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Skriven 2009-01-27 09:48:06 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: RE: VARIOUS BEASTS 49 90126
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Happy Australia Day Glen!
-> 
->  -> I happily go for years between eating hamburgers.  I agree that the
->  -> taste of the combination of bread roll, meat patty, lettuce, cheese and
->  -> onions isn't bad, and is even better after adding the fried egg and
->  -> slice of beetroot, but it is a messy thing to eat, having to be
->  -> squashed down to fit into my mouth, then the juices dribbling down 
into
->  -> my beard as I try to bite it. Using a knife and fork, like most people
->  -> attempt to do in a restaurant, is awkward, and it then tends to
->  -> disintegrate into pieces of its component parts.
->  -> 
->  HN> Perhaps I should have stated more 
->  HN> clearly that I was speaking from my own
->  HN> personal perspective. I can't address Ozzie
->  HN> perceptions as I ain't one (grin). I don't put
->  HN> beetroot or fried eggs on my burgers, I've 
->  HN> had em with both, but prefer the burger
->  HN> prepared "my way". Mustard, cheese
->  HN> (a sharp cheddar or a good swiss is
->  HN> best) lettuce,onion,  tomato, bacon (optional),
->  HN> and mayo (optional). From there you can
->  HN> expand to blue cheese, french fried crispy
->  HN> onions, sliced jalapenos, sprouts, or 
->  HN> whatever you can imagine.
->  
->  ->  HN> From the White Castle belly bombs to
->  ->  HN> the fancy mega bux kobe (style) waygu
->  ->  HN> teryaki blue cheese with pepperjack
->  ->  HN> yada yada burger..it still comes to
->  ->  HN> some sort of spiritual meal that 
->  ->  HN> everyone can feel is their own. 
->  -> 
->  -> I suppose if that is what you have grown up with...
->  ->
->  HN> My point exactly! For ME a burger is an ideal
->  HN> comfort food, touching all the right culinary,
->  HN> spiritual, physical, and emotional buttons to 
->  HN> make ME happy.
->  
->  -> A pie floater is an Adelaide peculiarity, now only available in two
->  -> pie-carts, parked in the city.  Other Australians come to see
->  -> Adelaideans eating them.  Hardly a "national dish" earning the degree
->  -> of adulation and respect that hamburgers receive in USA!
->  ->
->  HN> Ok so pie floaters aren't as endemic in OZ
->  HN> as burgers are here....is there a dish in OZ
->  HN> that is as universal as the burger is here?
->  
-> Hamburgers and pizzas are universal in Australia, also, thanks to
-> McDonald, Hungry Jack (alias Burger King), Pizza Hut and other US-based
-> big names.  On today, Australia Day, the only purely Australian snack
-> food which comes to mind is the Vegemite Sandwich - the school lunch of
-> my youth - made with white bread and butter, but even Vegemite is owned
-> by Kraft Foods...
-> 
-> The most widely eaten main meal dish here would be the Sunday Roast,
-> which most commonly would be lamb.  Traditionally served with mint
-> sauce, or flavoured with rosemary, these days the Continental influence
-> has been to insert slivers of garlic into the meat.
-> 
Well then Glen, you have to INVENT a 
universal OZZIE dish! 
chat with you soon!
hap 
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