Having GB on the box because they repacked some Chinese chicken is naughty😳 if I see GB on meat I thought it meant the obvious 😳 The name DISRUPTIVE sound dodgy AF too. Our food chain is disruptive 💯
My friend sent me a photo that still haunts me today on his last business trip to China. A paper cup full of broth, with a few noodles and a huge chickens foot sticking up out the middle of it.. 🤔🤦🏻♂️🤢
G… family is always first. We don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes but it’s probably what a lot of us are dealing with ageing parents. We’re here if you need us & we appreciate you putting yourself out there with these reviews. As always mate… great review 😊
Review whatever you want too! I enjoy the Budget items/meals you look at. I can't buy most of them, but it does remind me how important items like these could be! When I was younger (old man waffle now incoming!) the four pack of Chicken and Mushroom pies from Tescos were great. Only 99p back then, think maybe 2005? Bloody fantastic, with some cheap tin of veg on the side! Love your reviews, honest opinions of food people buy! Sadly the nearest IceLand to me is about 900 miles!! We have Aldi, and Lidl here, but they all vary on location. I live in France for the 900 miles!!. (Old man waffle has ended!)
It probably started as 275 ml, was converted to US traditional units in China and rounded, then packaged in the UK and converted back to metric with further rounding. The reality is that is food, not a chemical manufacturing process, and is not critical. I see this often.
That meal looked quite spiffing to me, Gareth! All good stuff, and when it came to the Gravy, it looked perfect, nice and thick, Herby and Spicy, the sort of Gravy I prepare for all my Home-cooked meals every day! I wouldn't mind finding that Gravy Sachet like that on my local Sainsbury's shelves! Gravy makes the World go round! Take care, all, from Herefordshire....where the Cows come from!...😊....😊....!
Schwartz do a not bad chicken gravy granules in jars...but hard to find where I live...you do still need to augment it though, imo, but a good quick base.
The reason why these cheaper frozen/package meals dont use British chicken is because if they used British chicken they would have to be 4 times the price. Chinese/overseas chicken manufacturers have cheaper labour costs ( relative to the cost of living in China ) so can sell to British food manufacturers for much cheaper than it would cost from a British farm. Its not just as simple as saying 'just use British chicken' without being prepared to pay the price the British farmer would expect. This price would then be passed on to the consumer and most of the British public wouldnt be prepared to pay £15 for a package meal just because the chicken comes from a British farm.
I had a flashback to some Barenaked Ladies (the musicians that is :) One Week released in 1998 with the lyrics. "Chickity China, the Chinese chicken You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'" 🤘
Oy oy oy! I AM feeling spot on! Just had a huge green salad with avocados, grape tomatoes, kalamata olives, and that very same type of chicken. What a good boy I am. Sleep cycle's a bit messed up, though -- it's only 8:00 in the morning here!
Gaz have you ever tried making chips from potatoes in your air fryer . Easy peasy and you can save a fortune . Buy good quality Maris Piper potatoes and give it a try.
That looks excellent Gaz, I'm hungry for KFC now, it's 1am but we do have 24hr delivery but no gravy sadly, we used to get it a long time ago but probably not spicy enough for the Thais so they dropped it. I do have instant gravy granules either Bisto or Goldenfry on standby for emergencies. Cheers
Looks lovely will have to try, That would do me and kiddo, and still have plenty left over, Dad bought the 4 of us, Him mum me and daughter kFC Saturday Night don’t think he much much back of £40
That's a good sized portion. Speaking of out off date food, for anyone who is interested there is a website in Uk that sell tinned food just after its BEST BEFORE cheap. I just go to my beloved ASDA. I think that would be gorgeous if you came home from a night out and some one had that waiting for you.
These are not bad Gareth, I've had it a few times, i normally heat up a chinese chicken curry and rice to go with it and a few slices of bread and butter, its cheaper than a £30 curry house
I remember Thai chickens looking very large when there, nothing like ours, so probably go a long way. The bees also larger but had a big spike coming out of them, horrendous. The stray dogs are a concern too, some without 4 legs howling away in packs for no apparent reason around Buddhist Temples.
I don't trust ANY FOOD that comes from China, so they would have cheated me with that UK stamp on the box. Mind, I am partial to KFC now and again so I've probably eaten quite a lot of Chinese Chicken. I'm 75% of the way to perfecting my own Chicken Nuggets and with Home Made Chips deep fried in Dripping, you can't beat 'em. Also Ketchup, not gravy, That's for Sunday Roasts or Sausage & Mash. Cheers, Gareth, Good review.
Hi can you do a review on the marks and Spencer English breakfast £4 just microwave have mine with a round of toast and marmalade and a cuppa saved a lot of cooking👍🥳
I was very worried when you started the gravy before the chicken 😢 but let's face it you can't replicate KFC gravy it's simply divine personally I would have chucked the whole lot in the Ninja at once. Good review keep em coming
Another good video, Gareth, and that looked really tasty. I notice you don't often use the Air Fry facility on your Sage oven. Is there a reason for this? I am looking at getting an Air Fryer and don't know which one to go for either a Ninja or a Sage. Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for the video
I was in ALDI last Thursday and saw this and I nearly bought it so thanks for the review. I will definitely buy one this Thursday when I go to ALDI thanks for helping me decide.
Realistically it might be better to buy each item separately and probably save some pennies. There’s nowt special about it…. Mayflower southern fried chicken gravy takes some beating 😃👍
Tried them myself recently from Aldi to be honest much better than the KFC considering some of the negative reviews of KFC recently online these from Aldi are much better at least I thought so 😊😋
My local KFC's have gone downhill over the years, cant remember the last time i had one. There is a local chicken shop that is so much better, better tasting chicken and a better price, family meal i get is £16.99
RL comes before online stuff. Take care of your family and yourself first. If you have a little less UA-cam output because of that so be it. We'll still be here,take care mate.
That's a meal for one Gareth as far as I'm concerned,looks so good,I would have poured that gravy all over the chicken and chips,another good one big pal
Oh Gareth, I rejoined your channel. I didn't cancel because I don't like your channel. Just that so many channels I like so I go on a rota for my favorite ones. That way everyone gets their fair share. If join too many at once it all mounts up. I also donate to channels in turns.
meat ends up being cheaper if imported, than if you were to use national meat (in the case of UK) we really arent that big of a meat producer when you look at supply/demand
A good food product from Aldi and I wouldn't feel uncomfortable forking out £4 for this meal, you certainly get a decent portion of southern fried chicken strips, nuggets and chips for the money; gravy looked good as well. I could tell Gareth thoroughly enjoyed the food going by the satisfying "mmmmm" noises he was making after taste sampling the chicken and chips with gravy, lol 😂 These McDonald's, Burger King and KFC style fakeaway meals are becoming quite popular and all the big named supermarkets are trying to recreate their own versions which I think people out there are liking and appreciating what they're doing. This munch box fakeaway could easily serve 1 person, if you were to share the meal with another person, I don't think that it would be as filling once the chips, chicken strips and nuggets were divided equally, be more of a tasty snack than anything. I think Aldi could have put a few more chicken strips and nuggets inside the box, then I'd definitely consider it a better munch box for 2 persons; but putting that aside £4 is a fair price for this food product which I think will sell very well.
There is absolutely no way these box meals are for 2 people to share......hilarious how they just calculate the portion sizes because of the salt content isn't it. cheers Gaz keep up the good work
Dialysis 3x a week keeps me going, your health and your family come first mate, If you don't check your blood pressure, please do it before it's too late.
Family always come 1st Gareth, dont worry about us, we really enjoy your videos and maybe you could do the odd one with your family too, kids are great at telling you whats nice or not 😅
Having GB on the box because they repacked some Chinese chicken is naughty😳 if I see GB on meat I thought it meant the obvious 😳 The name DISRUPTIVE sound dodgy AF too. Our food chain is disruptive 💯
If you think clearly enough, eventually you realize that everything written on all packaging is a lie.
I thought exactly the same. 😮
Read the small print, if it’s not on the box as British meat then avoid at all costs !!
Gareth family always comes first, so don't worry about doing stuff for your viewers.
That lot looks alright and will be worth a go at
“Quite nice just stirring this around” reminded me of Micky Flanagan talking about watching the kettle boil or a bath run😂
Hannibal Lecter: "I can't even begin to imagine what they feed hundreds of millions of permanently caged chickens in China."
Having been to China many times on business and seeing how they handle food I can concur
Let's save this topic for when Baldie does a McDonald's review 😂
My friend sent me a photo that still haunts me today on his last business trip to China. A paper cup full of broth, with a few noodles and a huge chickens foot sticking up out the middle of it.. 🤔🤦🏻♂️🤢
@@TheHitmann069that chicken's foot was the last thing the broth dog ate right before being cooked.
@@TheHitmann069
Chicken's feet are regularly eaten in China. Google for recipes.
G… family is always first. We don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes but it’s probably what a lot of us are dealing with ageing parents. We’re here if you need us & we appreciate you putting yourself out there with these reviews. As always mate… great review 😊
Cheers Lesley
Review whatever you want too! I enjoy the Budget items/meals you look at. I can't buy most of them, but it does remind me how important items like these could be! When I was younger (old man waffle now incoming!) the four pack of Chicken and Mushroom pies from Tescos were great. Only 99p back then, think maybe 2005? Bloody fantastic, with some cheap tin of veg on the side! Love your reviews, honest opinions of food people buy! Sadly the nearest IceLand to me is about 900 miles!! We have Aldi, and Lidl here, but they all vary on location. I live in France for the 900 miles!!. (Old man waffle has ended!)
Weigh the water if it calls for a specific quantity. 272ml = 272g.
It probably started as 275 ml, was converted to US traditional units in China and rounded, then packaged in the UK and converted back to metric with further rounding. The reality is that is food, not a chemical manufacturing process, and is not critical. I see this often.
@@ianwalker1182 I quite agree that's probably why it calls for such a spurious volume, but it's always more accurate to weigh it.
omg that looks lush, the only thing i would do different is deep fry my chips i dont like dry fried or oven baked chips give me fried everytime😋
Quite right; family first. You are a good man. Looked very tasty, but without the gravy. Don’t eat gravy.
im on glasgow and it cost £4.50, still worth the money, i added an oxo to the gravy and it tasted a lot better
In the states here. Would definitely get that at my Aldi. Although they'll probably give us something processed-cheesy instead of the gravy.
That meal looked quite spiffing to me, Gareth! All good stuff, and when it came to the Gravy, it looked perfect, nice and thick, Herby and Spicy, the sort of Gravy I prepare for all my Home-cooked meals every day! I wouldn't mind finding that Gravy Sachet like that on my local Sainsbury's shelves! Gravy makes the World go round! Take care, all, from Herefordshire....where the Cows come from!...😊....😊....!
Schwartz do a not bad chicken gravy granules in jars...but hard to find where I live...you do still need to augment it though, imo, but a good quick base.
That an absolute must that Gareth ...my grandson is gonna love that...might treat myself too..❤❤
Enjoy both
Looks good to fair... For once on Gareth's channel 😂👍
Great review Gaz as always and I think it was the right choice to do them separately crispy everything and looked good as well 👏👏👍👍
Cheers Peter
brilliant value at that price....we have an aldis coming to my town...cant wait
Looks delicious, sound crunchy my daughter would love that. Loves popcorn chicken as well., another brilliant food vlog. ❤
Thanks
The reason why these cheaper frozen/package meals dont use British chicken is because if they used British chicken they would have to be 4 times the price. Chinese/overseas chicken manufacturers have cheaper labour costs ( relative to the cost of living in China ) so can sell to British food manufacturers for much cheaper than it would cost from a British farm. Its not just as simple as saying 'just use British chicken' without being prepared to pay the price the British farmer would expect. This price would then be passed on to the consumer and most of the British public wouldnt be prepared to pay £15 for a package meal just because the chicken comes from a British farm.
MSG(E621) rocks, Gaz. But not palm oil, nope, not for me.
I had a flashback to some Barenaked Ladies (the musicians that is :)
One Week released in 1998 with the lyrics.
"Chickity China, the Chinese chicken
You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'" 🤘
Exactly, I thought that straight away too. Great song. You could change the lyrics to make it a parody of Gareths activities. Lol.
Looking forward to Aldi opening in my town. It's only about a mile away near the Lidl.
we have an aldis opening soon
Oy oy oy! I AM feeling spot on! Just had a huge green salad with avocados, grape tomatoes, kalamata olives, and that very same type of chicken. What a good boy I am. Sleep cycle's a bit messed up, though -- it's only 8:00 in the morning here!
Gaz have you ever tried making chips from potatoes in your air fryer . Easy peasy and you can save a fortune . Buy good quality Maris Piper potatoes and give it a try.
That looks excellent Gaz, I'm hungry for KFC now, it's 1am but we do have 24hr delivery but no gravy sadly, we used to get it a long time ago but probably not spicy enough for the Thais so they dropped it. I do have instant gravy granules either Bisto or Goldenfry on standby for emergencies. Cheers
Haven't had breakfast yet, and that looks tasty, crunchy and yummy.
Looks lovely will have to try, That would do me and kiddo, and still have plenty left over, Dad bought the 4 of us, Him mum me and daughter kFC Saturday Night don’t think he much much back of £40
Just how I like my gravy, can not stand it too runny. And I agree that chips are great done in an air-fryer.
That's a good sized portion. Speaking of out off date food, for anyone who is interested there is a website in Uk that sell tinned food just after its BEST BEFORE cheap. I just go to my beloved ASDA. I think that would be gorgeous if you came home from a night out and some one had that waiting for you.
These are not bad Gareth, I've had it a few times, i normally heat up a chinese chicken curry and rice to go with it and a few slices of bread and butter, its cheaper than a £30 curry house
I can see whether spoons buying these in and charging it's customers £15 with a watered down pint courtesy of AB-Inbev.
I remember Thai chickens looking very large when there, nothing like ours, so probably go a long way. The bees also larger but had a big spike coming out of them, horrendous. The stray dogs are a concern too, some without 4 legs howling away in packs for no apparent reason around Buddhist Temples.
Was wondering where you were .. balance is a good thing .. I hate boxes when have to time them all .. . 😊
Halal 💯puts me off. Great review as usual from one of the most likeable men on yt.
yes I try my best to avoid Halal too
I love halal
I won't lie and say I didn't eat the whole thing, but for the price it is so good! Definitely have once in a blue moon for sure!
I don't trust ANY FOOD that comes from China, so they would have cheated me with that UK stamp on the box. Mind, I am partial to KFC now and again so I've probably eaten quite a lot of Chinese Chicken. I'm 75% of the way to perfecting my own Chicken Nuggets and with Home Made Chips deep fried in Dripping, you can't beat 'em. Also Ketchup, not gravy, That's for Sunday Roasts or Sausage & Mash. Cheers, Gareth, Good review.
Looks good. Have you tried sainsbury's taste the difference ultimate burger sauce with dill gerkins paprika and mustard
Can't go wrong with a munchy box love them. From my local Chinese place.
Hi can you do a review on the marks and Spencer English breakfast £4 just microwave have mine with a round of toast and marmalade and a cuppa saved a lot of cooking👍🥳
Cracking price that. I’ll have to look for that. Thanks Gaz. 👍
You're welcome 😊
I was very worried when you started the gravy before the chicken 😢 but let's face it you can't replicate KFC gravy it's simply divine personally I would have chucked the whole lot in the Ninja at once. Good review keep em coming
I don't think the UK uses chicken sourced from China.....could this be a pack of Chinese flavour chicken added to the wrong bag
Iceland do a salt and pepper chicken and chips one, amazing stuff honestly
You've tempted me with this one. I have a soft spot for chicken like this. Sod the diet.
If the meat isn’t from this bloody country🇬🇧…I ain’t eating it!
Hi Gareth, just enjoyed another Aldi Salmon Wellington (cheese & leek) - fabulous, you must try it!
Like the sound of that
Hands down the best UA-camr about art the minute. Love it
You're welcome 😊
Never got my head around southern fried chicken with gravy.
This is definitely a Friday night tea Gaz 👍🏼 for the price and the amount you get it seems bang on.
Cheers for the review 👍🏼🇬🇧🇬🇧
Cheers Dan
Don’t apologise for skipping a few days mate. I follow 66 channels on UA-cam & you post more videos than any of the others.
No apologies needed mate that's a lot of channels to get through.
Try these there one of the best things iv tasted got them in asda
ASDA Take-Out Club Loaded Cheese & Jalapeño Mini Hash Browns 400g
You're right Gaz, the salt and pepper chips box was 742g
Cheers Rob thought so
Great review as always G! 🤤
Cheers Sarah, hope you're well
This looks as good as the Salt and Pepper one, I’m going to give it a try at that money thank you
Hy man, can you review the Frikadellan pork burgers from Aldi? Theye're in the fresh meat part, usually with the german sausages and cold meats.
Cheers for the heads up
Another good video, Gareth, and that looked really tasty. I notice you don't often use the Air Fry facility on your Sage oven. Is there a reason for this? I am looking at getting an Air Fryer and don't know which one to go for either a Ninja or a Sage. Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for the video
You're welcome 😊
Seems a bit sneaky saying it's a UK product when the chicken is actually from China 🤔
I like a bit of KFC but this looked pretty fair and quite good value. Thanks Gareth for reviewing this as usual with great care.
My pleasure!
looked nice. i'll have to check if there is something similar in tesco 👍
All the best to your family. I'm sure they appreciate you and regard you with lots of love.
Looks good.And a decent price.Can deffo feed 2.
I was in ALDI last Thursday and saw this and I nearly bought it so thanks for the review. I will definitely buy one this Thursday when I go to ALDI thanks for helping me decide.
Hope you enjoy it!
Realistically it might be better to buy each item separately and probably save some pennies. There’s nowt special about it…. Mayflower southern fried chicken gravy takes some beating 😃👍
Gareth,just to let you know,ASDA Bom Bahia Curry range and their House Of Yum Chinese range are now mix and match 2 x Sides and 2 x Mains for £10 🎉
Oh yes Gareth been waiting for you to review it. I had it last week definitely not a sharer mate 😂😂
🎶chicken from China, Chinese chicken, you have a drumstick and your brain starts tickin'🎶
Like deployed 👍
Cheers pal
Tried them myself recently from Aldi to be honest much better than the KFC considering some of the negative reviews of KFC recently online these from Aldi are much better at least I thought so 😊😋
Yes very good mate this is
My local KFC's have gone downhill over the years, cant remember the last time i had one. There is a local chicken shop that is so much better, better tasting chicken and a better price, family meal i get is £16.99
@@Glenn7719 I agree 💯 kfc quality has declined over the years granted
Slim chicken is lovely. Very good quality chicken. Expensive tho.
Is the gravy similar to kfc taste?
Family first! Thanks Gaz
RL comes before online stuff. Take care of your family and yourself first. If you have a little less UA-cam output because of that so be it. We'll still be here,take care mate.
You too Rob
Tried this yesterday and was pleasantly surprised. Will defo buy it again.
It looks good 🤷🏽😂
I cleaned out my fryer and changed the fat yesterday. There's nothing like the flavour of chips fried in fresh dripping.
im gonna have to call in aldi for one of these looks really good and pretty cheap
all the best gaz,, still got the best plates this side of shap ... aldi plates are the best plates
You do you Gareth ….your kids’ll be adults before you know it ….precious time is now ….🥰
That's a meal for one Gareth as far as I'm concerned,looks so good,I would have poured that gravy all over the chicken and chips,another good one big pal
"father & Husband first" admirable attitude gareth
Now trying it, I hope it's nice, we will soon see, cheers for the review 🎉🎉
You're welcome
Great vid mate I’d still end up sprinkling a load more salt on
Cheers Steve
Time off wouldn't worry about it, one family comes first and two gives time for new ideas.
I have 1 for u It's from Iceland You might want to try sweet-and-sour chicken balls.They are really nice
Just bought one of them,look decent value.
You are making me drool Gareth, enjoy mate
Oh Gareth, I rejoined your channel. I didn't cancel because I don't like your channel. Just that so many channels I like so I go on a rota for my favorite ones. That way everyone gets their fair share. If join too many at once it all mounts up. I also donate to channels in turns.
Welcome back! Cheers
🐻 he's got car dad and couldn't drop a few off some mate 😂 stick bread in toaster teddy we"ll survive 😂
A tasty meal and I think good value for £3.50 . Excellent food review bald foodie guy 👌🙌🔥👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you 😋
meat ends up being cheaper if imported, than if you were to use national meat (in the case of UK) we really arent that big of a meat producer when you look at supply/demand
Never tried em yet......they do look worth every penny at that price and serves 2 :)
Perfect for one of my daughters , she loves all that . Defo worth £3.99 .
A good food product from Aldi and I wouldn't feel uncomfortable forking out £4 for this meal, you certainly get a decent portion of southern fried chicken strips, nuggets and chips for the money; gravy looked good as well.
I could tell Gareth thoroughly enjoyed the food going by the satisfying "mmmmm" noises he was making after taste sampling the chicken and chips with gravy, lol 😂
These McDonald's, Burger King and KFC style fakeaway meals are becoming quite popular and all the big named supermarkets are trying to recreate their own versions which I think people out there are liking and appreciating what they're doing.
This munch box fakeaway could easily serve 1 person, if you were to share the meal with another person, I don't think that it would be as filling once the chips, chicken strips and nuggets were divided equally, be more of a tasty snack than anything.
I think Aldi could have put a few more chicken strips and nuggets inside the box, then I'd definitely consider it a better munch box for 2 persons; but putting that aside £4 is a fair price for this food product which I think will sell very well.
Cheers mate
Spot on.😁
Wow chineese chicken!!!! have you tried n ireland chicken in any of your challenges, if not have a go
There is absolutely no way these box meals are for 2 people to share......hilarious how they just calculate the portion sizes because of the salt content isn't it. cheers Gaz keep up the good work
Cheers Kel
Putting that away mind 😊👍👍
Fun fact,1ml of water weighs 1gm on the scales. Hope that helps. 🥰
As someone with stage 5 ckd im glad you shared the salt content
How you're ok mate
Dialysis 3x a week keeps me going, your health and your family come first mate, If you don't check your blood pressure, please do it before it's too late.
I’m going to the kitchen now I’ve watched you eat that.
Looked nice Gaz. Enjoyed watching . . Hope all well 👍
Cheers Alison
I had this at my inlaws, it fed 4 of us, in the end as my son and I couldn't eat it all. . Was nice though
looks ace!
takecare family first great videos
Thanks so much
They look yummy ❤hope your well
Bravo Gareth
Looks great, chips n gravy 😊
Thank you 😋
Family always come 1st Gareth, dont worry about us, we really enjoy your videos and maybe you could do the odd one with your family too, kids are great at telling you whats nice or not 😅
Thanks 👍