Tacozony or munchy box: the 3am fast food war

Post-pub-and-club cuisine throws up some culinary gems on occasion, with battered Mars bars, chip kebabs and deep-fried haggis all attracting interest from time to time.

But a new Irish late-night menu item grabbed our attention recently – the “Tacozony”, a calzone pizza stuffed with taco mince, melted cheese, taco mayonnaise and topped with mozzarella and garlic butter, available from Apache Pizza. The Tacozony is fast food within fast food – a late night

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-style meal. But how does it compare to other items on a list of the ultimate 3am cuisine?

The Munchy Box

A regional Scottish delight found in and around Glasgow. Packaged in a pizza box for around £5 it contains (with occasional variations) doner kebab meat on naan bread, onion rings, a “Glasgow salad” (chips), pakora, chicken tikka and various sauces.

The Double Down

KFC’s infamous “sandwich” replaces bread with two fillets of fried chicken. In between there’s bacon, sauce and two types of cheese. Remarkably, it contains less calories than Burger King’s TenderCrisp chicken sandwich.

Battered potato slices

Not content with serving just chips, the Savoy take-away on the North Circular Road in Dublin also batters their potatoes for customers.

Chicken ball 3-in-one

The kebab versus chicken ball war currently raging in the early hours of every morning is a ferocious one, but in terms of fast food oddities, the combination of deep friend balls of chicken, rice, chips and curry sauce in a tray has to be up there.