Where does “put another shrimp on the barbie” come from?
The expression stems from a 1984 television advertisement created by the Australian Tourism Commission for audiences in the United States. The original ad starred Paul Hogan two years before he played Mick Dundee in the astronomically successful Hollywood blockbuster
Crocodile Dundee (1986), when he shot to fame in the US. In 1984, Hogan was relatively unknown outside of Australia, where he’d entertained domestic audiences with his quintessentially Australian
larrikin humour as the lead man on comedy sketch program
The Paul Hogan Show (1973-84). The shrimp ad, and then the Dundee franchise, catapulted Hogan to international stardom.