Subject: Re: A nation perplexed!
Gabe Billings wrote the stuff in italics...
Hey Dexx... ...Outback Steakhouse... I feel odd that there are probably stupid kids growing up here that thing steaks, fried onions and brownie sundaes are native Australian cuisine.
Funny you should have brought this up five days ago in a spot where I didn't see it until now.... uh, yeah. Australian cuisine can be divided into two categories - real Aussie food, and hardcore Aussie food. The real stuff is pretty much everything, including good old meat pies and such, plus Asian, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, English, Russian, and whatever else from our many many cultures. The hardcore stuff is a bit scarier - kangaroo (VERY yummy), crocodile, emu, water buffalo, barramundi (a type of coral and mangrove trout, also VERY yummy), even such horrors as snake and witchetty grub (a huge wood borer the size of a man's thumb - apprently it really tastes like chicken. Generally, we eat what my wife calls Cultural Fusion foods. One of our favourites is "kangaroganoff" - Russian stroganoff cooked with kangaroo meat. Kangaroo works well in stirfries and curries, too, but many of my friends hate the fact that I like to eat Skippy.
Do you have silly Americanized restaurants over there too?
...apart from McDonalds? Oh, we have the odd Grease-style diners and burger-bars, but we are more Continental, really.
And you can settle a bet for me... Are there 7-11s in Australia?
Of course we do! Where else would all the stoned people go at 3am? Apart from a 24 hour supermarket, of course... The CBD of Melbourne has more 7-Eleven's per square kilometre than any place on earth, I think. Lonsdale Street had FOUR at last count, and it's no more than 1.5km long.