'Spicy Fried Chicken,' the latest and newest flavour. I absolutely love this flavour! You definitely have a total winner here. Thank you for continuing to create more flavours. Show details
Tried shapes spicy fried chicken, wether you like the taste or not at least you can taste the flavour unlike 90%of other shape,so called flavours ,why can't Arnott's add the extra flavour back.... Show details
Follow-up · Shapes are still unfortunately not something I would put in my shopping cart and hasn't been since they started not using as much flavour because of some idiot on Facebook as with the majority of Arnott's biscuits they have unfortunately gone from a regular to a no thanks due to the massive dive in quality.
Arnotts Pizza Shapes are absolutely disgusting and tasteless. They have changed the recipe and the biscuits are half the size It used to be so much better years ago I can’t believe Arnotts charge up to $4 dollars a box for this Rubbish. Arnotts you are Criminals charging customers for this rubbish Shame on you. Show details
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Won't buy again – Flame grilled chicken tastes like the chicken crimpys or Dixie drumsticks, only not as nice. Heaps of chicken salt and doesn't taste good at all. Show details
Yuck tastes like cardboard – They used to be tasty. Do they even have people that taste rest these? They are disgusting and inedible. Even on sale for $2 it’s too much. Cheese flavour.. more like cardboard poop. To the bin they go. Show details
Fully loaded Flame Grilled a miss. Add gluten free/low carb options. More flavour to original BBQ and pizza flavours – Arnotts Shapes need more toppings/flavour with the originals, however are still quite nice and enjoyable (more so more flavour to the BBQ and pizza flavours) , would also be great to have a gluten free and low carb option or at least low carb option to make healthier choices. Arnotts Fully Loaded Shapes have been a bit disappointing flavour… Read more
wise, texture, size and taste of biscuit alone is GREAT though. Have tried a few flavours and underwhelmed. More so the Flame Grilled Chicken flavour. The parsley and lime overtake the whole flavour profile and make it unenjoyable for someone wanting grilled chicken flavour, but getting parsley and lime predominantly. Remove the parsley and lime and would potentially be a tasty, and made sense snack.
Flavour you can see, but can't taste – This was my favourite baked snack. Even when they shrunk it the first time, the flavour was still there. However Shapes have shrunk again 1 year later! Also visibly removing some of the flavour you can see and evidently taste. It is quite bland now. Goodbye Pizza Shapes you will be missed. Show details
Positive reviews
Found the BEST flavour! – Arnott’s Fully Loaded Wicked Sweet Chili flavour is INSANELY good. Tons of flavour with a hint of heat. Beware: these are addictive! Show details
Nacho Cheese! the end! – Nacho Cheese ones are the best, tons of flavour and causes my stomach to hurt because of said acidic/salty flavour lol, cause yeah GERD and all that. Regardless however about that annoyance best flavour, of course I only tried 2 flavours as the rest either have the yeast extract too high up or too much sugar and I’m glucose intolerant now. So… Read more
pizza was the other flavour and it wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t good either, very oil flavoured honestly.
I tried barbecue awhile ago and that was nicely flavoured but a bust because I could feel literal chilli in my mouth and so I needed a PPI that day from memory as it burned my stomach. Shame because the flavour was great. Had the same ordeal with the flaming chicken too, bloody chilli. Lovely flavour if you can have spice.
Want to try the cheese one someday but from memory it was very salty so I dunno, maybe when it’s on special I’ll try it and mix it with milk.
Chicken Crimpies turn me on with there excellent flavour and crunch – The nice salty flavour feels like rubbing msg on my nipples. The smooth texture with good crunch is like snapping the bird outside the windows neck that wont shut up. The chicken flavour is like grabbing a chicken out the pen covering it in butter and slow roasting it for 128 hours. The more I think about chicken crimpies the more turned on I get. They are the only thing waking me up in the morning. I love chicken crimpies. Show details
Negative reviews
The barbecue shapes are pale an tasteless it like eating raw Maggi noodles flavour you can see shouldn't be your slogan any more I've enjoyed them for 10 to 15 years and now I can't even stand them I miss the browned little bubbles and burnt ends and the flavour I could see Show details
We have all heard of ‘Shrinkflation’… but this is an even more disappointing and a downright deceptive version of that. My partner, brought home a barbecue shapes ‘value pack’. They are quite clearly less thick, less flavoursome, and just a generally bland version of what we are used to. I noticed it straight away… But assumed I was probably… Read more
imagining it. Only to google it and sure enough many people have verified that the shapes in the value pack are much lower quality. Unbelievable!
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I miss Nacho Cheese Shapes from yesteryear. The 'New' version is NOTHING like the old except in name only. They taste like tomato (which is ok), but not even a vague resemblance of how amazing they used to be. It might be well past time Arnott's, to actually LISTEN and ACT on what the majority of your customers are saying and go back to what used to be loved!
Recent reviews
Compost biscuit – The very thing that made you popular in the 90s like “ flavour” you have taken away from every shape , the only thing you have is your you name but your biscuits aren’t what they used to be, complete compost lately even the box they come in feels like paper rather than cardboard in fact I feel like I’m eating cardboard when I eat a shape. I’m… Read more
guessing these younger generation love them because they have never tried the original ones from yesteryear, but they are so bland and lacking in everything overcooked and burnt, no seasoning at all
NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THE SAME – Bought a box from woolworths as they were on special. Absolutely tiny compared to what they used to be with absolutely no flavour. Never again. Show details
They should be renamed just Shapes – Why Arnotts???? So disappointed with the lack of seasoning you now use with your bbq shapes! Bought my last packet of bbq shapes...so bland!! By cutting costs and selling an inferior product your losing customers!! Show details
Shapes no longer have any taste – Been a loyal fan of Shapes since I was little. Bought Cheese and Bacon, Cheddar, Savory, and BBQ original shapes when they were on special. For the last few months I've noticed there's not much flavour, initially didn't think much of it passing it off as a bad batch. It's been about 4 months now and ALL the original flavours I bought are still… Read more
lacking in taste, this must be a production decision! Sad they've ruined a winning product with their money saving focus. Will not be buying as a staple moving forward.
The Cardboard box would of had more flavour – I have been loyal to Arnotts for many years now but no longer. They advertise flavour you can see. However i received a box of flavorless biscuits. I contacted Arnotts & left a message and a werk later no phone call returned. Goodbye Arnotts & hello Cheaper competition.
Arnotts despise their customers – Smaller, much less flavour, harder biscuits. Marketed as "Originals" pfft. Yet another product gone down the tube of enshittification...
Arnotts, really? – For the first time in years I bought a packet of Pizza flavoured Shapes. I'm not surprised they were half price...simply awful compared to what they used to be. Never again.... Show details
BRING BACK FLAVOUR YOU CAN SEE – Jesus christ arnotts..... we literally can't win with you. The old flavours (bbq, pizza etc) are so bloody tasteless and the new ones are absolutely disgustingly salty and don't even taste like what flavour they say they are. Tried ultimate cheese yesterday and got excited by how much flavour there appeared to be. However, it was disappointing to… Read more
see they were the crappy thin biscuits and obviously didn't taste like cheese at all.. they were soooooo salty I couldn't eat more than 2 pieces. I cannot buy the original flavours anymore because whenever I've tried them, to relive my childhood, I'm slapped in the face by their terrible product. What a great way to ruin Australians' nostalgia. Now, all I want to do is lick what little flavour it has off and throw away the biscuits.
Why would you ever get rid of the thick coated mouthwatering flavour YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE and the piles of it that was down the bottom. People used to love getting to the end of a packet and fight over who got to eat all the flavour, but now no one can even finish a packet -_- you think arnotts would've learned after the uproar of getting rid of the originals a while back.
I've found that nacho cheese are the ONLY shapes I can tolerate anymore since they've usually got decent seasoning on them and they are actually very tasty! Still, I despise arnotts for what they've done. Not that enjoyable only being stuck with 1 flavour, does get boring :/
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BBQ flavour this is char grilled/well done – Flavour that you can see? The only Flavour in this box was burnt BBQ flavours from over cooked charred biscuits. The spice that is supposed to be on these so-called biscuits was non existing and there was nothing in the bottom of the bag either. So was this box of biscuits skipped for the added spices? Or are these the new interpretation of what… Read more
passes for Arnott's BBQ biscuits these days? Extremely disappointed with this.Has anyone else noticed that Arnott's have been skimping on the amount of flavouring in the Shapes biscuits? Guessing that Arnott's have done this to save on outgoing costs. Terrible decision making Arnott's. Just like when you attempted to alter the Shapes recipe in 2016. Bad tasting burnt biscuits.......
No flavour – Bought a pkt of BBQ shapes the other day. There is next to no flavour & definitely can’t see the flavour like they promote. I won’t be buying these again. They’ve done a good job of killing off this product. Show details
Shapes no more … so sad – The biscuits have shrunk, they are too firm/hard to the bite, and there is not enough flavour you can see… you think they would have learned their lesson after the debacle a few years back
Please bring them back, flame grilled BBQ – I never review things but couple years ago I used to buy flame grilled BBQ shapes litterally everytime I had the chance, they were soo good, I don't know where they went, cant buy them anywhere but everytime I google the name, Woolworths has an old ad for them and that makes me sad because the photo is right there but they've been sold out for… Read more
years, its not okay they are soo good and I keep telling people about them but I can't find them anywhere, please bring back the flame grilled BBQ shapes, idk if they'll live up to my expectations because I've thought about them too much but I need to know if they were as good as I remember
Absolute crap – I used enjoy these little morsels But now they are hard, overcooked, and lack any flavour. Why have you done this? Will never buy Arnotts again. NOT AUSTRALIAN.
Terrible – Arnott's started in Australia in 1847 and were once a great company with great products but no longer. I'm 70 and I've been an Arnott's biscuit eater all my life. Now the products are so small and the price so high I can't let myself be conned anymore. Yeah, the weight might be on the packets in small print but a person should be given a fair… Read more
indication of the size of the contents by the size and shape of the packet. Shapes and Jatz are bland and mostly tasteless flattened little dots and squares, and Monte Carlos and Kingston etc are an embarassment to the company as far as I'm concerned. Is this is the way you want your loyal customers to be treated Arnotts?
TERRIBLE HORRIBLE – I used to love shapes, especially the original cheese. Management destroyed them. They used to be cooked perfectly and have loads of flavour. Now they have no flavour and are overcooked, as many are dark brown with a slightly burnt taste. Would give zero stars if possible. Never buying again.
For God's sake please, please, please add some flavour back to your original biscuits – Shapes used to be great the original biscuit is there but they have next to no flavour and this is why they have 1.5 stars in 99%of reviews and while supermarkets continually have them on special because otherwise no one would buy them , better off eating the box . Show details
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