REMEMBER WHEN… WE LOVED CHIKO ROLLS?
Ah, the humble Chiko roll… the ultimate one-handed snack.
You could have your arm around your loved one at the drive-in and devour a Chicko roll with ease.
Always reliable – never split and dumped hot stuff in your lap or dribbled down your chin. Our consumption of Chiko rolls may have declined from 70 million in the late 70s to about 14 milion now, but the recipe hasn’t changed.
What’s in them? Still don’t know. Pure deep fried nostalgia, probably.
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15 Responses to this article
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diane August 15, 2012
Chiko rolls aah yes remember them well and loved them and still have a craving for them. What is inside them? don’t know and don’t care, but whatever it is ,it tastes delicious. Love them
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Walabytrack August 15, 2012
I only once ever gave the Chiko Roll Belly Room.
My local Chinese Cafe had the ideal recipe, Mince,Cabbage and Celery in a fine Gelatenous
Clear gravy,wrapped in a Crispy Deep Fried Pastry Wrapper. You were also given two large
Lemon Wedges,to sqeeze into the Roll after you
Had bitten the top off. I have never ever eaten better Since. The Cafe closed in 1980, the
Recipe remained the same since 1960.
I Cloned a recipe,and they are Bloody Good. -
Lydia August 15, 2012
Yes, loved them. We were only allowed to have them as a ‘treat’ because my mum was very health conscious and into ‘foreign’ food in the late 70s – we knew they were deep fried and very unhealthy even then. We used to get one from the fish and chip shop (well, they were deep fried!) at the beach. I still remember walking gingerly across the hot carpark, dodging surfers in their panel vans (ahh, the olde Sandman), my uncomfortable wet bathers, zinc creamed nose, sandy feet and a hot chiko roll at the end of it…. Bliss!
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sami August 15, 2012
We used to get them at school in the 90s! Occassionally I’d get a Cornjack but the Chiko was tried and true. Those were the good old days
wearing board shoorts to school, going straight to the beach afterwards, permanently sandy hair, fish n chips with proper tartare, having to sit on your towel in the car to avoid burns from the vinyl… I miss all that amazing how a simple Chiko Roll can bring it all back. Am vego these days so unsure if I can have them… -
sami August 15, 2012
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Rastas000 August 15, 2012
There was the period of time when the great Chicko Roll was not available (80′s sometime) and we had to substitute the spring roll. It was NEVER a proper substitute.
They have to be deep fried (oven baked is sooooo wrong) and the ends darker and ready to bite off and then suck out the guts to leave the chewy crunchy skin til last….. Ahhhhhh It is a once or twice a year treat these days….
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Penwahr August 16, 2012
The trust Chiko roll was actually first seem at the Wagga Ag Fair in 1951 and boy us Wagga kids would feast on them with gusto in the 80′s!!!
Wow that brings back memories, chiko rolls, wagging school, smoking and jumping off bridges into the river, arhhhh those were the days lol -
sarah August 30, 2012
The Chiko roll is another one of Bendigo’s great contributions to the great Australian cultural diorama. Other famous exports include WH herself.
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carol grillett October 27, 2012
I Loved the chiko Rolls in the 1970,I would always ask the Fish shp to cook it well as I Loved the ends of it black, That was the Best part of it. They used to Have plenty of Cabbage in them then as well.Used to Buy one when we went to the Drive In, whick the kids today wouldnt know what one of those were (drive In)
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aussieblonk January 21, 2013
As a kid, loved Chicko Rolls, would buy them at sporting events, or on the way to one. I can only assume proper research has been done, & therefore it’s factual the recipe has not changed. Personally, my belief is, Chiko Rolls were ‘dryer’ & much tastier back then. As an adult, I started a love affair with Marathon brand Spring Rolls, yummo!!
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Gerko February 20, 2013
They were originally called the Chinko Roll because they were based on Chinese Chop Suey Rolls but the name was changed to Chiko as they started to become more popular. I bounce between the Spring Roll, made by Marathon and the Chiko, sadly owned and made by US-owned Simplot. I always have a frozen box of one or the other in the fridge.
