As an American I must say that if one of you enterprising Irish folk would move to The States and open a Spice Bag shop it would basically be a license to print money.
Absolutely. Open a store in a popular people gathering area and people will flock (we have three good popular malls in my state. A to-go Pizza Hut opened in my local mall and the line is literally 25+ deep).
@@rogermccaslin5963 I dunno, out of fast food pizza, I would rate Pizza Hut at the top. Dominoes and Little Caesars sucks, never tried Papa Johns but heard they were decent.
@@mikevisby8744 The Pizza huts around me all closed down. Never had Little Caesars. Dominoes is awful. Had Papa John's once at work. It was okay but definitely nothing to write home about. I'm more of a mom and pop pizza shop kind of guy anyway. I'd rather pay a couple of extra bucks and get better quality.
In Taiwan, there are carts/stands just randomly dotted around that are nothing more (or less) than a big deep fryer and an enormous spread of various bite-size morsels of starchy, meaty goodness. Fries, chicken, veggies are standard, but also things like rice cake (mochi) and fish cake, which when fried are crispy on the outside and tender and juicy when you bite into them. You get a small basket and pick the items you want, hand it off to the person running the stall, and they hand you back a bag of goodies that they top off with pepper, white pepper, salt, and cilantro (which you can get deep-fried as well). In colder weather, you can go into convenience stores and get a kind of deconstructed stew, where all the veggies and other fixings are on skewers and you can get as much or as little soup as you want with your takeaway.
@@Dimpdis818 can I also get that in eel? Cause I freaking love eels, I know England use to love it's eels, but it doesn't sound like it's a thing there anymore.
I've always wanted a spice bag. It's up there in the great annals of all trashy food. It sits alongside Garbage plates and Poutine. As an Irish Canadian it just appeals to me so much., so yeah I get it. Big brown bag of brown food is right up my alley.
I've never eaten official Canadian Poutin. The closest I've had was baked fries covered in beef gravy made from a packet. It was a cheap meal I used to eat when I first moved out of my parents house.
I was thinking this was probably an Irish version of poutine.....which I desperately want to try but have never been anywhere that had poutine on the menu.
I am American and I TOTALLY agree that THIS is the perfect IDEAL thing to get, drunk or not. It JUST looks so fantastic!! I'm talking crispy chicken & chips.
Up in the great plains of the US, they have a dish called chislic. Chunks of deep fried deer meat. You won't find chislic on the menu at a restaurant, but it's available at most bars, especially the rural bars. You also won't get a curry cup to dip, just sprinkle on some seasoned salt. Fries/chips would be an additional side.
Great video! Never heard of those spice bags before. Reminds me of something we do have here in The States, Steak in a Sack. But we don't have a curry sauce. Now I feel we're missing out. I would like to say thank you to Bláithín..... I shall now always call it NOFU.
Peruvian "Chinese" food (Peru has a surprisingly large number of East Asian immigrants and their descendants) also has fried potatoes. I wonder if Irish "Chinese" is closer to Peruvian "Chinese" than other varieties.
@davidray6962 🤣 I made my friends take me to one last time I visited. I figured it was my second trip, and I had read about them in novels so much, it was time to try one. It was just okay. And her husband put so much salt in the food at the house, that I was worried about eating in the restaurant and undoing what I had sweat off at the gym. My feet were extremely swollen because of the sodium in the food. How to join a gym on vacation to get rid of it, smh
Anne is damn right about satay sauce (saté), it's absolutely divine with fries/chicken, here in the Netherlands, if you go to a chips shop, you can ask for a Patatje (fries) Oorlog, it basically means war fries, and it's exactly that, fries with saté sauce, i won't lie in our household we eat a lot of things with it haha, it's so easy to just make your own, and you can easily make it to your liking, add more spices, peppers, what not, it's the best.
It's so old too, every snackbar has had their version since forever. But if you tell foreigners about a sweet savory peanutsauce they think you're mad. My mom was indo, we have our own recipe, it goes great with so many things, crunchy bread, vegetables, meat, fries. Dutch people are rather fond of food that's a bit exotic.
I think parts of the States do a thing called a 'walking taco' that is of a similar nature. Canadians approach it from the other direction, with poutine. I think the ever-expanding web of poutine variants is getting closer to the spice bag as time and cuisine for drunk people progresses.
True. I know if a vegetarian/vegan restaurant that did a poutine. It wasn't on the menu, but the couple sitting next to us were in the know, regulars, and ordered it bc they loved it
I'm English, 48 and have been very fortunate to travel the world and live half my life in Africa. I have always wanted to visit Ireland and to my great shame I have not yet managed it. These TRY channel vids have convinced me to book a ticket. The first thing I'm going to try is a Spice Bag.
I need this in my life. There was a spot in Portland Oregon that had this, at a food cart.....There are gone, Need to find a new vender. Looks amazing. 😊
Also have to say that I don't think I have ever seen your tryers ALL enjoy what they're tasting THIS much before. You have finally given them exactly what they wanted.
My food knowledge expanded immensely with this video! I've never heard of such a dish in Canada and now I'm seeking this out! This will be added to my To-do list of stuff to do in Ireland!
I have some friends currently in Ireland. I told specifically to try a Spice Bag and to let me know how it is. I certainly hope that they don't miss out!!
We're from Belfast, Spice bags are still very rare up here, but I do believe they are the future - Salt & Chilli (or sometimes Salt & Pepper) boxes are a little more common. We were in Dublin until yesterday, and got the Dry Spice Bag from the Summer Inn on Thomas Street (Home of the TikTok Wrappo) and it was the greatest thing ever!!! +Bonus points if you order a portion of Satay Sauce too!!!
That’s ingenious! The Irish have put a whole new spin on the bag lunch! Yep dry old samwich some fruit “maybe” and some old Frito’s or tater chips “ lays” bag chips , and a warm pop/soda can if we were lucky. I’m 70 so our lunches were very different way back 65 years ago. This Irish bag meal? I’m so sheltered 😂. The is the first time 🤚🏼 I’ve ever heard of this !!!Thanks for sharing. I’m gona give this Irish yummy bag a go ✌🏼🫶
I am really hoping that Chinese Food restaurants in Canada will see this video and consider adding Irish Spice Bags to their menus! Had never heard of Spice Bags before this. It reminded me of learning that Chicken Tikka Masala is supposed to have been created in a restaurant in Glasgow.
Yup, I can definitely see myself occasionally eating this instead of a Döner Kebab or a Currywurst after getting wasted several times over. That stuff looks good. ^^
As an American I’d be all over that. How about you Irish bring them to us? After all, you did say if it’s in a foreign country it would have been made in an Irish run Chinese restaurant. 😂
@@AmberJays no it hasnt been in scotland and not it wasnt started in liverpool,you have salt and chilli chips etc like most chinese takeaways..the seasoning and curry sauce alone are what make the taste different as its inspired by chinese food..you might have had similiar but you dont have the real thing
For those not familiar, when Gráinne said these bags would be good with “corn meat” (7:07), she was referring to Quorn, a popular meat substitute in the UK & Europe. It’s made from a fungus. No such thing as “corn meat” - at least, as far as I know. 🤔😉😂
Surprisingly, I've actually seen the equivalent at several of my local Chinese buffet restaurants under the name of "salt and pepper chicken." I have to say that using actual fries rather than diced potato pieces and putting it in a paper sack is definitely an Irish thing. And...now, I want to go to a Chinese buffet.
Pretty sure this idea started in the 80s in Malaysia near the American bases. Remember carts selling local style food with fries in a bag with curry.... was frakkin delicious
Scottish Canadian here couldn't agree more, have you ever had Goulash on fries ?? If you have any good Hungarian restaurants near ya gotta try it. Learn to make Goulash myself and its bigger hit with my kids then Poutine or Chilli-cheese fries
Surely the cheese curds are a huge component of poutine. There is no cheese in a spice bag. Before spice bags there was always the Supermac's chip combinations. Chips in a tray with curry or garlic sauce and you could also add grated cheese which goes all gooey. My favourite was curry chips and garlic chips if I was really being bold!
Like pizza, Chinese food is re-interpreted in every country in the world. There are lots of dishes on a typical American Chinese menu that were invented here (like General Tso's chicken and sweet-and-sour pork with pineapple). But potatoes seem so non-Chinese. It doesn't matter, though. What matters is whether it's good, and this looks good. 8:08 - Hot damn! It's the Soggy Bottom Boys! 'I am a man of constant sorrow, I've seen trouble all my days...'
Very true. A lot of what we consider "Chinese" here in the USA was the result of 19th- and early 20th-century Chinese immigrants adapting their recipes, both to make use of more easily-obtainable local ingredients, and to appeal to the tastes of Westerners who ventured into the restaurants in theiir local Chinatowns looking for something "exotic", but not *too* exotic...
The closest Chinese place to me has General Tso's _Beef._ It is SOOOOOOO good. We call it "Meat Candy" and would like to buy it by the KFC bucket. Wonderful place that doesn't skimp on the portions, but definitely not particularly authentic.
In the US this would a 2 piece leg and a wing, fries , jalapeno pepper and big fresh yeasty dinner roll. you can get your chicken from tame to inferno battered as well. We had a mom & pop place in my neighborhood open late at night since 1960s til covid. lts missed dearly.
@@AuroraMeansDawn27 Hey, one place I used to hang out had an old Mexican woman come by every night pulling a wagon with 2 coolers full of fresh tamales. You bet they were good! A van for spice bags? How about a food truck making them instead, easy and fresh.
@Oldbmwr100rs when I would go to Britain we went out night clubbing, they used to have burger vans in the parking lots, or on the streets. They made a killing. Also with fish and chip shops staying open late. But these spice bags need to come to Canada lol
I remembered when Sean mentioned spice bags in the Epcot video and I had to get one when I went to Dublin. Ended up getting a duck spice bag, and it was delicious.
I am so happy I knew these were a thing! Just about to finish a vacation in Ireland and we didn't have a chance to get a spice bag the whole time. Before heading into the airport I saw that there was a spot 10 min away in Swords and so we made a stop. Absolutely lives up to the hype! I now have yet another reason to come back to Ireland! (Or I may just have to open up shop in the US. And still come visit.)
It's Satay sauce, or more commonly called Saté, it's indonesian, it's a peanut based sauce, usually with different types of spices, peppers (sambal), brown sugar (palm), and other things, it's really savoury, salty, sweet, spicy, it has all the good things, it's absolutely amazing with fries, fried rice, chicken, you name it lol.
I think Anne had the most fun in this shoot. But I'm getting swayed by the fact that Seamus did most of the talking while Grainne was doing what God intended when food was put in front of you.
@@Vlammenzee OH! Thank you for teaching me!! Where I live, there are no restaurants other than chains like Taco Bell and two Chinese buffets. No international cuisine at all. Sounds delicious.
We Americans have something similar to the spice bag (at least in the hood) small bags of Doritos or Fritos doused in hot sauce. Also chili and cheese Fritos and hot sauce fries.
I’m from The Netherlands but never heard of it !! It looks nice! We have allot of food from all kind of cultures . I am sure this is going to be sold well over here 👏🏼👏🏼
I keep seeing more and more videos here on TH-cam by American cooks extolling the pleasures of the Irish Spice Bag. This definitely needs to make its way westward!
As a New Yorker….her is a similar thing…especially Uptown-ish. Most ppl get only fried chicken & french fries @ those Chinese places. And the cooks arent Chinese. Its a totally different story in Chinatown however. That is AUTHENTIC! The food and the cooks.
It's Salt and Chili chicken/beef/etc with chips and curry sauce. You can get exactly the same thing in other countries. Is the innovation that you can get it in one brown paper bag rather than 2 bags and a container?
I’d never heard of this until earlier this morning , and then you post this video. I’ll be going to Ireland in December, and this is definitely on my hit list.
There is something similar to your spice bags over here in the states called a garbage plate. It comes with either a burger patty or two hot dogs, cheese, chili, served over fries. Literally a garbage plate is anything you want it to be, but the main ingredients usually are fries, cheese, chili, burgers or hotdogs anything else is your own spin
Hi, from Canada. 🙂 I was very interested in seeing this video because I love food & have never heard about Irish Spice Bags before. It seems like the Irish Chinese version of Canadian poutine. You have your chips/french fries, your toppings & your gravy - each country doing its own variation. I certainly like poutine - (I'd probably be shipped out of Canada if I didn't, despite being born here) but your Irish Spice Bag looks REALLY good too. I would love to try one - esp. the chicken one! We also have a Canadian Chinese dish that you don't find elsewhere, I have learned - (but it is more on the Chinese side of the equation) which is called Chinese ginger chicken. It is only found in Chinese restaurants & those located in Canada. Enjoy your food (for me who can't!) & I'll be seeing you again.
As an American I must say that if one of you enterprising Irish folk would move to The States and open a Spice Bag shop it would basically be a license to print money.
Absolutely. Open a store in a popular people gathering area and people will flock (we have three good popular malls in my state. A to-go Pizza Hut opened in my local mall and the line is literally 25+ deep).
Yup deep fried nummies!
@@GeorgieB1965
I don't know if that's impressive or sad. 🤔😁
@@rogermccaslin5963 I dunno, out of fast food pizza, I would rate Pizza Hut at the top. Dominoes and Little Caesars sucks, never tried Papa Johns but heard they were decent.
@@mikevisby8744
The Pizza huts around me all closed down. Never had Little Caesars. Dominoes is awful. Had Papa John's once at work. It was okay but definitely nothing to write home about.
I'm more of a mom and pop pizza shop kind of guy anyway. I'd rather pay a couple of extra bucks and get better quality.
I have no clue how this isn't a thing in America! I want one so bad!
Loaded fries would be the closest thing to that, I think.
True, but we could play that game with so many things between countries. We need an official food trade talk in the UN lol
Those fritos bags at events that they add a bunch of stuff to.
I was thinking the same thing! We'd go mad for this in the US. There's a lot of money to be made here, especially on the west coast.
@@CCFONESOL Are you talking about walking tacos?
The most Irish invention I've ever heard of. 'Let's go for a Chinese, but we're Irish, so we must add potatoes!!' 😆🤣
is this just Irish poutine
@@TheFallenFaob That was my immediate thought--sounds a lot like poutine
Yeah it's literally not. Steak and potatoes is the most Irish thing ever. Stop simping to this low I QBs
Well to be fair, potatoes are common ingredients in some Chinese cooking, it's just that they are in different forms.
As someone who lives in China I can tell you that there are A LOT of Chinese dishes that include potatoes 🥔
In Taiwan, there are carts/stands just randomly dotted around that are nothing more (or less) than a big deep fryer and an enormous spread of various bite-size morsels of starchy, meaty goodness. Fries, chicken, veggies are standard, but also things like rice cake (mochi) and fish cake, which when fried are crispy on the outside and tender and juicy when you bite into them. You get a small basket and pick the items you want, hand it off to the person running the stall, and they hand you back a bag of goodies that they top off with pepper, white pepper, salt, and cilantro (which you can get deep-fried as well).
In colder weather, you can go into convenience stores and get a kind of deconstructed stew, where all the veggies and other fixings are on skewers and you can get as much or as little soup as you want with your takeaway.
This looks delicious, why isn’t there a shrimp spice bag? It would be awesome.
I was hoping that for Dermot they would come up with a pigs' foot spice bag.
Yeah!
Gumbo, but dry lol
@@Dimpdis818 can I also get that in eel? Cause I freaking love eels, I know England use to love it's eels, but it doesn't sound like it's a thing there anymore.
I'm on my way home from work. In a hurry. Got a takeaway. Prawn spice bag. I'm sitting at a roundabout drooling....
I've always wanted a spice bag. It's up there in the great annals of all trashy food. It sits alongside Garbage plates and Poutine. As an Irish Canadian it just appeals to me so much., so yeah I get it. Big brown bag of brown food is right up my alley.
I've never eaten official Canadian Poutin. The closest I've had was baked fries covered in beef gravy made from a packet. It was a cheap meal I used to eat when I first moved out of my parents house.
I was thinking this was probably an Irish version of poutine.....which I desperately want to try but have never been anywhere that had poutine on the menu.
@@sidneyvandykeii3169, my only encounter with real Canadian poutine was at a McDonald's 😆
I love how Dermot immediately goes to what Americans would think about Spice Bags. Dude, we eat Taco Bell and Waffle House when we are drunk!!!
Also White Castle or Krystal’s depending on where you live.
Or sober.
Krystal’s when you’re drunk!!! YES!!!
Where I am, it’s White Castle and it’s always with extra onions to go along with my Guinness.
If you are in the South West it's danger dogs & whatever else the food cart offers.
I am American and I TOTALLY agree that THIS is the perfect IDEAL thing to get, drunk or not. It JUST looks so fantastic!! I'm talking crispy chicken & chips.
I live in Texas and I’m shocked this isn’t a thing here! It looks like it would go over so good here. We love everything fried!
"It doesn't taste bad but it feels bad" is a great description of every tofu dish I have ever tried!
Tofu needs to be cooked properly to have a meaty texture. Otherwise, it's just chewy.
@@veganleigh4817 I liked it if it's fried properly.
Press the water out, marinate it, and put in air fryer. Delicious.
Tofu is so easy to make wrong.
Never heard of this food, but sounds good!
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Never heard of it. But it certainly made me hungry
Should have done this with a drink roulette beforehand! Would have been perfect!
This is the way
Up in the great plains of the US, they have a dish called chislic. Chunks of deep fried deer meat. You won't find chislic on the menu at a restaurant, but it's available at most bars, especially the rural bars. You also won't get a curry cup to dip, just sprinkle on some seasoned salt. Fries/chips would be an additional side.
The Irish spice bags looks very good, I wouldn't mind trying it.
The bag needs loops on the side, so you can hook them on your ears and eat it like a horse's feedbag.
Literally one of the first things I'm ordering when I land in Dublin tomorrow, this video has been TAUNTING me for months
Great video! Never heard of those spice bags before.
Reminds me of something we do have here in The States, Steak in a Sack. But we don't have a curry sauce. Now I feel we're missing out.
I would like to say thank you to Bláithín..... I shall now always call it NOFU.
Steak in a sack???? What?????
Peruvian "Chinese" food (Peru has a surprisingly large number of East Asian immigrants and their descendants) also has fried potatoes. I wonder if Irish "Chinese" is closer to Peruvian "Chinese" than other varieties.
Omg, you've been to a chifa!?
@@LindaC616 not in Peru, but I've eaten enough to know I like lomo saltado.
@davidray6962 🤣 I made my friends take me to one last time I visited. I figured it was my second trip, and I had read about them in novels so much, it was time to try one. It was just okay. And her husband put so much salt in the food at the house, that I was worried about eating in the restaurant and undoing what I had sweat off at the gym. My feet were extremely swollen because of the sodium in the food. How to join a gym on vacation to get rid of it, smh
An American that has been to Peru, this does have very heavy Lomo Saltado vibes.
❤😊@@LindaC616
yep. American here. I've never heard of a spice bag, but I'd love to try it!
Anne is damn right about satay sauce (saté), it's absolutely divine with fries/chicken, here in the Netherlands, if you go to a chips shop, you can ask for a Patatje (fries) Oorlog, it basically means war fries, and it's exactly that, fries with saté sauce, i won't lie in our household we eat a lot of things with it haha, it's so easy to just make your own, and you can easily make it to your liking, add more spices, peppers, what not, it's the best.
It's so old too, every snackbar has had their version since forever. But if you tell foreigners about a sweet savory peanutsauce they think you're mad. My mom was indo, we have our own recipe, it goes great with so many things, crunchy bread, vegetables, meat, fries. Dutch people are rather fond of food that's a bit exotic.
We got Thai food for the first time in ages last night and I got a little Massaman curry dipping sauce as an extra and it is divine!
I think parts of the States do a thing called a 'walking taco' that is of a similar nature. Canadians approach it from the other direction, with poutine. I think the ever-expanding web of poutine variants is getting closer to the spice bag as time and cuisine for drunk people progresses.
True. I know if a vegetarian/vegan restaurant that did a poutine. It wasn't on the menu, but the couple sitting next to us were in the know, regulars, and ordered it bc they loved it
I would LOVE to eat one of the spice bags. They look so good!
The more I learn about spice bags, the more I want them in the US!
I'm English, 48 and have been very fortunate to travel the world and live half my life in Africa. I have always wanted to visit Ireland and to my great shame I have not yet managed it. These TRY channel vids have convinced me to book a ticket. The first thing I'm going to try is a Spice Bag.
those look so yummy. We need these in America.
Walking taco
I need this in my life. There was a spot in Portland Oregon that had this, at a food cart.....There are gone, Need to find a new vender. Looks amazing. 😊
In the netherlands you could replicate this by getting pepper, stelt and chili chicken/beef/shrimp. Buy chips and throw it together
Also have to say that I don't think I have ever seen your tryers ALL enjoy what they're tasting THIS much before. You have finally given them exactly what they wanted.
Control the spice bags, control the galaxy
They must flow!
My food knowledge expanded immensely with this video! I've never heard of such a dish in Canada and now I'm seeking this out! This will be added to my To-do list of stuff to do in Ireland!
I love spice bags. I had one from Chop Chop the 1st time I visited Ireland. Need to try a 3 in 1 next time.
How about a 4 in 1
Glad that Sean and Colin fed their friends, and shared the experience with us
I have some friends currently in Ireland. I told specifically to try a Spice Bag and to let me know how it is. I certainly hope that they don't miss out!!
We're from Belfast, Spice bags are still very rare up here, but I do believe they are the future - Salt & Chilli (or sometimes Salt & Pepper) boxes are a little more common.
We were in Dublin until yesterday, and got the Dry Spice Bag from the Summer Inn on Thomas Street (Home of the TikTok Wrappo) and it was the greatest thing ever!!! +Bonus points if you order a portion of Satay Sauce too!!!
We need this in Minnesota!😮
That’s ingenious! The Irish have put a whole new spin on the bag lunch! Yep dry old samwich some fruit “maybe” and some old Frito’s or tater chips “ lays” bag chips , and a warm pop/soda can if we were lucky. I’m 70 so our lunches were very different way back 65 years ago. This Irish bag meal? I’m so sheltered 😂. The is the first time 🤚🏼 I’ve ever heard of this !!!Thanks for sharing. I’m gona give this Irish yummy bag a go ✌🏼🫶
OMG, that looks so good! Bring the spice bag to America!
Oh, I would love to try something like this! Someone... Bring them to the US please!
Here in Scotland we don't get spice bags, but we do get munchie boxes from takeaways, the Chinese near me does a salt and chilli munchie box.
As a vegetarian, I thought that was one meal I would never experience. When they brought out the spice bag with tofu, I got excited!
Wow!!! Trying a Spice Bag in Ireland is now on my bucket list!!!!!
I am really hoping that Chinese Food restaurants in Canada will see this video and consider adding Irish Spice Bags to their menus! Had never heard of Spice Bags before this. It reminded me of learning that Chicken Tikka Masala is supposed to have been created in a restaurant in Glasgow.
Now I know what I'm trying after I have my first fill at the pub in Ireland!
Yup, I can definitely see myself occasionally eating this instead of a Döner Kebab or a Currywurst after getting wasted several times over. That stuff looks good. ^^
Mmmm....currywurst....😋
I love when the tryers have something they enjoy! 🙂👍
I've never heard of a spice bag before, but I'm surprised they don't have one with fried fish. Fried potatoes and fried fish go together oh so well.
Fish and chips is it's own thing. They don't put spices on it, tragically only vinegar 😮
It would be great with scampi 👀
Some Chineses offer prawn bags
I've never heard of this but I would try this.
I'd love to try one.
In England we have a salt and pepper munch box, similar but generally more in it
Best. Drunk. Food. Ever.
Donner kebab
@noneyabizz8337 Donners are delicious (especially after a night out) but Spice Bags are best.
I have been waiting all day for you guys! Much love!
Spice Bags look soooooooo good.
This is now my number one reason to want to visit Ireland. I need this.
"It doesn't taste bad, but it feels bad." That's what we call a universal truth.
never even heard of this
they look and sound ... amazing!!
As an American I’d be all over that. How about you Irish bring them to us? After all, you did say if it’s in a foreign country it would have been made in an Irish run Chinese restaurant. 😂
Amazed this hasn't made its way up to Scotland yet, we love our hangover binge foods. Nothing will ever dethrone the mighty hoagie but it looks class.
It's been in Scotland since the 1960s, what you on about lol. The seasoning was started in Liverpool by the Cantonese community lol.
@@AmberJays no it hasnt been in scotland and not it wasnt started in liverpool,you have salt and chilli chips etc like most chinese takeaways..the seasoning and curry sauce alone are what make the taste different as its inspired by chinese food..you might have had similiar but you dont have the real thing
For those not familiar, when Gráinne said these bags would be good with “corn meat” (7:07), she was referring to Quorn, a popular meat substitute in the UK & Europe. It’s made from a fungus. No such thing as “corn meat” - at least, as far as I know. 🤔😉😂
Funny you say fungus. Instead of tofu I bet a deep fried mushroom would be lovely in one 😂
I've never heard of these. Great learning about them
Surprisingly, I've actually seen the equivalent at several of my local Chinese buffet restaurants under the name of "salt and pepper chicken." I have to say that using actual fries rather than diced potato pieces and putting it in a paper sack is definitely an Irish thing. And...now, I want to go to a Chinese buffet.
Pretty sure this idea started in the 80s in Malaysia near the American bases. Remember carts selling local style food with fries in a bag with curry.... was frakkin delicious
There's a short documentary on TH-cam showing the exact chipper it originated from.
Shannon got me a spice bag and a 3-in-1 (her favorite) when I was in Ireland. I can confirm that they are absolutely delicious 😍
There used to be a place in downtown Seattle that had spice bags. Loved them. The best was the fried shrimp. I would kill for one now.
What is with the curry sauce you heathens
You can't have a spice bag without the curry sauce! 😲
@@TheTRYChannel Absolutely NOT! that is coming from Kellie if I ever heard anything coming from Kellie!! 🤣
As a Canadian of Irish decent I would love this.....chili fries, poutine much the same thing! So yummy!
Scottish Canadian here couldn't agree more, have you ever had Goulash on fries ?? If you have any good Hungarian restaurants near ya gotta try it. Learn to make Goulash myself and its bigger hit with my kids then Poutine or Chilli-cheese fries
Surely the cheese curds are a huge component of poutine. There is no cheese in a spice bag. Before spice bags there was always the Supermac's chip combinations. Chips in a tray with curry or garlic sauce and you could also add grated cheese which goes all gooey. My favourite was curry chips and garlic chips if I was really being bold!
Like pizza, Chinese food is re-interpreted in every country in the world. There are lots of dishes on a typical American Chinese menu that were invented here (like General Tso's chicken and sweet-and-sour pork with pineapple). But potatoes seem so non-Chinese. It doesn't matter, though. What matters is whether it's good, and this looks good.
8:08 - Hot damn! It's the Soggy Bottom Boys! 'I am a man of constant sorrow, I've seen trouble all my days...'
Very true. A lot of what we consider "Chinese" here in the USA was the result of 19th- and early 20th-century Chinese immigrants adapting their recipes, both to make use of more easily-obtainable local ingredients, and to appeal to the tastes of Westerners who ventured into the restaurants in theiir local Chinatowns looking for something "exotic", but not *too* exotic...
The closest Chinese place to me has General Tso's _Beef._ It is SOOOOOOO good. We call it "Meat Candy" and would like to buy it by the KFC bucket. Wonderful place that doesn't skimp on the portions, but definitely not particularly authentic.
In the US this would a 2 piece leg and a wing, fries , jalapeno pepper and big fresh yeasty dinner roll. you can get your chicken from tame to inferno battered as well. We had a mom & pop place in my neighborhood open late at night since 1960s til covid. lts missed dearly.
It's hilarious that anyone thinks something being obviously bad for your health would ever stop an American. Have you *seen* what we eat?
the amount of things someone has come up with a deep-fried version of... they've even done deep-fried ice cream
@@CorvusCorone68 I think we may have peaked at the oreos, though.
Watching Grainne hoover down the first one without looking up was awesome! 🙂
WHY DONT WE HAVE THIS IN CANADA? LOOKS SO GOOD
But you have..Poutine! A world class drunk food if there ever was one!
@Oldbmwr100rs 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 lol Can you just imagine a van, selling these outside of a pub or nightclub?
@@AuroraMeansDawn27 Hey, one place I used to hang out had an old Mexican woman come by every night pulling a wagon with 2 coolers full of fresh tamales. You bet they were good! A van for spice bags? How about a food truck making them instead, easy and fresh.
@Oldbmwr100rs when I would go to Britain we went out night clubbing, they used to have burger vans in the parking lots, or on the streets. They made a killing. Also with fish and chip shops staying open late. But these spice bags need to come to Canada lol
I remembered when Sean mentioned spice bags in the Epcot video and I had to get one when I went to Dublin. Ended up getting a duck spice bag, and it was delicious.
man i wish i had Paddy's hair
I am so happy I knew these were a thing! Just about to finish a vacation in Ireland and we didn't have a chance to get a spice bag the whole time. Before heading into the airport I saw that there was a spot 10 min away in Swords and so we made a stop. Absolutely lives up to the hype! I now have yet another reason to come back to Ireland! (Or I may just have to open up shop in the US. And still come visit.)
Anne was too busy eating to say much. lol I would definitely try the chicken one. I also want to know what Anne's saute sauce is.
It's Satay sauce, or more commonly called Saté, it's indonesian, it's a peanut based sauce, usually with different types of spices, peppers (sambal), brown sugar (palm), and other things, it's really savoury, salty, sweet, spicy, it has all the good things, it's absolutely amazing with fries, fried rice, chicken, you name it lol.
Satay sauce, aka peanut sauce
Look up Satay sauce.
I think Anne had the most fun in this shoot. But I'm getting swayed by the fact that Seamus did most of the talking while Grainne was doing what God intended when food was put in front of you.
@@Vlammenzee OH! Thank you for teaching me!! Where I live, there are no restaurants other than chains like Taco Bell and two Chinese buffets. No international cuisine at all. Sounds delicious.
Dermot's commentaries can be legendary!
Imagine choosing to use ribs in a spice bag when pulled pork exists.
Well, Chinese restaurant. The ribs are already there
I visited Ireland last autumn and never even heard mention of a spice bag.
Clearly, I need to go back. 🤤
Us in the US can't make any comments about how "bad" your spice bags look. We put A LOT of questionable looking things in our faces.
Any American who's eaten a gas station hot dog has put worse thing in their mouth than anyone else on the planet
We Americans have something similar to the spice bag (at least in the hood) small bags of Doritos or Fritos doused in hot sauce. Also chili and cheese Fritos and hot sauce fries.
Wait a second - don't they need to be drunk first? In all seriousness though, Blaithin is starting to grow on me.
Aw, he's growing up....
hello beautiful people
Dermot is genuinely at the top of my celebrities you would have on your dinner party list.
I’m from The Netherlands but never heard of it !! It looks nice! We have allot of food from all kind of cultures . I am sure this is going to be sold well over here 👏🏼👏🏼
I keep seeing more and more videos here on TH-cam by American cooks extolling the pleasures of the Irish Spice Bag. This definitely needs to make its way westward!
One of the best curries I ever had was with cod. The spicebag concept makes me want a fusion of fish & chips and curry...
As someone who grew up in Philly I do appreciate food in a brown paper with grease soaking through.
I first learned of spice bags from you lot and it's one of the few things I wish we had in the States.
As a New Yorker….her is a similar thing…especially Uptown-ish.
Most ppl get only fried chicken & french fries @ those Chinese places.
And the cooks arent Chinese.
Its a totally different story in Chinatown however. That is AUTHENTIC! The food and the cooks.
It is a little bit nice to hear Dermot NOT complaining about being used!
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Made this today... it is great.... I had never heard of it before.
This is everything I never knew I wanted! As if I needed another reason to visit/move to Ireland...
It's Salt and Chili chicken/beef/etc with chips and curry sauce. You can get exactly the same thing in other countries. Is the innovation that you can get it in one brown paper bag rather than 2 bags and a container?
I need a spice bag!! Best reason to visit Dublin again!!💕
I’d never heard of this until earlier this morning , and then you post this video. I’ll be going to Ireland in December, and this is definitely on my hit list.
Lol, I've been there 5 times (4 for work) and it never occurred to me to get one!
There is something similar to your spice bags over here in the states called a garbage plate. It comes with either a burger patty or two hot dogs, cheese, chili, served over fries. Literally a garbage plate is anything you want it to be, but the main ingredients usually are fries, cheese, chili, burgers or hotdogs anything else is your own spin
Ah, fond memories of my trip to Wales in the 90's and being given the choice of fried rice, noodles, or chips with my chinese food.
I’ve never heard of a Spice Bag before. I really want to try one now.
Hi, from Canada. 🙂
I was very interested in seeing this video because I love food & have never heard about Irish Spice Bags before. It seems like the Irish Chinese version of Canadian poutine. You have your chips/french fries, your toppings & your gravy - each country doing its own variation. I certainly like poutine - (I'd probably be shipped out of Canada if I didn't, despite being born here) but your Irish Spice Bag looks REALLY good too. I would love to try one - esp. the chicken one!
We also have a Canadian Chinese dish that you don't find elsewhere, I have learned - (but it is more on the Chinese side of the equation) which is called Chinese ginger chicken. It is only found in Chinese restaurants & those located in Canada.
Enjoy your food (for me who can't!) & I'll be seeing you again.
Never heard of it, never wanted to try something more!
A reunion of OGs Dermot and Blaithin.