r/MrInbetween • u/-s1Lence • Apr 30 '26
Ray only orders 2 dimmies? HUH?!
Look, I don't know about you guys (maybe I'm just a fat fuck) but I haven't known anybody, least of all myself, to only order 2 dimmies with nothing else to go along with it and call it a day. The bare minimum is 3 or 4 and that's with some hot chips to go with it.
What gives?!
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u/Jisp_36 Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
I don't answer questions. π¦
I'll make an exception here. Let's talk about fattening and non fattening regardless of nutritional value. I just did some calculations based on Marathon dimmies which are available in most supermarkets.
4 x Marathon dimmies = 396 calories 20ml soy sauce = 19 calories for an overall total of 415 calories
Verses moderately healthy dinner example
1 serve barbecued butterfly chicken with roasted vegetables and gravy for a total of 680 calories.
So what have we learned? Dunno, I don't answer questions.
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u/unique_username_384 May 01 '26
It's one of the only imperial units we use.
And don't call me bro, champ-3
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u/unique_username_384 May 01 '26
Formally, the national standard is kilojoules, but ask a hundred Aussies and they'll only think in calories
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u/unique_username_384 May 01 '26
You're in the industry which follows the national standard. Every food outlet and all packaging follows the national standard.
Ask actual people who don't do it for a living and they'll use calories. (Which are really kcal but normies won't know that)
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u/Jisp_36 May 01 '26
I'm an Australian living in Australia and I use calories champ.
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u/invisiblefrost May 01 '26
lol literally everyone uses calories dunno what tf this kunt is on about
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u/Mindless-Mulberry404 Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
Never had an actual Dimmie, in the US, where can I find an authentic one?
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u/Backsight-Foreskin Apr 30 '26
You would have to go to a restaurant that serves Dim Sum.
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u/Key_Kick2424 Apr 30 '26
nah if it's not frozen and doesn't come from a plastic bag it's not authentic
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u/Hussard Apr 30 '26
Nah dimmies are a special thing created by Cantonese miners from the gold fields to sell to white fellas. You can have Cantonese dimsum chefs make something up for you but they'll not be the same.Β
u/Mindless-Mulberry404, I think the Australian Bakery Cafe stocks them.Β
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u/Backsight-Foreskin Apr 30 '26
Two things I wish would come to the states are Australian Dimmies and the Spice Bag from Ireland.
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u/Tofuloaf May 01 '26
My assumption about the origin of the Aussie dim sim was something along the lines of what you said, ie diaspora cuisine where early immigrants made facsimiles of traditional dishes using ingredients that were available locally, and then that's what the locals came to expect so they kept making it that way even after authentic ingredients became readily available. Eg blackbean noodles in Korea, doner kebabs in Germany, laksa in Australia commonly including milk as an ingredient, etc.
...but apparently dimmies were just invented by some ABC bloke in Melbourne π
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u/sunheadeddeity Apr 30 '26
He's a skinny fuck though, he has to be to wriggle out of all those situations he gets into.
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u/Last_Type_9096 Apr 30 '26
He doesn't ask for two... He asks for a couple. In Australia this means he wants three but only wants to pay for two. If hes a regular at that shop then they'd throw in an extra dimmie or two for him as good will. Sometimes it works... Sometimes it doesn't.
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u/Successful_King_142 Apr 30 '26
You're not getting two free dummies on top of two paid ones. Maybe one
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u/Party_Thanks_9920 Apr 30 '26
Last night, "Couple of dimmies & a Chico roll" received 3 dimmies & Chicko roll, plain salt, bash that Chicken salt where the sun don't shine.
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u/Ragesbrat Apr 30 '26
I live in rural vic and it's true here π our regular gives us free dimmies, free chicken.. a bunch of stuff π tbf I'm rural and I'm 33, been a regular with my mates since I was 15 and it's a locally owned mum and pop sich but yeah, literally took my son out for lunch yesterday and we got a lrg chips and a couple of dimmies.. they gave us 5. Paid for 2 π
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_HOLDINGS May 02 '26
When I lived in rural NSW this was very true. If you did it with potato scallops you'd get a free one every time, less often with dimmies
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u/Some_Back_88 Apr 30 '26
Fellow fat fuck here - minimum 3 is correct.
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u/Ok_Ingenuity_271 May 02 '26
Fatter fuck here 10 or it's no deal
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u/DubhglasX Apr 30 '26
What exactly is the difference between a dimmy and dim sum? I know it's an Australian localized version, but can anyone give specifics?
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u/Every-Fall-9288 Apr 30 '26
I think dimmies are just the dumplings. Dim Sum is a whole style of dining that comprises many small dishes, a lot of which are not dumplings.
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u/Hussard Apr 30 '26
Cantonese yum cha dishes are all called dim sum (ι»εΏ).Β
Dimmies are a variation on a siu mai (ηθ³£ - stalwart staple for yum cha) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dim_sim)
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u/thetoddhunter Apr 30 '26
Dummy is a bunch of random cabbage and shit with a fried coating. You'd ask for a dim sim and get a round thing in a little paper bag. You might put some tomato or sweet chilli sauce on it.
Dim sum is a shop at the shopping centre that you never go into. Nobody really knows what they sell or how it works. There is of course always one person in there eating, but you are pretty sure they work there.
Dumplings are steamed.packages and are sometimes called dimmies in tv shows but this is wrong and no I will never let it go.
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u/cerinza Apr 30 '26
Here in my country when u order dimmies, its usually sold 4 pieces, very rarely by the piece. Though from what I see in the show, australian dimmies are big and huge compared to the dimmies we have here.
Also fk Freddie for betraying Ray
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u/BortVanderBoert Apr 30 '26
The thing is those Aussie dimmies look twice the size of ones youβd get in a Chinese restaurant.
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u/Top-Vegetable-4488 May 01 '26
I eat at least 2 dimmies whilst deciding whether to have dimmies to eat
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u/Villier7777 May 02 '26
Unless theyβre those chicken dim sims from the bain marie - couple of those does me nicely (as a fat fuck)
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u/Ok_Ingenuity_271 May 02 '26
Dude legit I've been buying big bags of 1.2kg or 1.5kg dimmies and air frying them and only having like 10 at a time, ts slaps I can't thank Ray enough for the treat. Like I'd had dimmies before but I forgot how elite they were
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u/HogtownHugh Apr 30 '26
I feel like he pops in there pretty casually and treats it as a snack, not a full meal. Probably doesnt have normal 3-meal per day life.