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Who first created “the most ordered fast food item in Ireland”?
Liam Geraghty writes:
On RTE Radio 1’s The Business, I attempted to solve Ireland’s greatest mystery – who invented the Spice Bag?
Listen here
Previously: Emma Doran on The Spice Bag
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He who controls the Spice, controls the universe!
Yeah, thanks Liam Geraghty for your tireless investigation into something nobody gives a rat’s patutti about. If certain people choose to eat these things, let them have privacy and anonymity. It’s the decent thing to do.
To hell with you
These are the questions that keep me up at night
I NEED answers!
” Its important to get to the bottom of these things ”
Its what your paying your telly licence for at the end of the day in all in anyways.
WTF is a spice bag… is this a hipster thing….
the polar opposite
Research (a quick google ten mins ago) indicates that it’s shredded chicken with veg and chips in a bag with chilli salt (rather than half a tub of saxa salt poured into it) and vinegar.
In practice, it’s usually 90% chips.
I don’t know who thought that such a thing would be a good idea; it’s madly dry.
Oh Lord that sounds divine
Paired with a fine chardonnay, oh, la, la!
You can pretend you dont know but you do know.
I know now :)
@Clampers
I am glad I am not the only one not to hear of it. I was thinking I was too long out of the country.
Why hasn’t anyone in Ireland cottoned on to chocolate covered crisps? Now, that beats everything else!
Tayto had a bar out a year or two ago with crisps in the chocolate….. it was mank :)
No – it’s a rural thing.
… who invented the Spice Bag?
The Duffer brothers or Sean O’Brien and Pat McDonagh.
Again, my cursory google can give some information here. Seemingly it’s of disputed origins, but many trace it back to a Chinese in Bagenalstown, Carlow. And why not? It’s a cuisine hotspot, that’s not in dispute.
It been served in Scotland for years, over a decade now. Someone probably just copied it from there.
Theres a doco in Netflix caked ‘the search for General Tso’ or something that’s basically this. They try to track down the originator of General Tso’s Chicken, the most popular Chinese takeaway item in America.
From what I can make out its basically a spicebag without the chips.
Worth a watch, if only for the reaction of chefs in China to photos of the dish.
I have never heard of it.
Gosh, you must be posh!
Gosh, Tish posh? Psh
Haha
Tish, Posh? she wants us all down in the Marxist gutter, queueing for bread. Very posh.
At least I’m not a vile racist.
I don’t even know what a Marxist is. And I am posh. Fierce posh. I choose my wines by the grape.
TBF Marx himself wasn’t exactly born in a gutter
I know plenty of wanna be communists who got the chance to study pointless postulations on what the “working class” really want while living off mammy and daddy’s pay cheques
I could even name one whose currently a TD…
I will never eat one
You will so.
It’s Salt and Chilli Chicken with chips mixed together in a bag. It’s not spectacular, and it still exerts a curious force to recheck that verdict.
Next up, origin of the 3 in 1!
Nothing beats a ‘Fifty-Fifty’ —- curry – coleslaw and chips.
Curry coleslaw and chips is beautiful. Until you try it sober.
Never try it sober.
Admittedly, I haven’t had one sober …which would mean I haven’t had one in a few years :)
I loved ’em in me 20s tho
Does the trigon still exist in auld Dublin town? Carbs n curry in a tray
tick sounds horrific
Lads, it’s been around since the 80’s/90’s. My dad used to cook it for me in the take away and it was a pain to fry up since the chili goes straight to your eyes. It only became a big thing recently but has always been around :)
Isn’t it what’s left at the bottom of a student’s oven? If so, I concur to your carbon-spice-dating*.
*New name for Tinder
need photo of ride bag eating spicebag before I’ll buy
“Ride bags Eating Spice Bags: 2017 Calendar” *hurriedly calls printers*
They’re very variable in quality. Doesn’t seem to be a uniform recipe
I’d never heard of s Spice bag till now
A spice burger yeah
So to read that its Ireland’s most ordered grub ..
It must be the Mad Cow
From all those batter burgers