chicken salt

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Usage notes 1.1.2 Dictionary notes

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[edit] Noun

chicken salt (uncountable)

Wikipedia

1. (Australian, New Zealand) A seasoning comprising table salt blended with herbs, spices, flavourings, and sometimes monosodium glutamate, often containing chicken extracts.
   • 1999, Peter Craven (ed.), Best Australian essays

     Look at that man, eating No Name chicken salt from a noodles packet; not bothering to chase after the packet being blown by the wind towards the forest.

   • 2005, Bill Condon, No Worries

     “Chicken salt. That’s all it was. He wanted chicken salt and he got ordinary salt and so he whinged at me.”

[edit] Usage notes

Chicken salt is common in New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia, and increasingly used in Victoria.

[edit] Dictionary notes

• The Australian National Dictionary has no entry.
• Collins Australian Dictionary has no entry.
• The Macquarie Dictionary has no entry.
• The Australian Oxford Dictionary has no entry.