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When comparing foods, it's not merely that we use different words for the same thing. The actual product is different because the ingredients, such as the spices used, are often different in much the same way that Coke is different from Pepsi, though both are soft drinks.
Biscuits (cookies) in Australia tend to be drier than in America. The US version of Rice Bubbles (Rice Crispies) is much louder than ours when you add milk. (Interesting the American version is louder.) Speaking of cereals, Cheerios in the USA is a cereal, but in Australia it's small cocktail sausages. Quite a difference!
Bacon rashers are very different from American bacon as well. Our bacon includes the more expensive cut of meat that Americans call Canadian bacon. On the other hand, American meal portions are far more generous than you'll get here.
You would think keeping your weight under control would be easier here because of the smaller portions. Unfortunately we have wonderful pastry like real whipped cream apple turn-overs. That's another kilo on the hips just thinking about it.
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Anzac biscuits Baba Biscuits Crumpet Damper Lamington Pavlova, Pav Pikelet Scone |
traditional crisp cookie sent in tins to Aussie soldiers at the battlefields during World War I small, rich sponge cake usually soaked in rum cookies flat soft yeast cake eaten toasted and spread with butter; a bit like an English muffin but much lighter unleavened bush bread. Traditionally the dough was wrapped around a stick and cooked in the campfire coals or put into an iron pot and buried in hot coals. Golden syrup is poured in the hole left by the stick. traditional small sponge cake squares covered in chocolate icing and then in desiccated coconut. It is an Australian original and named after Lord Lamington, governor of Queensland (1895 -1901) traditional meringue dessert with glazed fruit on top named for the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova similar to a small pancake, it's sold ready-made in grocery stores or made at home biscuit |
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Bacon Rashers Cheerios Snag Bangers Bangers and Mash Bubble and Squeak Toad-in-the-Hole Sausage Roll Rissole Floater Maccas Meat Pie Underground Mutton Chook Goog Reef 'n Beef Fish and Chips Flake Balmain bug Morton Bay bug Muddy, Muddie Mudbugs Prawns Rock Oysters |
slices of bacon red-coloured cocktail sausages sausage (banger in UK) sausages sausages and mashed potato leftover vegetables and meat fried together sausages or other meat baked in batter meat surrounded by pastry and baked small fried ball, roll or cake of minced meat or fish a meat pie in a plate of soupy peas or gravy McDonald's (pronounced mackers) Single portion mince meat pies. Small and sturdy enough to be held in your hands for eating. Sold everywhere including sporting and other events. rabbit chicken an egg surf 'n turf (US). Dinner combination of meat and seafood. deep-fried fish in batter and deep-fried potatoes, a popular take-away food traditionally served wrapped in white paper (previously un-hygienic newspaper was used). shark fillets crayfish found in Sydney harbour, with a mild-flavoured white flesh. Usually barbecued, grilled or boiled. crayfish from Queensland large mud crab considered a delicacy found in Queensland and New South Wales crayfish large shrimp. To buy, they're called prawns if cooked and green prawns when raw. Aussies love their prawns and eat heaping platefuls. Yanks be warned, they're cooked and served in the shell with the head attached. Popular edible oysters. Eaten straight from the shell, grilled or poached. |
| Brekkie Elevenses Morning Tea Tea Afternoon Tea Dinnies Main Rice Bubbles Weetbix Vegemite Caulie Veggies Mash Scallops Wedges Chips Crisps Scallops Sanger, Sanga Sammie, Sammo Cut Lunch Rock melon Tucker Bush Tucker Chow Tucker Take Away Food Sweets Chockie Fairy Floss Lollies Chewie Ice Block Cocky's Joy Conserve Jelly Tomato Sauce |
breakfast light, mid-morning tea or coffee break light, mid-morning tea or coffee break light meal late afternoon or main meal in the evening. Also a drink tea or coffee break dinner a meal's main course. Entree to Americans. Rice Crispies (cereal) wholegrain breakfast biscuits spread for toast or sandwiches, made from yeast extract. Found in almost every Aussie kitchen, but a seldom acquired taste for non-Australians. cauliflower vegetables mashed potatoes fried potato cakes. Also sea scallops. spiced chips cut in large wedges French fries potato chips deep fried battered potato cakes sandwich sandwich packed sandwich lunch cantaloupe food food from native plants and animals Chinese food food taken home to eat (take out food in USA) dessert after dinner, also another word for lollies chocolate cotton candy candy chewing gum popsicle golden syrup. Swagmen used it to sweeten their billy tea, spread on damper and other uses. jelly jello ketchup |
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Food Related Barbie or BBQ Billy Camp Oven Esky Serviette Tuckerbag |
barbecue cooking outdoors metal container used for boiling tea or water cast iron container with a lid used for campfire cooking Hot coals are placed around and over it. portable cooler to carry drinks and food table napkin bag or box for storing food, also tuckerbox. Today people would use the term "esky" instead. |
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