You say Tomato...

[offline]

If you are dead in Australia
you are

- Pushing up daisys
- Feeding the worms
- Back of Sunset (an older less used term)
- at rest
- passed on
- brown bread
- had a good wicket (if you had lived a long life)
- buggered
- knocking on the pearly gates
- fried
- toast
- history
- gonner (as in he's a gone'er)

[Conquest10]

I would think of a potato cake as shredded potatos pressed into a flat shape and fried.

Those are hash browns.

[ZAPPER]

I hope that vanilla coke never makes it across the pond. Those poor bastards got enough reasons to hate us.JK

[offline]

I hope that vanilla coke never makes it across the pond. Those poor bastards got enough reasons to hate us.JK

It did a couple of years back, as did cherry coke. Yuck!

[Conquest10]

A couple of years back?

[ZAPPER]

It depends on the restruant as far as the hash brown thing goes. In a nice sit down place the hash browns tend to be scattered,but the fast food world has turned them into finger food by pressing them into patties of differnt shapes like round or triangles or ovals or squares

[offline]

Yeah, hash browns are roundish shallow fried shredded
potato. Potato Cakes are deep friend solid potato
discs covered in batter.

[Gillies]

i think u mean potato scollops

[ZAPPER]

OFFLINE please accecpt my apologies. What the major food companies try to sell you as good is in no way what most Americans really like. Now Mexican food is some good stuff!

[Conquest10]

Now Mexican food is some good stuff!

Especially those chilli cheese burritos.

[offline]

A couple of years back?

Yeah.. small market here in OZ. Only 20 million of us
and most have good taste Hence the slowness
in releasing vanilla and cherry coke

10 - 12years ago we got little long sweet things in
a wrapper - twinkies or something. Did not sell well
but still available.

[Gillies]

mmm... indian food. i could go for a beef vindaloo right now.

[Gillies]

twinkies r killa

[offline]

i think u mean potato scollops

Only in NSW. The rest of the country calls them Potato Cakes.

[Gillies]

i think u mean potato scollops

Only in NSW. The rest of the country calls them Potato Cakes.

really? guess it's like the scooner/pot thing

[Conquest10]

Yeah.. small market here in OZ. Only 20 million of us
and most have good taste Hence the slowness
in releasing vanilla and cherry coke

Vanilla Coke only came out like last year here. So Australia is a lot like Mexico, huh? I remember going there as a little kid and eating something called Doritos 3-D or something like that. It only came out in the US a couple of years back.

[offline]

No apologies needed ZAPPER. After all
we gave you Crocodile Dundee , shrimps on the barbie, vegemite and Fosters.

Never eaten at a Mexican restaurant. Love Indian food!

[Conquest10]

Fosters... Australian for "beer".

[Gillies]

vanilla coke taste like a coke spider. we had cherry coke years ago and i remember cherry, raspberry and i think grape pepsi ages ago.
one great aussie food the rest of the world is missing out on is arnott's tim tams. a double choc biskit. they're awesome.

[ZAPPER]

Dead in US Just a few

Dirt nap
shit the bed
kicked the bucket (can)
six feet under
history


Q: What would Princes Di be doing if she were alive right now?
A: Scratching and clawing at the lid of her coffin!

I know, Poor taste, but some of you will be telling this oldie tomorrow.

[Gillies]

Fosters... Australian for "beer".

australian for piss... no one in aus drinks fosters, accept tourists. VB is more widely drinken and XXXX in queensland

[ZAPPER]

OFFLINE: just what is vegemite? I have heard on the radio that there is a place not too far from here that sells it.

[Conquest10]

one great aussie food the rest of the world is missing out on is arnott's tim tams. a double choc biskit. they're awesome.

What is that?

[Gillies]

it's a spread made of the stuff left on the bottom of the keg from beer brewing... it's salty. some ppl love it, some hate it. i go on and off of it.

[Gillies]

one great aussie food the rest of the world is missing out on is arnott's tim tams. a double choc biskit. they're awesome.

What is that?

i love em, they're by far the most popular biskit in oz. i recomend them.

[ZAPPER]

CONQUEST: I am from the getto steel mills 30 miles to your east Gary. Scarrie huh? The best things about Chicago, Genos' East, Italian beefs, Vienna hot dogs and world class museums! I live near HOTlanta now and can't find anything close to a good pizza, hot dog,beef sandwich or museum!

[flaninacupboard]

tim tam is like a penguin, vegemite is a cheapo marmite ripoff.

We do indeed have vanilla coke here, and it's pretty nasty.

I don't know of anyhting made of thick potato and deep fried, i think our potato cakes are baked, so they're like a dense muffin. by that i mean an english muffin not an american one! i can imagine someone going to starbucks and saying "hello, i'd like a toasted muffin please. can you slice it in half with butter and jam please?"

We have french fries, which are the same as you know them. we also have chips, which are bigger and nicer than fries.

[Conquest10]

CONQUEST: I am from the getto steel mills 30 miles to your east Gary. Scarrie huh?

Whoa. I went by there once. Won't ever happen again, I'll tell you what.

The best things about Chicago, Genos' East, Italian beefs, Vienna hot dogs and world class museums!

Damn. Now I'm hungry but everything is closed.

I live near HOTlanta now and can't find anything close to a good pizza, hot dog,beef sandwich or museum!

There's no good places down there? Not even one?

[thayne]

Damn. Now I'm hungry but everything is closed.

Ha ha! I just ate a whole rack of BBQ'd beef ribs, with tony romas BBQ sauce... OMG they were F'ing awesome!!!!

Max is still chewing on the bones...


Not much left! LOL

[offline]

TimTams are unreal. I refuse to eat them as I did not
like the way arnott's was taken over by an American
company. I miss them almost every coffee

Australia has, until very recently, a higher coca content
in most of it's chocolate. English (UK) has the least and
America closely follows but with more sugar than either
the UK or Australia.

Cadbury in Australia has quietly changed it's chocolate to the cheaper English recipe and inmho
tastes terrible. Greece, which is the big mass chocolate manufacturer for the rest of Europe, also
closely follows the UK levels of coca fat.

Nestle is a mixed bag with some products high in
coca and others low. Mars and Uncle Bens still
include high levels of coca in Australian chocolate
products.

Of course the best chocolate comes from Belgum
but I prefer Dutch Chocolate as they add more
buttermilk to their mix.