"~patches~" > wrote in message
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> Nope, you guys got left out this time. I used to watch an Australian soap
> called Country Practice until CBC decided to no longer carry it. I so
> want to take a trip to Australia before I die. I'm curious about
> Australian cuisine so I hope you don't mind me asking. Is is more British
> in flavour or does it lean towards the Aboriginal or somewhere in between?
> Do you guys really eat the joeys? I know the barby is big down under.
> I'd really love to hear a little more about Australian cuisine in general
> and not the fancy gourmet stuff but the everyday what you would eat
> things. Thanks so much in advance.

A Country Practice is a great fave. Until recently they were replaying the
eps on TV (it's rather ancient).
As for food, we lean to multicultural (mixture of everything) because of our
many years of accepting migrants from all over the globe, so we get the best
of all possible worlds. We have also been exposed to many years of cooking
shows from all over as well (love Iron Chef!). We don't consider British
food to be that great (apart from Delia, Jamie Oliver and a few more modern
cooks) but we many of us have it as a heritage (roasts etc). Now our
influences seem to be very much Asian with a huge smattering of Italian,
Greek and lots of other middle eastern foods. Aboriginal food is called bush
tucker and is generally way too problematic for us mostly urban dwellers to
cook/eat. Roo is occasionally eaten (it is very lean) but is still seen as a
less popular meat as is emu. We like BBQs because we have the weather for it
and until recently meat was cheap. That has changed a lot so I think the BBQ
is not as widespread as it once was. We eat a lot of chicken though. A lot
of the time we eat way too much fast food. Just like the US.

Liz