Whats the best food product you have found since you have been in Oz?
Jan 14th 2009, 2:05 am
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Jan 14th 2009, 2:33 am
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Re: Whats the best food product you have found since you have been in Oz?
All of these fruits can be got in the uk (except for maybe bowen mangoes) but they weren't really part of my diet back there...
bowen mangoes
passion fruit
cherries
blueberries
custard apples
longan (small lychees basically)
Also discovered the following treats:
big prawns, (not those tiny little shrimps that came like frozen peas in a bag in UK)
moreton bay bugs
mudcrabs with XO sauce or salt and pepper
coral trout
flathead
and some chinese items I never used to have:
pork belly (yum
)
home-made bbq pork
steamed duck/quails
salty eggs
bowen mangoes
passion fruit
cherries
blueberries
custard apples
longan (small lychees basically)
Also discovered the following treats:
big prawns, (not those tiny little shrimps that came like frozen peas in a bag in UK)
moreton bay bugs
mudcrabs with XO sauce or salt and pepper
coral trout
flathead
and some chinese items I never used to have:
pork belly (yum
)home-made bbq pork
steamed duck/quails
salty eggs
Jan 14th 2009, 3:07 am
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Re: Whats the best food product you have found since you have been in Oz?
Burger rings! yuk! disgusting! 
Foods I love here are as follows:
Fresh bread from our bakers.. and the white salty thin stick bread thing in our local cafe.. hmmmmm
The beef from our local butchers is to die for..
Fruit & Veg on a massive scale.. tho OH and I now go up to Noosa Farm Markets each Sunday morning and get our 5 a day supplies for the entire week.. cheap, mostly organic and tastes gorg.. plus lasts all week
Mangoes... they were $1.57 each from our local veggie shop here.. bought one.. didnt have a clue what to do with it tho.. has a whacking great stone in the middle that didnt seem to want to budge and by the time i had hacked it with a knife, it was all juice and stone, no flesh
Other stuff: Rocky Road bars.. mmmmmmmmmmmm
Choc in general is pretty dire..
Em x
PS Jatz !!! How could I forget Jatz... mmm oh.. and Arnolds Ginger Nuts..
Foods I love here are as follows:
Fresh bread from our bakers.. and the white salty thin stick bread thing in our local cafe.. hmmmmm
The beef from our local butchers is to die for..
Fruit & Veg on a massive scale.. tho OH and I now go up to Noosa Farm Markets each Sunday morning and get our 5 a day supplies for the entire week.. cheap, mostly organic and tastes gorg.. plus lasts all week
Mangoes... they were $1.57 each from our local veggie shop here.. bought one.. didnt have a clue what to do with it tho.. has a whacking great stone in the middle that didnt seem to want to budge and by the time i had hacked it with a knife, it was all juice and stone, no flesh
Other stuff: Rocky Road bars.. mmmmmmmmmmmm
Choc in general is pretty dire..
Em x
PS Jatz !!! How could I forget Jatz... mmm oh.. and Arnolds Ginger Nuts..
Last edited by emelems; Jan 14th 2009 at 3:08 am. Reason: Forgot the biccies!
Jan 14th 2009, 3:10 am
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Cherry ripe
Jan 14th 2009, 4:07 am
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had a pack about an hour ago...mmm.
http://homecooking.about.com/od/howt...s/cutmango.htm
there is also a "step 8" where you take the seed and suck the juices from all the leftover bits of mango
Mangoes... they were $1.57 each from our local veggie shop here.. bought one.. didnt have a clue what to do with it tho.. has a whacking great stone in the middle that didnt seem to want to budge and by the time i had hacked it with a knife, it was all juice and stone, no flesh
there is also a "step 8" where you take the seed and suck the juices from all the leftover bits of mango
Jan 14th 2009, 4:09 am
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what are burger rings????
Jan 14th 2009, 4:31 am
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had a pack about an hour ago...mmm.
http://homecooking.about.com/od/howt...s/cutmango.htm
there is also a "step 8" where you take the seed and suck the juices from all the leftover bits of mango
http://homecooking.about.com/od/howt...s/cutmango.htm
there is also a "step 8" where you take the seed and suck the juices from all the leftover bits of mango
Well thank you very much! I was attempting to deal with like you would an avocado! 
Much easier... just slice off the juicy bit, criss cross and then use paring knife to lift out flesh... excellent!
Ta
Em x
Last edited by emelems; Jan 14th 2009 at 4:31 am. Reason: spelling
Jan 14th 2009, 4:59 am
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that sounds like my kinda thing. I have a secret fetish for disgusting snacks. I used to lurve pickled onion monster munch
Jan 14th 2009, 5:09 am
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Cheds
Blue Costello cheese
Charcol chicken
Grilled Whiting/ red snapper from the chippie (And I don't give a rats where its bloody from
)
Violet Crumble
Chicken salt
Lemon salt
Blue Costello cheese
Charcol chicken
Grilled Whiting/ red snapper from the chippie (And I don't give a rats where its bloody from
)Violet Crumble
Chicken salt
Lemon salt
Jan 14th 2009, 7:52 am
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Oh you shouldn't have reminded me...I miss chicken salt now! And I am sorry but the cooked chickens you get in Morrisons etc here are not the same as the Charcoal chickens in Australia
But I also love Yerros which is different to Kebabs. Not sure why but I think they are anyway.
But I also love Yerros which is different to Kebabs. Not sure why but I think they are anyway.
Jan 14th 2009, 7:54 am
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Oh you shouldn't have reminded me...I miss chicken salt now! And I am sorry but the cooked chickens you get in Morrisons etc here are not the same as the Charcoal chickens in Australia
But I also love Yerros which is different to Kebabs. Not sure why but I think they are anyway.
But I also love Yerros which is different to Kebabs. Not sure why but I think they are anyway.
Jan 14th 2009, 7:55 am
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Jan 14th 2009, 8:40 am
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Re: Whats the best food product you have found since you have been in Oz?
They look similar to a biscuit we have here by griffins called sensations, they are quite good.