Recession kills off SPICE BURGER

GlindaGale

ScumLord wrote: »

We had one of them fancy Italian chippers open up in our town not so long ago and them things where on the menu. Tried a batter burger and thought it was all wrong, it felt like battered sausage but tasted like bad beef it was just wrong. Didn't try a spice burger that just sounded wronger. Eat normal burgers ye weirdos!

I'll start eating normal burgers when you start using normal english.

ronaneire

Ah spice bugers. They will be missed! One every now again was lovely
RIP

mike65

Must say spice burgers strike me as being only tolerable when half cut. Which may well explain their cultural success here.

Quint

Draupnir wrote: »

Anyone else find that hilarious?

Yes:D

Quint

mike65 wrote: »

Must say spice burgers strike me as being only tolerable when half cut.

They were great whole as well

az2wp0sye65487

I have to express my sadness, disgust, disappointment, shock, outrage and anger at this....

Disgusted & saddened that the mighty Spice Burger will be no more...

But more to the point I'm shocked, outraged & angered at the amount of people here who have never even heard of the Spice Burger! I was practically reared on them. They go lovely with a mixed grill for tea, a fry-up for breakfast, or even just with chips or on bread! I also agree with whoever mentioned that they are the perfect 'coming home locked' snack!

But finally I'm disappointed...... my realisation that Boardsies in fact don't know everything has deeply disappointed me; and I used to think you were all so cool...

RHunce

not the spoice boorger, anything but the spoice boorger :eek:

Degsy

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.

K-9

Stephen has a lot to answer for.

az2wp0sye65487

K-9 wrote: »

Stephen has a lot to answer for.

Whoa, whoa hold on there a minute. I LOVE the Spice Burger. Don't start blaming people willy nilly

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

monkeyfudge

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!

Ostrom

monkeyfudge wrote: »

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

PM sent

ScumLord

GlindaGale wrote: »

I'll start eating normal burgers when you start using normal english.

How is my English abnormal?

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.

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!

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)

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?

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

Degsy

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.

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".

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:

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..

ScumLord

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

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!

Draupnir

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.

Spore

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

Draupnir

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.

Draupnir

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.

Nolanger

Spore wrote: »

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

Got it from today's Irish Times.

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?

dr.bollocko

Ick.

orestes

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!

Nolanger

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

Degsy

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.:(

Tchaikovsky

Can we still get swan burgers?

dr.bollocko

Tchaikovsky wrote: »

Can we still get swan burgers?

What does that even ****ing mean?

Tchaikovsky

No need to curse

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....

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.

cml387

Spice burgers - good.

On the other hand their Onion rings were umm lets say sub-par.

Frank3142

This was on ray darcy a lot this morning.

jimmycrackcorm

Looks like a move to fried mars bars is the only way forward now...

stovelid

Frank3142 wrote: »

This was on ray darcy a lot this morning.

Maybe it's just a Wispa-removal type marketing ploy.

Ostrom

Agent Smith wrote: »

Should have Just stuck to the kebabs....

Its been a sad place without old Joe though...

Could make it his issue for the next general

citizen_p

OMFG SPICE BURGERS HAVE PORK IN THEM.....
my local has been skiming some of the top then.... i had one today, i never tasted or seen pork in it. no wonder tesco dropped it.


and lol i gave them to 2 vegaterians once

Crazy Diamond

Mousey- wrote: »

OMFG SPICE BURGERS HAVE PORK IN THEM.....
my local has been skiming some of the top then.... i had one today, i never tasted or seen pork in it. no wonder tesco dropped it.


and lol i gave them to 2 vegaterians once

Spice Burgers don't consist of any pork, just beef my man!

Crazy Diamond

monkeyfudge wrote: »

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

Haha, what a fookin reply! Hilarious!!!

stovelid

I can hear the Spice Burger getting a mention on the 9 0 Clock news in the next room.

monkeyfudge

66 members on the Facebook group so far.

Rumour has it that Big Al's might be taking over spice burger production... I'm not sure how to feel about that.