Oh good god... the Munchy Box

JonesCrusher on 1/2/2010 at 10:36

wow I used to eat that stuff years ago...but back then it all came in a pita bread off a kebab wagon,on a friday-saturday night...and usually ended up on the pavement, where it sat and waited for the next poor unsuspecting drunk, to skid in it(Rather like garretts oil flasks..lol)....thats a staple here,its why we're in the state we are in,and why we all have bad teeth,and skin like the texture of a pork-pie,but hey...lifes too short to worry...

Nothings changed since way back then...just that they now have a shop instead of a wagon and you get a cardboard trough instead of a pita...but that doesnt matter as they both taste the same,when youre drunk.

quinch on 1/2/2010 at 11:44

I know Saltcoats quite well from childhood caravan holidays at Prestwick (right next to the airport lol.) It seemed quite a nice little seaside town and you can get the ferry to Arran. Probably different at night though eh? ;)

Greasy food, like 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland, is a class thing. You get similar cuisine down here in Sussex in the right places. Don't let any smug southerner tell you otherwise.

Turtle on 1/2/2010 at 12:37

Munchy Box looks like a decent idea executed by a shitty take-out place.

june gloom on 1/2/2010 at 12:47

So what do you guys do when you blow all your money on artery-cloggers? Knock over Wales?

Namdrol on 1/2/2010 at 13:23

I have vivid memories of the turds in the sea at Saltcoats 30 yrs ago.
Saltcoats and Ardrossan (where the ferry to Arran goes from) are heroin riddled sad places. With metal shutters on all the shop windows.
And a pub called the Lord Carson flying a flag saying "Drumcree Road. We will not be moved" (and considering my name is Paddy if I stepped foot in there I wouldn't come out alive)
Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen gives a good view of the poverty side of West Scotland.

Like a lot in Scotland there is a major split in the food, with some of the best and worst.
There are fantastic restaurants and a great new Scottish style focusing on game and seafood, with 15 Michelin stars in a country of 6 million. And not forgetting Irn-Bru.
But then there are the delights shown above.

steo on 1/2/2010 at 13:49

Oh hell yes. I want one. Only problem is, I've just moved to Brighton and have yet to find a decent, cheap fast food place. Fuck all this paying £8 for a 12" margarita pizza, I want to be paying a fiver for any toppings and chips. I guess the problem is that I don't actually eat drunk people food very often, so haven't found a good place to get it yet. That and this damn southern pricing.

PeeperStorm on 2/2/2010 at 02:18

Why does the preferred method of disposal for Crappy Salad seem to be dumping it on the pavement? Don't they have actual waste containers in Scotland? Or are the heaps of garbage in the streets the reason that no one ever wants to go there?

SubJeff on 2/2/2010 at 09:46

Does not compute. People do want to go there.

DDL on 2/2/2010 at 13:13

I also might suggest that people drunk enough to order and consume a Munchy Box are probably not in the correct state of mind to dispose of rubbish/crappy salad in an appropriate receptacle.

Seriously, you need to be pretty wasted to even contemplate one of those.

Namdrol on 2/2/2010 at 13:29

Tourism in Scotland is a growth industry with record numbers in the last few years.
And rightly so, it's beautiful, beautiful country.
With an enlightened government who believe they are here to serve and not be served.
Oh and despite growing up here till I was 10 and then coming back and spending the last 15 years here, I'm English so it ain't national bias.
Because you don't know racism till you've experienced being an Englishman working on a Scottish building site.
And chucking salad on the pavement, I don't know, all over the Uk, outside every kebab shop the first thing that people do is throw the salad on the ground.