery on the ‘Irish Car Bomb’ drink and commercial phenomenon here:
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.sirpeter | Jul 31, 2012, 01:00 PM EDT
@Schon.If you need social welfare and housing you ARE destitute.Destitute means poor enough to need help from others.That's your argument is it?Those who joined the IRA should have been happy destitute.Living off handouts and living in crappy housing.There is only one regret I have with the IRA.And that is they didn't kill half enough of ye.But I guess people in most Nations of the world feel that way.I wouldn't be the only one.
seanomelb | Jul 30, 2012, 06:58 PM EDT
An ex British serviceman(schon) who served in the six counties murdering nationalist children calling the rest of us bigots. Schon is a living oxymoron. A true crown terrorist.
hancock | Jul 30, 2012, 11:09 AM EDT
None of this would have happenened if the English didn't establish the gerrymandered, welfare, aparthied 6 county statelet. Nobody was a better recruiter for The IRA then the moron English and their lackey welfare Irish paddies singing God save the queen. Nobody does murder like the brave English paras.I hear they might go on trial in time for King Billy and quenn Katies diamond jubilee.
Schon | Jul 30, 2012, 06:33 AM EDT
The Hancock reply to that bigot sirpeter was mine, realist. Don't get your hopes up for the bigoted republican apologists that pollute this site with their whining and gnashing of teeth. The truth is that the vast majority of people would not have died if the murdering republican heros hadn't started their campaign of murder. At the time jobs were scare due to a down turn in the economy and increasingly so due to the murdering republican heros actions against the industrial and commercial activities in the North and also due to the disrimination applied to the, mostly lawabiding, loyalist community by the US administration through the MacBride Principles and the US support of the IRA through Noraid. It is strange that during this time that the Irish AMerican community thought that the minority population was destitue while the Brits maintained their welfare system providing many of the terrorists and their families with money and housing, which they would not have received had they lived in their glorious heaven in the Irish Republic. Any money received was spent propagandising the republican cause, paying the organisers and their minions, providing all expenses paid holidays in Ireland for the organisers, and buying guns and explosives for the IRA. I suppose we should be thankful for the graft that was endemic in Noraid or the terrorists would have received better funding.
seanomelb | Jul 29, 2012, 06:56 PM EDT
Do your own research Unrealist on children murdered in the north by British army terrorist in the north and their surrogate loyalist assassins. You may also like to read the stalker report.You anti gits are a blight on this site.
hancock | Jul 29, 2012, 01:07 PM EDT
Hey realist, sorry to disappoint you. I didn't write that sirpeter reply. All is right with the world.
hancock | Jul 29, 2012, 01:04 PM EDT
I do it strictly to annoy you realist. I do think the pie is in poor taste/ ignoance. If the English( sorry did that hurt you) "justice" system moved any slower it would go in reverse.
Realist | Jul 28, 2012, 10:43 PM EDT
seano: Tell me, how many Nationalist children did the British army "murder"? "Brits shoot to kill policy"? Any evidence of this as a British government-sanctioned policy in Northern Ireland? Lol....anyway, I thought you always claimed it was a "war"? What constitutes "shoot to kill" then? Shooting or blowing up of unarmed combatants without a challenge, warning, or attempt to take prisoners? Could that be it? If so, what does that make the failed terrorist campaign of the Provisional IRA (and the Loyalists for that matter)? I guess this is the bit where you start swearing and calling me names in lieu of a credible retort? Lol.
Realist | Jul 28, 2012, 10:26 PM EDT
hancock: Lol....still having problems with the B word, I see. My friend, there was an announcement some weeks ago concerning the opening of a murder investigation into the events of 30th January 1972. I told you that British (sorry, did that hurt?) legal due process would run its course. I also assume from your response that you think this "pie" is in very poor taste. By the way, regarding your reply to the site's resident comedian, sirpeter, thank you for introducing me to a genuinely new experience....agreeing with you.
seanomelb | Jul 28, 2012, 06:00 PM EDT
Schon is proud to have been in the British army in Belfast murdering nationalist children and carrying out the Brits shoot to kill policy.
hancock | Jul 28, 2012, 04:53 PM EDT
On that we can agree.
Sparklet | Jul 28, 2012, 04:38 PM EDT
Surely what matters is now - and having no body count?
hancock | Jul 28, 2012, 02:51 PM EDT
When did I justify car bombs, the IRA, or terrorism? What is pathetic is the English cheerleaders on this site who have the body count starting 1n 1972. The same whiners who are apologists for the murderous English empire. Hey realist when are the Paras going to trial?
Realist | Jul 28, 2012, 02:20 PM EDT
Like any decent person....I find this stunt and the "news article" extolling it quite distasteful. These people really should know better. Would they be laughing at the Dublin and Monaghan car bombings also? Contrast this with The Foundation for Peace....established by Colin and Wendy Parry, who lost their 12-year old son Tim, together with 3-year old Johnathan Ball, in the 1993 IRA terrorist bombing of Warrington. I wonder how nice the pie would taste with a picture of Tim and Johnathan adorning the menu? I guess this is what Hancock meant by the "Whiny English can't take it when people fight back". This is simply not funny....another new low for this site and its naive and spectacularly ill-informed cheerleaders. Shame.
maryosullivan | Jul 28, 2012, 10:31 AM EDT
Perhaps those who consider Bomb Pies are a great sales idea might consider this; 20 World Trade Center Bomb Pies, now that would be a real blast. It's no longer funny, us it ?
Sparklet | Jul 28, 2012, 10:22 AM EDT
I wonder if the family of Ronan Kerr would like to buy one of these pies. And Hancock - you're pathetic. Fighting back? Was that was the Muslims were doing on 9/11? Were the Americans 'whiny' for not liking it when people fought back? Car bombs and terrorism that kill innocent men, women and children is never justifiable. Not - ever.
hancock | Jul 28, 2012, 09:30 AM EDT
England was and is America's biggest aircraft carrier. Without the U.S. material support England would have ceased to exist,same with the Russians by the way, early on. Never defended Bloody Friday schon, why do you defend murdering English empire. People didn't start getting killed in Ireland in 1972. Whiny English can't take it when people fifgt back.
hancock | Jul 28, 2012, 07:29 AM EDT
sirpeter... GB and its commonwealth were doing alright in their stand against the Nazis before the Yanks decided to join in. The Nazis had cancelled their plan to invade Britain and attacked the USSR on 22 June 1041, while the Yanks didn't enter the war until 7 Dec 1941. You remember the Commonwealth. They supplied Britain with the support and logistics needed to stem the Nazis. The Irish Free State also supplied around 50,000 VOLUNTEERS to fight Hitler and his terrorist regime. However, the de Valera government of the Free State refused to abandom its neutrality. The Fire Service from the many Irish towns and cities VOLUNTARILY came to the aide of North after the Nazi bomb attacks in April and May 1941. Casualites were evacuated to Free State hospitals. It may be pointed out thet the Nazis were able to locate Belfast by first finding Dublin, then following the railway north. de Valera refused to assist Britain by blacking out the lights in the South. Even after the Nazis had bombed Dublin in error in August 1940. It may also be relevent to your warped views, the Free State government censored the reporting of the Nazi death camps, with de Valera castigating the returning Volunteers after the war. You really are a sad twisted person, like your apologist for murder seanomelb, the Aussie runaway.
Scotchtommy | Jul 28, 2012, 04:08 AM EDT
Having seen the aftermath of a car bombing I can only say this woman is a loathsome creature.CAR BOMBS ARE HORRIBLE.
Schon | Jul 28, 2012, 12:20 AM EDT
sirpeter, may I say that your language certainly indicates some lose of control on your part. You're keen on casting up the 'atrocities' of the Brits. well lets hear what you have to say to this small selection of murders perpetrated by your murdering republican heros ... Blasco Fernando Bacelga (12) murdered by real IRA Omagh 15 AUgust 1998; Michelle Baird (7) murdered by IRA 23 Oct 1993; Jonathan Ball (3) murdered by IRA 20 March 1993; James Barker (12) murdered by real IRA Omagh 15 Aug 1998; Stephen Bassett (14) murdered by INLA 16 Sept 1982; Patrick Campbell (16) murdered by IRA 25 March 1972; Joseph Connolly (15) murdered by IRA 31 July 1972; William Crothers (15) murdered by IRA 21 July 1972; Paul Crummey (4) murdered by IRA 26 May 1973... I could go on. Like you I have been selective as to who I report murdered. These children were all killed by your republican heros. There were 155 children murdered during the Troubles... most by the republicans, some by loyalist murderers and a few by security forces who were usually under fire or thought themselves to be in danger of their lives. Maybe you can explain why you lot are so keen to get me and the rest of the majority of people in the North to become citizens of the Irish Republic? Are you one of these people, like Aussie seanomelb, the pontificating hypocrite, who don't live in Ireland your self? And yes I am proud to have been in the British Army and trying to protect people from murders, who you apparently sponsor.
Schon | Jul 28, 2012, 12:07 AM EDT
seanomelb... supporter of terrorists and a runaway from Ireland. Ho Ho! Why'd you leave? Was it religious discrimination or you couldn't get a job? And why do you want me to live in that paradise of pedophillic priests? Why have you run off to Australia to live??? Stalker was and English police man whose knowledge of weapons was derived from watching Starsky and Hutch on TV. He painted himself into a corner through his ignorance of the capabilities of the weapons in use by the Security Forces in Northern Ireland and didn't have the sense or good grace to reconsider. He was too interested in not loosing face (his that is). Kilsally is correct in the figures that were presented and it is you that should read your history about that great land that you are so proud to live in ... opps! you don't live there anymore! Hypocrite!!
seanomelb | Jul 27, 2012, 07:03 PM EDT
Get few facts right Kilsally before you put your brain into gear.
Kilsally | Jul 27, 2012, 11:59 AM EDT
So sirpeter, hancock and seanomelb supporting Bloody Friday , all civiallians injured by the Belfast car bombs including 70 women and children. Again last posts seem ignornant that Republicans were guilty for 66% of all deaths during the Troubles including more Catholics / Nationalists than any other group - IRA killed 1000`s , UK Army / Northern Irish police hundreds.
seanomelb | Jul 26, 2012, 08:32 PM EDT
You were right on one point the army should not have been there at any time and your mealy mouthed attempt to condone the murder of innocent nationalists and the whitewashing of guilty BA terrorists.The demonising of Stalker for not whitewashing his report on the "shoot to kill" policy(which as a member of the army you were bound to that policy) spare me the false justifications for your murderous spree in the six counties.
sirpeter | Jul 26, 2012, 06:32 PM EDT
Schon.You are part of the British army.You reveal that here like it was something to be proud of.Apart from the British armies meager effort in defeating Nazi Germany which in reality was meager.Most of the world delights at the fall of a British soldier.We all know ye are a bunch of cu*ts.Don't get me wrong ye are not the only ones.The whole US army are a bunch of cu*ts too.Invading countries and sanctions and sh*t.
citizen69 | Jul 26, 2012, 06:14 PM EDT
@sirpeter: You really are a snivelling little hate monger.
sirpeter | Jul 26, 2012, 05:31 PM EDT
I don't mind as long as those pies have little bits of British soldiers as part of the side salad.
hancock | Jul 26, 2012, 03:04 PM EDT
Stats shoe the English have murdered hundreds of thousands of Irish and others in their own country for hundreds of years. Stop whining, and open a history book.
Kilsally | Jul 26, 2012, 11:00 AM EDT
Sick. Just in time for the Bloody Friday documentary / anniversary where the IRA set off 23 bombs in shops and streets in Belfast within 80 minutes, killing 9, wounding 140 including 70 women and children. Cedric - the Loyalist terrorists did set off bombs which killed people but nothing in comparison to the number of IRA bombs - the Loyalist terrorists mostly killed with guns whether IRA men, supposed IRA men or innocent Catholics and indeed others. Stats however show that the IRA killed more Catholics than any other group and stats by the two Universities in Belfast / Coleraine show Irish Republican paramilitaries as responsible for two thirds of all deaths in the Troubles. Google the universities CAIN website.
Schon | Jul 26, 2012, 06:46 AM EDT
Seanomelb. Here's some for you to research... Blasco Fernando Bacelga (12) murdered by real IRA Omagh 15 AUgust 1998; Michelle Baird (7) murdered by IRA 23 Oct 1993; Jonathan Ball (3) murdered by IRA 20 March 1993; James Barker (12) murdered by real IRA Omagh 15 Aug 1998; Stephen Bassett (14) murdered by INLA 16 Sept 1982; Patrick Campbell (16) murdered by IRA 25 March 1972; Joseph Connolly (15) murdered by IRA 31 July 1972; William Crothers (15) murdered by IRA 21 July 1972; Paul Crummey (4) murdered by IRA 26 May 1973... I could go on. Like you I have been selective as to who I report murdered. These children were all killed by your republican heros. There were 155 children murdered during the Troubles... most by the republicans, some by loyalist murderers and a few by security forces who were usually under fire or thought themselves to be in danger of their lives. The threat of death to civilians was there due to the activity of the various republican and loyalist terrorists, otherwise the security forces would not have been there. It's easy to criticism from the conform of your commode, seanomelb, but when you are being shot at, it is difficult to identify the source and, unfortunately, people (children) peeping round corners to see what is happening can look threatening and be mistaken as a gunman.
Schon | Jul 26, 2012, 06:14 AM EDT
seanomelb as I have said my 'take' as you put in, on history is narrow because I have no room to manoeuvre. Telling the truth has that effect. Not that you worry yourself with such fine details as truth. Your feeble attempt to smear the security forces belies the lack of hard fact. Majella O'Hare, killed by British Army 14 August 1972, wouldn't have been shot had the army not been there. Unfortunately the solders were there due to a number of secarian murders in the vicinity. There was also the ongoing republican terror attacks in reprisal for the restoration of law and order to both republican and loyalist 'no go' areas effected by Operation Motorman on 31 July 1972. The soldier, Private Michael Williams, firing three shots, from a general purpose machinegun claimed self defense, which the RUC, those black protestant bastards, disagreed with and sent him up for trial initially on a murder charge which was later reduced to manslaughter. Lord Justice Maurice Gibson, later Sir Maurice Gibson, sitting alone decided that there may have been a threat and that a gunman could have fired and so found WIlliams innocent of the charge. The judge and his wife were blown up by PIRA on 27th April 1987. These are facts. If you want to make a point describe it fully. Others can then decide what to make of it.
seanomelb | Jul 26, 2012, 03:18 AM EDT
Go by a pie Dano. You have no idea where I was at any given time. Maybe you gave succour to child killing pommy soldiers who knows Dumbo.
DanOLoingsigh | Jul 26, 2012, 02:27 AM EDT
Seano - maybe it was your contributions to 'the cause' that bought the timers of the bombs that killed many innocent children in NI? Of course you were safe on the other side of the world...what a hero!!!
seanomelb | Jul 25, 2012, 07:16 PM EDT
If you think I am a yank your sadly mistaken Dublin born and proud.Your take on history is narrow as can be expected from a couple of tommies who murdered nationalists children on the streets of Belfast.Maybe you're the "brave Tommy" who murdered Majella 12yr.old shot at point blank range for refusing to answer your question or maybe the retarded 17yr.old shot because he didn't answer a question fast enough or maybe the teenage joyriders who had over a 100 rounds pumped into the their stolen car and to add insult to injury on your return to barracks you built a mock-up of the bullet ridden car and having a great laugh and stupidly photographing it.The press ran the photo so all the world could see what low lives you are.
Schon | Jul 25, 2012, 06:11 PM EDT
Belphagor, Feeling is mutual here. When I first read the comments in ICs' forums I couldn't believe how misinformed both the editorial and readership was. However, it's quite evident that the editorial is supervised by devotee's of the Joseph Goebbels School of Deception and Dissembling and really is a propaganda front with the objective of brainwashing Irish Americans into believing the trash it writes. The readership of the republican viewpoint seem to respond to the articles with tried and tested rants but when challenged become strangely silent when confronted with facts. Any challenge is usually a childish attack on character rather than substance of criticism. I know I shouldn't say this but I really feel sorry for these people. I've lived through the troubles in Belfast, been in the British Army stationed in the Province for 10 years. I've recovered bodies and bits of bodies as the result of bomb and gun attacks but I have no hatred of republicans or anyone except the murderous thugs that killed so many innocent people on both sides.
Belphagor | Jul 25, 2012, 05:49 PM EDT
Schon, Citizen69 it's nice to hear some normal people on here.
Schon | Jul 25, 2012, 05:25 PM EDT
seanomelb Nice to see you so contrite , but less of the wise cracks. Read and learn about what your murdering republican heros have done. What do you think of Alice Cronin? Makes you proud to be a Yank, what? Really it just shows how shallow, ignorant and puerile American culture is.
Schon | Jul 25, 2012, 05:24 PM EDT
seanomelb Nice to see you so contrite , but less of the wise cracks. Read and learn about what your murdering republican heros have done. What do you think of Alice Cronin? Makes you proud to be a Yank, what? Really it just shows how shallow, ignorant and puerile American culture is. Considering the level of knowledge of the Troubles reported by this site and the misinformed or dissembling responses by the apologists for the murdering republican terrorists, it's not to be surprising.
citizen69 | Jul 25, 2012, 12:41 PM EDT
...(cont)Victims of the IRA's almost countless atrocities are swept under the carpet here on IC. Irish people who died at the hands of the IRA just don't seem worthy of remembrance here on this site. Anyone here who may be still under the illusion that Irish Central is a place to come to find a balanced and unbiased reflection of what is happening in Ireland are greatly mistaken. Editor-in-Chief Niall O'Dowd basically uses this site as a propaganda tool for his best-est buddy Gerry Adams & Sinn Fein. It's a site that doesn't regard the Protestant/Unionist population in the North as Irish. Some people wonder why a lot of Irish-Americans are so ill-informed about the situation in Ireland. It's because of sites like this that deliberately feed their American audience with very selective hand-picked news that suits their agenda. A word of advice for any tourists; never ask for an ‘Irish Car Bomb’ in a Northern Irish pub. You’ll most likely find your ignorant ass kick out into the street.
citizen69 | Jul 25, 2012, 12:39 PM EDT
One might wonder why Irish Central hasn’t prefixed the headline for this article with their usual hyperbole of 'Shock' or 'Outrage as store sells Irish Car Bomb pies’. The answer is quite simple, they are not outraged. The original drink was named after the IRA and their tactic of placing bombs in cars… and you see, in Irish Central's view innocent victims of IRA violence are just not as noteworthy or as important to them as innocent victims of British violence. To highlight my point; Last Saturday was the 40th anniversary of Bloody Friday. An infamous July day in 1972 when the IRA planted 26 car bombs around the city of Belfast (22 exploded), slaughtering innocent men, women & children. All the car bombs were planted in public places at lunch-time on the busiest day of the week; outside shops, inside bus & rail stations, at taxi depots, pubs, hotels, outside houses & banks. Not one word about this milestone anniversary was published here on I.C. even though it was all over the media in Ireland. Yet you will find countless articles here about Bloody Sunday and other acts of 'British' violence...
RthrBHistCorr | Jul 25, 2012, 06:34 AM EDT
So here we have an insensitive item marketed with the name of a weapon that was used to kill hundreds of innocent people and Irish Central focuses on "The bitterness of the Guinness worked especially well in the chocolate ganache, adding real sophistication." I find nothing "sophisticated" at all by this crass and ignorant marketing. I find it interesting that this is coming from Brooklyn, the current epicenter of Political Correct Yuppies who would be the first to protest a name that defamed any other group and Irish Central should know that such defamation should be spoken out against not given a food review.
Belphagor | Jul 25, 2012, 04:54 AM EDT
mmmmmikkimac, i hope you choke on it and when you are lying on the ground drawing your last breath give a thought for all those little children, innocent women and men, part-time police officers and Army reservists who were going about there own business when BANG! they were blown to bits and pieces. Enjoy your Racist Pie.
mmmmikkimac | Jul 24, 2012, 10:45 PM EDT
Sounds delicious! Similar to the Kentucky Derby pie! Both have to be winners! Now, how much do they cost? And can I get one shipped to the middle of Iowa?
maryosullivan | Jul 24, 2012, 09:09 PM EDT
The low-information [ Republican ,US that is, speak for dumbbells} people can't seem to help being themselves They don't all spend their time at Walmart, some run pie stores in NY
Youthguy | Jul 24, 2012, 07:39 PM EDT
I find the very idea of reporting this as a chance to challenge some of the rose coloured images that Irish American lobby have missed in the years past. The pie itself may indeed be very tasty but the thought of someone naming it after terrorist act is like someone in Canada calling a desert 9/11. It may seem funny to the creator, probably 1 person out of millions but its still as horrific to people from N.Ireland as the thought of twin towers terrorist attack cake would be to any New Yorker. Please pause to think before replying.
seanomelb | Jul 24, 2012, 07:39 PM EDT
I hope the pie explodes with flavour.
Belphagor | Jul 24, 2012, 07:10 PM EDT
Cedric enough with your attempt to ignore the IRA as Murderers. 'At the Height of the Bombing Campaign'? What is that supposed to mean exactly? The IRA killed as any of their own as they did Protestants and british targets. Yes the Loyalists did bomb too, it's still wrong and it's bloody offensive to hear a plastic paddy call a pastry after something that caused so much misery and carnage to irish people, it is insensitive and insulting and you try to excuse the actions of the IRA with your stupid childish comment, nobody is keeping score son.
DanOLoingsigh | Jul 24, 2012, 04:10 PM EDT
How about ‘pomme de terre avec femme en larmes’?
Cedric123 | Jul 24, 2012, 04:06 PM EDT
One should remember that at the height of the bombing campaign over 50% of the bombs were set of by the loyalist para-militarys and not the IRA.
thepaddie.com | Jul 24, 2012, 02:47 PM EDT
Is there are recipe for the above concoction?
hancock | Jul 24, 2012, 02:10 PM EDT
That'll teach them.
Belphagor | Jul 24, 2012, 01:37 PM EDT
Just after I read this I asked the wife to make two big trifles. This evening after dinner i sat down with the kids and we fashioned wings out of cardboard and i taped them to three spoons and then crashed the spoons into the first trifle, near the top. Jelly and cream fell down into the bowl and my youngest son asked Dad why are we doing this, well son the two trifles represent the twin towers in new york and the spoons represent aeroplanes crashing into them. But isn't that offensive to Americans Daddy, asked my daughter, of course not I replied, they have drinks named after the thing that killed your uncle James and now they have pies with the same name. American's couldn't be offended by this little bit of fun, so dig in kids and don' forget to scoop up all the hundreds and thousands, they represent office workers, Fun Isn't it?
IrishRyan | Jul 24, 2012, 12:49 PM EDT
I thought this was funny and light hearted. I understand why some people would be a offended by it. Great looking pie BTW :)
citizen69 | Jul 24, 2012, 11:29 AM EDT
I wonder how their ice-cream Bloody Sundae's are selling?
Nelsonbarry | Jul 24, 2012, 11:19 AM EDT
This pie maker is just stupid. Wake up!!
YoungPike | Jul 24, 2012, 11:05 AM EDT
The Japanese have an oyster dish called Peal Horbor!
rhunter67 | Jul 24, 2012, 10:36 AM EDT
So many of you over the pond say how insensitive and shameful us Americans are about dumb stuff. But in Europe, you keep getting into uproars about 'racism' when you are ignorant of that yourselves. Irish Car Bomb, however insensitive it may be, is NOT RACIST! And I thought we went too far with our sensitivities here. If you're going to be like that, I'll throw the "Racist" card out to so many of you on this site who knock us Americans at every chance. So, stop promoting a double standard.
Fitzisgirl | Jul 24, 2012, 10:11 AM EDT
How terribly insensitive to name a food item, or anything after terrorist activities. Shameful!
Liam3494 | Jul 24, 2012, 09:39 AM EDT
Once again, you really don't understand the simple things in life in some parts of Irish America. This is deeply offensive to those that lost family members during the troubles by way of the namesake. Get a grip....