Sad Sausages

The Ranelagh SuperQuinn

Hello friends! I’m diverting this next post away from my epic Buffalo Staycation to talk about a grocery store. Yes, a grocery store.But not just any grocery store, it’s Ireland’s SuperQuinn. News recently broke that the owner of SuperQuinn (Musgraves) will be changing its name to rival SuperValu and updating all 24 stores across Eire. So I need to process this food tragedy. Irish readers I know you feel my pain, let’s discuss.

For me, SuperQuinn holds many memories and is a place that brought a little piece of Buffalo to Dublin during my five years there. Why? SuperQuinn is reminiscent of the glorious Rochester-based Wegmans. From layout, to quality, to food variety, SuperQuinn like Wegmans, is in a league of its own. Europe in general isn’t really known for fabulous supermarkets or convenience stores, but SQ really brought it to the table so to speak. I remember oft going for my weekly shop or popping in for a cheeky mid-week bottle of wine (their selection and wine club are second to none!) , picking out the freshest vegetables, meats and cheese, and feeling excited to go back to my lovely house on Dartmouth Walk when I lived in Ranelagh. And of course, the SQ sausages, those legendary links! My roommates and I nearly every weekend would cook up a monstrous breakfast with those luscious links being the pièce de résistance of the feast. I can almost taste those sausages now. So you can imagine my horror when finding out about the SuperValu takeover. Fear not, however, they will be preserved. Even Musgraves has realized what a goldmine these pork delights are. 

As for the rest of the legend that SQ is, I’m not entirely convinced the new brand will hold up to its predecessor, I have my doubts. But at least I know the next time I’m in Dublin, I’ll have my sausies. Thought, comments anyone? Feel free to express your grief, SQ memories below!