What is a Munchy Box?
In the west of Scotland, in the towns and villages surrounding Glasgow, there is a delicacy available in some of the more discerning fast-food outlets. It’s called the Munchy Box (sometimes just Munch Box) and it’s a sight to behold. The one I bought for this article is a regular-sized one, in a 10″ pizza box for about a fiver, but they can come in 12″ or beyond for eight quid and up.
Upon opening your Jock Monsieur, you will see a layer of Doner Kebab meat on top of a Naan Bread, maybe with some Glasgow Salad (chips) poking out from underneath. The wonders that await!
Once the top layer has been removed, you can clearly see the two tubs of Sauce, the Glasgow Salad on the left and the Crappy Salad in the middle with the Onion Rings, Pakora and Chicken Tikka all huddled together for warmth on the right.
As a serving suggestion, I’ve laid it out with the crappy salad atop the chips, a piece of chicken tikka balanced on top of the salads, an onion ring surrounding a piece of pakora, a wall of doner meat served with a feuille of naan with a choice of two sauces. Sparkling Italian rosé replaced the traditional Irn Bru, but purists be damned!
Or, alternatively, you could just shovel half down your Tennents-lined gullet whilst dropping the other half (crappy salad deliberately, the rest less so) on the pavement.
Next time, I may brave the hallowed Pizza Crunch Supper for your delection. With a half-pizza deep fried in chip-shop batter and piled on a wodge of chips, it truly is the champion of the artery-hardeners.
About the author. I’m an Englishman that lives in Scotland. I used to live here a while back, and in the last year just returned here after 8 years in Paris. This will give my culture shock the background it needs. My Munchy Box was the £4.95 10″ from Tandoori Nights, Stonehouse. Clicking on any images will bring up a 1920px wide version. Comments would be vastly appreciated.
Tags: fun, Scottish Food
June 9th, 2008 at 12:29 am
never knew about this delicacy ! cheers for the info.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:08 am
Just by way of being all modern etc., I decided to post my first comment to a blog. And in the best of traditions, it’s the first comment on this article and it’s *already* off-topic!
Your weather pixie is in Paris - you probably want to have a word and haul its arse up to the frozen northern wastes.
June 9th, 2008 at 3:45 am
Fuck me, that looks superb! It’s several meals in a box! Reminds me of those wines that come in handy boxes for all-night booze enjoyment greatness. How long did it take to eat?
June 9th, 2008 at 6:46 am
That looks awesome. My gustatory tastes tend to run the lower end of the gamut, so that looks right at home in my … well, home.
June 9th, 2008 at 7:22 am
@The Imaginary Reviewer: It took two days to eat. It’s not my first, though. A large one is unmanageable by one normal sober person, over no matter how many days. You need to have at least two of you and some cats and be prepared for it to be dinner, breakfast and maybe lunch.
June 9th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
That looks like a thing of gastronomic delight. I think you will have failed to appreciate it fully with your choice of beverage.
Tainting your pallate with fizzy rose? Shame on you sir!
June 9th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
While it was photographed with a glass of Rosé, it was polished off with a 2l bottle of Barr’s finest.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Do they deliver to the USA? I want one of those!
June 9th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I’m a Scotsman living in England, if I send you a fiver, can you send me one of those down, that’d feed me for a week.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Sounds great! I want one! How long before it gets to the states, or shall I move to Glasgow?
June 9th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
That is making me, a 20 year observing vegetarian, drool.
If only everything was deep-fried in batter - that would make me meat-curious…
BTW - I knew an American who worked in Scotland for a while - he found a chippy that did pizza, so he ordered it and was confounded that it was a fun-size pizza dipped in batter and fried. Sounds good to me!
June 9th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
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June 9th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
ah yes…the gastronomic delights of Scotland. I once, in my younger days, consumed a deep fried pizza with chips and that Edinburgh delicacy…brown sauce. Had it not been for the binge drinking before hand I would have never been tempted by this treat. The fuzzy grease still sticks to the roof of my mouth lo these many years.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
We have something like that in the US. Located in Rochester, New York.
Here’s the original, http://www.garbageplate.com/ while there are a few copies around the area. Typically, 2 cheezburger patties with fried potatoes, pasta salad and all topped with onions, mustard and hot (pepper/meat?) sauce.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Jared, this is a true delight. I had one of those last week (not to myself thankfully) and even 2 of us couldn’t finish it. The mushroom pakora is a particular treat - little buttons of spicy, deep-fried joy! God, I love Glasgow sometimes…especially when we’re world leaders in the culinary world.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
“Upon opening your Jock Monsieur”
Ha ha ha that is brilliant.
On the one hand I am sufficiently sophistcated in my tastes to get the allusion, but not to much so. As I eye the contents of the Munchy Box with a drooling mouth and growling stomach.
That looks brilliant.
Proof it were needed that you can take the boy out of Glasgow but not Glasgow out of the boy!
June 10th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
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June 10th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
God Damn me almighty Lord!
That shit looks amazin’
Im wantin one now here in Philly USA
June 10th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I need that and a Newcastle NOW!!!!!!!!!!
June 11th, 2008 at 12:08 am
ps. Loyal readers, fancy giving it a Digg?
http://digg.com/food_drink/What_is_a_Munchy_Box_2
June 11th, 2008 at 2:36 am
Tarnation! I’m a-wantin’ me one a them things, too! Can’t believe the US has fallen so far behind in junk food technology.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:00 am
Egad! I thought the battered and deep fried Mars Bar took the cake, but I am always pleased to be proved wrong.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:27 am
My brain says no my belly says goooo…!!!!
Looks like just the thing for a Saturday morning hangover.
They should put some buffalo wings in that thing just to get another continent into the box.
This is just one of the reason why I don’t miss living in the UK.
/Trev (Stockholm)
June 11th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
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June 11th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
If you want one in the USA, look no further than the Garbage Plate, made famous by Nick Tahou’s in Rochester, NY
http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/GarbagePlate.htm
June 11th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
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June 11th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Looks like a delightful & pleasing pallett endeavor.But that salad does looks old & wilted.
What kind of ale is good to drink with it?
June 11th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
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June 11th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Well it’s called a “munchy box”
did you try this in the right state of mind?
I couldn’t try this without some legit chronic
June 12th, 2008 at 2:23 am
Oh, to be 21 again, and with my cast-iron stomach.
So what is the “crappy salad”? Is it just a regular salad?
And what’s it doing there, being tortured?
June 12th, 2008 at 2:26 am
Deep fried Snickers, deep fried pizza AND a Munch(y) box! My god what those Scots won’t think up next!!! We are so moving to Scotland!
June 12th, 2008 at 5:01 am
I think Warden McKief just shat herself!
June 12th, 2008 at 10:13 am
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June 12th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Dear GOD it’s the ugly offspring of a bain marie and an epileptic fit!
Oh bravo on the rose, nice touch.
June 12th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
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June 12th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
ah kids, thats just the tip of the iceberg,,….last night i had a chicken balti pizza……….great if you cant make your mind up……although i did fancy a chicken sweet and sour pizza……..but this weekend after some oat soda shandys and grey breezers i will be induging in the glory that is (for those in the know) the king of street meat.
A SAR BENI..!!!!!!!!!!!..ALL HAIL THE SAR BENI..
June 12th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Terrifying creation you’ve got there!
June 12th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
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June 13th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Another classic munch after a night on the lash, is a “scoobie snack”.
its a burger with cheese, onion rings, bacon, fried egg, tattie scone, and a little bit of salad. all for about £2.50!!!!!!!
June 13th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Me no rikey da muncho box.
Me rike pizza clunch!
June 13th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
I’ll be havin one of those bad boys tonighty… along with a battered pizza
June 13th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Welcome b3ta readers. Tuck in!
June 13th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Man - I thought it was going to be a kebab pizza supper… (which I am now duly jonesin’ for)… that looks awesome.
I’m an expat in Canada, and preggers, and having monster cravings for a pizza supper, spring roll supper - and now I want this!!!
Chips. Proper chips.
How I miss ‘em.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Indeed the Munchy box is a wonderful thing. I have seen them offered on Glasgows south side with a small pizza replacing the donner meat to give it that continental touch.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
you could feed a whole african country with a couple of these
=)
June 13th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
the cullinary delights of a sarbeni really must be tested. I’d recommend the ever-amazing Best Kebab next to Queen Street Station
June 13th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
You will find that the Munchy box is not only available in Glasgow!
I live in Glasgow these days but my brother pointed out to me that the same thing is available from certain chippies in my home town of Stafford, in the West Midlands of England.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Anyone ever tried a Sar Beni? I believe they have them in Glasgow but I tried one in Wales once… like a massive doner kebab only using an oval shaped 10 inch long pizza base instead of pitta or naan bread.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Fandabydozy! this is the biz. Nea messin aboot. it makes majic projectile vomit. I did a van gough wae mine last night aw over ma maw’s elivs 45’s. pebble dashed all the bog too. ya bramer. git wan or git chibbed. Ya bass.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
As a Glasgow escapee, this makes my heart leap. In fear.
Do they still make the stoner kebab? If memory serves it’s a battered sausage wrapped in kebab meat, then battered again and deep fried.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Im afraid to report that the “stoner Kabab” is a reality and just as described…… Ohhhh my aching arteries….
June 13th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
the best munchy box in glasgow bar none is from lassani’s in m. florida, kwality scran - a heart attack in a box - lovely!
June 13th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
my local kebab shop does their munchy boxes with donner meat, mushroom pakora, vegetable pakora, chicken wings, spicey chicken and they put cheese over the chips… and they remove the rubbish salad to make room for even more meat! its like this munchy box but with more chance of heart failure
June 13th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
I’ve just had a revelation, I know how to improve this. Imagine how amazing it would be deep fried.
June 13th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
I am weeping anew for the starving children of the world. One half of the world takes in more calories than any human should consume in a week. the others, many of them children sit quietly in the dirt fields…. their eyes covered in black blowflies waiting for the hand of death to grip their shoulders. Anyone who would undertake eating such a ‘pile’ of heart attack promoting food should first make a donation to the starving children in every nation.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Hehheh.
I was about to post about the “Staunner.”
It’s not named after weed-smokers, BTW… The reference is a bit more anatomical than that
June 13th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
now we’re talking, if I send you a postal order for 5.22 can you stick a stamp on the box and bung it in the post to me?
June 13th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
stuff it, post it to africa - there’ll be plenty left over for me
June 13th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
This is just glorious. The only thing it needs to make it perfect is…….., well, a pizza, I guess.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
I just saw one of these, on the pavement - ready to go.
Also, a couple of years ago, my mate and I went into a place that does these and got a ully loaded kebab pizza. When we were paying for it, the guy behind the counter said, “anything else”, and my mate shot back with “aye, an ambulance”.
Oh, the banter.
June 14th, 2008 at 7:53 am
Wow Jared… I’m stunned, this is 100% pure win and awesomeness rolled into one massive multiple meal that potentially could last for days. I will be undertaking a pilgrimage to Glasgow to track down the legendary Munchy box, you never know it may be necessary to try one from more than one of these discerning fast-food outlets. Take a bow Jared for introducing this to the world. Now we know why Glasgow was chosen as European City Of Culture 1990
Oh and “Steven” (June 13th, 2008 at 7:48 pm) I just hope your comment was so tongue in cheek that you couldn’t fit any more doner meat in there, otherwise you can take your bleeding heart starving children shite elsewhere.
June 14th, 2008 at 9:02 am
that looks bloody lush, don’t think i could dust that on my own in one sitting though
June 14th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Good skills! Using the weight-watchers online calorie counter I calculate that to be a gut-busting 2037 calorie dinner. It contains 0 portions of fruit and veg and an artery jamming 104.6 of fat - mostly saturated. Taken with 0 litres of water and an optional extra four cans of tennents super (1462 calories) you need look no further for all your daily energy.
June 14th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
A multi carry-out place in Whitecraigs (near Edinburgh) used to deep fat fry the kebab meat pizza if you asked, they folded it in half and battered it to stop the fixings falling out of course.
June 14th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
From the pages of a well-known music magazine many years ago:
I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S NOT BATTERED!
Ten Great Traditional Scottish Foodstuffs
1 Bridie
Colloquial term for apparently sat-upon “Cornish” pasty. Chief constituents: mince, onions, gristle – not unknown for Scots butcher to be seen scraping pig’s head for extra yummy meat filling. Flat, postable pies bought from bakers and considered part of staple diet for hardy working class braveheart who has no idea what ‘Bridie’ is short for either.
2 Lorne sausage
Land hardly ever frequented by Billy Connolly has its own brand of black pudding: on average a two-footer, which is sold in sliced-up form, its leathery skin hiding “pinky” oatmeal-dominated, meat-offcut innard. Serving suggestion: take crunchy cross-section, fry-up in arse fat, bang on bread roll, eat, wonder if mysterious Lorne family ever do this. (PS. Sausage rumour abounds that, if left in darkened cupboard for three days, pubic hair grows on it)
3 Deep-fried Mars bar
Cruel, borderline-xenophobic campaign of gastronomic hatred against Hue & Cry-loving nation, begun in earnest this year when many English-based broadsheets ran frankly true story about Paisley chip shop whose house speciality is battered choc bar, lobbed, some say inappropriately, into boiling fat. Topic, Kit Kat, Yorkie all proved hot favourites. Emergency cardio-vascular surgeons recruited from around globe…(See also: deep-fried pizza, “invented” after particularly exciting Rangers match in Dundee. Note: deep-fried pizza in batter unless chippy proprietor prefers hospital food, ie wants fight)
4 Pie on a roll
Self-explanatory presentation of Scotch Pie involving non-fucking-granary bap and high-in-poly-fucking-unsaturates-pal “spread”.
5 Stovies
Take some potatoes. Cook “tae fuck” (© Anton Mosimann). Mash. Take onions. Annihilate (until brown, slimy and ropey). Add to mash. Add corned beef (if Cullen’s are “out” of less authentic meat purée). Call ‘stovie’, because it was cooked on stove (unlike all other Caledonian comestibles, which are prepared in vegetable steamer with drizzle of Spanish extra virgin olive oil, I DON’T THINK)
6 Haggis
Much-lampooned in Beano, original bag o’ shite (ie sheep’s belly-sack/oatmeal/offal combo) is, in actual fact, sought-after delicacy enjoyed world over by connoisseurs of manky evil in a dead balloon.
7 Macaroni Cheese Pie
Who said north of border was no-go area for our vegetarian brethren? In fact, “poncified” Newton Mearns district of Glasgow is sloppy-pasta-curd-on-croûte capital of Scotland. NB: delicious deep-fried with meat.
8 Tunnock’s Tea Cake
Glasgow-manufactured confection in garish, custard-yellow box with cellophane “window”, unchanged in gooey white interior or individual foil-encased exterior since Harry Lauder’s youth. Frankly loaded Tunnock family seemingly undaunted by fact that Tea Cake is not real tea cake, but choccy marshmallow. NB: delicious dunked in McEwans Export. (See also: Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer: hazard to denture-wearing fraternity, but is, at least, actually caramel wafer)
9 Shortbread
Come New Year – or Hogmanay (© English TV executives) – Celtic homes virtually paved with pale, over-dry, pre-scored biscuit out of significant tartan-design tin with deer on. Traditional recipe contains extra salt (like, non-traditional version is way too moist)
10 Smoked salmon
Only found in supermarkets in South East England. NB: delicious with squeeze of lemon, sprinkle of fresh dill, and tiny triangles of brown toast after scag binge.
June 14th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Good Lord!!! Do they deliver to the Costa Blanca… it’s too healthy here, and we have to keep swimming in the pool to keep cool, so that doesn’t help to keep the fat on, and I’m trying soooo haaard!! may one of these will help.
June 15th, 2008 at 1:06 am
You have just brought back some student memories and my arteries are not thanking you. I used to get these from a takeaway in Salford near the Castle Irwell student village. My digs were a dive so it was only right to consume food as filthy, if not filthier, than my surroundings. Tasty good, but not as good as the North East delicacy that is the mighty Parmo.
June 15th, 2008 at 1:18 am
That is the most truly disgusting picture of food that I have ever had the misfortune to witness in my entire life.
Yuuuuuck!!! :))
June 15th, 2008 at 2:09 am
Excellent. I’ll have two, please. One to eat and one to put on a pedestal and worship.
June 15th, 2008 at 7:35 am
Dang. Do they do deep-fried Irn Bru in Scotland? It seems like the next logical step.
Also: anyone from the UK who claims that American food is way too fattening hasn’t a leg to stand on. There’s so much cholesterol in that thing that it can raise people’s blood pressure as far away as Jersey.
June 15th, 2008 at 10:13 am
God it makes me proud to be a weegie*
Multiple Munchy boxes are the way forward when you have a flat full of hungry stoners. Other local gastronomic delights are the Sar Beni, the deep fried pizza and, of course, the unbelievable wonder of the Scooby Snack! (a burger with bacon, egg, black pudding, square sausage, links sausage and ketchup all in one roll! Deserving an article itself methinks)
And of course, this must only ever be consumed accompanied by an ice cold can of Irn Bru: The Diabetics nightmare. Phenomenal!
(*”glaswegian to any of you sassenach buggers”)
June 15th, 2008 at 11:31 am
I found this scotland post interesting. I’m looking forward to what you post next.
June 15th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
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June 15th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
you don’t get these in auld reekie!
June 15th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
coffee grinders <== I am a Spammer. Please forgive my fucktardedness.
June 15th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
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June 15th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
I think I could have a good go at finishing one of those - sober!!
June 15th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
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June 16th, 2008 at 8:43 am
I am an English man and I remember the first time I went up ther to work and as is normal after a good scoop hit the first take away. I ordered a mince pie and chips and was horrified when he put the pie in the deep frier, I thought he must have F##cked up. Alas this was the norm as are MARS bars dipped in batter and deep fried. It is a wonder that the Scots aren,t all die of heart attackes with all the fat and grease they devour.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Scruptioso. Defo going there next holidays.
June 16th, 2008 at 10:39 am
As a scotsman in exile in Australia, I have been looking at the yummy proper chips, none of this crunchy shite. Big, soft, greasers that coat the roof of your mouth mmmmmm!!!!!!
June 16th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
hmmmmmmmmmm i want one, but do they do an organic version?
June 16th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Indeed, ambrosia hath been re-discovered!!!
However, the mind boggles at the price… one can only assume the “meat” content to be lower than whale sh!te, and all handling procedures brought in line with that most economical of food preparation policies: “Slap It In Fast As And If You Sneeze, Just Cover Any Evidence With Some ChilliSauce” (from the best selling authors of “Pitta Bread and other handy surface cleansers”)
As for the “Crappy Salad”, I’m curious… is this of vegetable origins? From your photos (and perchance a trick of the flash here methinks) it looks strikingly reminiscent of a cluster of large threadworms!
And so to the final salute: Congratulations on demolishing this beast of a dish and surviving long enough to complete your post. Pure Culinary Genius.
Good Luck with the arteries
Stellios.
June 16th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Eat up fat asses.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Yes, it looks immense! I’m printing out the pictures now as we speak so I can take it down my local to see if they can copy it! I’m starving!
June 17th, 2008 at 11:14 am
No wonder the nations health is going down the pan. Can’t believe so many people actually found this a good thing. Looks like something you have trodden in!!!! to all those who want to try it happy heart attack.
June 17th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
*cue tons of insecure blokes wanting to be blokes by cooing over something so vile but ‘manly’*
That meal is a picture of why Scottish people die younger than any other Brit. Possibly also why all Scots are mad.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Had an almost identical “munch box” in Kincardine last week, at a take away out the back of Garvies bar. proof that the munch box concept is breaking free from the weegie zone and spreading East.
I finished it, but felt rather sick afterwards.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Wow this thing is immense… perfect after pissup food, although you may as well save time and stomach acid by spending the five quid, then flushing it straight down the toilet, just to save you the bother of doing it later!
June 17th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Its great to hear some people mentioning the Sarbeni. I have only just recently started eating these magical things, even if I am all the way over at the the top of Sauchiehall Street I will still stagger the whole way down the road to get a Donner Sarbeni from Best Kebab.
All hail the Sarbeni and also big shout out for the munchy box !!
June 17th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
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June 18th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Nice website!!
June 18th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Belter!
June 18th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
This is not meant to cause too much alarm, but the “munchie box” has been available as far east as Livingston for several years now so the ” ex pat ” ‘Soap Dodgers”…( Glaswegians ) In Edinburgh could even have one trucked in!!!
June 19th, 2008 at 2:03 am
I’m hungry now
June 19th, 2008 at 2:40 am
NOM NOM NOM
June 19th, 2008 at 4:49 am
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June 19th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
“Several meals in one”????
Are you a little girl? Thats a starter where I come from.
June 19th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
go back to england then.
June 19th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
well, you know, I know an Oz based Scot and he tells me he misses this like crazy, can someone send him one please!!!
June 20th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Extraordinary…. I see the ‘degustation’ concept has leapt to an unheard of level in Glaswegia. And it saves washing up five courses-worth of dishes and cutlery. It makes me proud of my distaff Scottish heritage! Whoever said “you canna can a canny cant” was 100 per cent co-wrecked. TC, Melbourne, Austrralia
June 20th, 2008 at 2:52 am
That’s not a “munchy box” its a “nose bag!”
June 20th, 2008 at 9:35 am
A favourite. Me and my pal usually do a 16 inch between us. It has been a long process training up from a 12 inch box. Its not pretty but we get the job done, generally suffering from a few bouts of what we have diagnosed as “chest death” in the process. We put our own twist on it by grating a block of cheddar and dumping that in the box as well. Magic.
I’ll never forget the first one I had. Unsure of the portion size me and my friend also purchased a portion of chicken pakora and a burger meal deal. I have never felt so stupid.
When we are feeling particularly hungry we will stop by the chippy on the way home for a bag of real chips with it. If you really want to give a good account of yourself it helps if you skip dinner.
I’ve not had a sarbeni for a while. Other favourite include haggis or sausage suppers, hoggies (donner chips and cheese wrapped in a chapati with donner sauce), and king kebabs (every type of meat in the place piled on top of a nan bread, gave me the worst food poisoning ever once, so I don’t really eat them that much anymore). Other than that any pizza meal deal on the go, where the pizza follows the usual 3 layer format of base, with cheese in the middle and a good half inch of fat sitting on top.
I must admit I have never been brave enough to try a macaroni pie, however, I have however had a chicken curry pie which is pleasantly revolting.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
When I wake up in the morning on the couch surrounded by the eminating odour of last nights donner meat and all I can see is a lrge pizza box staring me in the face it means that I’ve genrally got so drunk that I’ve lost all reasoning and actually purchased one of these.
This is a rare occurance but is a stain upon my soul.
Where I come from there is a symptom of munchybox-itis known as the “munchy box belly” (not to be confused with the ‘bacardi breezer belly’). Where young girls develop these strange fat guts which are impossible to replicate through any mneans other than constant consumption of the fat combination available only in 12″ munchy boxes - the rate at which ‘munchy box belly’ develops does appear to be inversely realted to the distance from which the munchybox-itis sufferer lives in relation to the nearest munchy box stockists. Placing you at higest risk when you are only equi-’delivery’-distance from more than two munchy box distributors and live further than one mile away from both. This places you inside the ‘cheap’ delivery area and are not close enough to smell the rancid stench of rotting munchy boxes generally found within scottish town centers.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Yum! Just what the Doctor ordered.
June 21st, 2008 at 3:55 am
Glasgow’s form of ethnic cleansing
June 21st, 2008 at 1:56 pm
As a Scotsman living in England, it gives me great pleasure to inform you all that I’ve found a shop that sells such culinary delights a mere 5-minute walk from my front door.
Except for the pakora: apparently it fecks up his fryer. Gar.
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:55 am
Anyone care to name some of the fine establishments who sell this culinary masterpiece or similar, ideally with town / street names so the poor fuckers who aren’t Jocks can give this a try?
June 22nd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
The best Muchy Box is from Chili Waves in South Queensferry and costs £5.95.
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:25 am
Sure there must be a Munchy Box war about to abrupt in Bellshill..
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:38 am
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June 23rd, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Heaven in a box right there and it’s the Scots we have to thank!
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:32 pm
One of my favourite quotes from Alan Partridge is : “It’s called cholestrol. Scottish people eat it.” A munchy box in Glasgow, as my wife has just told me, means different things in different parts of Glasgow. Some do pizza instead of the Doner meat but the concept is the same. It’s for neds n arseholes whose diet consists of Pot Noodles and Mars Bars.
I have to object to the insinuation that the bad diet kick is only a Scottish problem. I work in England a lot and some of the food you can get down there is awful. In fact, get this, deep fried Mars Bars - the first place I ever saw them on sale was in York! Guy who ran the place was Scottish right enough but it’s not Scots he’s selling to, is it?
GERTCHA!
June 25th, 2008 at 7:32 am
so much food, so little money …
June 26th, 2008 at 2:41 am
Always nice to see an Englishman (another country known for great Culinary tradition) comment on Scottish “fine cuisine”. To me this does not look any different in presentation and/or nutritional value than any other overcooked pub lunch you get in England!
June 26th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Nice to see a local “delicacy” on the net, the munchy box is the king of meals after a night on the “sauce” its pretty good stuff, true probably about as unhealthy as you can get, but its worth it!! ( i think i’ll be calling flames and getting me one of these later on)
(it was obvious you werent scottish from readin the article, only people who arent scottish thinks we drink tennants, its bath water!!)
June 28th, 2008 at 9:48 am
“To me this does not look any different in presentation and/or nutritional value than any other overcooked pub lunch you get in England!”
I can second that with certainty!!!
July 1st, 2008 at 7:07 am
Wish I was still living in Stonehouse
I would have washed that lovely nosh down with a bottle of Buckfast
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:55 pm
I am sure you miss a good old fashioned ‘grec frites’
July 4th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Dear God: Why have you smiled upon Scotland with such great food?…
Dude.
In the west of Scotland, in the towns and villages surrounding Glasgow, there is a delicacy available in some of the more discerning fast-food outlets. Its called the Munchy Box (sometimes just Munch Box) and its a sight to behold. The one…
July 6th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Well, a mate of mine in Dubai mailed me a link to this, so you would have appeared to have gone global with this little piece of traditional Scottish cuisine!
Here’s to the new national dish!
July 14th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
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July 18th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Fuck me, it’s looks like my wifes cunt..!!!
July 23rd, 2008 at 12:13 pm
rofl
July 26th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
I remember having the dubious honour of trying to eat one of these last year, whilst visiting my sister. I recall eating rather a lot of it, but appearing to make no impact on the size of the food mountain in front of me.
I wonder just how many days it took off my life?
July 28th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Looks awesome and reminds me of the time I lived near Edinburgh - I remember well my first ever deep fried pizza (with salt ‘n’ soss) - terrific!
August 1st, 2008 at 5:31 am
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August 8th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Hmmm thats makes me hungry. A++ on presentation.
August 9th, 2008 at 3:48 am
That is the most glorious thing I have ever seen. My life has changed now i’ve seen the munchy box. How I got here I’ll never know , I was only searching google for “deep fried opal fruits”
August 26th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
[...] supper if i ware scottish, i’d be slightly concerned about how well the nation that created the munchy box would put together a whole olympic team. or did they just want chris hoy to wear a different [...]
September 6th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Agg god, a munchie box.
the most delicious delecacy this side of port glasgow