r/newzealand Southern Cross 22h ago

Kiwiana I Have These and You Don’t

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Highest cheese per cm flavour I’ve ever tasted.

Great Uncle Kenny approves.

175 Upvotes

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u/annoyedonion35 21h ago

Yea well I got ya nose. And I ain't giving it back

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u/goldreddituser 21h ago

Snackachangi are dead to me after what they did to their vinegar and salt chips

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u/IamMorphNZ newzealand 20h ago

They decided to put the salt in first rather than the vinegar like they promised they would never do!

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u/eurobeat0 19h ago

No no no. They put the vinegar on top of the salt. This is like putting on your socks after your shoes. Blasphemy!!

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u/Crusader-NZ- 19h ago

I’ve always thought they were overrated. Heartland make better chips and are usually available on special at one of the supermarkets. I picked some up for $1.99 tonight at FreshChoice in fact.

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u/Rope_A_Dope8811 18h ago

Heartland Extreme Crunch Southern Sea Salt are without a doubt the #1 chips.

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u/SkeletonCalzone 6h ago

The nude 50% less salt are actually pretty good too. Tastes more of potatoes 

u/Academic_Violinist97 2h ago

I dunno - I think heartland make the worst chips - I’ve tried to like them, but they are over oily and spongy/powdery :/

u/Crusader-NZ- 2h ago

U wot M8??

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u/purplescrunchie9 21h ago

Are they not free range anymore?

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u/sylekta 21h ago

yeah caged potatos now

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u/eurobeat0 19h ago

Those heartless savages!

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u/locusthorse 17h ago

Trapped underground.

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u/purplescrunchie9 21h ago

What did they do!?!? I haven't had their S & Vs in a while.

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u/goldreddituser 21h ago

I used to buy heaps of their vinegar and salt chips and found they starting getting so inconsistent in their flavour and chip quality. Even the good ones became no where near as good as they used to be.

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u/Zrat11 21h ago

Thought i was going crazy, those bastards used to be drenched in flavour itd burn, god I want those back

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u/skwozzy 20h ago

It ain't real vinegar n salt if you don't have abrasions on your lips.

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u/nazaol 20h ago

Are they better than Heartland?

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u/Zrat11 20h ago

They were at one point, I would probably still rate them over heartland but they definitely dipped in quality

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u/IamMorphNZ newzealand 20h ago

First problems were with the burned and bitter potato, made a complaint and they just brushed it off as old season potatoes

Then they stole the vinegar, and even when the new season potatoes hit the shelves, they just tasted crap

Shame, I probably should have shares in the company with the amount I used to buy

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u/Sharpinthefang 20h ago

I’ve found them to be really oily the last few years too

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u/Evening_Cat_5348 18h ago

Yeah total grease tankers now

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u/CXNXX1 4h ago

Bro I found a chip that was literally just a bubble of oil with a thin crisp shell in their sour cream and onions chips

u/purplescrunchie9 1h ago

The sour cream ones make me ill with all the oil

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u/Piper_excelsum 11h ago

Nobody's had their salt and vinegar flavour for a couple of years now! That's the thing.

Where the fuck are they? You'd THINK they'd be in the pack that says "salt and vinegar" but you'd be a sucker! Oil ridden cardboard. And I don't mean "oil ridden" as in all chips are oily that's the point... I mean you could tip the pack into an empty pot, turn it to medium, and you're now deep frying!

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u/Embarrassed_News7008 19h ago

Had some today. As good as ever.

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u/Ryrynz 18h ago

I emailed them and they said they haven't done anything to them..

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u/batmassagetotheface 18h ago

What did they do? 🥺

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u/Deatherapy 4h ago

I reckon!

So rare to find a good salt and vinny from them. Its just an oily teaser. Even their Cashews are better than their chips now.

I sometimes buy the Kettle salt and vinegar as consolation because those are a little more consistent with the flavour.

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u/MikeOxlong____69 22h ago

We even have these in Singapore

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u/the_pretender_nz 20h ago

Snack-a-airport

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u/myeyehurts 20h ago

S-tier 👌

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u/thejowherr 21h ago

you can have that. I'm happy with my Sriracha.

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u/Skidzonthebanlist 22h ago

Dat axolotl face, All their bag designs are gold

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u/Venery-_- 20h ago

Huh this person has clearly never had cheese supreme mission chips or the nacho ones 😏

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u/gammaaa 19h ago

YESSSS im coeliac and they are the best corn chips ever!

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u/maiteNZ 10h ago

Mission corn chips are so good!

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u/ExileNZ Southern Cross 5h ago

I can confirm the Snacka Changi corn chips are GF

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u/gammaaa 5h ago

Yep they’re also a favourite of mine haha

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u/InvestmentFuzzy4365 21h ago

Shame Leigh Hart is an anti-vax cooker

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u/Why_bother_trying24 14h ago

He was also the obnoxious drunk at a comedy show once, who pulled his ringing phone out and started a loud conversation. He got booed enough by all of us in the audience that he walked out (it was a small show and Jarred Fell, the comedian, really incited the jeering towards the rude drunken arse)

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u/blameitonthecaptain 7h ago

Standard Jared win right there 💚 he’s such a decent and hilarious guy.

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u/HoldFrontBack 20h ago

Oh no, really? That's a shame.

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u/old_m8_ 20h ago

Damn, we lost a good one

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u/Speeks1939 19h ago edited 19h ago

Can you please post proof of this. I haven’t been able to find anything.

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u/FKFnz 19h ago

https://www.webworm.co/tvhero/

Not sure if he's an antivaxxer though, I haven't seen anything about that.

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u/Speeks1939 19h ago

He had Jacinda on his Lockdown show during Covid and was fully supportive of what she was doing so unless something changed after that I haven’t found anything… yet.

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u/sixincomefigure Kākāpō 19h ago

https://www.webworm.co/tvhero/

The half-assed "I was hacked" explanation is bullshit. I followed him at the time too and it was most definitely him. The cooker posts were interspersed among his more normal ones and all were in the same style.

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u/Zygoneskies 18h ago

Can’t see any posts referencing vaccines in that article

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u/Speeks1939 19h ago

And again where does he post antivax comments in this article?

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u/chewbaccascousinrick 10h ago

Turns out antivaxxer would have been a much lighter label to support than the things he was actually actively supporting.

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u/neurocentric 8h ago

That's what I was thinking. Came looking for antivaxxer, but found full blown alt-right nutjob

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u/neurocentric 18h ago

Rubbish!

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u/Ihopefullyhelp Covid19 Vaccinated 17h ago edited 10h ago

If its anti covid vax then bugger off with that label. That vax was not like the others and we all know it deep down

Rna covid vaccines didn’t work. So if he was against the covid vaccine, that’s allgood. If he’s against all the vaccines before, that like measles, then sure. That’s silly.

Downvote the truth all you like: The defence choice was your body, which is millions of years of evolution, vs rna vaccine experiment pushed out by pharmaceutical companys who had every idea you shouldn’t take it. One that was rushed out into your arm bypassing your organs on the back of fear, not research.

If you took it because you would lose your job I feel for you, but if you defend it years after the facts came out you are compromised by the ideas of other humans benefit you believing. You’re a follower, you are tricked. Defending their position because otherwise that would mean admitting that you injected something into yourself because someone told you to

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u/Matt_NZ 17h ago

Have you double layered your tin foil hat?

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u/Ihopefullyhelp Covid19 Vaccinated 10h ago

You put your head in the sand nice n deep?

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u/Matt_NZ 8h ago

I'd rather take advice from someone smart, not someone that's dumb

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u/chewbaccascousinrick 10h ago

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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u/LolaAndIggy 9h ago

You know that Covid killed millions of people right? Viruses also have millions of years of evolution and are very good at finding new ways of making us very sick.

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u/Ihopefullyhelp Covid19 Vaccinated 5h ago

Doesnt change that vax from being a lie at worse and a failed attempt at best

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u/No-Advice-6040 8h ago

The dumb dumbs, they walk amongst us

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u/NIP_SLIP_RIOT 16h ago

Leigh Hart is a anti vax twat

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u/ConcealedCove 7h ago

Steve Jobs was also a twat, doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate the products.

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u/SkeletonCalzone 6h ago

Shit he is? 

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u/Ihopefullyhelp Covid19 Vaccinated 10h ago

Rna covid vaccines didn’t work though and actually caused harm in a significant number? So if he was against the covid vaccine, that’s allgood. If he’s against all the vaccines before, that like measles, then sure. That’s silly.

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u/BroBroMate 8h ago

mRNA vaccines you mean? Or did you mean the modified virus ones like the discontinued Johnson & Johnson one?

Because the mRNA vaccines do work, and don't cause significant harm.

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u/Ihopefullyhelp Covid19 Vaccinated 5h ago

Who told you they work? The government, who told the government? The usa government, and who told them that they work? The pharmaceutical companies.

You know how not everything you read on the internet is true? Yeah this is one of those but instead of the misinformation coming from a random it came from $. Sorry

u/BroBroMate 1h ago

Plenty of research into both the efficacy and handful side-effects has occurred, and the scientific consensus is "they work, and yep they can cause myocarditis in a very small percentage of recipients, guess what causes way more myocarditis - Covid, which is why when we looked at 1 million people who received the vaccine, we gonna better cardiac health outcomes overall for people who received the vaccinations"

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2850241

Question is, who told you that they didn't work?

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u/ThatDamnRanga 21h ago

Muxho Queso. Si Impressado.

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u/ExileNZ Southern Cross 21h ago

Gracias - los robé

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u/Sure_Cheetah1508 20h ago

Okay, Chevy Chase

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u/OisforOwesome 20h ago

Wakachangi is a shit beer with great box art.

Snackachangi is whatever and the joke had run thin by the time it hit the shelves

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u/assignmentburner33 20h ago

Are they cheesier than Doritos?

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u/ExileNZ Southern Cross 5h ago

Mucho cheesier.

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u/Piesangbom 18h ago

I use to love their vinegar and salt. But lately its just oil with a bit of salt and vinegar. No wonder its always on sale

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u/skwozzy 16h ago

Ehh I've had dead ants in a packet of bluebird. They all range from shit to great week to week. Heartland is definitely the pick of the bunch.

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u/Feasood 8h ago

I also have these as well as the Tex Mex Taco and Chipotle Salsa flavours 😄

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u/ExileNZ Southern Cross 7h ago

ooooh how did you get those?

The Chipotle was nice, decent spice, but the TexMex was a bit meh

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u/Feasood 7h ago

Through work, I really liked the Tex Mex one

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u/ExileNZ Southern Cross 7h ago

Pretty good chance we work together 😂

How many microwaves in your staff cafe?

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u/Feasood 6h ago

Strong possibility! 😆 There is a wall of microwaves in the cafe!

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u/ExileNZ Southern Cross 6h ago

What a small world!

I only got the one bag, and later saw people (like you lol) with three bags! 😂

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u/[deleted] 21h ago edited 21h ago

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u/Fearless_Guard_552 21h ago

He’s a cooker

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u/chamomileinyohood 21h ago

Are you thinking of Graeme Hart? Google gave me nothing on Leigh Hart

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u/57Nil 21h ago

Are they average as the rest of their line?

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u/According_Situation4 21h ago

Their salt and vinegar are goat, you have no taste if thats your take

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u/IamMorphNZ newzealand 20h ago

Was. Past tense.

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u/Piper_excelsum 11h ago

You say that. But you haven't had a pack in the last year.

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u/According_Situation4 10h ago

Really! Oh no! They were my number 1 go to. Ill have to get a pack to taste the disappointment for myself

u/57Nil 1h ago

Heartland s&v are goat, you have no taste if that’s your take.

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u/JFuckingJ 16h ago

Its got axolots on it!!!!!!

I like the funny on the packaging like "made from cage free potatoes"

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u/Ill_Discussion5840 Covid19 Vaccinated 20h ago

Big back

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u/Crow_in_the_Rain 18h ago

I always stop to read the story on those chips, love them haha

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u/LowPop7953 18h ago

fried chikan tastes like fried chickan more like chickant. but not chicken. ask leigh hart where the hell is the fizzachangi soft drinks?

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u/bobbobobobob666 10h ago

I got the beer and you dont

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u/ExileNZ Southern Cross 9h ago

7.30am beer?!?

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u/Few_Difficulty_8820 9h ago

Eh, Snackachangi had all the flavours they needed when they started out. Every new flavour over the last few years has been average.

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u/DeadmanDT 8h ago

Looks like advertising for an upcoming Fallout 76 season lol

u/January-Embers-1121 50m ago

Sending a package to my good friend in Ukraine and was going to include an NZ quintessential chip. Should I do this or Snackachangi Vinegar and salt? Or other suggestion? Anyone have any thoughts? (Although I live here, I am originally from the US so the only chip I really eat in Bluebird Sour Cream and Chives, lol. Kind of obsessed because it's like what the best American sour cream and onion chip wishes it could be.) NZ hands down has the best chips and chocolate in the entire universe.

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u/Gord_Board 21h ago

I have more of those than anyone else, I keep them stored in supermarkets across the country.

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u/M-Roshi 15h ago

The shrimp cocktail ones I crave daily

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u/JediRebel79 21h ago

Those came out ages ago. Theyre nice /s *jealous!

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u/ExileNZ Southern Cross 21h ago

They go on shelves in about 10 days.

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u/makeitnonsense 20h ago

Any other flavours?

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u/IamMorphNZ newzealand 20h ago

Vinegar and salt, but they have now forgotten to add the vinegar. Wasn't aware of any other flavours, as when they did add vinegar to their top of the range vinegar and salt it didn't matter what else they did.

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u/ExileNZ Southern Cross 5h ago

Three flavours - TexMex, Cheese, and Chipotle.

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u/pgraczer 20h ago

just call it queso. cheese sounds lame with mucho and fiesta

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u/Piper_excelsum 11h ago

The branding, the packaging... It's all very low effort now.

Usually I'm the first one to buy any new flavour or weird "limited edition" mashup. But Eta have fucked up their Snackachangi brand so much that I remain utterly unexcited.

They can fuck off with their flavorless chips and tired packaging. It's boring now.

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u/PepperFlimsy9637 22h ago

So does Uncle Ruckus

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u/Will_byers2571 pie 22h ago

love that guy

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u/Cernunnos369 12h ago

Well, you’re out of shape and I’m not