Re: [CH] Oz & NZ +Peppers
Luke Speer (lukasz@midcoast.com.au)
Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:21:55 +1000
28/04/01 3:34:59 PM, "Suz" <socalsuz@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Maybe I was too harsh using the word horrid describing the food in Oz.
>Possibly because I ate at the
>wrong places, the food was not to my liking. Maybe it was because it was
>just "different".
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Probably
>I had envisioned good seafood restaurants, and found none. The
>menus were undecipherable. The waitresses and waiters would rattle off the
>special, and we couldn't understand them.
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Ah it all becomes clear ! You don't understand Strine our local dialect..
When I did find a
>familiar selection on the menu, it was covered with "blood sauce" or
>something ... what the heck is "blood sauce" anyway?
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Probably Tomato Sauce/ our version of Ketchup without most of the sugar. Just guessing here if it was
labeled as Blood Sauce its a new one on me..
>The hamburgers tasted like the meat had been ground with sawdust.
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Could have been, Our meat is getting more expensive as we are sending lots to the UK (as the Poms are a
bit touchy about their own what with Mad Cow and foot and mouth diseases..
>Maybe it's because I'm used to good ol' US cows.
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Funny you should mention that, My Father retired and went farming and guess where all of his old Tough
bulls went, To the USA for Hamburger, (and he got top dollar for them) that was in the late 70's just before
some enterprising Aussies substituted Kangaroo for Beef, Now you pay more for the Roo than for Beef..
<G> sad but true..
One hamburger came topped with a
>beet and fried egg. No mustard or mayo.
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Only place you might get mustard or Mayo on your Burgers here in Oz would probably be a MacDonalds,
The Aussie hamburger generally has Beetroot on it Lettuce, Fried Onion ,possibly cheese Tomato, Egg is
generally extra as is Pineapple (It would be called a Hawaiian Burger then..)
I sprinkled my chile powder
>liberally over the meat, but ended up eating the beet and egg, leaving the
>meat. The club sandwich also had fried
>egg.
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Strange never run across that one before.
>The chipotle shrimp at the Rattlesnake Grill was delicious, but it was
>served over a mound of "something" which while wasn't bad, was
>"something". I had no idea what the "something" was. The jalapenos at that
>restaurant were truly fantastic, tasty and with plenty of heat.
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Victor specialises in Santa Fe Style food so you should be able to work that one out if you ask somebody
living in New Mexico..FWIW The Food at the Rattlesnake Grill is IMHO what Aussie think that American
food is like..
>At the Hyde Park restaurant, the special of the evening was seafood. The
>waitress told us at least five times what it was, but we never figured out
>what she was saying. The fish was served over a loaf of something white
>with colored "things" in it. It was horrid.
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Probably a mound of Rice with something coloured in it..!
Horrid yes but I generally don't eat it..(Some people do though)
Salads were served after the
>main course, I like my salad first. Just a personal preference
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That the American preference, We generally get our Salad served with the Main, The Waiter probably
made a mistake and thought that he was serving you in the American way..
>The Somerset Inn in NZ had a delicious steak and Tony Flynn took us to a
>great
>fish 'n chips place. No, I didn't try the lamb.
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Your loss, NZ lamb is Excellent...!!!!
FWIW Our lambs are now fetching $80.00 Aussie each, up from $50.00, Again due to the problems in the
UK..
I bought a beautiful
>bottle of habs at Pepperama, too pretty to open.
>
>Ask for ketchup and you receive tomato sauce. We did get a bottle of
>ketchup once without asking, during breakfast. Granted, some people like
>ketchup on pancakes and fruit.
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We don't generally have Ketchup here in OZ, I think there are about 15 bottles of Tomato sauce to 1 lonely
one of Ketchup on the supermarket shelves..
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Luke in Oz
At the risk of starting WW3 , I'll make mention of some dissapointments I had in the USA : (Coffee), LAX,
FLA and Texas (Ok probably not good examples) But I think the average Aussie Expresso bar kills
American Coffee And I'm much to Polite to tell you what I think of Starbucks Coffee..
Domestic Beer (I actually saw people drinking Budweiser) !
I drank Negro Modello, Belgian Strawberry Gueze beer(unpaturised which we can't get here in Oz) again
Foot and Mouth, Shiner in Texas..
Wines - Too sweet !
Chain restaurants, diners
IHOP, Olive Garden,etc - Just upmarket Macdonalds. TGIF might just work in Oz though..
On the plus side I had a great Hot dog in Orlando made by a Jewish guy who hailed from New York.. Corner
stand.. Aussie Hot dogs are generally a cheap frank on a long soft roll with Tomato sauce, be de be dah
thats all folks !
Rosarios in San Antonio had the best Mexican food, Ma Tierra was heading down the MacD trail..
FWIW :The Woolgoolga Pistol Club and Gourmet Society last night, we had: Freshly Smoked Fish, Home
made Olives, Deep Fried chicken Legs, Twiggy Sticks, (Pencil thin Salami) Smoked oysters and Avocado
on Crackers, A Chicken Curry dish, Prosciutto Ham, fresh prawns , Home made liver Pate (with Habanero
Chile powder - I made this) We drank Home Made Rum/ Butterscotch Schnapps (several members have
stills),
/Ginger Beer(alcoholic) White Lambrusco,Red Lambrusco, and several different beer.
Luke in Oz
>I certainly do not mean any offense to the Aussies and their taste in food.
>Again, it might have been that we just didn't pick out the right places.
>
>The trip down under was fantastic, and we are most definitely planning a
>return trip.
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>> >The Australian food is quite horrid,
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>> Funny I thought the same about American Food in 98 -------- Till I Found
>the good places to Eat..
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