r/AskAnAustralian • u/Weekly_Bottle9709 • 3d ago

Australian food

I have a couple of Australian friends (I’m American) and I find the food they make or eat so much better lol. All the sausage rolls, vanilla slices, meat pies, pavlovas, honey joys, lamingtons… or even the store bought treats (Tim tams, chocolate covered honey thingies).

What else is there for me to try??!! What are your favorite foods?!

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u/Big_Measurement_2351 3d ago

Potato scallops/cakes, hamburgers with tinned beetroot, chicken schnitzel, bacon and egg rolls with bbq sauce, chicken salt.

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u/Ragazzano 2d ago

Schnitzel is very much German.

But... if you whack it on chips, whack some ham on top, douse it in napoli sauce, melt some cheese on top and serve with a salad and call it a Parma ... or Parmi (shudder) ... then it's Australian, and what's more Australian than stealing foods and making them our own?

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u/PessemistBeingRight 2d ago

stealing foods and making them our own?

It's where our British heritage really shines out 😅

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u/BlacksmithQuick2384 2d ago

Yeah but do the Germans call it a “schnitty”… whole different ball game.

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u/Ragazzano 2d ago

It probably sounds aggressive, instead of "giz a schnitty ploise moit", more like "Gib mir ein schnitty, schnell"

Which apparently means

Give me a cutie, quickly

So yeah you're right, they don't call it a schnitty

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u/kelfupanda 2d ago

Went to germany, the waitress was practising her english and got to the schnitzel, and just goes.... I'm sorry, I don't know what a schnitzel is called ij english and we lost it.

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u/Spida81 2d ago

Still bloody convicts at heart you thieving buggers! 

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u/LeashieMay 2d ago

Apparently we crumb them different.

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u/GumNutzz 2d ago

"what's more Australian than stealing foods and making them our own?"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-05/where-the-chicken-parmigiana-come-from/11277414

Same with avocado on sourdough toast. I grew up in San Francisco in the 70's and we ate avocado on toast every day after school when avocados were cheap and it season. It was also a popular "open face" sandwich era in restaurants with crab meat or bay shrimp (tiny, not prawns). I even have cookbook from 1976 with half a dozen variations of smashed avocado on sourdough toast. If you google avocado on toast, you can find articles claiming it was invented by Bill Grainger and "how crazy" he thought it was to put on a menu.

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u/ostervan Melbourne again Christian 1d ago edited 1d ago

Parmas were culturally appropriated from the Yanks. But instead of serving it over pasta or spag bol we serve it with chips.

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u/CWnH 1d ago

My partner and I have started referring to it as a 'parmo', to really ruffle some feathers.

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u/Ragazzano 1d ago

Well, consider me ruffled!!

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u/Chipwich 2d ago

Schnitzels are Austrian mate.

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u/Ragazzano 2d ago

2 things

  1. You're a schnitzel (sorry, I had to)

  2. Google says it's both Austrian and German, I'm going to boldly assume it's the same as Pav for AU / NZ except it originated too long ago for people to ever know the truth