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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    I was once offered a spider to drink outside of a Bunnings in Perth. I said that I don't normally drink spiders but apparently it was a coke with a dollop of icecream (if I remember correctly).
    A spider is a dollop of ice cream in any soft drink. (Soda to you foreigners who cant speak good strine).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Cow View Post
    Although being an honorary cane toad
    Careful you could be euthanised down under.

    "A cane toad so giant wildlife officers thought it was fake has been found in a north Australian rainforest.

    The "monster" specimen is six times bigger than the average toad, weighs 2.7kg, and could break a world record.

    Dubbed "Toadzilla", the animal was quickly placed in a container and removed from the wild.

    Toads - which were first introduced to Australia in 1935 - are one of the country's most damaging pests and are now estimated to number in the hundreds of millions.

    When park ranger Kylee Gray first spotted the massive amphibian while out on patrol in Queensland, she couldn't believe her eyes.

    "I've never seen anything so big," she told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

    "[It looked] almost like a football with legs. We dubbed it Toadzilla."

    Her team quickly captured Toadzilla - believed to be a female - and returned to base to weigh her. They knew she would be heavy, but were surprised to find she could set a new world record.

    The current Guinness World Record for the largest toad - 2.65kg - was set by a pet toad in Sweden named Prinsen in 1991.

    Ms Gray says this giant specimen likely bulked out on a diet of insects, reptiles and small mammals.

    "A cane toad that size will eat anything it can fit into its mouth," she said.

    Toads have no natural predators in Australia and the poisonous species have wrought havoc on native animal populations.

    Ms Gray isn't sure how old Toadzilla was - the species can live up to 15 years in the wild - but believes she has "been around a long time".

    Toadzilla has since been euthanised, as is standard practice in Australia for the pests, and will be donated to the Queensland Museum."

    Australia'''s '''Toadzilla''': Record-breaking cane toad found in Queensland - BBC News
    "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect,"

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallelujah View Post
    Reading the OP though, the "best" Australian food (Australian cuisine ) is basically what we more refined Brits would consider some of the worst of British food, isn't it?

    Think Chitty as head chef with Pattaya Plies as the sous chef for your average Australian meal.
    I envy Brits with their diet of cod and chips, whereas as us aussies with less sophisticated palates are forced to eat poor unsophisticated Barramundi fish dinners like this in Australia...Those Lucky Brits.


    Bum nuts and chickens in pyjamas: the words Australians use for food-hero-300-jpg

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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    ^ and contributor to rife obesity at about 1500 Kcals

    Eh? I thought most Australian males under 50 had a physique that looked like they could do 100 metres of butterfly in under 60 seconds.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Cow View Post
    A spider is a dollop of ice cream in any soft drink. (Soda to you foreigners who cant speak good strine).
    Any soft drink? How about a root beer?

    I still remember the look on the cashiers face when I ordered a root beer in a Hungry Jack's.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Cow View Post
    and a potato cake, not a potato scallop..
    Ok at this point you either need to step well away from the keyboard or just move back South of the border you heathen

    Next thing you'll be saying NSW have a decent Origin team..

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    Perhaps the funniest thing I heard re bastardisation of english was from my sister in law.
    She came to visit us in Aussie and when she went through immigration the officer asked her who was "picking you up". Her reply "no not pickup, Toyota". We had a Toyota Rav4 at the time.

    Well it was funny to me!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Headworx View Post
    Ok at this point you either need to step well away from the keyboard or just move back South of the border you heathen

    Next thing you'll be saying NSW have a decent Origin team..

    Potato cake.

    And the only scallops I eat are a type of shellfish.


    As for those bastards what is cockroaches… well they is cockroaches!

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    i am stuck, due to employment reasons, in Western Australia.
    it is like a bloody gaol sentence, no culture, fUll of C.U.B.'S. and they all reckon Bali is the ducks guts.
    god hates me!

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    Just gobblin some yabbies and bugs behind the servo this arvo during a smoko with Raylene, Marlen and Charlene

    My Uncle Norm and Auntie Sheila never ever said fair dinkum nor too true blue.

    My faves are

    She'll be right , not sure this can be gender reassigned

    Rort, dodgy formerly a wild party , a hooli , shenanigans with illegal overtones
    Spruiker from Yiddish a huckster
    and spill for a ballot or poll

    While Australiana has some innovations or swear words insults not used elsewhere, I was astonished how limited their daily lexis is.

    Only later did I learn the cream of Okker autodidacts were teaching the Abos of Indonesia, between eating a sandwich in Brussels or working in a bar in Europe.

    Hereabouts the better English by Australian passport holders seem to be Devon born JJ and our very own Panama Kraut, they also lifted the "Strine" faster than a bride's nightie.

    Much of what Europeans knw come from ancient humour of larrikans from the likes of like Sir Les Paterson, Bob Down, Norman Gunston, Denton, Paul Hogan, Rove, Denton or Jimeoin and the Bananas in pyjamas (Looper and newbie Dave's tribute act down the Henny penny Club!

    It would be like we learning American usages from 50 cent Ye or that Cofeve pussy grabber and language mangler.

    Of course no disrepect to Dr Billy Emeritus prof of BBQ one of the finest writers in modern English was Clive James who like Greer and many others escaped places with less culture than yoghurt for Europe.

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    Two mentions in one post. You just cannae stop tinking about me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    As for those bastards what is cockroaches… well they is cockroaches!
    YOU iz the most cockroachy one . . . the furthe rsouth you get!!!!





    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    And the only scallops I eat are a type of shellfish.
    Ditto . . . though it did cause a bit of confusion on my first order o scallops . . . cheap as chips they were . . . for a reason

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    Potato cake.
    Not according to anyone who went to snack bars in QLD to buy them, the 2 in our neighbourhood were both owned by Greeks named Theo and Con and if calling them scallops was good enough for that pair of mono-browed masterchefs it's good enough for me

    They're even called scallops in Thailand at the fish and chip stand opposite Sugar Sugar in Pattaya that's been keeping drunks happy for years, so take it up with Tuk if you want to argue about it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Headworx View Post
    ...owned by Greeks ... mono-browed masterchefs
    The manscaping BB ain't gonna like that generalisation at all!

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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    She'll be right , not sure this can be gender reassigned
    that would be a closet republican trans sexual

    Quote Originally Posted by Headworx View Post
    scallops
    scallops in FNQ - potato cake would be a pikey thing they do for bitrthdays

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    Anyone mentioned Fairy Bread yet?

    I thought it was a wind up when told, but it is actually a thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    scallops in FNQ - potato cake would be a pikey thing they do for bitrthdays
    Can't recall where but somewhere in Oz I've seen them on the menu board of a snack bar as Potatoe Fritters. Tasmania perhaps, can't remember now!

    Quote Originally Posted by Bogon View Post
    Anyone mentioned Fairy Bread yet?
    Never heard that one before..

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    white bread and margarine with hundreds and thousands on it - normally cut in quarters for children

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    ^Ok now I've gone to Google to find out what hundreds and thousands are, no joy until putting fairy bread in the same search! I've seen those little coloured sprinkles on the top of cup-cakes before, but never on bread and I didn't know what they were called.

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    Every party I went to from age 1-10 (at least) had fairy bread!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Headworx View Post
    Ok at this point you either need to step well away from the keyboard or just move back South of the border you heathen

    Next thing you'll be saying NSW have a decent Origin team..
    No, I'm not a kangaroo short in the top paddock. BTW, Origin is no longer played in the AFL because the big V was too dominant... Oh sorry, you are referring to that quaint little game played in QLD and Northern NSW, cane toads V cockroaches. My apologies.

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    A kangaroo loose in the top paddock.

    Or a sandwich short of a picnic.

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    British Expat's culture shock moving to Australia:

    British expat shares strange Australian words they don’t understand | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

    Not a bad looking second hand dealer, got a decent set of brace and bits.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    A kangaroo loose in the top paddock.
    you say tomayto i say tomahto.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Cow View Post
    you say tomayto i say tomahto.
    or just wrong…

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