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

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  • #32
    Advbrd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Advbrd


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

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

    Or a spit roast as we used to call it.


  • #33
    Jayop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,377 ✭✭✭✭Jayop


    Ye free staters need to embrace the glory of the Northern cowboy supper. Two battered sausages, chips and beans in a curry chip tray and covered with vinegar. Now that's a feed fit for a man after having a heap of pints.


  • #34
    Jayop
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    irish_goat wrote: »
    Can someone explain what is in a spice box and a snack bag?? I'm guessing neither beat a chicken box from Derry.

    A spice bag is chips and chicken strips covered in spice in a bag. A snack box is chips and two bits of chicken and normally a leg and a thigh with breadcrumbs in a box.


  • #35
    foggy_lad
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    irish_goat wrote: »
    Can someone explain what is in a spice box and a snack bag?? I'm guessing neither beat a chicken box from Derry.

    Spice bag is strips of chicken like "meat" made by machine and coated in the cheapest spicy mix available fried up with the other crap from the oil filter in the chipper.

    Snack box is chips and pieces of chicken, leg breast and thigh and wing which is often coated in some southern fried coating.

    Snack box is dearer than spice bag but the mark up on the spice bag is massive compared to the snack box.


  • #36
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,060 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Never eaten a spice bag.

    I haven't eaten a snackbox in about 15 years, and even then never eaten one sober or earlier than 1am.

    Those were good times.


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  • #37
    foggy_lad
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    Spice bags are most likely popular because of the private school crowds thinking they are great eating shite fried in dripping.


  • #38
    blue note
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,909 ✭✭✭blue note


    I just can't see the attraction of chippers to be honest. I get about 4 a year and they're always disappointing. The last one I had I got a battered sausage with and they cut it all the way down the middle, so it was fried in the middle! WTF! A battered sausage should essentially be steamed inside the batter, instead of losing all it's juices into the frier and being dried out from cooking it like that. And the chips are beyond greasy, they're soggy. And the burgers from them are terrible - I really don't understand how they're so difficult to do well.

    So basically I see threads about chippers and I just can't understand how people love them so much. But they really, really do - enough to get animated about things like snack boxes and spice bags. I've no problem with this by the way, kind of envious that other people can enjoy a cheap treat so much.


  • #39
    Jayop
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    blue note wrote: »
    I just can't see the attraction of chippers to be honest. I get about 4 a year and they're always disappointing. The last one I had I got a battered sausage with and they cut it all the way down the middle, so it was fried in the middle! WTF! A battered sausage should essentially be steamed inside the batter, instead of losing all it's juices into the frier and being dried out from cooking it like that. And the chips are beyond greasy, they're soggy. And the burgers from them are terrible - I really don't understand how they're so difficult to do well.

    So basically I see threads about chippers and I just can't understand how people love them so much. But they really, really do - enough to get animated about things like snack boxes and spice bags. I've no problem with this by the way, kind of envious that other people can enjoy a cheap treat so much.

    You go to the wrong chipper.


  • #40
    Rumpy Pumpy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Rumpy Pumpy


    foggy_lad wrote: »
    Spice bags are most likely popular because of the private school crowds thinking they are great eating shite fried in dripping.

    Bizarre comment.

    Anyways, all this talk about there being a wide variance in quality between chippers is nonsense. The vast vast majority of them all order the exact same food from the exact same supplier. Luigis is getting the same pre coated chicken as Mario's. It's how they compete against other fast food providers in terms of offering a bag of greasy muck for about 7 euro.


  • #41
    empacher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭empacher


    Remember when supermacs used to sell kebabs. Those were the days.


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  • #42
    blue note
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,909 ✭✭✭blue note


    Jayop wrote: »
    You go to the wrong chipper.

    I've picked chippers based on "this one will change your mind, it's amazing." And my housemates quite like the chippers in my area. I just don't really like chipper food.

    One exception I will make is beschoffs. That place is actually decent.


  • #43
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    blue note wrote: »
    I just can't see the attraction of chippers to be honest. I get about 4 a year and they're always disappointing. The last one I had I got a battered sausage with and they cut it all the way down the middle, so it was fried in the middle! WTF! A battered sausage should essentially be steamed inside the batter, instead of losing all it's juices into the frier and being dried out from cooking it like that. And the chips are beyond greasy, they're soggy. And the burgers from them are terrible - I really don't understand how they're so difficult to do well.

    So basically I see threads about chippers and I just can't understand how people love them so much. But they really, really do - enough to get animated about things like snack boxes and spice bags. I've no problem with this by the way, kind of envious that other people can enjoy a cheap treat so much.

    What do you feast upon after a day on the porter?


  • #44
    Jayop
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    blue note wrote: »
    I've picked chippers based on "this one will change your mind, it's amazing." And my housemates quite like the chippers in my area. I just don't really like chipper food.

    One exception I will make is beschoffs. That place is actually decent.

    Any chipper that's destroyed a battered sausage like you described should be avoided at all costs.


  • #45
    blue note
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    What do you feast upon after a day on the porter?

    Crisps, chicken wings probably in frank sauce, sausages are good. A Chinese or Thai the odd time if I need a take away although I usually find the Chinese disappointing too. Or if I can motivate myself to cook a proper dinner that's by far the best.

    I'm not pretending to be particularly healthy, I just don't love the chipper food!

    I do love a good kebab or burger, but i wouldn't go to a chipper for either.


  • #46
    blue note
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    Jayop wrote: »
    Any chipper that's destroyed a battered sausage like you described should be avoided at all costs.

    That seems to be the norm the last few times I got them.

    I should say I actually worked in a chipper for a summer while in school - cunninghams in tramore. I dont mind saying since it's changed owners a couple of times since. I'd also defend that one as a decent one - food was made properly, they made their own batter for the sausages and fish, chicken was coated there, not bought in coated. And everything was clean - very high kitchen standards. I don't know if chippers used to be better like the op was saying or have I just gone off them as I got older. I think the latter.


  • #47
    Supergurrier
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    Won't anyone spare a thought for the pudding boxes :(


  • #48
    Walter H Price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭Walter H Price


    Chinese chips are far nicer then chipper chips , Salt and chilli chicken all day long over the ****e southern "fried" (mostly over done in an oven) **** out of a chipper and vinegar (with the exception of a good balsamic) has no place on or near food.

    The snack box is dead long live the spice bag and the 4 in 1


  • #49
    lawred2
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    Deep fried brie all the way


  • #50
    _Jamie_
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    Walter H Price wrote: »
    Chinese chips are far nicer then chipper chips

    God, no. Chinese chips are awful.

    Never had a spice bag but it sounds like glorified chicken nuggets and chips. I like snack boxes and at least it's proper meat, even if cheaply reared, not reconstituted shite.


  • #51
    Riddle101
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    I've had a few snack boxes in the past but always found them too greasy, and wasn't a big fan of the chicken either. Only had a spice bag once any couldn't finish it. Too spicy and salty for me. Nowadays I just order a batter burger and chips, or if i'm the Chinese, a Large Special/3 in 1.


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  • #52
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,105 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    What's a snack box? :p

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



  • #53
    mahoganygas
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    Why has nobody mentioned a spice burger yet?

    Delish!


  • #54
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Can eat a snack box sober and not feel disappointed. Not so much a spicebag.


  • #55
    Walter H Price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭Walter H Price


    _Jamie_ wrote: »
    God, no. Chinese chips are awful.

    Never had a spice bag but it sounds like glorified chicken nuggets and chips. I like snack boxes and at least it's proper meat, even if cheaply reared, not reconstituted shite.

    Chipper chips are pure grease and the chicken out of a chipper is so over cooked and rubbery, a good spice is far from nuggets and chips though i'd take that over a greasy stodgy snack box all day long too


  • #56
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    unkel wrote: »
    What's a snack box? :p

    You're just trying to get people banned.....

    Unkel troll......:D


  • #57
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Always preferred getting the dinner box myself.

    Often eaten a family box. Tough going but it can be done.


  • #58
    darkpagandeath
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    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    Often eaten a family box. Tough going but it can be done.

    Easily done if you have enough Garlic Mayo.


  • #59
    _Jamie_
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    Walter H Price wrote: »
    Chipper chips are pure grease and the chicken out of a chipper is so over cooked and rubbery, a good spice is far from nuggets and chips though i'd take that over a greasy stodgy snack box all day long too

    Chinese chips are always of the frozen variety and therefore shite. Good chipper chips will be cooked in grease but won't be overly greasy. Chinese chips are also cooked in grease. Snack box chicken is often not overdone.


  • #60
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    Jayop wrote: »
    Ye free staters need to embrace the glory of the Northern cowboy supper. Two battered sausages, chips and beans in a curry chip tray and covered with vinegar. Now that's a feed fit for a man after having a heap of pints.

    Proper man food. Harvesting fodder beet, mammy dropping the cowboy suppers down to the yard with a flask of tea and a luke warm 2l Coke. Those were the days. Went mad if she didn't get her forks back.


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  • #61
    Leslie91
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    Have never had a spice bag but I see a chinese not far from me appears to be renowned... Friday evening snack sorted so.

    Have had snack boxes alright.... the grease though jaysus. I trust spice bags are as manky if not worse!!?


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