Comment on Discussion Thread 🍓 Friday 13 March 2026

useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  After a quick squiz at the ingredients I reckon it’s the honey powders, soy sauce powders, vegetable powders, and other ingredients like gums and acidity regulators. If you were making honey soy chicken marinade yourself it wouldn’t have any of these things. Not everyone has the time though.

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  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Good to know thank you. That’s a lot of powder 😂

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• Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Never eaten any so can’t help. Suspect the marinade, and the use of spare bits of chook leftover from separating out the good bits to be sold separately.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    same, I make my own

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• SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hospitalised myself with supermarket chicken skewers once upon a time, so this comment made me freak out for you a bit 😆

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  probably the marinade

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  TIL there is such a thing as powdered spice mixes with powdered honey and soy etc

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• SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I agree. Wish they would sell plain ones, then I can flavour them myself. The time consuming part is the chopping and threading. To sprinkle some spice mix, or mixing some honey soy garlic in a bowl and pouring over is the quick part.

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• tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve had the Woolworths and Aldi skewers, they’re not as great as homemade and the chicken isn’t like a pure cut of breast or anything, but I sometimes buy as a good quick meal in a pinch. What flavour did you have?

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  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I got teriyaki this time but I have tried all the other pre marinaded ones. There’s a pervasive flavour in the background on all of them which I can only attribute to the stick. Also the texture is off somehow. It’s hard to explain.

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    • Eagle@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Its the powder flavourings. Every new chip flavour has that same lingering eww for me.

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      • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Agreed! I keep finding new chip flavours and being disappointed. A few were genuinely awful, but most are just not quite right somehow hard to define.

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• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I find Aldi chicken to have a slight odd taste. Packaging choices??

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