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Pamela White / Twitter“@thatweecafe: .@NiallSF GRMA Niall. http://t.co/Rv0Y6bYN01” So simple but looks so tasty! I need a trip to Belfast!!!
— PTJW (@patsiepats) January 12, 2015
BELFAST GOT ITS first crisp sandwich café today (actually, the WORLD got its first crisp sandwich café today) – and it was all sold out in just a few hours.
The pop-up café, run by the folk behind That Wee Café, came about in an unusual fashion – it was inspired by an article on a satirical website, Ulster Fry.
Andrew McMenamin, owner of the café, spotted the article, thought it made for some real-life inspiration, and asked Ulster Fry editors Billy McWilliams and Seamus O’Shea if they wanted to team up.
The result was Simply Crispy.
naomi mcmullan / TwitterIn case you ever wondered what a wall of crisps looks like @thatweecafe @theulsterfry #simplycrispy pic.twitter.com/cNoFXDSj4N
— naomi mcmullan (@naomi_mcbiz) January 12, 2015
McMenamin told DailyEdge.ie before the opening:
When I read the article I immediately thought we could make that joke into a reality, and got in touch. The lads at The Ulster Fry thought it would be fun, so from Monday we’re rebranding the café under the name Simply Crispy.
The café offers a build-your-own crisp sandwich, with additional side orders like soup and chips. (You can’t have too many potatoes in one meal, right?)
Stephen Henderson / TwitterSo it is true! Only in Belfast! #simplycrispy could I get a delivery? #Tayto cheese and Onion and Ham please. Ta pic.twitter.com/tIZjxfatGJ
— Stephen Henderson (@Social_Stephen) January 12, 2015
Simply Crispy officially opened this morning:
thatweecafe / TwitterMorning guys. In typical Belfast fashion, we're still waiting on some stock being delivered. Hope to be open soon.
— Hallion Battalion🔻 (@thatweecafe) January 12, 2015
And by around 2pm it was completely sold out:
thatweecafe / TwitterMuch love, guys xx we've sold out of everything now. I'll try and reply to all tonight.
— Hallion Battalion🔻 (@thatweecafe) January 12, 2015
Thanks
A xx
Now they just have to do it all again tomorrow.
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How bout some butter on a digestive?
Wish I could double ‘green thumb’ that comment.
As your namesake called them – “Botty biscuits”. When you squeeze them together and the butter oozes out thru the holes it looks like…
Roddy Doyle
Cream cheese on a digestive, yum
Butter on digestives is bloody lovely!!
It’s either a feast or a famine with the auld crisps. …..
They’re not even using real Tayto crisps!!
+1
They’re using the protestant Tayto.
Prefer a ‘King crisp’ sambo myself.
They’re onto a winner
All hail the crisp sammich!
Crisp (tayto) sandwich, mug of tea. The biz.
How about selling sugar sambos while you’re at it !
Sugar and crisp sambo !!!
Or lard !
Strange, I had a dream a few weeks ago about opening a tayto sandwich shop, as the name might suggest there’s only one thing (in various flavors) for sale
I envisaged a lot of money to be made between 1.30 and 4 in the morning!
I love tayto sandwiches, and I think this is a great business idea…. But we wonder why we have an obesity problem!!
It’s probably healthier than McDonalds
Plus when you belch it won’t be gone
Mary, our obesity problem isn’t caused by a once-off or occasional trip to a cafe that puts a few crisps in your sandeich. Any more that our face pe
White Brennan’s bread, butter, tayto cheese and onion, brown sauce with a pint of miwadi orange! Summer in the 70′s was awesome!!
Same except with a drizzle of Worcester sauce instead of the brown sauce l! Messy but worth it!
Worcester sauce? Notions
Hmm. I like brown sauce and I like crip sambos, but never thought of sticking them together. Until now, that is.
Batch bread
Has to be batch bread.
Tayto cheese and onion on a sambo with a slice of cheese and fresh onion. Lovely stuff.
Buffalo Hunky Dorys on a chicken sambo. Unbelievable Jeff!
Entirely understandable. An epicurean feast! Stick your ortolan where the sun don’t shine. :-)
I am utterly jealous!…… Would murder a hunky dorys buffalo crisp sangwich!
You sir have excellent taste!
Sounds like a horrible idea, it might just work
Salt and vinegar Tayto with a lovely fresh slice of ham and McCloskeys white bread…unbelievable
Cereal, Tayto… What next … Jam sandwich shop?
Fcuking hipsters…
brunt bread and soup that is clearly from a packet – there is nothing overly tempting about that at all
Carb fest? No thanks!
Jesus ronan r ya a man r a mouse?.
Meat loving mouse, hit me with the protein
Hipsters are ruining Ireland
King cheese and onion on some Vienna bread and a black jack to wash it down. Good times
Ham and cheese buttered bla with tayto cheese and onion. Honrail
A box of tayto pickled onion in the picture there id say a tasty..a meanie sandwich with cheese strings was always a winner with me ha
And ideally the crips need to be sandwiched between two slices of batch. Of course, one pack of (Republic) Tayto isn’t enough, for batch you need two packs minimum. With only one pack of (Republic) Tayto at your disposal a few slices of Brennan’s Family Pan is okay. King heads should open their own crip sambo shop, it would give me a laugh. I’d give it two days.
The tayto cheese n onion crisps up the north are much tastier than the ones down south.Addictive !!!
Your are in dangerous territory there. Roll on the backlash from the Ashbourne Tayto Loyalist community.
Crisps and jam mmmmmm
Gimmick! Bankrupt by summer.
I can smell the crisps now lol.
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