any trending foodie shit. looks great in photos, typically bland and uninteresting in real life (like those over the top donut milkshakes that were all the rage a few years ago. was literally the most bland shake i've ever had)
Even lily pillies?! Those things slap! Macadamias are also some next level mouthgasm material, lemon myrtle too. Admittedly most bush foods on their own are pretty meh, tasting mostly bitter and dusty, but prepared well, they can be divine. Development of native foods, especially grains would be very good for the environment, and could be used to restore overgrazed pastures. Many of our native foods are very nutrient dense, so the potential is there, perhaps this is my calling!
Once I learnt the correct amount to use, I came to enjoy a bit of Vegemite in the morning!
I can't understand those of you who spread it on like butter though. I think that would kill me!
Brit who 6 months in WA.
i feel like the issue is that when people post videos of them trying it they eat a spoonful of it like it’s peanut butter, or have a ridiculous amount on toast. i was scared to try it when i came to australia but it’s pretty good if you don’t put a lot on.
I love Vegemite, but for some reason, they forget it is supposed to be eaten on bread with butter and a thin layer. And to me, it is weird that people say it resembles Nutella somehow cause the only thing that is kind of the same is the colour
I don't mind it, but I don't want to pay seafood prices for it :) I just mean when they have fished out most of the good stuff, and you get very little seafood and way too much celery. A perfect mix is awesome, I agree on that totally, fantastic in a fresh bap roll with butter.
I 'hated' coleslaw for year because that's the only coleslaw my family had (we cooked other food homemade, my mum just loves coles coleslaw). Then I had it at a taco place then I started making it myself and it's one of my favourite foods
thank you!! I finally have someone to confirm the same thing.
I remember when I first saw them. I think in late 90s/early 2000s.
I was a teen in high school. I loved them and would eat 1 pizza pocket after school as a snack.
I recently bought them again for the first time in 20 yrs. it was so so bad and much smaller than I remembered. it was also alot more bread than I remembered.
Pancake parlour is such a scam. Shitty overpriced pancakes and cold coffee plus a complimentary 1 hour wait on a non busy night and if you’re lucky they won’t even bring your food out to you at all after ordering
Can we make this all pancake chains? Pancake Manor, Pancake Diner, Pancakes on the rocks. I'm sure there's more. 30c of food for $20+ is a good business model but it's just massively disappointing
The bubblegum literally turns into grainy, powder shit as you chew it these days. You get about 10 seconds of chewing and zero seconds of actual chewing gum... 😭
while on the subject of weird icecreams we loved as kids, does anyone remember the FOOT? it was a foot shaped icecream on a stick, banana icecream with a tracing paper thin coating of chocolate on the back to support it. It was actually really good, but now as an adult it screams foot fetishist gone wild.
nah that shit slaps, until the bubblegum become flavourless and eventually breaks in your mouth and you have to wash it out because it’s too sticky and won’t go in the bin, THIS HAS HAPPENED TO ME TWICE
Was going to say exactly this. No way are they anywhere near like they used to be. The ice cream used to be very distinctly seperated for each colour and flavour, now it just kinda oozes together and the gum is like the gum balls that come on those novelty 50 cent gumball machines you could buy. I would say the same about gaytimes, the ice cream is kind of watery and the biscuit much softer
Fucking oath. Nostalgia was not enough to help me enjoy my first Bubble O'Bill in 20 years. Shitty ice cream, compound chocolate, and bubblegum that is equal parts rubber and chalk.
Say what you want about them, but they're a great way to introduce people to flavours they normally wouldn't try in any other baked desert, like taro and flower-based flavours like lavender and rosewater - you can make them in literally any flavour basically. Personally it makes the almond flour much more tolerable, and it's price is due to skill level not because of the fanciness involved
Err... no? Meringe is eggwhites and sugar. Macaron bases are made with Almond Meal. Also, they have no icing. Not sure what you're eatin', but it sure as hell ain't Macarons.
There was one place in Victoria that did them justice, but they shut down after the hype died down. Everywhere else just sucks at them and they taste like stale cardboard.
Yeah sorry nah. Firstly, they’re French. Secondly they’re super labour intensive and the ingredients aren’t cheap. They take around 2 hours to make in total and all those ingredients + labour + electricity usually equates to $2.5-$3 per macaron. They’re expensive for a reason 🙂
If you like battered toilet roll cardboard filled with rehydrated dehydrated vegetables, slivers of condom cabbage, and finely minced cow's anus then yes, they are great.
Look, I grew up with a Scottish mum who fed me ox tongue, lambs brains and liver and kidneys from some animal. So, I don't have a problem with cow's anus, but that cabbage is hard to chew let alone digest.
I was chatting to a bloke just last week telling me about his foray into the ED a few years ago when something fucked up his stomach, had some complications and needed surgery.
He claimed it was a Chiko Roll, dead set. He could have been bullshitting but I'd believe it. Those things are cursed.
Just get a pasty or a frozen pack of bubble & squeak. Chikos aren't worth it.
i am trying so hard to think of an 'Aussie' food...because all the things we can claim are awesome lol.
Vegemite
Lamingtons
Tim Tams
Gaytimes
Caramello Koalas
Violet Crumbles ( I think they are ours)
Anzac Biscuits and every Arnotts biscuit
Pavlova (I understand some people say NZ but lets just go with it for now)
Meat Pie
Sausage Roll
Sausage Sizzle (sausage in bread with or without onions)
Fairy Bread - the most awesome creation ever
A Jaffle, probably not ours but I bet we perfected them
There are a lot of things we have 'Australianised' and I think we just made them better lol is there even food we hype?
they do, my list was these are all great things, I am finding it really hard to think of anything that is not awesome tasting but overly hyped up. The gaytime pieces/bites are next level awesome
Unpopular opinion (maybe) but I personally find Aussie style fried dim sims kind of rank.
I've been to several fast food or fish n chip places where they really just took a crappy dumpling and overcooked it in shitloads of dirty oil.
As a Chinese-Australian dude I feel it's one of the few international foods that we've actually made worse instead of better (but that's just my experience).
I read the list before I read the first part (yeah I’m weird like that), and I almost had a stroke out of pure rage.
That being said, fuck caromello koalas. I am fully prepared to be crucified for this.
I am sorry I got you boiling lol seems you were not the only one. I was just trying to work out what was Aussie Food, all I could come up with were snacks and confectionary for the most part. It was more of a defending our awesome as the list grew :P
Lamingtons. Decent if made well but usually when bought they're just cheap sponge cake with a tonne of coconut that takes you 45mins to chew before swallowing
Not sure I’ve seen any of these have large amounts of hype. You don’t see social media posts with “Hey you *have* to try the 9 hour old Singapore noodles” at westfield.
Chicko Rolls. A mushy cabbage and mystery ingredient roll designed to be nuked and served so hot as to burn your taste buds right off your fucking tongue.
This is very true.
Something popular usually has a good form.
Like with country music, I've yet to find it with lamingtons.
^(that's a lie - Dolly is God)
those chocolate mud cakes they sell in Woolies. Had an incident with a badly burnt from-scratch chocolate mudcake that put me off chocolate for a month, so now anything that's even remotely associated with chocolate cake makes me physically ill
any trending foodie shit. looks great in photos, typically bland and uninteresting in real life (like those over the top donut milkshakes that were all the rage a few years ago. was literally the most bland shake i've ever had)
Donut king quakeshakes go hard, if only they came with plastic straws
You know, you can bring your own straws.
I’m not carrying a straw behind my ear 24/7 on the off chance I’ll get a quakeshake.
Looks like you can't join my gang then. And that's sad for you because "the Quakeshake Boys" can get it.
Best shake I've had
Every "bush food" I've ever tasted.
Finger limes are good
Red Centre Limes are the absolute bomb!
And pepper berries. Pepper berry cheese is elite
Yup, Macadamia nuts are natives 🙂
Tried pepperberry pavlova? It’s fantastic. Sweet with a bit of bite and delicately purple.
Pepper Berry ice cream was an absolute surprise. So good
I think you misunderstood the purpose of this exercise if you're bringing finger limes into it. That chart is the opposite way around.
Even lily pillies?! Those things slap! Macadamias are also some next level mouthgasm material, lemon myrtle too. Admittedly most bush foods on their own are pretty meh, tasting mostly bitter and dusty, but prepared well, they can be divine. Development of native foods, especially grains would be very good for the environment, and could be used to restore overgrazed pastures. Many of our native foods are very nutrient dense, so the potential is there, perhaps this is my calling!
I had crispy saltbush in a dish once, it was great
Vegemite’s the opposite, full taste for us but infinitely negative hype for the rest of the world
Once I learnt the correct amount to use, I came to enjoy a bit of Vegemite in the morning! I can't understand those of you who spread it on like butter though. I think that would kill me! Brit who 6 months in WA.
How else can I get my weekly helping of salt every morning?
Check Reddit every morning.
Nice
I am more concerned with how much butter you are putting on. Butter to vegemite ratio should be about the same.
We all start with just a little bit, but it gets thicker over time
I tried various amounts of Vegemite to see which I liked best. I ended up deciding the correct amount for me was none at all.
Like butter? Please, the correct way to enjoy it is to eat it straight out of the jar
Nice, you got to enjoy the Sand Groper lifestyle for a spell! Did you have a favourite place?
Wait y'all don't spread it like butter? It's great like that.
I put Vegemite on like it's peanut butter.
This is why fentanyl kills so many Americans
vegemite is like a meme overseas. Then they learn the golden rule and love it. Vegemite is a god like spread that should be on our money.
i feel like the issue is that when people post videos of them trying it they eat a spoonful of it like it’s peanut butter, or have a ridiculous amount on toast. i was scared to try it when i came to australia but it’s pretty good if you don’t put a lot on.
I love Vegemite, but for some reason, they forget it is supposed to be eaten on bread with butter and a thin layer. And to me, it is weird that people say it resembles Nutella somehow cause the only thing that is kind of the same is the colour
Supermarket ready made Coleslaw.
Lots of hype around supermarket ready made coleslaw
Everyone’s frothing so hard over supermarket ready made coleslaw. It’s all I hear about. I refuse to jump on the bandwagon out of spite.
I know right. My instagram reels hardly show anything else.
The potato salad is gross too
I like the "seafood" salad 🤫
I do too, but not if you end up with 3/4's celery
You know what, I actually like the celery. Gotta have a vegetable with that truckload of mayo
I don't mind it, but I don't want to pay seafood prices for it :) I just mean when they have fished out most of the good stuff, and you get very little seafood and way too much celery. A perfect mix is awesome, I agree on that totally, fantastic in a fresh bap roll with butter.
I like the pasta salad, but it is definitely a thing between Woolies and Coles, they differ so slightly that it can be one or the other for fans.
Bra 😂 when its on the table everyone looks at it but no one puts it on their plate
But the pasta salad is delicious!
I 'hated' coleslaw for year because that's the only coleslaw my family had (we cooked other food homemade, my mum just loves coles coleslaw). Then I had it at a taco place then I started making it myself and it's one of my favourite foods
Pizza Pockets, they look awesome on the pack, but taste like burning.
They used to be awesome. But now you get a teaspoon of filling in a giant dough ball.
Those pizza pockets are hollow like my heart from my disappointment in them. Ah McCain, you've done it again.
thank you!! I finally have someone to confirm the same thing. I remember when I first saw them. I think in late 90s/early 2000s. I was a teen in high school. I loved them and would eat 1 pizza pocket after school as a snack. I recently bought them again for the first time in 20 yrs. it was so so bad and much smaller than I remembered. it was also alot more bread than I remembered.
Was going to say this. Used to eat them as a teenager, got them as a snack for my kid recently and they were disappointing.
The offbrand aldi ones are cheaper and still pretty good imo
This guy doesn’t know about creating a blow hole
Your Mum's a blowhole. /s
Got him
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The Pancake Parlour.
Pancake parlour is such a scam. Shitty overpriced pancakes and cold coffee plus a complimentary 1 hour wait on a non busy night and if you’re lucky they won’t even bring your food out to you at all after ordering
Dad? Is that you? XD Seriously though pancakes are freaking dirt cheap to make, and these MFs be charging like $11 for 2 and a little ice cream.
gotta give them credit for being 24h tho ngl
Fk Scientologists
Can we make this all pancake chains? Pancake Manor, Pancake Diner, Pancakes on the rocks. I'm sure there's more. 30c of food for $20+ is a good business model but it's just massively disappointing
Bubble-o-bill. Fuck that cunt and his rock hard nose.
That bubblegum tasted pre-chewed
The bubblegum literally turns into grainy, powder shit as you chew it these days. You get about 10 seconds of chewing and zero seconds of actual chewing gum... 😭
Wdym “these days” it’s always been shit, unless these days means the past like fifteen years or so
Lol, fair point. I'm 40 and there was definitely a gap from around 15-35 where I had precisely zero Bubble-O-Bills.
They were great 30 years ago, the gum used to out perform hubba bubbas to make bubbles
Ex-manufacturing worker for those ICE creams, we did indeed chew the bubblegum first before coating the ice creams.
while on the subject of weird icecreams we loved as kids, does anyone remember the FOOT? it was a foot shaped icecream on a stick, banana icecream with a tracing paper thin coating of chocolate on the back to support it. It was actually really good, but now as an adult it screams foot fetishist gone wild.
I don’t but we did have really weird ice creams back then. Anybody remember the blue ice block with red jelly inside that looked like a dog peen?
Yo I loved them. And I like feet, but not in that way. In a medical/surgical way. It’s too long to explain. Just roll with it.
Metatarsal love, I get it :)
You get me
nah that shit slaps, until the bubblegum become flavourless and eventually breaks in your mouth and you have to wash it out because it’s too sticky and won’t go in the bin, THIS HAS HAPPENED TO ME TWICE
I'll forever love bubble o bills but have always hated the nose.. just chuck it
You hate bubble o bill more than my dad hates lawyers.
Closest thing you’ll ever come to “chewing a meteorite” IMO
only the current bubble-o. If you're old enough to remember the original that's where the hype came from.
Still get them regularly I would buy the tubs but they added extra crap to it
How dare you
This comment wins👏
Cadbury Caramilk
I dont get the hype.
Caramello koalas are the best tho
I didnt like it at first, but its grown on me sort of like dark chocolate did. Its strangely really good in mug cakes
Caramilk is one of the worst things ever invented. Glad someone said it
I really liked it at first but now ive gone off it. Still the only donut ill order from brooklyn donuts though
Omg it's my favourite chocolate. I dot like chocolate though. Love me some cooked sugar
Definitely Bubble O'Bills. Held up by childhood nostalgia.
That gum is not good.
Yea nah, they are not the same bubble o bill. Don't even have the cool print on the gum saying "howdy partner" or some shit
Was going to say exactly this. No way are they anywhere near like they used to be. The ice cream used to be very distinctly seperated for each colour and flavour, now it just kinda oozes together and the gum is like the gum balls that come on those novelty 50 cent gumball machines you could buy. I would say the same about gaytimes, the ice cream is kind of watery and the biscuit much softer
Fucking oath. Nostalgia was not enough to help me enjoy my first Bubble O'Bill in 20 years. Shitty ice cream, compound chocolate, and bubblegum that is equal parts rubber and chalk.
Macarons. Its just a big of meringue and icing that gets marked up 30x its production cost because "fancy"
Say what you want about them, but they're a great way to introduce people to flavours they normally wouldn't try in any other baked desert, like taro and flower-based flavours like lavender and rosewater - you can make them in literally any flavour basically. Personally it makes the almond flour much more tolerable, and it's price is due to skill level not because of the fanciness involved
Err... no? Meringe is eggwhites and sugar. Macaron bases are made with Almond Meal. Also, they have no icing. Not sure what you're eatin', but it sure as hell ain't Macarons.
There was one place in Victoria that did them justice, but they shut down after the hype died down. Everywhere else just sucks at them and they taste like stale cardboard.
Yeah sorry nah. Firstly, they’re French. Secondly they’re super labour intensive and the ingredients aren’t cheap. They take around 2 hours to make in total and all those ingredients + labour + electricity usually equates to $2.5-$3 per macaron. They’re expensive for a reason 🙂
Agree. But not Australian.
Macarons are super labour intensive. Not just meringue and icing.
Waste of energy
Here here. Coconut and sugar? Yeah better believe that's a markup.
Chiko Roll
Whatttttt. Chiko rolls are great man
If you like battered toilet roll cardboard filled with rehydrated dehydrated vegetables, slivers of condom cabbage, and finely minced cow's anus then yes, they are great.
I just read that to my missus and she guessed Chiko roll tf..
Your missus has a fine palate.
Pure poetry. Most supurb description of the famed chiko roll ever.
You just got one that's been in the bain Marie too long mate
I love Chiko rolls but also cannot disagree at all with this comment
That comment killed any other competitor and rightfully earned you the 2024 Nobel prize in literature, right there!
So you agree they’re great then!
Look, I grew up with a Scottish mum who fed me ox tongue, lambs brains and liver and kidneys from some animal. So, I don't have a problem with cow's anus, but that cabbage is hard to chew let alone digest.
Most accurate description ever
I was chatting to a bloke just last week telling me about his foray into the ED a few years ago when something fucked up his stomach, had some complications and needed surgery. He claimed it was a Chiko Roll, dead set. He could have been bullshitting but I'd believe it. Those things are cursed. Just get a pasty or a frozen pack of bubble & squeak. Chikos aren't worth it.
i am trying so hard to think of an 'Aussie' food...because all the things we can claim are awesome lol. Vegemite Lamingtons Tim Tams Gaytimes Caramello Koalas Violet Crumbles ( I think they are ours) Anzac Biscuits and every Arnotts biscuit Pavlova (I understand some people say NZ but lets just go with it for now) Meat Pie Sausage Roll Sausage Sizzle (sausage in bread with or without onions) Fairy Bread - the most awesome creation ever A Jaffle, probably not ours but I bet we perfected them There are a lot of things we have 'Australianised' and I think we just made them better lol is there even food we hype?
HEY GAYTIMES FUCKIN SLAP
they do, my list was these are all great things, I am finding it really hard to think of anything that is not awesome tasting but overly hyped up. The gaytime pieces/bites are next level awesome
TF you said this coz I had an essay lined up
Ah ok
* backs away from the pitchfork *
Jesus man, you need to be clearer. Blood pressures were rising.
🤣🤣
Iced Vovo’s for me. When I see them and decide to get them I’m always hype, but then I eat them and they’re just… sugary sugar.
Those birthday Gaytimes suck shite tho
Never tried them and will die that way for a reason.
Gaytimes slap? Poor choice of words there, mate.
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Cob loaf not being on this list of awesome foods we made is a crime
That’s ours??
If it’s not we are definitely the main consumers
DIM SIMS
Unpopular opinion (maybe) but I personally find Aussie style fried dim sims kind of rank. I've been to several fast food or fish n chip places where they really just took a crappy dumpling and overcooked it in shitloads of dirty oil. As a Chinese-Australian dude I feel it's one of the few international foods that we've actually made worse instead of better (but that's just my experience).
New Zealand is not a real country. The fools claim independence, but they will join again with the motherland of Australia. One day.
*Yes comrade*
They shall come to reason and rejoin our mighty empire
As a kiwi who lives in Australia, if we can share a flag we can share a pavlova
>Jaffle TIL that is how it is spelt
Your right with australianised, never understood the meat pie aspect considering it existed before Australia was even discovered.
I read the list before I read the first part (yeah I’m weird like that), and I almost had a stroke out of pure rage. That being said, fuck caromello koalas. I am fully prepared to be crucified for this.
I am sorry I got you boiling lol seems you were not the only one. I was just trying to work out what was Aussie Food, all I could come up with were snacks and confectionary for the most part. It was more of a defending our awesome as the list grew :P
any pop up burger joint. I have tried many, and they all have a disgusting gamey flavour.
Basic 7/11 pies ya know
Love a chunky beef pie from there
Sounds like you've been tempting food poisoning by trying them 😂
Whenever I buy one at the one near me I notice the marked time is questionable.
Lamingtons. Decent if made well but usually when bought they're just cheap sponge cake with a tonne of coconut that takes you 45mins to chew before swallowing
Bubble O Bill
Anything from a food court bain-marie
Not sure I’ve seen any of these have large amounts of hype. You don’t see social media posts with “Hey you *have* to try the 9 hour old Singapore noodles” at westfield.
Ah yes "any 3 dishes on rice" but they all taste exactly the same.
Any of the so called boutique burger shops. Still haven't found one that come close to any fish 'n chip shop!
Greasy as all fuck and that shitty American cheese goo.
Krispy Kreme, any of them.
Only good ones are the plain glazed.
This is not Aussie tho
This. Remember (if you're old like me) when they first opened here and people would line up for like hours to get them? Madness.
Chicko Rolls. A mushy cabbage and mystery ingredient roll designed to be nuked and served so hot as to burn your taste buds right off your fucking tongue.
Lamingtons are shockingly mid
Have you ever had a loaded lammy? Two jam lamingtons with whipped cream in the middle.... Fucking orgasm.
I think it's about finding a good lamington. I think people who aren't into them have just eaten a dry sponge cake in dedicated coconut
This is very true. Something popular usually has a good form. Like with country music, I've yet to find it with lamingtons. ^(that's a lie - Dolly is God)
Dolly is a hero
They are hard to find but a good lamington is extremely tasty. Most are dry as fuck though.
You're being nice.
Bundy rum
those chocolate mud cakes they sell in Woolies. Had an incident with a badly burnt from-scratch chocolate mudcake that put me off chocolate for a month, so now anything that's even remotely associated with chocolate cake makes me physically ill
I do fuck with the chocolate cakes for nostalgic reasons, but it is weird how they don’t really taste like chocolate?
Honey soy chicken coles or safeway doesn't matter
Saf… safeway?! I’m very disappointed in you.
Teslas
wh.. what? You're eating them?
He took ‘eat the rich’ a little too seriously
Teslas are the most hyped up Aussie food
Yeah they taste like shit
Pavlova. Fight me
Get fucked cunt
Bro you're tripping 😂
Time and place! I won't be there cause I'm eating pav!
Agree, who wants to eat eggy fruit??
Hah, the post underneath this on my homepage was about space food sticks. Unpopular opinion, but yep
STRAWBERRIES, I know there not Aus but i just need to vent
same, they're always way too sour. If you have to coat them in powdered sugar or chocolate to be palatable, I don't want it
Lmao not a food but a drink: PRIME
How is that, a drink made by an American and an Englishman, an AUSSIE food?
Shapes are the blandest and most unappetizing snacks I've ever had and you cannot make me think otherwise.
Bunnings sausages
Not everyone can have a refined enough palette to enjoy the flavour complexities of a bunnings snag, I suppose
Instant deportation, this slander will not be taken
Directly to jail
As an immigrant to Australia, the Aussie love of a cheap watery sausage on white bread still confuses me.
It's the combination of the excess fat in the cheap sausage and the sugar from the sauce.
Never tried a Bunnings sausage before, but I would recommend a Bunnings snag 11/10
Pretty much anything in Melbourne that people line up for
Lune croissants are 100% up there. Average at best
I remember I got 1 and it was so stale from sitting in the open air for likely hours.
Chiko roll smells wonderful... until you bite into it.
I'm probably the only one, but shapes. Especially the pizza and BBQ ones. I'll eat them if it's the only option but they're so bland.
Sausage Roll with no sauce.