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Ireland’s Daily Bread

There’s a fierce patriotism that exists around certain foods, the kind that runs through the veins of locals who grew up with it and can tell you just where to find the best version—and just where you can go if you disagree on where that is.

No one can touch France’s claim to croissant fame. You can’t visit England without tucking into a platter (or five) of fish and chips. And Ireland? Well, the Emerald Isle has its fair share of delicacies, to be sure. But none are so interwoven in the fabric of past and present as the humble Waterford blaa.

Waterford sits at the bottom of the island in Ireland’s Ancient East, southwest of Dublin and northeast of Cork, the perfect stopping point to break up an Irish road trip. This quaint port city, the oldest in Ireland, is a mosaic of brightly colored buildings

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