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Are millenials to blame for the rise of the spice bag and the fall of the snack box?

  • 21-11-2016 10:36PM
    #1
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭


    Because I know someone has to be. Time was every takeaway worth their salt and vinegar would offer a decent snack box, but over the past 10 years the quality of snack boxes has been diminishing, leading us to where we are today. The chips are fine - the chips are always fine - it's the chicken that's suffering. Dry and tasteless lumps of rubbery flesh 'coated', and I use that term loosely, in a soggy, beige and bland flavouring.

    All this has coincidended with the rise of spice bags - crap chips, too much garlic salt and chilli and dry and hard lumps of fried chicken substitute. Millenials are far too willing to accept this, abandoning the snack boxes of their forefathers for the more exotic taste of the spice bag. So how do we fix this? Is it time to make snack boxes great again?


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  • #2
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Dafuq is a spice bag?


  • #3
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    The one time I had some of a "Spiced Bag" or whatever you kids call them, the chicken was like some kind of reconstituted meat gel that was deep fried beyond any kind of resemblance to poultry. Apart from that it was quite nice.


  • #4
    Donal55
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Donal55


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    Dafuq is a spice bag?

    You haven't lived.


  • #5
    GingerLily
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,766 ✭✭✭GingerLily


    I've never had either!!

    Edit: it was all about the 3in1 in my day


  • #6
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,630 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Millenials are to blame for everything.


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  • #7
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    That the shtuff they do be shmoking and selling in prisons...bags of spice!?

    Turns ya into a tree!


  • #8
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    Decent chippers still do decent snack boxes. Spice bags are a Dublin thing, none of that muck down the country.


  • #9
    Donal55
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Donal55


    GingerLily wrote: »
    I've never had either!!

    What about the spice bag?


  • #10
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    It's amazing how kfc chicken is just about the shıttest rendition of southern fried chicken I've ever encountered


  • #11
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    Do they eat it in Safe Spaces™?


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  • #12
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,422 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    I never liked snack boxes but the 'chicken' in spice bags is terrible rubbery stuff. Salt and chilli chips can be great (but unhealthy).


  • #13
    airportlackie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭airportlackie


    Spice boxes are unreal


  • #14
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,867 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    Spice bags are a Dublin thing, none of that muck down the country.

    Nah, I'm culchie as fcuk and we have that sh1te down here in the bog.

    Tried them a couple of times, woeful tack altogether.


  • #15
    fizzypish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,000 ✭✭✭fizzypish


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    It's amazing how kfc chicken is just about the shıttest rendition of southern fried chicken I've ever encountered

    I've always found KFC fascinating. Every time I've eaten it I'm left feeling nauseous for about an hour afterwards. I don't have a delicate stomach either. To the OP's question, increased battery farming has probably led to the decline in chicken quality.


  • #16
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Always preferred getting the dinner box myself.


  • #17
    HellSquirrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭HellSquirrel


    Millennials are to blame for -everything-. Once you remember this, you're probably okay.

    Although I prefer the spicy box to the snack box, I gotta admit. And I'm a millennial, albeit only barely.


  • #18
    D0NNELLY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭D0NNELLY


    Alec's chipper Beaumont.. single handily maintaining the quality of the snack box since nineteen diggity two.


  • #19
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,691 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    Had to google Spice Bag. Invented by the Chinese yet the culchies in this thread are blaming the Dubs.

    Not sure if that's racist


  • #20
    D0NNELLY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭D0NNELLY


    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    Decent chippers still do decent snack boxes. Spice bags are a Dublin thing, none of that muck down the country.

    Me bollix. Every chipper in the country is serving that bag of shïte.


  • #21
    jameorahiely
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 825 ✭✭✭jameorahiely


    Millenials wouldn't be able to handle the bones in snack boxes. There'd be a choking epidemic. Zuped up chicken nugets is safer for the childer.


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  • #22
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,548 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    It's amazing how kfc chicken is just about the shıttest rendition of southern fried chicken I've ever encountered

    I used to think this too. Hated KFC while i lived in Ireland.

    Ive been living in the UK for the past 6 years and there is a world of difference between KFC UK vs IE.

    Not sure why that is.


  • #23
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Snack boxes were never all that - the chicken was just never right.
    I don't get the hatred for KFC, sure the colonel has single handedly saved the world from bland tasteless fast food, show him some respect god damn it.
    Without him what would you have - some fúcking clown, that's what:mad:


  • #24
    MonkstownHoop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    Snack boxes were never all that - the chicken was just never right.
    I don't get the hatred for KFC, sure the colonel has single handedly saved the world from bland tasteless fast food, show him some respect god damn it.
    Without him what would you have - some fúcking clown, that's what:mad:

    And a self appointed burger king! He's not my burger king!


  • #25
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Spice bags are overrated.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #26
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    GLaDOS wrote: »
    Spice bags are overrated.

    Couldnt agree more.


  • #27
    The flying mouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭The flying mouse


    faceman wrote: »
    Had to google Spice Bag. Invented by the Chinese yet the culchies in this thread are blaming the Dubs.

    Not sure if that's racist

    There Chinese dubs.


  • #28
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    MonkstownHoop wrote: »
    And a self appointed burger king! He's not my burger king!

    The burger best of a bad bunch, just doesn't have the same ring to it though:)


  • #29
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    GingerLily wrote: »
    I've never had either!!

    Edit: it was all about the 3in1 in my day

    Back in my day we went into Greasy Mick's and he'd put on a feed of chips and some chicken and tell us to help ourselves to the pot of crubeens on the big turf fire, Crack open a large bottle and sit on the window sill eating and drinking till we were full as ticks then off home to suffer.

    There is nothing in a real chipper that has come out of a machine like them spice bag floor sweepings or chicken nuggets or other mechanically recovered meat shoite


  • #30
    Fuzzytrooper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 896 ✭✭✭Fuzzytrooper


    Who cares? So long as my sacred battered sausage and battered burger remain then all will be well.


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  • #31
    irish_goat
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 6,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭irish_goat


    Can someone explain what is in a spice box and a snack bag?? I'm guessing neither beat a chicken box from Derry.


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