What is a Munchy Box?

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.

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!

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.

“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!

I need that and a Newcastle NOW!!!!!!!!!!

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.

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)

Looks like a delightful & pleasing pallett endeavor.But that salad does looks old & wilted.
What kind of ale is good to drink with it?

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?

I think Warden McKief just shat herself!

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..

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!!!!!!!

I’ll be havin one of those bad boys tonighty… along with a battered pizza

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.

you could feed a whole african country with a couple of these
=)

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.

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.

Im afraid to report that the “stoner Kabab” is a reality and just as described…… Ohhhh my aching arteries….

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

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.

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?

This is just glorious. The only thing it needs to make it perfect is…….., well, a pizza, I guess.

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.

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.

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 pur�e). 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-cro�te 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.

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.

Excellent. I’ll have two, please. One to eat and one to put on a pedestal and worship.

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”)

you don’t get these in auld reekie!

I think I could have a good go at finishing one of those – sober!!

Scruptioso. Defo going there next holidays.

hmmmmmmmmmm i want one, but do they do an organic version?

Eat up fat asses.

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.

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.

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 !!

Belter!

I’m hungry now

“Several meals in one”????

Are you a little girl? Thats a starter where I come from.

well, you know, I know an Oz based Scot and he tells me he misses this like crazy, can someone send him one please!!!

That’s not a “munchy box” its a “nose bag!”

Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.

Yum! Just what the Doctor ordered.

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.

The best Muchy Box is from Chili Waves in South Queensferry and costs �5.95.

Heaven in a box right there and it’s the Scots we have to thank!

so much food, so little money …

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!!)

Wish I was still living in Stonehouse

I would have washed that lovely nosh down with a bottle of Buckfast

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!

rofl

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!

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”

I’ve just had breakfast, but it’s making me hungry again. It must be the /4 Scottish in me!!

That’s awful, it looks like someone has thrown up in a box.

Far too healthy…Not a patch on the good ol’ scottish chinky!!

I phone and order the great Munchy Box often,delivered to my door with a 2 litre bottle of Irn Bru.

Never finished one yet and there’s foru of us in here. takes great the next day ‘het up’

Amazing. We don’t get this delight on the South Coast but I can imagine it’s a taste explosion followed by a coronary. I also think that it looks like Bootay’s wife’s badger.

Emmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Nice. Now I am vegetarian if I wasn�t I would have gone through that no problem. After a night out that would be fantastic the greasy food delicious!!!

just returned from a semester in Stirling, Scotland. the munch box was a weekly takeaway purchase for my flat. or just me…

Lols… sweet.

That would be simply delicious atop a gallon of bargain supermarket vodka.

NASTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why???????

I hope I can find something like this in Edinburgh next week.

This is quite simply a work of genius and looks sensational.

Scotland leads where others are frightened to tread.

I have done the Calzone and chips with extra chillies in a box before before, but never anything as punishing as this. I’d imagine you feel like you’d done ten rounds with Tyson in the morning, but doubtlessly worth every hungover sick feeling moment.

I salute the commitment to Junk Food.

That’s a lot of food there

Wonderful wonderful fried delights! Alas, we have no such food here in the cultural barrens, however I would recommend a hoppy IPA to cut the palette.
Cheers!

Not bad. Would still go for a turkish burger anyday.

Don’t ask me what’s in it, I haven’t got a clue other than burger, bacon, cheese and kebab meat. The rest is unknown!

That hilarious… your plate looks way more appetising that the cram of food in the box. Still makes make my wife water. Anyway, I have a British food site in USA. If anyone is interested and miss the home cooked delights.. check me ut at http://www.poppyspantry.com

Hardest. Arteries. Evah!

I’ve had to admit defeat more than a couple times, I didn’t go quietly though, oh no, I made sure I was sufficiently ill before I gave up the bounty!!

What’s the problem, it covers the three main food groups!? Besides your looking at £6.00 plus in Polmont, so it’s a bargain. I note the two types of sauce; the salmon pink for the pakora and the deep red for the kebab – both are interchangeable.

Gross.
Very much like the generalisation that everyone above 54 degrees North in the UK eats that and other saturated fat and salt laden rubbish.

How many fried chicken chains are there in London?

I think this looks awesome, i mean seriously awesome.. Scots sure know how to eat.

WAAAAANNNNNTTTT!!

Oh my god that looks so good…

Typical Heathen,
Doesn’t iron his tablecloth, eats with just a fork and sets in on the wrong side… bleedin ‘west coast’ style. What is the world coming to? Setting for one (sad b’dard?). Billy no mates? Looks great and be even better, cold for breakfast. How far do they deliver?

Ah, that hardens the arteries with the thought of home! I come from Coatbridge, just outside Glasgow – heart attack capital of the world – for those not in the know, and most of the delicacies contained in that box are a regular staple of the ned/pisshead diet. I must admit though, I have not seen such bounty contained in one box – God works in mysterious ways.

shouldn’t the sauces have been styled into a comma on the plate, followed by a series of dots¿?¿? …such shoddy presentation

have to say i do love a good munchie box sometimes about 3 in a week i never knew it was just a scottish thing

RT @ObtuseMusings: Veg and meat all prepped. All i have to do now is turn it on when i can be arsed.>>fuck that http://bit.ly/2OgjFB

@amateursuman this – among other things http://bit.ly/2OgjFB

Photo: Oh Glasgow… http://blog.23x.net/5/what-is-a-munchy-box.html http://tumblr.com/x9cabvsif

RT @hoodedhawks: My uncle Dave and I once murdered one of these bad-boys: http://tinyurl.com/5qdv9o

IT LOOKS LKE MY GRANDMOTHERS SHTE SPOGED ONTO A PLATE!! ABSALOTY DISGUSTING!!!! SUM1 CALL THE FUCKING AMBULANCE!!! MY GRANDMOTHER IS SHITING ALL OVER ME!!!

@dylanegan Reminds me of this Scottish delicacy: http://bit.ly/l0ys6

@Blair_Bookshop I'm above commenting on the Mars. I'd be more apt to comment on this: http://blog.23x.net/5/what-is-a-munchy-box.html

what a lovely tablecloth!

Jock Monsieur? Let’s not be polite. There’s no Monsieur about it. That’s not even Vous, Jock. It’s Toi! Jock! Salop! yelled across a dark street.

And I lolled at the rose. Nicely done.

It looks delicious but I haven’t come across one of these culinary delights yet. I just hope our MD at Negotiate Now reads the blog too and gets a box in for our lunch soon. Hint hint hint!

Epic!

I live in Central Scotland and those ‘munchy boxes’ are a delicacy around this way too. I have eaten some of the contents from these boxes on several occasions, and each time I wonder why I did it as they really don’t taste that good at all! My stomach always regretted it the next day too, not to mention it’s a heart attack in a box.

Good piece, just one of the many Scottish fast food crimes, potato scone in a roll?? As an Irishman we have our own but Scotland is the fattest place I have lived. Huge fat people everywhere, plus their takeaways are the worst in the UK. Can’t do chips or fish, plus a sausage has batter as standard! Fat lazy pigs.

Ha Ha!

I just googled ‘Salad Bar Glasgow’ cause I was tryin to find a place that specialises in a fresh healthy variety of salads in Glasgow and this is what I got….

what can i say munchy box is a must have, now living in carlisle i returned to port glasgow and greenock to visit my family and my daughter, when getting to greenock i dropped the bags in the house and headed straight to the indian to get my munchy box, what a delight if you have never tried one its a must you don’t know what use are missing )))))

try this it work