A Spice Burger (Irish: ''burgar spíosraí'') is a

spice In the culinary arts, a spice is any seed, fruit, root, Bark (botany), bark, or other plant substance in a form primarily used for flavoring or coloring food. Spices are distinguished from herbs, which are the leaves, flowers, or stems of pl ...

-flavoured breaded meat

patty A patty is a flattened, usually round, serving of ground meat or legumes, grains, vegetables, or meat alternatives. Common ground meat used include beef, bison, elk, turkey, chicken, ostrich, and salmon. Patties are found in multiple cuisine ...

, popular in Irish traditional chippers. The spice burger is made to a specific recipe developed in the early 1950s by pork butcher Maurice Walsh, and later manufactured and sold by Walsh Family Foods Limited and (when Walsh ceased trading) then Keystone Foods. A legal row emerged in 2009 between Walsh Family Foods, and a former director regarding the ownership of the recipe.

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