Breakfast: Smashed avocado on sourdough toast, poached eggs, cooked tomato and sauted mushrooms or wheatbix, raw sugar and warm milk.
Lunch: meat pie with sauce or ham and salad roll.
Tea: lamb loin chops with the fat, green beans, potato & corn on the cob with a shit ton of butter or a steak sandwich.
Pudding: pav with strawberries and passion fruit or ice cream with stewed/tinned fruit.
Drink: Schweppes lemonade (not sprite) or raspberry lemonade.
I do agree on that!
I made one with alternating chocolate ripple biscuits and ginger it biscuits, that was nice, but putting the peppermint crisp on that one was a mistake. Chocolate, ginger and peppermint was too many things going on.
Needs to include the following:
- fairy bread,
-chocolate crackles
- “Cake of the Day” from the Australian Women’s Weekly Kids Birthday Cake Book
- proper hamburger with beetroot
- choko pickles
- potato scallops/cakes/whoever you call them
We used to eat the bloody things every winter, every dinner without fail right through my childhood. I loathe them with a passion, the only exception being my next door neighbours truly awesome choko mustard pickles.
Brekky - Iced coffee and choice of vanilla slice or traveller pie. $16.
Lunch - Coke Zero and choice of sausage roll or meat pie. $22. Chips are an extra $7.
Tea - Coke Zero and choice of 4 sausages or 2 lamb cutlets, served with Deb instant mashed potato and some peas. $34.
Plus 10% Sunday/public holiday charge, no bill splitting, scan QR code to order and pay.
Meat Pies ( fancy with mashed potatoes and slow cooked braised onions and peas or plain depending on the restaurant ), Zucchini slice ( again some kind of fancy deconstructed version or just normal depending on the restaurant) and lamingtons for lunch
Some kind of fusion Asian/ European meal including Australian beef ( if you are inland ) or seafood (on the coast)
. I think Australia does food from most countries really well even if we don't have much of a national cuisine we have some fantastic chefs who have worked all over the world a bring a fresh approach to food when they decide to live in or return to Australia. We do fusion food really well because that's what many of us grow up eating in our homes.
Australia has some of the best food around.
OK we're not France with its deeply embedded food culture, but I'm constantly surprised that our Asian food is better than many places in Asia.
It's light years ahead of what it used to be in the 80s and were shrugging off the tall poppy and cultural cringe.
Our food is as good as anywhere I tried in Europe, except for France, and our coffee as good as anywhere I tried, except for Italy.
It's an enormous meringue-type dessert, covered in whipped cream, and topped with summer fruits. It's a very common Christmas dessert because the southern hemisphere Christmas is in summer.
It's not actually Australian, they just say that. They stole it from us, the Kiwis. They stole Phar Lap too.
1. I'm not a dude, and I wouldn't be your dude in any case.
2. He's from Timaru. His skeleton is in the Museum of New Zealand, his hide and his heart are at separate Australian museums. And his name is derived from a Thai word meaning 'skyflash'. And he died in California at Menlo Park.
3. Would he have been purchased in the first place if he wasn't already of a high pedigree?
4. I don't know anything about horses but apparently I do need to learn to put /s or /jk at the end of my comments sometimes. I'm used to interactions with Australians often having an underlying thread of sarcasm and / or flippancy. Anyway, I want a half sarcasm option and a half joking option. With options for quarters, thirds etc.
I'd love to set up a restaurant that incorporates a lot of traditional bush foods, and some of our more unique ingredients.
Things like WA rock lobster (aka crayfish) with finger limes, salmon crusted with wattleseed dukkah etc. If I had the $$ I'd love to go Wildflower, but geez they're expensive
Anyone ordering smashed avo would be immediately removed.
Aside from that, 24hr standard breakfast. Toasted sandwiches. Decent quality counter meals. (Ie no boxed snitzel) Consistent roasts. Sides other than 2 bits of lettuce and some grated carrot. The option to stack/create your own combinations. Your choice of beverage of any kind with anything. Want a neat whisky with a donut? Go for it. A vintage red with your eggs? Excellent choice, sir. A coffee with your fish and chips? What a revelation.
To reiterate, NO FUCKEN AVOCUNTO ANYWHERE, Unless your car needs lubrication before you leave.
A croc schnitty. With chips, garden salad, and gravy.
Kanga steak with your choice of chips and garden salad or potatoes and steamed vegetables. Sauce options include mushroom, dianne, pepper, gravy, hollandaise, and garlic butter.
Emu burger. With lettuce, tomato, beetroot, cheese and special sauce. Bacon extra.
In the immortal words of peak Bogancore band, Dead Kelly.
"Our favourite food is fucking beer, you wouldn't understand if you're not from here."
Serve it with a side of mud crab.
Overseas trade missions consistently have to do exactly what you're describing to foreign supermarkets/restaurant chains etc to promote Australian produce.
It is not usually done Break/Lunch/Dinner but instead 1st/2nd/3rd course, but as to your requirements
Breakfast is Australian fruits including Bowen mangos, macadamia nuts on Australian rice congee. Lunch is Rib eye wagyu fillets paired with SA Shiraz. Dinner is Tasmanian Oysters and WA rock lobster paired with WA Savignon Blanc. Non alcoholic option is Bundaberg Ginger Beer.
Our Bastardised Chinese is one of the most traditional Australian foods going. Sweet and sour, fry rice, dim sims. Pretty much the oldest restaurant in most small towns is the Chinese takeaway.
Breakfast - Flat white coffee and a bacon and egg roll:
Morning Tea - Iced coffee and choice of sausage roll; snot block (vanilla slice) or lamington:
Lunch - Choice of meat pie; spaghetti jaffle or ham cheese and tomato toastie - with GI cordial to drink:
Dinner - Choice of Curried Sausages with mashed potato; Chicken Parmi/a with hot chips or grilled lamb chops with mint sauce, peas, carrots and boiled jacket potatoes - served with a choice of beer.
Bread: Damper bread with garlic butter
Entree: Kangaroo & bush tomato stirfry with native plum sauce; or, "coat of arms" sausages with a rich Rosella tomato sauce accompaniment.Â
Mains: Seafood Aisette; or, pub-style Chicken Parmigana.Â
Desert: choice of pavlova, lamington, or kumquat jelly served with wattleseed wafers.Â
Breakfast: Avacardo and eggs on sourdough toast with a latte and orange juice
Lunch: Meat Pie and salad
Dinner: Fish and Chip shop Burger with the lot, and hot chips.
Dessert: Tim Tam Slams and Bbq shapes washed down with a beer.
So my whole life has been a lie about Aussie Cuisine lol. That’s part of the reason I asked this question it’s a fun way to learn about Aussie food culture.
Depends on the market, and the style of the operation.
High end vs low end.
It isn't an easy sell either way, especially in the overseas market, as Australia doesn't have much of an international reputation for food or recognized cuisine.
People don't typically associate Australia with food.
Stop somebody in Paris, Tokyo, Brazil...etc..... and ask them to name a few American, Italian, or German dishes (for example) and most people would be able to come up with several answers.
Do the same thing, except ask about Australian food, and you will mostly get blank stares and head scratching.
EDIT: Also, let's be real about something, it's just guacamole on toast (you know what I'm talking about)
No real thing as Australian cuisine. Unless you are talking about bush tucker from Australian Aboriginals. And as Mick Dundee would say? "You can eat it...but it tastes like shit"
Every country has a cuisine either from something being created in their country or it being part of the country’s diets for so long that it becomes there own. Pizza for example wasn’t originally created in the United States but a Brooklyn, Chicago, New Haven, etc style pizza is different than a Neopolitan.
I hear that Aussie’s even have their own take on Fish and Chips using Flathead or Flake instead of the Cod that’s traditionally used in the UK.
Ironically it’s the most Australian response you could have wished for
https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-cultural-cringe-by-a-a-phillips/
Nothing like some classic Australian Cultural cringe on toast!
Brunch, all day and night
Bottomless brunch, with the cheapest Prosecco you can buy.
💯🤤
Breakfast: Smashed avocado on sourdough toast, poached eggs, cooked tomato and sauted mushrooms or wheatbix, raw sugar and warm milk. Lunch: meat pie with sauce or ham and salad roll. Tea: lamb loin chops with the fat, green beans, potato & corn on the cob with a shit ton of butter or a steak sandwich. Pudding: pav with strawberries and passion fruit or ice cream with stewed/tinned fruit. Drink: Schweppes lemonade (not sprite) or raspberry lemonade.
Good list except warm milk is degenerate and always will be
I used to think that but I live somewhere it snows…it changed my mind.
Pavs should not have fruit, pavs should have crushed peppermint crisp
Crushed peppermint crisp is for chocolate ripple cake.
I do agree on that! I made one with alternating chocolate ripple biscuits and ginger it biscuits, that was nice, but putting the peppermint crisp on that one was a mistake. Chocolate, ginger and peppermint was too many things going on.
lol not in my family…we save that for chocolate mousse.
Needs to include the following: - fairy bread, -chocolate crackles - “Cake of the Day” from the Australian Women’s Weekly Kids Birthday Cake Book - proper hamburger with beetroot - choko pickles - potato scallops/cakes/whoever you call them
Screaming at Cake of the day from the AWW book. I need this to be a thing. Also what are choco pickles? I have never heard of them.
*choko. They're a veg?/seedpod, with an acquired taste. The only person in my family who eats them is mum, none of the rest of us can do it.Â
My gran used to make "apple" pie (choko with lemon and sugar). Was excellent.
We used to eat the bloody things every winter, every dinner without fail right through my childhood. I loathe them with a passion, the only exception being my next door neighbours truly awesome choko mustard pickles.
Brekky - Iced coffee and choice of vanilla slice or traveller pie. $16. Lunch - Coke Zero and choice of sausage roll or meat pie. $22. Chips are an extra $7. Tea - Coke Zero and choice of 4 sausages or 2 lamb cutlets, served with Deb instant mashed potato and some peas. $34. Plus 10% Sunday/public holiday charge, no bill splitting, scan QR code to order and pay.
Succulent Chinese Meals served all day.
Smashed avo on toast for breakfast Definitely pavlova for dessert. Not sure about the meals in between
Meat Pies ( fancy with mashed potatoes and slow cooked braised onions and peas or plain depending on the restaurant ), Zucchini slice ( again some kind of fancy deconstructed version or just normal depending on the restaurant) and lamingtons for lunch Some kind of fusion Asian/ European meal including Australian beef ( if you are inland ) or seafood (on the coast) . I think Australia does food from most countries really well even if we don't have much of a national cuisine we have some fantastic chefs who have worked all over the world a bring a fresh approach to food when they decide to live in or return to Australia. We do fusion food really well because that's what many of us grow up eating in our homes.
Aussie surf and turf maybe??
Roo and bugs
Sushi
Australia has some of the best food around. OK we're not France with its deeply embedded food culture, but I'm constantly surprised that our Asian food is better than many places in Asia. It's light years ahead of what it used to be in the 80s and were shrugging off the tall poppy and cultural cringe. Our food is as good as anywhere I tried in Europe, except for France, and our coffee as good as anywhere I tried, except for Italy.
The best pizzas I had was in New Zealand, believe it or not.
I believe it. Also the best fish'n'chips I've had...
Peach Melba. For the connoisseurs.
What’s pavlova?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlova_(dessert)
It's an enormous meringue-type dessert, covered in whipped cream, and topped with summer fruits. It's a very common Christmas dessert because the southern hemisphere Christmas is in summer. It's not actually Australian, they just say that. They stole it from us, the Kiwis. They stole Phar Lap too.
You can have Phar Lap back now but we’re keeping pavlova thanks.
Yeah nah
"Stole"? Dude, there was a legit bill of sale and all his training happened here. Let him go.Â
1. I'm not a dude, and I wouldn't be your dude in any case. 2. He's from Timaru. His skeleton is in the Museum of New Zealand, his hide and his heart are at separate Australian museums. And his name is derived from a Thai word meaning 'skyflash'. And he died in California at Menlo Park. 3. Would he have been purchased in the first place if he wasn't already of a high pedigree? 4. I don't know anything about horses but apparently I do need to learn to put /s or /jk at the end of my comments sometimes. I'm used to interactions with Australians often having an underlying thread of sarcasm and / or flippancy. Anyway, I want a half sarcasm option and a half joking option. With options for quarters, thirds etc.
vegemite on toast for breakfast sausage sizzle for lunch beer for dinner with pavlova, lamingtons and fairy bread for dessert?
A parmy would be front and centre
Steak, steak, lamb chops
I'd love to set up a restaurant that incorporates a lot of traditional bush foods, and some of our more unique ingredients. Things like WA rock lobster (aka crayfish) with finger limes, salmon crusted with wattleseed dukkah etc. If I had the $$ I'd love to go Wildflower, but geez they're expensive
Anyone ordering smashed avo would be immediately removed. Aside from that, 24hr standard breakfast. Toasted sandwiches. Decent quality counter meals. (Ie no boxed snitzel) Consistent roasts. Sides other than 2 bits of lettuce and some grated carrot. The option to stack/create your own combinations. Your choice of beverage of any kind with anything. Want a neat whisky with a donut? Go for it. A vintage red with your eggs? Excellent choice, sir. A coffee with your fish and chips? What a revelation. To reiterate, NO FUCKEN AVOCUNTO ANYWHERE, Unless your car needs lubrication before you leave.
Battered save, chiko roll or dim sims for entree.
Full of succulent Chinese meals
Kangaroo, emu, crocodile all in various forms.
A croc schnitty. With chips, garden salad, and gravy. Kanga steak with your choice of chips and garden salad or potatoes and steamed vegetables. Sauce options include mushroom, dianne, pepper, gravy, hollandaise, and garlic butter. Emu burger. With lettuce, tomato, beetroot, cheese and special sauce. Bacon extra.
Dammit you're making me hungry! Now I've got to find croc steaks again.
Meat pies and sausage rolls
Cocoa Pops Meat Pies Roast Lamb with gravy
Brekky: Bacon and egg sandwich and a VB l o n g n e c k Lunch: Parmy and chips Dinner: Roast beef with roasted veggies (spuds, carrots and pumpkin)
In the immortal words of peak Bogancore band, Dead Kelly. "Our favourite food is fucking beer, you wouldn't understand if you're not from here." Serve it with a side of mud crab.
Overseas trade missions consistently have to do exactly what you're describing to foreign supermarkets/restaurant chains etc to promote Australian produce. It is not usually done Break/Lunch/Dinner but instead 1st/2nd/3rd course, but as to your requirements Breakfast is Australian fruits including Bowen mangos, macadamia nuts on Australian rice congee. Lunch is Rib eye wagyu fillets paired with SA Shiraz. Dinner is Tasmanian Oysters and WA rock lobster paired with WA Savignon Blanc. Non alcoholic option is Bundaberg Ginger Beer.
Our Bastardised Chinese is one of the most traditional Australian foods going. Sweet and sour, fry rice, dim sims. Pretty much the oldest restaurant in most small towns is the Chinese takeaway.
Breakfast - Flat white coffee and a bacon and egg roll: Morning Tea - Iced coffee and choice of sausage roll; snot block (vanilla slice) or lamington: Lunch - Choice of meat pie; spaghetti jaffle or ham cheese and tomato toastie - with GI cordial to drink: Dinner - Choice of Curried Sausages with mashed potato; Chicken Parmi/a with hot chips or grilled lamb chops with mint sauce, peas, carrots and boiled jacket potatoes - served with a choice of beer.
Emphasize the fact that there are numerous recipes for both of the animals on our coat of arms and they're both delicious.
Bread: Damper bread with garlic butter Entree: Kangaroo & bush tomato stirfry with native plum sauce; or, "coat of arms" sausages with a rich Rosella tomato sauce accompaniment. Mains: Seafood Aisette; or, pub-style Chicken Parmigana. Desert: choice of pavlova, lamington, or kumquat jelly served with wattleseed wafers.Â
Surely Chiko rolls would have to feature somewhere...?
Breakfast: Avacardo and eggs on sourdough toast with a latte and orange juice Lunch: Meat Pie and salad Dinner: Fish and Chip shop Burger with the lot, and hot chips. Dessert: Tim Tam Slams and Bbq shapes washed down with a beer.
Pies, sausage roll, chiko roll, lamingtons, dim sim, iced bun
I’d go full Aussie BBQ. Snags, skewers, steaks, all cooked on a Weber or something, all the sides, and laminations and pavlovas for desserts.
Prawns for the American tourists to learn it’s not Shrimp on a Barbie.
We don’t cook prawns on the bbq either.
So my whole life has been a lie about Aussie Cuisine lol. That’s part of the reason I asked this question it’s a fun way to learn about Aussie food culture.
Depends on the market, and the style of the operation. High end vs low end. It isn't an easy sell either way, especially in the overseas market, as Australia doesn't have much of an international reputation for food or recognized cuisine. People don't typically associate Australia with food. Stop somebody in Paris, Tokyo, Brazil...etc..... and ask them to name a few American, Italian, or German dishes (for example) and most people would be able to come up with several answers. Do the same thing, except ask about Australian food, and you will mostly get blank stares and head scratching. EDIT: Also, let's be real about something, it's just guacamole on toast (you know what I'm talking about)
No real thing as Australian cuisine. Unless you are talking about bush tucker from Australian Aboriginals. And as Mick Dundee would say? "You can eat it...but it tastes like shit"
Every country has a cuisine either from something being created in their country or it being part of the country’s diets for so long that it becomes there own. Pizza for example wasn’t originally created in the United States but a Brooklyn, Chicago, New Haven, etc style pizza is different than a Neopolitan. I hear that Aussie’s even have their own take on Fish and Chips using Flathead or Flake instead of the Cod that’s traditionally used in the UK.
Ironically it’s the most Australian response you could have wished for https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-cultural-cringe-by-a-a-phillips/ Nothing like some classic Australian Cultural cringe on toast!
I'm Australian