@hacks4pancakes

I would love to know about First Nations folk and their routine foods (pre colonisation).

@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 😋