martin1978

As is most of the bacon in the UK.

Grayling

Yes....but I was replying to your post about being able to find bacon tasting like Danish in Australia......That is because it is Danish.

martin1978

So why is it generally so different?

Grayling

Don't have a clue.....perhaps it is processed differently

martin1978

Oh well. It could be worse. It could be that cheap streaky crap you get in Spain.

Grayling

I have never found the bacon that different and we only usually buy it from supermarkets.?....never ever eaten a lot of it though.

brissybee

I don't understand why Australia would import bacon when there are plenty of pigs already here.

Grayling

Is that a joke

They import about 75% of bacon sold here from Denmark.

carolinephillips

better - mangoes, watermelon and fresh tropical fruits. Steak. Sydney tap water- much better than recycled homecounties stuff which was full of limescale, though the slightly brown colour took a bit of getting used to.

worse- cadbury's chocolate, though I am acclimatising after 4 years. Gravy. Red leicester cheese,pate,

missing- bread sauce, proper gammon, fresh gooseberries, cooking apples, (though I have found a source of gammon and neighbour once got apples from Tassie recently, but very expensive).

different but just as nice- jindi/tassie brie, decent wine (when compared to old world wines)

This is in my own opinion of course and doesn't reflect what others may think.

brissybee

Gooseberries are the devils food. Praise Australia for its lack of horrible hairy slimy disgusting dry-retching gooseberries. (Envision Willy Wonka type flashback to school-girl being forced to eat every last gooseberry by bully bitch head-mistress in an empty dining hall after everyone else has gone.)

However, I'd be mighty pleased if you would share with me details of the UK equivalent of the quite fab Jindi triple cream brie.

Grayling

Sorry but gooseberries are grown in a number of australian states......but much less than they used to be......not a great demand.

brissybee

This is very bad news. But I hope there are some growing at the Lodge.

Zen10

64% of processed pork is imported. Fresh stuff won't be anywhere near that level. In fact I'm editing this to say that all fresh pork is Australian by law, or was as of 2008. Perhaps there have been changes to this then? If your bacon us fresh then it's Australian, notwithstanding any changes since 2008 of course!

Grayling

Not according to the ABC it isn't

http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/con...1/s3122699.htm

Three quarters of the bacon sold in Australia is imported from Denmark

carolinephillips

I went to the cheese shop in Devizes and they had a locally produced one. Yum!

I like gooseberry crumble and gooseberry jam. I also like sprouts, so that probably says a lot about me!