Ancient mysteries explained: Spicebags

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  • @viciousKev
    @viciousKev Рік тому +335

    I asked for a spice bag at my local chinese food restaurant and was charged $200 for a bag of opium.

    • @the_local_bigamist
      @the_local_bigamist Рік тому +8

      Address or google maps coordinates please?

    • @FOS1993
      @FOS1993 Рік тому +4

      Bro you scored.

    • @karlthejarl2536
      @karlthejarl2536 Рік тому +2

      That's one spicy bag you got there.

    • @spark5012
      @spark5012 Рік тому +5

      I want to like this but I'm not sure it's a joke.

    • @-xirx-
      @-xirx- Рік тому +4

      Address please!
      Not asking for a friend, I have no friends.
      I do have a raging habit though

  • @IXSOBAKEDXI
    @IXSOBAKEDXI Рік тому +28

    "Vaguely spicy in a kind of detached and spiceless sort of way"
    I dunno why but that has me crying laughing

  • @stankmcdankton6204
    @stankmcdankton6204 Рік тому +192

    Not even Irish, yet I feel my liver getting wiser and more diseased with each one of these videos I watch. You're doin' the Lord's work.

  • @dylerturden8018
    @dylerturden8018 Рік тому +16

    This actually moved me, one of the most emotional, beautiful, hard hitting videos i've ever seen

  • @mysteriousmortal2303
    @mysteriousmortal2303 Рік тому +24

    Spicebags are quite literally the one thing making me want to stay in this country. The Netherlands would be more appealing if I had the guarantee of a spicebag somewhere.

    • @Christian-rn1ur
      @Christian-rn1ur Рік тому +2

      A spicebag is just deep fried salt and pepper whatever, and you'll find them wherever there are Chinese immigrants

    • @fankdaggot8961
      @fankdaggot8961 Рік тому +1

      Closest i could imagine in the Netherlands is a Kapsalon. Best shit ever

    • @matthewzaloudek
      @matthewzaloudek Рік тому +2

      @@Christian-rn1ur I don't think deep frying salt and pepper would produce a bag of chips, shredded chicken, mixed veggies, and spices, but I could be wrong. Never tried it.

    • @RH-ut7qv
      @RH-ut7qv Рік тому +3

      ​@@matthewzaloudek if the salt is mixed with msg, and the pepper is Sichuan, then it'll work.

    • @thedemonnemo
      @thedemonnemo Рік тому +2

      Space Cake, tho' it is good enough for the astronauts, now you can eat it.

  • @gracebm9581
    @gracebm9581 3 роки тому +163

    You're a bloody genius. Next, can you do a video on the Irish Monopoly board? IT HAS KIMMAGE!

    • @meditationsfortheanxiousmind
      @meditationsfortheanxiousmind  3 роки тому +37

      Thank you sister grace 🙏🏻I mentioned that in the kimmage video ! Namaste

    • @spark5012
      @spark5012 Рік тому +4

      I'm from the US. We don't have Kimmage. It sounds serious. I'll keep a lookout for it.

    • @aikighost
      @aikighost 11 місяців тому +1

      @@spark5012 its twinned with kimchi

  • @osamakhan6581
    @osamakhan6581 3 роки тому +17

    Need to get my hands on some of that "Kimmage based technology".

  • @danforde3747
    @danforde3747 3 роки тому +113

    Everyone know spicebags are gateways to munchie boxes. Namaste!

    • @meditationsfortheanxiousmind
      @meditationsfortheanxiousmind  3 роки тому +54

      Thank you for enlightening me brother. This is a new development.. and perhaps munchie boxes lead to ...
      death?

    • @danforde3747
      @danforde3747 3 роки тому +32

      @@meditationsfortheanxiousmind I am happy to share knowledge. As for munchie boxes leading to death, I believe the box represents a coffin.

    • @riveam6479
      @riveam6479 Рік тому

      They're only 2-3€ more. How can this be profitable? Soros subsidising Munch boxes?

  • @andyzhang7890
    @andyzhang7890 10 місяців тому +3

    A food video, a Shitpost, an artistic masterpiece and a philosophical/ existential crisis all in one video. I’ve just stumbled across peak UA-cam.

  • @Hannib4lBarca
    @Hannib4lBarca 3 роки тому +21

    The Sunflower was my local Chinese growing up. I remember my younger brother telling me about the "secret menu" and "spice bags". I thought he was taking the piss, trying to get me to go in and act the fool.

  • @thewebspinner
    @thewebspinner Рік тому +1

    The fact that a spicebag sounds like slang for drugs probably partly explains the shame and paranoia of actually purchasing and consuming one.

  • @hellcat3156
    @hellcat3156 3 роки тому +6

    No spice bags in North America… time to capitalize

    • @avi_s0ncin0
      @avi_s0ncin0 Рік тому +1

      Now you’re thinking like a true American.

  • @jjrossitee
    @jjrossitee 7 місяців тому +1

    Spice bag should also be the name for what you create the next morning with all the bed farts trapped in the sheets.

  • @KevinJDildonik
    @KevinJDildonik 9 місяців тому +1

    Spice bags are now popular in trendy bars in Chicago. Right next to George Motz' repopularized regional smashburger recipes.

  • @DrGlynnWix
    @DrGlynnWix 3 роки тому +31

    I moved away from Ireland a year and a half ago, and I may miss spice bags the most.

    • @Humans_Eh
      @Humans_Eh 3 роки тому +22

      Your story touched my heart. So I put a spice bag in a large envelope and mailed it to UA-cam to send on to you. You should receive it within 28 days (if they don't eat it themselves). No need to thank me...
      Enjoy 👍

    • @msjujuz266
      @msjujuz266 Рік тому +3

      Anyone know do they do them in Northern Ireland? Never heard of them but they look tasty!

    • @doddy225
      @doddy225 Рік тому +1

      We call them salt and pepper chips in the UK maybe ask for that?

    • @youareaspook5897
      @youareaspook5897 Рік тому +2

      @@msjujuz266 ask for a salt and chilli or salt and pepper chicken with chips - or if you have multiple looking for a drunken chow, a salt and chilli munchy box will do you alright

    • @BadlydrawnBen
      @BadlydrawnBen Рік тому +1

      Loaded fries ?

  • @prawduhgee8834
    @prawduhgee8834 Рік тому +7

    I don't know how the hell this ended up in my recommendations but you sir have earned a subscriber.

  • @eldemcan
    @eldemcan 3 роки тому +11

    I undo my like just to re like it again.

  • @lucasl4644
    @lucasl4644 Рік тому +2

    looks like salt and pepper chips, popular thing to get from chinese chippy in liverpool.

  • @descendingforth
    @descendingforth 2 роки тому +15

    This is truly inspirational.

  • @jamieanthony6024
    @jamieanthony6024 3 роки тому +15

    I have never heard someone getting blackbean sauce on a spicebag 😭

  • @grainnekeogh7625
    @grainnekeogh7625 3 роки тому +19

    Sunflower and Redrice are class.
    I'm waiting for Dublin to catch on to a gravey cheesy chip - the belfastians gave me that beautiful experience.

    • @meditationsfortheanxiousmind
      @meditationsfortheanxiousmind  3 роки тому +10

      Cheese and gravy? that might be the final nail in the coffin ⚰️🙏🏻🙏🏻

    • @plumpooh627
      @plumpooh627 3 роки тому +3

      i had it in swansea.. divine..

    • @dub4life26
      @dub4life26 3 роки тому +12

      @@plumpooh627 its been around in canada for ages.... they call it poutine, but its a dark gateway to a dimension full of arran cardigan wearing hipster pox's arguing about whale music and jaunty angles for hats

    • @yoyoholck
      @yoyoholck 2 роки тому +1

      With salt and vinegar

    • @Paulcorbett7
      @Paulcorbett7 Рік тому +6

      @@dub4life26 no no no, poutine is far too cultured and sophisticated, a gravy cheesy chip is just warm, greasy, vaguely cheesy goodness with chinese black gravy on, absolutely disgusting, but in the best kind of way

  • @cubeh8331
    @cubeh8331 Рік тому +18

    Haha in Scotland we have something similar, although it's called a Munchie box. Basically just a pizza box full of deep fried mayhem.

    • @joelp5093
      @joelp5093 Рік тому +8

      Spice bags are a health food in comparison to a munchie box

    • @iCABALi
      @iCABALi Рік тому +4

      North East of England has them too, and the amount of grease dripping off the kebab meat could drown a baby (not that I've tried)

    • @bumfluffmcregor3730
      @bumfluffmcregor3730 Рік тому

      @@iCABALi they don't have kebab meat

    • @ryanwatterson4038
      @ryanwatterson4038 Рік тому +4

      When you order near closing time, they toss in any old pos unsold piece of wharever laying around, actual jokes how laughably huge they end up if you order after midnight

    • @miracleman2323
      @miracleman2323 Рік тому

      @@bumfluffmcregor3730 to accuse someone of lying about something so trivial and unknown to you is hilarious. bravo, you fool

  • @daled4191
    @daled4191 Рік тому +6

    Legitimately never heard of one but you have persuaded me to make one for tea tonight

  • @donron5380
    @donron5380 Рік тому +15

    Some people go to Ireland for the culture, some for the beautiful scenery, and some go to get pissed in a pub and soak up the excess alcohol with a spicebag.
    I have a goal now, thank you, sir.

  • @TheBearAspirin
    @TheBearAspirin 6 місяців тому +1

    Just visited Ireland from Hawaii. Getting a spicebag was #1 on my list before any of the museums, castles, or culture walks.

  • @spark5012
    @spark5012 Рік тому +1

    Someone could be a Spicebag for Halloween.

  • @lspthrattan
    @lspthrattan Рік тому +4

    Never heard of it before today; now I gotta have it. Dang you to heck for telling me about this!

  • @samhilton4173
    @samhilton4173 Рік тому +2

    I'd never heard of a spicebag before but it looks so feckin good.

  • @williamofdallas
    @williamofdallas Рік тому +2

    music is the track Time from Inception for those curious

  • @adam7896
    @adam7896 Рік тому +1

    Salt and pepper chips, they been banging these in Liverpool for years. Never had one with chicken in though, that's a good addition.

  • @sofa-lofa4241
    @sofa-lofa4241 3 роки тому +4

    Sweet and sour... GET OUT!!!
    nuff said, Namaste 🙏

  • @frydemwingz
    @frydemwingz Рік тому +39

    I want to take a vacation to Ireland just to eat spicebags and drink Buckfast

    • @winkee1915
      @winkee1915 Рік тому +6

      Bucky in ireland? Though that was scotland

    • @dreamcrusher112
      @dreamcrusher112 Рік тому +9

      @@winkee1915 Americans think Ireland and Scotland are the same

    • @joshgriffiths3500
      @joshgriffiths3500 Рік тому

      @@dreamcrusher112 don't forget Wales like they do too 😂

    • @corporatetool2563
      @corporatetool2563 Рік тому +2

      @@dreamcrusher112 Americans and Canadians invented this in the 1950s. Called loaded fries/poutine. Most fastfood chains carry them. Like Arby's, White Castle, Del Taco, In N Out, Wienerschnitzel.

    • @Pjamjam
      @Pjamjam Рік тому +2

      @@corporatetool2563 you saying Americans can pronounce poutine???

  • @bushikciwa
    @bushikciwa 4 місяці тому +1

    Video had me thinking about my mortality 1/2 way through

  • @fatmandoobius
    @fatmandoobius Рік тому +15

    I had no idea this was a thing until now, I realise this is what my life was missing up until now. I need a spice bag.

    • @aikighost
      @aikighost 11 місяців тому

      to be fair they are pretty boss after a night out on the lash.

  • @purdysanchez
    @purdysanchez 11 місяців тому +1

    Everyone over on that group of islands seems to think peas or beans are a sauce. They're not a sauce they're a side dish or a soup. The only way they're a sauce is if you puree them into a sauce.

  • @The_Conundrum_Crew
    @The_Conundrum_Crew Рік тому +1

    I was taught that spices are used to hide freezer burn.

  • @spark5012
    @spark5012 Рік тому +1

    You are brilliant. I'm 12,000 miles from Ireland.

  • @j377yb33n
    @j377yb33n 3 роки тому +11

    you can kinda tell if the town your in is cut off from society, if the chinese restaurant contained within know what a spice bag is.

  • @nickjames4497
    @nickjames4497 Рік тому +3

    Never heard of a spice bag in England….But I would like on on a Friday night walking home from the pub…

    • @davekennedy6315
      @davekennedy6315 Рік тому +1

      Or you'd end up with a bag of the homeless and imprisoned masses favourite synthetic THC brain melter!

  • @jackking5567
    @jackking5567 Рік тому +2

    Gosh a spice bag looks appealing! Nowt like that here in NE England :(

  • @angrypeasant7308
    @angrypeasant7308 Рік тому +25

    Not really familiar with Irish culture, but the guy is hilarious

    • @riveam6479
      @riveam6479 Рік тому +10

      Just like an Irish person.

    • @71dembonesTV
      @71dembonesTV Рік тому +6

      me either but i have a feeling i will be soon

  • @skyrocketautomotive
    @skyrocketautomotive Рік тому +32

    I've just found your channel through your 12.5g amber leaf video. I have no idea why it's so addictive but it's hilarious 🤣

    • @Jack-kp4qo
      @Jack-kp4qo Рік тому +5

      Me to, the amber leaf video is pure gold 😂

    • @perrygriffin2371
      @perrygriffin2371 Рік тому +1

      Saaaaaame used to smoke amber leaf from school days, luckily kicked the habit

    • @allways28
      @allways28 Рік тому +2

      its only when I watched that video did I truly appreciate the hole left in my heart by the absence of the 12.5g bag of hand made moments

  • @imjasonennis3624
    @imjasonennis3624 3 роки тому +7

    Sunflower may be the original but they've let it go to their head. Sunkist in churchtown does the best.

  • @itsmederek1
    @itsmederek1 Рік тому +3

    This is fantastic content

  • @AnabolicSaagAloo
    @AnabolicSaagAloo 3 роки тому +4

    A modern day Yeats. Youre on 🔥🔥🔥 with these vids.

  • @h2h322
    @h2h322 Рік тому +4

    youre giving me insane limmy's show vibes. pls keep it going, love the tiktok too

  • @SolracFS
    @SolracFS Рік тому +2

    Amazing. Thanks for the wisdom.

  • @Sickiey
    @Sickiey 3 роки тому +4

    Kimage based technology,,, is just a guy that knows stuff...

  • @luket.4101
    @luket.4101 3 роки тому +4

    is this the knowledge that lays behind the minds of all schizophrenics? we should pay more attention to them

  • @FrankFurther
    @FrankFurther Рік тому +4

    Hans Zimmerman can make anything inspirational

  • @TOMMY7JJ
    @TOMMY7JJ Рік тому +1

    This is art.

  • @m-hcv
    @m-hcv Рік тому +1

    Never seen a spice bag but they look pretty good

  • @johnmc3862
    @johnmc3862 2 роки тому +2

    A spice bag is just an Indian snack box.

  • @Mumbamumba
    @Mumbamumba Рік тому +1

    This video made me want to get way too drunk and then have a spice bag.

  • @heinz9613
    @heinz9613 3 роки тому +3

    Top 10 rappers emeinem was afraid to diss

  • @picayuneambedo5929
    @picayuneambedo5929 Рік тому +2

    holy shit these sound fit why're our takeaways not doin em?!?!?!?!

  • @mostlycusimbored
    @mostlycusimbored Рік тому

    In the US ten years ago a spice bag was something very different

  • @pimpz7409
    @pimpz7409 Рік тому +1

    Can you do a video on croagh patrick? Love the videos keep up the great work, appreciate you brother man

  • @marcreep
    @marcreep Рік тому

    now i know what im eating for the rest of my life

  • @palaceofwisdom9448
    @palaceofwisdom9448 Рік тому

    We don't have this in America. For a moment I thought the Spice Girls were making a comeback.

  • @3Zclap
    @3Zclap Рік тому

    peanut satay is the way to go for the spice bag

  • @wildatlanticwitch5942
    @wildatlanticwitch5942 3 роки тому +7

    Galway seems to becoming the DC of this spicebag craze since 'Xian opened up on Quay street, tempting the people who've been kicked out of Fibbers or at the end of a sesh... Some day soon we won't be famous for our stoners but for our growing spice bag culture... Definitely sounds a bit Orwellian.

  • @mr_t_green7860
    @mr_t_green7860 Рік тому

    I've never been to Ireland but to be honest it sounds like my kind of place.

  • @finnkdy
    @finnkdy Рік тому

    This is Aristotle re-born,
    or Jimmy from Hackballscross screwing de matrix.

  • @saadishsnake
    @saadishsnake Рік тому +2

    Guess I need to move to Ireland to better understand some of these videos lol

  • @joeybtheman1906
    @joeybtheman1906 3 роки тому +4

    fucking art work!

  • @RyanTheMan000
    @RyanTheMan000 2 роки тому +1

    Youngs, Finglas:
    Need to calm down on the salt and unions in their spice bags.
    This is fact

  • @friendlyfire9379
    @friendlyfire9379 Рік тому

    I was an exchange student in Ireland and yep the spice bag is holy and I hate that I don't have one right now.

  • @mugstanmuggy7041
    @mugstanmuggy7041 Рік тому +1

    "Vaguely spicey in a kind of detached and spiceless sort of way"
    Are we sure the irish can handle this level of heat???

  • @Kosmopoli
    @Kosmopoli Рік тому

    I thought the thumbnail was youtuber but realized the main character was the red sweatshirt man on his shoulder

  • @anamewithnoface1330
    @anamewithnoface1330 Рік тому

    Dis one doing numbers.

  • @Svoorhout85
    @Svoorhout85 Рік тому +5

    It reminds me of the Dutch "kapsalon". It fries loaded with shoarma, cheese, lettuce and sauce in an aluminium tray. Spice bags dont sound half bad imo. Definetly an assault to your health though.

    • @spark5012
      @spark5012 Рік тому

      It seems like fries married chicken strips, Fajitas, poutine and curry. The pretense of a balanced meal with five times the grease. If Singapore rice noodles decided to kill people.

    • @Bigbellyboyz
      @Bigbellyboyz Рік тому +1

      kapsalon is beter dan een spicebag

    • @MustyUnderboob
      @MustyUnderboob Рік тому +1

      ​@music don't insult our spicebag with your Dutch shoarma muck.

    • @Bigbellyboyz
      @Bigbellyboyz Рік тому +1

      @@MustyUnderboob you are just mad because you know its true

    • @MustyUnderboob
      @MustyUnderboob Рік тому +1

      @@Bigbellyboyz Spicebags ftw.

  • @Quansem
    @Quansem Місяць тому

    Step 1: move to Vancouver BC Canada.
    Step 2: start a spicebag food truck and charge $28 per serving.
    Step 3: realize that even if you corner the spicebag market, you'll never be able to afford to live here.
    Step 4: move back to Ireland.

  • @chemiKalz
    @chemiKalz Рік тому

    We need spice bags in the US. Sounds delicious

  • @katep560
    @katep560 Рік тому

    Expect an influx Frankie, America has discovered the spice bag 😂

  • @corporatetool2563
    @corporatetool2563 Рік тому

    The true origin is from 1950s America and Canada. Loaded fries or poutine.

  • @BonkMachine
    @BonkMachine Рік тому

    last time I had a bad of spice, I talked 2 hours to someone who left said time ago

  • @nottellingyou7520
    @nottellingyou7520 Рік тому

    They’re called salt and pepper boxes where I live

  • @Winteramen
    @Winteramen Рік тому +1

    Autentick choinese restaurant to order the only non-autentik choinese thing on the menu
    Thanks for the shout out my brother

  • @samabrahams7687
    @samabrahams7687 Рік тому

    Just had the spice bag but the new upgrade the pizza box version 😂

  • @Wawawalulu
    @Wawawalulu Рік тому

    The Aus version is the HSP, i suppose. I'm vegetarian so a spice bag with chips and veggies looks better, ngl.

  • @daraclancy2875
    @daraclancy2875 3 роки тому +2

    I love spicebags

  • @sakomeow
    @sakomeow Рік тому +1

    how the fuck does america not have this

  • @sittingduhk
    @sittingduhk Рік тому

    "Spoise Bag"

  • @symphantic4552
    @symphantic4552 Рік тому

    Ireland discovers poutine

  • @lankyGigantic
    @lankyGigantic Рік тому

    Spicebags need to come to the UK

    • @toeknee325
      @toeknee325 Рік тому

      It's called Salt and Pepper chips over here

  • @imnotsurewhattoputhere1539
    @imnotsurewhattoputhere1539 Рік тому

    This feels threatening

  • @thecaptain3773
    @thecaptain3773 Рік тому +5

    I'm learning more of my cultural heritage from this channel than any history books, my family's been in the states for centuries, but the call of home is still there.

  • @bbbbBEOTCH
    @bbbbBEOTCH Рік тому

    finally somethin overseas thas edible

  • @leetarrant5630
    @leetarrant5630 Рік тому

    This just made me really hungry

  • @justinr9784
    @justinr9784 Рік тому

    You guys need to get on the HSP bandwagon... it's basically like a spice bag but a whole lot less miserable looking.

  • @OneTreeProd
    @OneTreeProd Рік тому

    Inception music ftw

  • @powerfulconfusion4817
    @powerfulconfusion4817 Рік тому

    Never been interested in Ireland's culture.... Untill now

  • @-HustleUnion-
    @-HustleUnion- Рік тому

    now that i know its a thing i want some

  • @CatNerfer3000
    @CatNerfer3000 Рік тому

    This looks like someone took their left over McDonald's and spike it into the pavement.

  • @Dewsta26
    @Dewsta26 Рік тому

    Can you do one about the pyjama generation who wear pyjamas out?

  • @_AZAZEL_
    @_AZAZEL_ 3 роки тому +2

    Its true they did originate from that chinese

  • @Jozztime
    @Jozztime Рік тому +17

    A 10 minute sabbatical from everyday life, you sir are a genius.

  • @rudidedog243
    @rudidedog243 Рік тому

    Spice bags never had one, they are food and drink for Dublin junkies.

  • @severalwhitespaces
    @severalwhitespaces Рік тому

    Listen here buster: you just earned a sub :)