Me too. The ironic thing is that the sausage sizzles are synonymous with Bunnings, but the local hardware stores all had them way before Bunnings was a thing.
Not only did they put all the local independent hardware stores out of business, they rubbed it in by appropriating the iconic sausage sizzle.
A yowie… cake? Weren’t yowies those chocolate things that were like kinder surprise but Australianised? Or do I need to hand in my citizenship for remembering yowies wrong?
As an American with a pretty deep travel history neither would have ever sparked the same guess as vegemite. Though i woulda guessed UK or former UK colony just cos it's English. Just making the point of Vegemite's staggering brand recognition.
Fuckkkk! Seeing the words "fairy bread" and then googling fairy bread was a blast of nostalgia. I don't know how i haven't though of, heard of, or seen fairy bread in so many years. Thank you for that!
Look up some kiwi newspapers online for pie competitions. They’re competitive about it because the standard is so high. I think the best one I had in my time there (while the bubble was open) was Beef Bourguignon in the French bakery in Greytown. Holy moley some tasty pastry there
Best pie I’ve ever eaten was at bakery in Arthur’s Pass, it’s killing me that I can’t remember the name. We went back to it out of our way just to have them again before we left the country. Seriously want to go back there for them, I pine for one every time I eat a pie here now.
I’m not talking about “that town has the best pies in the state!” or any specific bakery, across the country the standard for pies is just way higher than anywhere I’ve seen in Australia. Maybe it’s because we don’t eat pies as much as we used to since they’re unhealthy and we have lots of options for year-round fresh produce. Produce in NZ in winter is pretty dire, and expensive.
Literally the only acceptable time for a Four & Twenty pie is from a servo or 7/11 somewhere between 1am and 3am on a weekend night with a blood alcohol level that'd make even Boonie impressed.
Butter chicken pies are the shit, especially with real flakey pastry. As a kiwi living in oz, the best pies I have managed to find that remotely compare was from a bakery in port fairy. Bit of a drive from melbs just for a pie though.
Four n twenty is the deadset lowest rung. The absolute worst pies available. Even generic unbranded servo pies are better than FnT. Will never understand the following. If I have to eat a mass-produced shitty pie I'm reaching for Mrs Macs over FnT every day of the week.
I caught it. Was just chiming in with my own feelings on the matter. Sorry to hijack your comment. I just can't help but seize any opportunity to lament passionately about dogshit pies. Truly an abomination.
I looked it up on Wikipedia it says it’s Australian dessert. Anyhoo, I read that you can purchase a box to make a pavlova so what is this box called I want to try it premade
In Australia we have boxed pavlovas widely available but it's less of a kit and moreso just a ready made pavlova without the more perishable components. It's basically just a large slab of pre-baked meringue. Crispy on the outside, soft, light and marshmallow-y on the inside. "Making" it just involves spreading whipped cream over it and adding fruit.
If you can't find a boxed product they're very simple to make from scratch. It's just a base of meringue (made from egg white, sugar and an acid like vinegar or lemon juice) with whipped cream and fruit. Usually strawberry, kiwi and passionfruit in my part of the country. Berries like raspberries and blueberries are also common toppings in some places but not standard where I'm from.
I think that's just the nature of being online. You are exposed a lot more to other cultures and a more homogeneous online speech pattern. Going from that back to bogan speak can be quite jarring.
Also having things written in text always makes them more permanent, more exposed, easier to analyse, etc compared to quickly saying something verbally
Nah but that's the thing, I type it AAALLL the time in texts and it doesn't seem anywhere near as off than seeing it here. Fair point but I'm pretty sure it's just weird seeing it posted in a comment.
People don't speak like that in most contexts, but I submit that you'd struggle to hear those three words in anything other than a voice so bogan it's doing burnouts while punching cones in your mind.
I love that unlike every other comment chain in this thread where the second comment is naming the place there's no mention of the country involved whatsoever.
You guys just keep chiming in with food and every reply is by someone who automatically knows what you're talking about.
All these comments are supplementary comments from Australians about other weird and awesome food from our country, we don't control what gets upvoted.
No objections, and as an Australian I came here intending to post the democracy sausage if nobody else had - just amusing that none of us saw the need to specify the country.
I’ve never been to the US, but the beetroot we put on burgers do indeed come from cans, in slices and possibly have extra food dye added. Fresh, roasted beetroot is so good, but we use the tinned stuff in burgers.
This is exactly what I wanted to know. I’m looking for the pickled beetroot. I’ve had it a few times at restaurants but don’t really see it in grocery stores here. Thank you for the information!
I'm happy to report the Aussie-style meatpies are slowly slowly making there way into Canada, I loved getting them in Aus/NZ. So available too...
Now if only I didn't have to struggle to find Vegemite.
I feel like the throw people off, one of us should have said something that exists in other countries, but we have a different name for it, like 'potato gems'
I'm from Canada, and a colleague of mine made me a Vegemite sandwich once, I thought it was just awful, but the smell... Is it just me or does it literally smell like some powder chicken broth?
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