Lorraine Bryan

Ok Ok now I know there is nothing special about British food but what British or common foods will we miss when we get to Oz? Is it easier in certain places to get known brands like HP or Walls sausages??

How about meals you really miss......are sunday roasts the same? What about take aways? or will we just wan't to eat salads because it's too hot for anything else ?

Finally what Ozzy food is a must?

Lorraine

ABCDiamond

Walls sausages !! Now thats something I haven't seen for a long time..

We had Roast Beef and Roast potatoes yesterday, so it can be done, but don't pick the hot days to do it, unless you have FULL Air Con in the house.

You tend to see more Prawns and other Seafood salads etc., around.

Plenty of different take aways in many areas. In one High street that I remember in NSW, they had Roast Meats take away, Beef, Lamb, Pork etc, and just about next door was a Rack of Ribs place, then Kentucky, they probably have a subway now, Chinese of course, and Indian.


A lot of Brand name foods are available, eg: Heinz, BUT, local Heinz beans are made in Australia, and MAY taste different to the "Heinz Beans "English Variety" that they also sell.
Weetabix is, of course, VERY different to Weet-Bix.

Pollyana

Had two good Pom friends in Hobart, one dead now, they were both on a very hush-hush bigwig committee deciding on policy for the hospital, a few years back.
The chairman of the committee was stressing the need for secrecy, and uttered the statement "You all know what Walls have......."
To which both my mates simultaneously shouted "Sausages!"
Rest of committee in stunned and confused silence as two expat Poms curled up in hysterics......

Bit OT I know, but I've never forgotten the story, and it conjures up such a picture......

ABCDiamond

Killing myself laughing here too

Trevglas

The typical aussie sausage is a dismal thing, a pink puree inside a skin. Woolies do sell Old English style sausages (both beef and pork) which closely resemble the average UK banger.

Both Woolies and Coles have Hob Nobs, but only Coles seem to have the chocolate ones (only the milk chocolate, not the yummy dark chocolate ones though). McVities milk chocolate digestives are available (a measure of civilisation as I keep telling the wife).

Cheshire cheese is also available, but rather than being one of the cheapest cheeses you can get, its one of the more expensive ones here. I also actually found some Shropshire Blue as well for Christmas!

Pork pies generally take a bit of hunting down, but they are available here

As has been mentioned on many an occasion, dont expect to find a decent take away curry, they are virtually non-existant, although ABC looks like he may have found one! Many of the Patak cooking sauces are here, as well as the Sharwood ones.

There is nothing here that even resembles the Bombay Bad Boy pot noodles Sainsbury's do, and likewise, I have not seen the West Indian Hot Pepper sause here either.

One of the things I always used to buy from Asda were their chilli pickled onions, and I actually found a local brand of chilli pickled onions here at Bi-Low, so yippie!

NJJ

The availability and cost of decent cheese such as red leicester and stilton is most annoying also

ABCDiamond

Red Leicester, my favourite, is around $25 kg, normally in my local Woolworths.

Cracker Barrel X-strong is also good, at about $12 kg

bondipom

Seafood is good here and Balmain Bugs are worth a try. Yabbies are excellent. They are prawn like in texture with a more subtle taste. If in Sydney or Melbourne there are some excellent districts that specialise in the local migrants foods. In Sydney Leichardt for Italian, haymarket for Chinese(chinatown), Cabramatta for vietnamese and instead of currey houses everywhere there are thai restaurants.

Sausages, cheese and curry are not the strong points here but there is so much else.

mlbonner

I pressume Balmain bugs are the regional equivalent of Moreton bay bugs, in which case definitely worth a try, well all the seafood is.
The sausages I can live without, the curry and cheese I can find a way around I think. Despite the recent threads on the obesity here in Aus, some of the best food is very healthy for you. Great "homegrown" olives here too

wombat42

Aussie food is the best quality food in the world, unlike that genetically modified, foot and mouth infested, mad cow diseased, overpriced, garbage you eat over in Pommie Land.

mlbonner

I thought Macca's was everywhere these days

bondipom

Good food is available here but the hicks who never travel tend to have your viewpoint. The viewpoint is used to justify their limited, ignorant, narrow minded little world.

BTW australia has bugger all GMO labelling requirements. Monsanto loves Howard.

renth

Seafood is fantastic, although pricier than you would think being near the sea, well here in Perth anyway.

Food is also more seasonal, they don't seem to helicopter in baby vegetables or strawberries like they do in the UK

HUP

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Before I start I would like to say

YES I BLOODY KNOW I CAN MAKE IT FROM SCRATCH!!

Havn't found a decent stuffing mix and Gravox is disgusting.

I am coming round to the fish and chips but I do miss a nice bit of battered cod.

MarkMyWords

And of course, as you will hear again and again and again and again and again and again (go on, do a search!)... Marmite isn't Marmite. Fortunately for those like me who go mad about it, Our Mate is Marmite. Enough said.