Lesley Carhart 
(the prompt was "annoying stereotypes about Australia" and I had to add on one that Australians perpetuate)
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@hacks4pancakes "Made to eat when you're three beers in" 🤣
@Firesphere Explain HSPs otherwise XD
@hacks4pancakes True, though, as a Dutchman, I have to present to you, "The Kapsalon" (The hairdressing salon). The busiest time of the day at those places was always at the end of the night when the pubs closed 😆 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapsalon
@Firesphere Ah, the countries where a pile of meat counts as a salad <3
Flux@hacks4pancakes @Firesphere Wdym it's practically vegetarian!
Level 98 🇺🇦@hacks4pancakes @Firesphere HSPs are "sometimes food".
Michael Weiss@hacks4pancakes @Firesphere I've had the equivalent in London under a very different name. A single serving was enough for my wife and I to walk out stuffed to the gills, and all for about ten quid. Probably more now, given that we last had it about seven years ago.
@hacks4pancakes @Firesphere Halal Snack Pack.
Chips (fries), doner kebab meat (chicken/lamb), cheese, your choice of sauce (BBQ, garlic etc.)
Suitable for eating whenever you'd normally have a doner kebab, but with a fork rather than a massive mess down your shirt.
D. G. MarshallAnnoying stereotypes about Australia: Do you ride a kangaroo to work?
(Photo taken in my work car park)
Kal Feher@hacks4pancakes I was under the impression handrolls/temaki are traditionally uncut in Japan and therefore not a unique Australianism. Although I’m sure our ingredients will differ. We may also blur lines between maki and temaki 🤷♂️
Being a small country with significant migration sources changing over time means our food influences have come in distinct waves. You can follow it in the suburban growth patterns. It’s like culinary geology
Frank@hacks4pancakes our food is nothing if not entertaining. Have some fairy bread!
"Musty Bits" McGee@VWDasher @hacks4pancakes it's deceptively enjoyable
@arichtman @hacks4pancakes fairy bread, good butter, sour dough. Bloody fantastic.
Cycling Stu@VWDasher @hacks4pancakes damper is probably close to unique to us. Although I’m sure similar things exist elsewhere.
Generally the best thing about Australian food is the quality you can get for not much money…
Also good banh mi is available almost everywhere now…
Bellycan
Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]
Julien Goodwin@hacks4pancakes have we introduced you to Chiko rolls yet?
@LapTop006 @hacks4pancakes chip butty or potato scallop roll
@arichtman @hacks4pancakes it's a potato cake and it should be a capital offence to call it anything else. Also it's a parma, anyone calling it a parmi can similarly get into the bin.
@LapTop006 I am sorry to report the weird Australian pub in Singapore has been advertising a Parmi and I did not go in
@hacks4pancakes I am hoping to get back there later this year (set your calendar for the week Atlas will be randomly shut...) but tempting as it is to go after easter again it won't quite work.
@LapTop006 @hacks4pancakes capital offence hey? I'd guess northern territory, since they have a long long border so the fence would be very long also.
johnny anhedonic@arichtman *public audible snort
Ian MalcolmNo lies detected. Potato cakes til I die (probably from advanced potato cake consumption...) and "parmi" sounds just plain weird.
sortius 
@hacks4pancakes there's a lot more niche, harder to explain, Aussie cuisine covered there. Yeh, it's all a champloo, but we're a champloo nation
Ichinin 
✅🎯🙄@hacks4pancakes I remember a local store here in Sweden had a campaign with international cuisine a long time ago and i ate a dish made with some Australian bird (can't remember) and another with 'roo, so yeah, there is some truly distinct aussie food.
@Ichinin I'm... guessing Emu!
@hacks4pancakes Maybe, it wasn't on par with chicken if that says something.
@Ichinin Game meat is really a tricky one to make tasty. They certainly sell kangaroo in any grocery here. They're overpopulated and culled to protect them from starvation. It cooks down into stew or whatever like venison.
@hacks4pancakes I love trying new food. I just hope we can get warpdrives soon enough and go eat species on other planets.
To boldly nom where no one has nom nom nommed before.
rob@davidtheeviloverlord @Ichinin @hacks4pancakes bt as soon as you get there it'll be covered with people scouting for locations for "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Off This Planet".
Iain McLaren@hacks4pancakes @Ichinin marinated roo backstrap on the bbq. Delicious!
Paula@Ichinin @hacks4pancakes it’s rare, but was one able to get both emu and salt water croc at Coles at one point.
@Ichinin @hacks4pancakes Yeah not many places get 'Roo and Emu right. Only recently have restaurants here actually started preparing Kangaroo decently because it's so Gamey.
Dread Pirate (Tom) Roberts@hacks4pancakes It is weird.
A lot of things have a timestamp on them. 20 years ago I probably couldn't have told you what a HSP was.
When I was kid in the 80s, "take-away" was 'Chinese' or pizza. That was it.
Brett Sheffield (he/him)@troberts @hacks4pancakes I haven't lived in Australia for 25 years, so I had no idea what a HSP was until I looked it up just now.
Emma in Hobart@dentangle @troberts @hacks4pancakes I'm 50 years old, have lived in Australia all my life, and had never heard of HSP until today, but I'm a very fussy eater and don't generally enter kebab shops (where Wikipedia tells me that HSP is likely to be found).
Wade Roberts@dentangle @troberts @hacks4pancakes they’re as prevalent here today as fish and chips were in the 80’s.
Ali@hacks4pancakes Its funny - they insist pavlova and flat white coffee are theirs
Australia actually does have stronger claim to what we know as the Pav than NZ with a receipe from a 1922 cookbook titled "Australian Home Cookery". NZ did came up with the name after a famous Russian ballet dancer, but your version was very different (more akin to an ice block or sorbet). That said the Pavlova a food isn't particularly unique which why it's origins remain so messy.
The Flat White NZ has basically no substantial claim to it, if anything it's more likely English. As a primitive version was found in records there from the 1950s. Including a 1963 British film that has a character ordering one. Though much of what we know what would be a modern flat white would come later likely from Aus.
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Roadskater, Ph.D.@hacks4pancakes I am old enough to remember a Australian band singing a song about their homeland and mentioning something called a "vegemite sandwich", and the rest of the world said WTF?
wonkothesane@hacks4pancakes Dim sims. Fully Aussie.
Magnus Ahltorp@hacks4pancakes ”You have a cuisine. It's mostly adopted from other cultures and stitched together, and mostly made to eat while 3 beers in, but you definitely have a cuisine.”
Yes, and except for the ”3 beers”, that’s like every cuisine in the world that has been in any relevant kind of contact with other cultures.
Dirk Willrodt@hacks4pancakes and where else would one eat Krokodile (okay Asia I guess) and ostrich and 'roo meat?
Also, floaters - that pie served in a soup?
Melbourne is such a nice place btw, stayed there only for two weeks but loved it.
Also, floaters - that pie served in a soup?
Melbourne is such a nice place btw, stayed there only for two weeks but loved it.
Floating Onion@davidtheeviloverlord @Garonenur @hacks4pancakes Those look good. Great timing as I’m heading to Tasmania. Thanks for the suggestion!
RAOF@hacks4pancakes if this were Sydney¹ and not Melbourne I would unhesitatingly say “pad Thai” and Thai food in general.
You were never more than 5 minutes' walk from a Thai place that'd serve a good meal for $10.
¹: at least, as of 15 years ago when I lived there
EyeI would love to know about First Nations folk and their routine foods (pre colonisation).
Ho Ho Ho Like The Slur@grb090423 @hacks4pancakes I'm not the person to ask, but here are some pre-colonisation foods I know from the western Victoria area:
Kangaroo: tail roasted on a camp fire is said to be practical and delicious.
Murnong / yam daisy: a tuber cultivated by people in western Victoria, it was often roasted. It's described as tasting like radish, although sounds like it has more sugar and starch.
Bogong moth: a migrating moth that spends the summer on mountains in Victoria and Tasmania, attracted large gatherings of people to mountains.
Witchetty grub: large off-white larvae of a few different moths, especially important as a food source in the desert.
Bonney Upwelling: this is an area of particularly rich fishing off the coast of western Victoria during the summer months due to a nutrient rich deep water upwelling. Oral histories of this phenomenon including utilising beached whales.
@coolandnormal @hacks4pancakes
Thanks for this! I'd heard of witchetty grub but not about any of the others. It's good to learn about this. Murnong sounds really tasty 😋
@grb090423 @hacks4pancakes oh I forgot, there's also a casuarina tree with a sweet pithy layer (probably the cambium but don't quote me), apparently it tastes a bit like lemonade.
@coolandnormal @hacks4pancakes
Excellent. Thanks very much for the replies. Today I learned 👍🙂
@hacks4pancakes we are also honoured to have a thing called Chinese Food which isn't.
It seems some Chinese people came here, took one look at working class australians, dumped everything in the deep fryer, covered it in honey and put it on jasmine rice. Obviously everyone loved that.
We're now all aware this isn't Chinese Food and these days it lives under a subheading called Aussie Classics at many Chinese restaurants.