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Beetroot like what you’d put on burgers.
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Ooooh, thanks for that link. They have Napisan OxyAction! (I’m probably a little more excited by that than it warrants.)
[QUOTE=Idlewild]
Beetroot like what you’d put on burgers.
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Gee, thanks a bunch. You’ve enabled my Tim Tams addiction.
[QUOTE=C3]
Ooooh, thanks for that link. They have Napisan OxyAction! (I’m probably a little more excited by that than it warrants.)
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Some things are worth a little excitement. I find it hard to resist (and yet I must) having a whole lot of sausage rolls overnighted to me.
TDN I see they have timtam balls now. :eek: Wonder how they harvest them.
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I notice that everyone’s shocked at the beets and eggs, but no one batted an eye at the lamb’s brains (which were on the menu at our local pub, along with the other items in my little list).
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Fried brain sandwiches aren’t unheard of in the States. BSE concerns are causing some places to stop using beef brain, but brain used to be sold next to the tripe and liver in major supermarkets. I haven’t noticed it lately, but I’ve not looked either.
Beet on a burger? That’s just weird. 
[QUOTE=1920s Style “Death Ray”]
I was trying to think of stuff you wouldn’t normally find in other countries, rather than stuff we actually eat.
God I hate beetroot!
Me to fish ‘n’ chip shop girl: Can I have an egg and cheese burger please, with no beetroot.
FnCSG: We don’t do beetroot.
Me: Alright, can I have it without onion then?
FnCSG: ???
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I’ve never been to Australia-is the beef good? I suspect most of it is grass-fed, which means the beef should be cooked briefly and served rare 9to keep it tender).
[QUOTE=Idlewild]
TDN I see they have timtam balls now.
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Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
[QUOTE=ralph124c]
The funniest incarnation of these faux-thnic places is the vaguely-chinese restaurant chain-P.F. Changs-anybody know how they hit on that one?
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From WIki:
I think it’s because lamb’s brains (or any other brain-food) is completely foreign to most modern Americans, so we can easily write it off as “alien”. But burgers are familiar, so putting unusual (to us) things on one is a more accessible weirdness.
And for the record, not all American beef is grain-fed. Come to Montana sometime… Yum!
[QUOTE=IdlewildTDN I see they have timtam balls now. :eek: Wonder how they harvest them.[/QUOTE]
Well, you’ve got to wait until the timtams are asleep, then you sneak up very quietly…
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Well, you’ve got to wait until the timtams are asleep, then you sneak up very quietly…
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I’m surprised that none of the Aussies that posted here have mentioned meat pies. When I was in Australia they were everywhere.
[QUOTE=Idlewild]
Beetroot like what you’d put on burgers.
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Interesting website. Musk flavored Lifesavers? Is that “muskmelon” flavored or, uh, other? I’d like to spend a lot of money trying stuff on that website but it’s not in the cards just yet. I’d love to have some pasties, but that looks like something I could make myself. That Cadbury assortment though…
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To my mind, an Australian themed restaurant would have Kangaroo, Emu, Crocodile, Barramundi, maybe some Patagonian Toothfish, and of course, steak.
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I want some barramundi now. It’s hard to get here, unfortunately.
We do have Patagonian Toothfish, but we call it Chilean Sea Bass. It’s quite popular.
as a former Outback employee, let me clear something up:
Outback was never meant to be anything other than a farce.
It states clear as day in the employee handbook that the concept for the restaurant was based on the movie “Crocodile Dundee”.
the intent was never to serve anything remotely resembling Australian food, but simply to serve American food with cute little Aussie names.
it’s a joke, it always was a joke, and now it’s a joke that’s no longer funny.
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Interesting website. Musk flavored Lifesavers? Is that “muskmelon” flavored or, uh, other? I’d like to spend a lot of money trying stuff on that website but it’s not in the cards just yet. I’d love to have some pasties, but that looks like something I could make myself. That Cadbury assortment though…
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You can totally make your own pasties. Very satisfying. Musk flavour is hard to describe. Um. Tastes like a musk scented deodorant smells. Not at all disgusting. Unless it’s one of those things you had to grow up with.
[QUOTE=Queen Bruin]
Interesting website.
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No kidding. I would totally pick up some 222’s, if it weren’t for the fact that I am pretty sure their markup is really high.
[QUOTE=Idlewild]
You can totally make your own pasties. Very satisfying. Musk flavour is hard to describe. Um. Tastes like a musk scented deodorant smells. Not at all disgusting. Unless it’s one of those things you had to grow up with.
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Interesting! I’ll have to order some up along with a bunch of other stuff when I have some spare cash. Thanks for the pasty recipe too!
[QUOTE=nevermore]
as a former Outback employee, let me clear something up:
Outback was never meant to be anything other than a farce.
It states clear as day in the employee handbook that the concept for the restaurant was based on the movie “Crocodile Dundee”.
the intent was never to serve anything remotely resembling Australian food, but simply to serve American food with cute little Aussie names.
it’s a joke, it always was a joke, and now it’s a joke that’s no longer funny.
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Americo-Australianian relations are at an all-time low. As I’m sure you remember, in the late 1980s the US experienced a short-lived infatuation with Australian culture. For some bizarre reason, the Aussies thought this would be a permanent thing. Of course, it wasn’t.
[QUOTE=Idlewild]
You can totally make your own pasties. Very satisfying. Musk flavour is hard to describe. Um. Tastes like a musk scented deodorant smells. Not at all disgusting. Unless it’s one of those things you had to grow up with.
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Hmmh. Imagine my disappoinment when I clicked the link and discovered you weren’t referring to these
[QUOTE=Idlewild]
You can totally make your own pasties. Very satisfying. Musk flavour is hard to describe. Um. Tastes like a musk scented deodorant smells.
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I just looked at that recipe and have to ask what is a swede? I assume they don’t want you chopping up a citizen of Sweden, so what are they?
Also, I haven’t seen musk scented deodorant in about 15-20 years. I guess the marketers in North America figured that people didn’t want to cover there own offensive scent with the offesive scent of an ox.
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I just looked at that recipe and have to ask what is a swede?.
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Obviously it goes by another name in the US: swede
I don’t think I’ve ever been to Outback Steakhouse and I don’t think I ever will. I find their radio commercials unbelievably annoying; forced attempts at more faux Australian quirkiness obviously developed by a marketing team in Newark or someplace.