Real IRISH fast food ?

iMax

With so many countries in the world having a fast food offering & considering that there's so many Irish flung so far globally, how come an Irish Fast Food franchise has never taken off ?

Lando Griffin

How about Supermacs and Abrakababra?

iMax

Sorry, my bad, I meant franchises based on Irish food

Lando Griffin

I suppose you have to look at what traditional Irish food is.
Bacon & cabbage, Irish stew & coddle hardley stuff you would be getting in a fast food outlet.
My parents went to America once, and were invited to dinner by some far out relations and they gave them A traditional Irish dinner of Corn Beef and purple cabbage?

electrofrog

Based on Irish food eh? what would they serve? Stew and Coddle

C'mon now what traditional Irish food do ye think would really do well in a fast food franchise

electrofrog

Lando Griffin wrote: »

I suppose you have to look at what traditional Irish food is.
Bacon & cabbage, Irish stew & coddle hardley stuff you would be getting in a fast food outlet.
My parents went to America once, and were invited to dinner by some far out relations and they gave them A traditional Irish dinner of Corn Beef and purple cabbage?

Bet me to it

iMax

Well if you think creatively, there should be a way to use those traditional foods in a fast food environment, for example, (& straight off the top of my head using lando's first suggestion) bacon patty topped with deep fried cabbage, served on a soda bun.

funnyname

Lando Griffin wrote: »

I suppose you have to look at what traditional Irish food is.
Bacon & cabbage, Irish stew & coddle hardley stuff you would be getting in a fast food outlet.
My parents went to America once, and were invited to dinner by some far out relations and they gave them A traditional Irish dinner of Corn Beef and purple cabbage?

Corned beef was used as a substitute for bacon by Irish immigrants in America as bacon was too expensive.

electrofrog

mmmmm...bacon patty topped with deep fried cabbage

Tabnabs

The breakfast roll is probably our most exportable fast food item (and maybe spicy wedges?). Not really going to worry BK or McD's?!

electrofrog

Was looking up Irish cuisine on Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_cuisine
Some interesting dishes never had boxty sounds like a mixture between a potatoe cake and a pancake might try it later

Lando Griffin

electrofrog wrote: »

Was looking up Irish cuisine on Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_cuisine
Some interesting dishes never had boxty sounds like a mixture between a potatoe cake and a pancake might try it later

Very tasty especially with a runny fried egg or two.

iMax

Gonna try boxty this weekend, as wess as trying to bake some soda buns

Degag

iMax wrote: »

Well if you think creatively, there should be a way to use those traditional foods in a fast food environment, for example, (& straight off the top of my head using lando's first suggestion) bacon patty topped with deep fried cabbage, served on a soda bun.

Don't see it taking off really.

novarock

gallaghers in Temple Bar is an "Irish" restaurant. They serve boxtys and coddle and all that stuff. Great place to bring foreign friends. If you can get over the diddly diddly music that is..

there is no way that you could make a fast food version though. Well I suppose a boxty is a twisted version of a kebab.

Cinful

I'd buy it. If it's as good as Blue_Lagoon's cooking. She's Irish. Can she cook! Fast too!

Mellor

iMax wrote: »

Well if you think creatively, there should be a way to use those traditional foods in a fast food environment, for example, (& straight off the top of my head using lando's first suggestion) bacon patty topped with deep fried cabbage, served on a soda bun.

But that wouldn't be an irish dish. Just because it use the same ingredients as bacon and cabbage doesn't make it irish. If McDs started selling curry milkshakes, they wouldn't be traditional indian dishes.


The is no irish fast food as irish cuisine is generally suited to proper meals, just like french, or italian cuisine, neither of which have any basis in fast food.
Irish food belongs in irish pubs, and last I checked we were doing pretty well there

Shoelaces

Carvery to go? Set up a food stall with a slab a beaaf and some mashed pataytoes with gravy outside any nightclub and you'll be minted

allandanyways

Wouldn't mind a plate of champ after a night out... jaysus that stuff is magical.