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Recession kills off SPICE BURGER

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    #62
    Ostrom
    Registered Users Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Ostrom


    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    Oh... a search in google for Spice Burger brings up this thread and another thread on boards as the top results.

    I never knew they were such a niche market.

    This is possibly because they taste like ass


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    #63
    monkeyfudge
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    efla wrote: »
    This is possibly because they taste like ass

    Well if your ass tastes like that then meet me later this evening for the rimming of your life!


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    #64
    Ostrom
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    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    Well if your ass tastes like that then meet me later this evening for the rimming of your life!

    PM sent ;)


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    #65
    ScumLord
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    GlindaGale wrote: »
    I'll start eating normal burgers when you start using normal english.
    How is my English abnormal?


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    #66
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    I went to set up a Save the Spiceburger facebook page, but someone beat me too it.

    Here's a photo of the last spice burger I ate.

    http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2502/dvbv.jpg

    Taken last Friday. Sure it had a hair in it, so I didn't eat it all... but it was still good.


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    #67
    GlindaGale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 84 ✭✭GlindaGale


    ScumLord wrote: »
    How is my English abnormal?

    Well, I'm pretty sure wronger isn't a word but now that I say it out loud it sounds cool, like some sort of insult, "God, I really hate those wrongers who took away our spice burgers"

    I like it!


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    #68
    Amalgam
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    I went to set up a Save the Spiceburger facebook page, but someone beat me too it.

    Here's a photo of the last spice burger I ate.

    http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2502/dvbv.jpg

    Taken last Friday. Sure it had a hair in it, so I didn't eat it all... but it was still good.

    That's not all.. (see attached)


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    #69
    Quint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭Quint


    This is so unfair. The poor delicious spice burger never did any wrong. But the disgusting batter burger is still going to be available everywhere. Where's the justice in that?


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    #70
    niall72
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭niall72


    Hi Guys,

    Just dreadful news about the humble spice burger. Fear not!! Togehter we can harness the power of social media to breath new life into the humble Irish spice burger.

    Join the 'Save the Spice burger' group now!!

    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=106594881312&ref=nf


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    #71
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    Degsy wrote: »
    All may not be lost..i definatly remember some butchers doing an alternative version of the spice burger..it didnt taste exactly the same but there was a lot more meat in it..maybe something can be salvaged from this terrible tragedy.

    Not talking about rissoles by any chance? Can't get them fcuking anywhere nowadays. Or hazlett for that matter.


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    #72
    uprising
    Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭uprising


    I wouldnt mourne them too much if I were you lot, I know a fella used to work for them, he used to add his own flavour in the form of spit and snot, spiceburgers were never the same again, he used to get a kick out of knowing someone would be tucking into it, and it doesnt stop there :eek:, another fella I know used to work in batchelors and told me of one of the night staff p1ssing into the baths they soak the beans in, theres another few jobs gone now in batchelors:D, fukcing recession.
    Thats all I know of, but I'm sure its widespread in the processed food industry, people just love to know that somebody somewhere is eating their "bits".


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    #73
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    GlindaGale wrote: »
    Well, I'm pretty sure wronger isn't a word but now that I say it out loud it sounds cool, like some sort of insult, "God, I really hate those wrongers who took away our spice burgers"

    I like it!
    I made the same assumption when I used it but was gutted to find out it is a word (in the US anyway).

    Now your slur on my fine use of the English language has backfired on you. :pac:


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    #74
    Amalgam
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    uprising wrote: »
    I wouldnt mourne them too much if I were you lot, I know a fella used to work for them, he used to add his own flavour in the form of spit and snot, spiceburgers were never the same again, he used to get a kick out of knowing someone would be tucking into it, and it doesnt stop there :eek:, another fella I know used to work in batchelors and told me of one of the night staff p1ssing into the baths they soak the beans in, theres another few jobs gone now in batchelors:D, fukcing recession.
    Thats all I know of, but I'm sure its widespread in the processed food industry, people just love to know that somebody somewhere is eating their "bits".

    Thread at risk of branching..

    Meh, not uncommon, an employer I know fluffed tax papers (intentionally) of kitchen staff, afterwards, any time someone famous came into the well known Restaurant, south of Dublin, staff would literally leave a pea green layer of phlegm on top of the cooking venison.

    Pastry shoes were kept on the floor, under the cooker, adulterated with dog hairs before being served.

    About the only thing that was safe from 'abuse', strangely, was the bread.

    Don't piss your staff off, don't **** around with their tax issues. If you're famous and drunk, don't abuse floor staff, you're not entitled to come into the kitchen and try and walk out with bottles of drink..


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    #75
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    People complain about that kind of thing but why do you think chipper food tastes so good?


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    #76
    GlindaGale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 84 ✭✭GlindaGale


    ScumLord wrote: »
    I made the same assumption when I used it but was gutted to find out it is a word (in the US anyway).

    Now your slur on my fine use of the English language has backfired on you. :pac:


    Damn pesky Americans, ruining the correct use of grammar since 1776!


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    #77
    Draupnir
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Not talking about rissoles by any chance? Can't get them fcuking anywhere nowadays. Or hazlett for that matter.

    Tesco did hazlett up to a couple of years back, what you wanted to do was order a spice burger wrapped in hazlett and stuff in a well buttered slice of fresh Brennans pan.

    Drink it down with a cup of Lyons Gold Blend and head off to a Dubs game. What a life.


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    #78
    Spore
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    OP should credit his source tbh, otherwise it's plagiarism


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    #79
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    Draupnir wrote: »
    Tesco did hazlett up to a couple of years back, what you wanted to do was order a spice burger wrapped in hazlett and stuff in a well buttered slice of fresh Brennans pan.

    Drink it down with a cup of Lyons Gold Blend TK red lemonade and head off to a Dubs game. What a life.

    Not mad on the auld cup of cha meself, gimme a bottle of minerals any day.


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    #80
    Draupnir
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Not mad on the auld cup of cha meself, gimme a bottle of minerals any day.

    TK Red Lemonade or maybe Country Spring American Cream Soda from the big 3 litre bottle.


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    #81
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Spore wrote: »
    OP should credit his source tbh, otherwise it's plagiarism

    Got it from today's Irish Times.


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    #82
    Maddison
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭Maddison


    Nooooooooo, I havent had one in ages & now you've told me they are gone I suddenly have a craving for one. Does any other company make them?


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    #83
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Ick.


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    #84
    orestes
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    Ok, that's the last fecking straw! Who's up for a revolution? We'll be eating spice burgers in the Dail by the weekend!


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    #85
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Anyone reading this switch on RTE1 TV as it's made the 6 PM news!


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    #86
    Degsy
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    Nolanger wrote: »
    Anyone reading this switch on RTE1 TV as it's made the 6 PM news!

    Oh did it?
    My attempts to get Thalidomide 2 past the FDA wasnt deemed newsworthy.:(


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    #87
    Tchaikovsky
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    Can we still get swan burgers?


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    #88
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Tchaikovsky wrote: »
    Can we still get swan burgers?

    What does that even ****ing mean?


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    #89
    Tchaikovsky
    Registered Users Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭Tchaikovsky


    No need to curse


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    #90
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,502 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    Nolanger wrote: »
    TRADITIONAL IRISH cuisine has been dealt a blow with the demise of the company that invented that staple of chippers nationwide, the spice burger.

    Walsh Family Foods closed its doors earlier this month with the loss of 50 jobs and a receiver is to be appointed to the business next week. The company, based in the Poppintree industrial estate in Finglas, could no longer sustain heavy losses caused by the weakness of sterling against the euro and tough competition from UK rivals.

    One of its main customers, Tesco, recently cut the number of products it bought from the company from 16 to one, but internal sources said this was not a significant factor in Walsh’s closure.

    Spice burgers have been on the Irish market since the early 1950s and were the first product manufactured by Walsh Family Foods. Pork butcher Maurice Walsh developed the product, described on its website as “a delicious blend of Irish beef, onions, cereals, herbs and spices coated with traditional outer crumb,” at the rear of his shop in Glasnevin.

    From these humble beginnings, the firm expanded into burgers, garlic mushrooms and another favourite of chip-shop habituees, the onion ring. Maurice Walsh’s son and daughter, Paddy and Helen, joined him in the business as it grew and started to export to the UK and beyond.

    The company patented its recipe for spice burgers, but the product’s popularity never really expanded beyond Ireland. It remained the only producer, so future supplies may depend on the ability of a receiver to find new interests to take over the business.

    In 2000, the Walsh family sold most of its shareholding in the company to a management buy-in team and ICC Venture Capital. The team, led by Pat McCaughey, former managing director of Boyne Valley Group, purchased a controlling interest for less than €1.27 million. Annual turnover rose to €14 million, of which €4 million was in exports to Britain. However, the company lost heavily on a big contract in the UK where the price was set before sterling weakened. Mr McCaughey could not be contacted yesterday and there was no answer from the company’s telephones. However, a message on its lines on Tuesday stated that a receiver would be appointed on June 22nd. The firm closed after an appeal to Enterprise Ireland for emergency funding was rejected.

    “They didn’t want to know,” said an internal company source. “It’s a sad tale.”


    Should have Just stuck to the kebabs....


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    #91
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Tchaikovsky wrote: »
    No need to curse

    One would hasten to add that my colloquial use of swearing was to indicate my exasperation at the "point" of the post you composed above Tchaikovsky.
    Don't do it again.


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