I had an Irish mother and I know this world you speak of! I could eat a huge dinner and at the end she'd say, 'ahh you hardly ate a crumb! '... Bless her.

I work with an Irish guy and every anecdote he tells you is delivered in this style and he doesn't know how truly funny he is 🤣

My family is Italian & Jewish and they do the same thing !! They also add guilt in "Why won't you have another (slice/piece/taste) -- don't you like my food anymore?" Or "But I stayed up last night so I could make you your favorite food, and now you don't want it?" And the really ironic scene as I am boarding the plane after eating non-stop for a week while visiting: "Dear, you're putting on weight, maybe you shouldn't eat so much." Yeah, thanks Nonni --- it had nothing to do with your "six meals a day" for the past 7 days !!!

@jigserdotcom

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 Love this.

@Tygearianus

Жыл бұрын

Got it from both sides lmao

“D’you know what I’ll do” This got me because we all just know then that you might as well give up and take what’s being offered XD

It's why Mrs Doyle in father Ted was so relatable. It's hard to say no when you're being bombarded by offers.

@jigserdotcom

2 жыл бұрын

100 percent true. Thanks Anne

@AfroGaz71

2 жыл бұрын

I was went straight to thinking of Mrs Doyle myself.

Born in America to an Irish mammie, my grandparents were born there. We call her “the food pusher.” She never stops. No matter how many time we say no thank you, she never stops. Then the guilt begins. Then we eat whatever was offered. And we cry in hiding.

@ClezVideos

Жыл бұрын

Irish person here, and we call our mam “the food pusher” too 😂 A french work colleague of my Dad’s came to our home to work with my Dad one day and when they were finished, she called them into the kitchen for a “quick bite to eat” before he left. You should have seen his face when he walked in and saw all the food on the table. A mix of disbelief, shock and terror. The “quick bite to eat” contained many courses, side dishes, several different types of breads and several reminders that there was “plenty more where that came from” should they want any more.

My God it's my mother. Three generations removed from the old country, but apparently some things get passed down genetically like freckles.

@noeleen5250

2 жыл бұрын

They get passed down through the freckles.. Lol

Some years ago I visited my grandfather's country birthplace.4 evenings on the trot I was taken round the family. 3 groups each night. The last lady asked will you have a cup of tea, no? A coke? No? A sandwich? Ah! I get it. You're all tea and sandwiched out. Bless her.

@jigserdotcom

2 жыл бұрын

Lovely stuff

Yes more Irish mammy comedy, exactly what the world needs.

Had never heard of you until 3 hours ago & am still laughing--out loud! The build in IRISH MAMMIES is so incredibly well-constructed that it is, truly, a 3 minute Masterclass in Comedy Technique. THE PRINTER is so brilliantly original & hilariously inventive--your facial expressions leave one, literally, gasping for breath. Thank you for sharing your comic genius & for the twinkle in your eyes. Your lack of cynicism, especially in this particular profession, is both welcome & refreshing. Much continued success to you & your loved ones!

@jigserdotcom

Жыл бұрын

Just saw this now. Thank you so much for the kind words. I really appreciate them. 🙌🇮🇪

When I was a kid, and we were at Granny's, she would stand over us with the pot and ask if we wanted more. The only difference between saying yes, please or no, thank you was in how much more she put on our plate.

Jarlath, I'm not a big fan of stand up, but I'm making an exception with you. Loved the two or three videos I've seen so far! I descend from Spanish, French and Italian people and they all did the same. Maybe not insisting four times, but I remember, for example, one of my grannies saying things like "You look a little plump, good for you!" 😆 They say it's a habit with peoples who suffered from hunger, even several generations back. And you had the potato famine...

@jigserdotcom

Жыл бұрын

Very true. It must be related to an appreciation for abundance having lived through times of hardship. That said my Mammy didn’t live through the famine thank God. Thanks for the kind words. Hope you enjoy the other clips.

My English mother who grew up among immigrant Polish and Russian Jews in 1920s Stepney (London's East End) told us if you go to an English house and they offer you a 2nd biscuit you refuse politely. Because they really want to put the tin away for another day. But if you go to a Jewish house, accept because they really want you to have that 2nd biscuit.

@sheilasullivan1950

Жыл бұрын

Your Mother was a genius. Passed the best advice to you. Fair play to her.

@bob7975

5 ай бұрын

Or they'll take offense from the refusal. "What, you don't like my biscuits anymore?"

Between my Irish family & my husband's Italian family its a wonder we are not all 400lbs

"D'y'know what I'll do?"

@jigserdotcom

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

This was our house in CANADA! My parents and 5 children arrived in Alberta in 1957. I came along the next winter and then 2 more followed after. The food was glorious. My mother could cook and bake like a pro. I remember the many offers and attempts to appease our hungry family. Good times. Oddly, we heard about the children starving in India but not Africa. Daily!

@seagullsg784

Жыл бұрын

My mouth still water to this day when I remember my irish nannies dinners and the last one I had was nearly 30 years ago. God bless her soul x

@robbyel3958

Жыл бұрын

USA here - our starving children were in China

Can confirm this is accurate... My Irish mum still does it and I'm 40😆

My friends Mum will not allow anyone to leave her house until she feeds them, and boy does she feed them😅😅😅 For anyone in any doubt of this: she has said in my presence “right, I’ll put on the kettle, you’re not leaving until you’ve had a cup of tea” then you go to the table and there’s cake, sandwiches and wee cocktail sausages😂

You have a gift for story-telling! This was such fun to listen to!

@jigserdotcom

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Margo

Omg..... I do this to my kids. And I'm genetically Irish, that explains SO MUCH. I offer and offer and guilt and shame then into eating more. Particularly more of whatever I personally cooked!

What’s worse is that it isn’t my Irish dad offering me meals (he’s an offering pints and crisps man), it’s my English mother who keeps trying to feed me!

I rarely laugh as hard as I do at these. You can tell he really gets it. 100% everything is accurate so far

I’m laughing more at the fifth time watching. Brilliant

My nan is the queen of the 4th offer. Nothing like being slagged off for wasting food you never asked for. The third and the fourth are kind of a combo. However, I think you've left off something critical to the fourth offer and that is that there will always be a reference to starving Africans who would be grateful to have it. Or, if you come from an Irish background but live in North America, there will be an allusion to the famine. Always.

My son has just told me I do exactly the same thing, I didn't realise. However he said Jarleth left one very important detail out, and that was the size of the actual "size" of that slice of cake.

omg this guy is AWESOME. I know I have some rough Irish genes and you know what? He makes me proud of 'em. I could kiss him for this. I needed the laugh today more than ever.

My grandma was like that. After 4 pork shops, potatoes and veggies she said, let my cook up some more for you. Bless her heart!

I grew up believing my mum was Polish Catholic, but, after this? Im wondering if she is Irish in disguise....☺️ Just discovered you today in Ytube & just love your style & delivery! Wishing you much continued success!

@frenchtoast7742

Жыл бұрын

My mom is Polish . They give you food all the time. My dad is French and it’s not that bad. But Polish Babcias want you fed and fat 😂🤣

Haaaa, I listen to this and I realize my wife and me must represent a tag team...do you want, we got and the placement after.... didn't think of it as such, but hilariously on spot. My wife Hispanic has always said I like to watch a person eat, aside from "flaco".

@jigserdotcom

Жыл бұрын

Love to hear this. Thank you TM

Got an ad about fighting hunger after this

@AnnabellaRedwood

3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Would you like a slice of cake? 🙂

My friend’s Irish granny puts a sausage roll on the side of everything! Sunday dinner? I’ll just pop a sausage roll on there as well. Cup of tea and a biscuit? Sausage roll on the side! I think she’s on commission from Greggs.

@jigserdotcom

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this🥹😂

As soon as this damn nightmare is over, I am going to find one of your gigs

@jigserdotcom

2 жыл бұрын

I’m going on tour soon Noeleen!🎉

@noeleen5250

2 жыл бұрын

@@jigserdotcom i will find you.. (not you specifically, but your venue.) That sounded creepy, lol 🤣

that’s my canadian mother to a tee. i’m starting to think it’s a catholic thing, like you have to deny the cake 3 times

@jigserdotcom

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂 I think you might be right.

@traceythompson1092

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, but did a cock crow?

@frenchtoast7742

Жыл бұрын

I’m Polish and French and all my daughters friends that come over are all offered food and drinks 4-10 times until they leave 🤣😂

@changeshifter4852

Жыл бұрын

I just found this channel today. I think it's more about one's culture & customs than a Catholic thing. Where I live in Canada, many cultures like Polish/Ukrainian, Filipinos, East Indians and Portuguese families do something similar. Cheers

Oh man, it's not *just* the Irish! It's moms in general finishing with "What, you don't love me?"

@jigserdotcom

2 жыл бұрын

That’s what I’m realising. The reaction on here has been insane. 😂

@hermask815

2 жыл бұрын

Add my German (near Denmark) granny to that list.

@sheilasullivan1950

Жыл бұрын

Oh man, that's a blatant outspoken blackmail hurl! I think it but don't say that part gulp!

This makes me laugh so hard 🤣🤣 My father was the "food pusher" in our family. He would literally ring a large bell when the meal was ready! His favorite saying was, "Those who eat the most get the most dessert" 🍪 (We are American, but our family has a high percentage of Irish-Scots d.n.a., so maybe that's why he was desperate to feed us all)

I have Irish Mother. You have to take it and wait until she's not looking and put it into your pocket.

@jigserdotcom

2 жыл бұрын

Solid advice here💪

This is hilarious, mostly because I had a gran and great gran that would do just that. We're Scots with almost pure celt heritage and both were redheads and after the coaxing offers the temper and guilt trips would start, then God help you. There is nothing on this planet more terrifying to me, to this day, than a tiny elder redheaded relative determined to feed\guilt me into giving into them.

I'm from Ireland and went through the normal food offerings from my aunts etc but didn't realize how young it starts or pushy it can be until I went to my friends house to see some horses. She kept offering dinner and tea and even as we were walking through the living room grabs an apple randomly from a fruit bowl and asks if I wanted it! At that point I started to laugh and asked if I looked like I was starving to death or something 😄

My mum isn’t Irish (is English) but has spent far too much time with my Irish Granny (my dad’s mum). I’ll say no to pudding after potatoes and a side of roast dinner, as a Irish Sunday lunch should be. But she’ll be like ‘just a small slice of apple pie and cream (at least a quarter slice swimming in cream)’ ‘okay just a bite (8th slice still swimming in cream)’ ‘okay no cream (8th slice still dripping in cream)’ ‘okay want an ice cream (frozen cream dipped in chocolate)’. I accept the ice cream as no to pudding isn’t an answer.

My Scottish granny was JUST the same.

@jigserdotcom

2 жыл бұрын

You gotta love Grannies. 🙌

Should be watching The Great Escape not Escape to Victory.😂. Irish mothers approach food like drug dealers approach drugs!😂.

Ooh I hate to say this but that’s Me. I’m the Mammy…

I love your work. Thank you.

This is actually all so true. Every family has at least one family member like this 😂😂😂

If you ever go to a Mexican house, it doesn't matter if you feel like you're about to puke, when you are offered another tamale you say Yes. You won't get five offers, you'll just get a side eye that will burn the flesh off your bones if you say no.

@margotbw4660

Жыл бұрын

My fantasy is to have that many tamales!

@AdaSoto

Жыл бұрын

@@margotbw4660 They're not that hard to make. It's just impossible to make a small batch of them.

Must be genetic because my Irish American Mother did this. But you forgot your father quietly saying to you in the background, "Just eat it" so she'll stop.

NAILED it!

Until you’ve lived in Ireland, you can’t know how very true this is of every Irish mum.

Lmao very true and I also am eating a potato 🥔 right now… wtf?! Lol

4 isn't even that much. You have to get listed the contents of the fridge, all the Christmas sweets cake etc and then would you like tea, fizzy drink, bucks fizz, guinness. Usually followed up by there's a tin of biscuits under the tree there from one of the neighbours.

@jigserdotcom

Жыл бұрын

😂 Very true. I also forgot the “children starving in Africa” line😂

Strong Mrs. Doyle energy!

I wonder if he ever met Polish grannies xD

@jigserdotcom

Жыл бұрын

Not yet 😂

@ogladaczr.t.3168

Жыл бұрын

@@jigserdotcom mine offered my apple pie just because "no one's looking". Knowing i have diabetes

100!!! This is my grandmother from Ireland.. Oh, and if you came over on a day where there was no freshly baked sweets... she'd apologize and make some and send you home with it!!!

@jigserdotcom

2 жыл бұрын

Hilarious! Love it.

You were !perfect

Thank you..

His mother is Mrs. Doyle from Fr. Ted!

@jigserdotcom

2 жыл бұрын

Yes she is. 😂

That's so true. And my people aren't even Irish, we're only Irish descendants. The people used to starve to death over here until about 1955, so there are rules over here about food. No one writes them down, but you will received a clip up the side of the head if you do not learn them quickly. Traditional Society rides upon strict observance without mention. Traditionally, everybody keeps sweet biscuits in the house. Anyone coming through the door is offered a sweet biscuit, and does not turn it down. This way, anyone who's actually hungry, get fed without being shamed. The biscuits are reserved exclusively for guests. Depending on the time of day, either a hot caffeinated beverage or alcoholic beverage is offered. There is only one way out of caffeine or alcohol if you do not want it, but there is no way out of food. The trick is to counter with a request for something cheap and traditional that you desperately missed while out of the area for a time. This seems to bring the host household no end of pleasure to have met a long-standing craving in this way and exempts the guests from obligation.. it is the ultimate solution really, and I had a choice clever best friend for coming up with it. More food than the family can eat is traditionally cooked at every supper, just in case people come to the house when you're about to eat. They may not refuse. I have actually watched my father shame a colleague and friend and eating 2nd or 3rd breakfast. Over here, we have another level to the forcing of food on other people. It's "you wouldn't make me to eat by myself, now would you?" And of course it's delivered it just the correct tone as well. It is very obvious that putting somebody in the position of having to eat breakfast without the benefit of a dining companion is the ultimate shame in this case. Nobody can refuse it.

Thanks

My great aunt and uncle used to do the first 3 every time we'd go to visit them 😹

@jigserdotcom

2 жыл бұрын

Love it.

I was raised in Alabama, it's like he's talking about my aunts

In my case it's the Irish Nanna/Nanny/Granny. She is LETHAL. Her "You havent eaten it" is accompanied with guilt 😂😂😂

I’m American and our families been here over 100 years and we’re Irish And we won’t have cake in the house at all

"Well . . . Everyone else likes my cake . . ." Nomnomnom.

You may, think this it’s a joke , it’s not believe me , and what’s worse is I’m doing it now 🤣🤣🤣🤣😱

Yes, this!!!!!

Fuck me, Polish and Irish grandmas are similar :)

That's how my family got the "no, thank you" helping. Whether you're a child who doesn't want Brussels sprouts or an adult who couldn't eat another bite, you *will* get a small helping on your plate, even if you say, "no, thank you".

My mother was northern Irish and she never offered me a goddamned thing in my life. “You’re stopping off here? Why? You can go straight to Montauk, we won’t mind. You shouldn’t feel like you have to stop here.”

@jigserdotcom

Жыл бұрын

Man this is funny. The other side of the Irish Mammy.

Who’s the bloke with the only dislike 🤦🏽‍♂️

LOVE

When we went to visit Mum (who had not lived in her home country for 60+ years at this point), she would assume my husband wanted to chain eat bacon sandwiches. It was only by the fourth round that she’d ask if he wanted more. His Dad was a Dubliner, as was, obviously, his granny so he knew not to fight it. Especially when washed down with intravenous tea.

In my family there were 6 of us kids. There would not be second offers as it would be all gone fast.

What's with the subtitles Jar 😂😂

@orosedobheathaabhaile

3 жыл бұрын

They're only on yours Michael. Turn them off if you don't need them.

@michaelkinahan1829

3 жыл бұрын

@@orosedobheathaabhaile grand job

@lisa.1742

3 жыл бұрын

@@orosedobheathaabhaile 🤣🤣

Mrs Doyle comes to mind.

You forgot the offer of tea every 10 minutes tea the cure all having a heart attack have a cup of tea you will b grand

Me Great Grand Mum was born in Dublin Ireland… Margaret O’Callahan.. My mother, bless her must have some genetic disposition to the 4 offer rule- and shame eating is real!

Greek moms do the same thing!

Did she put a pint in front of ya with those offers?

THAT is my mother-in-law. To this day, I never leave her house without eating or with something to eat for later no matter how long I’m there for. I once dropped off a new padlock for her shed and walked out with an entire barmbrack AND an apple cake.

Haaaah! True dat.

My ancestors were 'invited' (deported) to leave Ireland long ago. To work on the English plantations for eight years as the history goes. I may have other ancestry, but would be most proud if the Irish would consider me one of their own. :)

@noeleen5250

2 жыл бұрын

You may have to wait, we are dealing with the backlog Brits who remembered they were Irish Post Brexit.

@ziggymarlowe5654

2 жыл бұрын

@@noeleen5250 Not saying there isn't a Brit in the woodpile. But family research does indicate 2 ancestors from County Clare. Name is Shahan, which seems to have originated from O Seanachain. Most names were shortened or changed to suit the American landowners. It took at least a hundred years before my ancestors would own land of their own. Sorry you are overwhelmed by people claiming Irish ancestry. Must be a bummer, man.

@noeleen5250

2 жыл бұрын

@@ziggymarlowe5654 lol, sorry I was joking, sometimes my sense of humour doesn't translate well on paper. But the O'Seanachain name has probably been changed here too over the years. A lot of Irish names were Anglicised here too. So it could be Shanahan now. GAELIC is a weird l language.

@noeleen5250

2 жыл бұрын

The 8 years you talk about was actually considered a good deal to some Irish, to be indentured for only 8 years and then free to do whatever was actually tempting at the time.

@ziggymarlowe5654

2 жыл бұрын

@@noeleen5250 The story of my ancestors is interesting, and someone did tell me 8 years was pretty good term. These Shahan ancestors ended up marrying two sisters and the four struck out for the Appalachian mountains. The life they led had to be fearsome hard, the land was wilderness and breaking it was hard. I like to think we retain some of that grit. There are a sizable number of Shanahans, O'Shannons, and similar spellings that I suspect might share DNA in the US. And sorry I bristled at first, I thought "Oh here we go, a Brit trying to take the pass out of me"! LOL

As a kid, my best mate's Ma god rest her soul used to tell him the dinner witch would come and get him if he didn't empty his plate. Genius to be fair, but a bit extreme.

100%, the granny more so with the equivalent of one and half apple tarts each.

Irish moms sound alot like cuban moms... accent is different but the need to make u fat is all the same lol

In belgium, we have our grandparents: You eating anything, for example: shepherd's pie You almost done, then they just refill your plate with another helping, then they ask, "You want a bit more, Love?"

@joecobb7153

Жыл бұрын

Agustes is dead noooooo

Cake? No need for her to ask me more than once 😋🍰

😂😂😂

That’s my aunties I cannot leave there house with out shame eating and leaving the house with food. They gave me a bag of onions leaving the house. Why aunty why apparently it’s the Irish way when you used to travel long distances on a cart between villages. Aunty I live 20 mins away and I’m in a car!!!!

I forgot to mention that my mom is also the queen of telling me (her daughter) and my sons that we need to lose weight and then attempting to stuff us full of food! No wonder I am confused.

Eh it’s the “famine gene” yeah can’t help it the fear you might be responsible for family keeling over & dying of hunger, if you didn’t force feed then just in case like.Yeah I got the “famine gene” type 2 went straight to me arse, a small village could survive for a month on the fat I’ve stored there just in case like.

Oh man alive. I hated it growing up but subliminally absorbed it anyhow. Now Im de mudder....nooo! Amn't I doing to my lot! Least I don't throw in....and there's starving children in Africa! I told my mother to go take it to them so then, Im not a dustbin!! and guess the rest says you. Kitchen closed after that. Was working so snacks an sandwiches from the supermarket and takeout at the weekend. Both stubborn out. My son said...where d'ya think I got it from? (Being stubborn). Feeding your kids is a major satisfaction in action and done your duty as a mammy effort. Wicked funny reality check for me. Driving the next generation sprecked! Lol.

Then they are lucky. Mother in law was from Blythe and she never stopped.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

If you think Irish mamas are bad you have no idea what a Polish Babcia (Grandma) is like

Doesn't matter what background your mother is that is how they operate. "You look thin, is your gf/wife/so feeding you properly?"

Is your Mammy Mrs Doyle?

Try saying no to cup of tea

ah... nurses do save lives, every day. she was just a jerk

So fekkin true