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I second RYTTU3K: Do not support Gloria Jean's. For one, they are financially involved with Hillsong, a batshit-crazy Christian megachurch. They're also financially involved with an anti-choice, anti-gay women's mental "health" organisation. For another, they're basically like a smaller-scale Starbucks, i.e. the coffee is shit and comes with flavoured syrups. Every proper city in Australia has excellent coffee as long as you go to an independent cafe.

I also second the prompt to *not* drink Fosters, but need to add that contrary to AGREEN10's advice you SHOULD NOT try Victoria Bitter. VB is disgusting, weak, ultra-chemically piss. Try Coopers, Little Creatures, Boag's or Cascade. Also, I have never in my life seen a bacon and egg pizza.

If you're going to Melbourne or Sydney, buy a copy of either The Age/Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide, or The Age/SMH Cheap Eats Guide, from a newsagent or bookshop. And if you're in Melbourne, buy the Tuesday edition of The Age to get Epicure, a really great food lift-out.

But anyway, just to reiterate what others have said, absolute Aussie classics are:
meat pie or sausage roll with sauce
lamingtons
pav
seafood local to where ever you are
a smear of Vegemite on hot buttered toast
mangos, passionfruit, paw paw, etc
nobody's mentioned Milo – isn't this just an Australian thing?

And don't go to Canberra.

"Without the hassle of finding a knife, squeezing the citrus, and picking out the seeds." Really? Finding a knife, something you use all the time and probably have more than 1 of, is more of a hassle than finding this stupid little gadget in amongst your "random kitchen stuff" drawer?

Rebekkap, Anusha was talking about war-created shortages in the last 100 years/in living memory. I'm aware of your pre-1900 wars and Pearl Harbour.

Hehe. We don't call it a Hill Hoist. It's a Hills Hoist.

I don't understand - are people deep frying entire turkeys?? I thought the US Thanksgiving/Christmas tradition was roast turkey?

mh330, I remember reading that as well. Although in the case of things like dairy-based products, possibly the spoilage bacteria makes them hard for the gut to digest, shich could give you a tummyache – but not actual sickness.

I sigh in dismay and feel like facepalming every time I hear people worrying about unrefrigerated eggs. Fer chrissakes, people! They're eggs. You do not need to keep them cold. They come in their own little sealed packaging. HOWEVER I've heard that in the US (where I am not), most commercial eggs are washed with very harsh detergents before going on supermarket shelves, which dissolves a coating on the outside and makes them far less shelf-stable. Anyone know more about this?

Half a can of... water? Or should that be soda water?

"Choosing a containers"?

Here in Australia, Seckel pears are called Christmas pears, because their tiny window of being in season is normally right on Christmastime. Like cherries and prawns, they are THE symbol of Christmastime to me.

@ccp mbd, sausage doesn't mean "made with meat" (if you're talking about its etymology), it means salted.