“THE HUMBLE spice burger, one of Ireland’s few original contributions to world cuisine, has been saved.
After an extraordinary outpouring of support for Walsh Family Foods, the sole manufacturers of the product, it started making spice burgers again yesterday, just a fortnight after the Finglas-based firm closed with the loss of 50 jobs.
Its demise provoked a huge show of sympathy from disappointed fans after the news was revealed in The Irish Times last month. Newspapers and Facebook groups campaigned to “save our spice burger”, while internet forums were filled with nostalgic recollections of the product’s unique place in Irish food history.”
irishtimes.com
“A friend of mine, back in the day, was the kid on the Spice Burger poster. He was, in very real terms, the Spice Burger Kid. He’s now a respected businessman, so let’s call him Mickey da Spice.
Me: I heard the bad news
MdS: What bad news? What do you know?
Me: The spiceburger. It’s dead, no more spiceburger. The company went bust.
MdS: Aaaa ha ah ha haa. I thought you had something important, you had me scared.
Turns out that Mickey da Spice wasn’t the biggest fan of the product. Always a finicky eater, no spiceburger ever passed his lips”
http://expad.ie/2009/06/18/spiceburger/
