Chip Buddies is a small Tasman business that makes chip shop style condiments, based at 1235 Moutere Highway in Upper Moutere. Its main product is a mild curry sauce, sweetened with sultanas rather than sugar, meant to go with fish and chips, chicken or vegetarian snacks, and sold as an alternative to ketchup. It also makes a Mild & Mellow curry salt for chips, roast vegetables, eggs, nuts, chicken or fish. Both products are free from e-numbers and additives. The business sells through its website, with a $15 minimum order as at 2026.
The curry sauce and curry salt are the whole range, so the business is best known for recreating the flavour of a takeaway counter at home.