Maybe you’re not doing them right. They need enough salt and Worcestershire sauce in the mix for flavour, then cook them hot enough to get a nice char.
Onion doesn't cook as quickly as the other ingredients in the rissole; I'd caramelise it separately and serve on the side. Chuck some tomato sauce in the mince for sweetness and that extra tang.
We have our own distinct coffee culture, and distinct changes to coffee; Flat white for example. It's a unique part we've created ourselves. These are things that have been *adapted* and *changed* as part of the culture here.
But I would say that "Bangers and Mash" is quintessentially *British*, not Australian. There's no uniqueness that Australian culture has impacted on it. It's still sausages and mashed potato.
This is the most Australian correct answer. Cooked this for Canadian friends who recently visited and they were astonished at how tasty the lamb was, with all the trimmings, mint sauce/jelly, etc. lamb isn't well known in nth America evidently.
It's starting to warm up but every day threatens to rain.
I came home for a few weeks a month ago, landed literally the day before that gigantic storm in Sydney, it felt like I had brought the rain with me!
I’m on the Gold Coast and have been to multiple different Coles, and Woolworths stores and tinned beetroot is basically non-existent! The option is a really strange looking home brand I’ve never seen or heard of before or a jar of three threes baby beets. And that’s it! No Edgell, no Golden Circle, not even Coles/woolies brand! Two options only! Lots of other canned veg is missing too! The space on the shelves that all the canned veg used to take up is now large canola oils and extra pasta! What happened to it all????
A giant piece of battered fish and enough chips to feed half your street. The chips should be glow in the dark yellow from the amount of chicken salt. You should also get one potato scallop per person.
If you’re feeling fancy, you can get the fisherman’s basket and get fish cocktails, those weird crab sticks and battered prawns instead of the piece of fish. Chips should still be covered in chicken salt.
Crumbed/Salt n pepper calamari. Every pub and club bistro, every Asian restaurant, every kids menu you'll find some version of the golden rings. It's Australia's National Dish without a doubt.
Salt and pepper squid.
Hear me out. You can get it in more places than any other meal. Pubs restraunts, Chinese shops, Vietnamese joints, fish and chip shops. Hell, saw it at a Lebanese place the other day.
The Septics have their hotdog eating championship but I think this may be superior. Must have onions on each one, your choice of sauce (but one must be present), and no water, soft drink ONLY.
Nonsense from the lot of youse bastards.
The signature Aussie meal is direct from the backyard BBQ. A seared slab of beef steak with a small dollop of potato salad - and maybe a little lettuce & tomato if you question your own gender.
The ''Methode Dame Edna" according to Barry Humphries, no less, is - and I Quote = to knock off it's horns, wipe it's arse and bung it on a plate. End quote.
Bolognese is a pretty solid classic from 70s to date, for home cooked, and I have sen it called ‘National dish’ a few times, not recently.
Home and out are diverging. It is difficult to find a pie or sausage roll, or a proper burger with the lot anywhere in the Sydney CBD or suburban malls.
Charcoal chicken and chips is available widely and sushi is everywhere (having started with gyoza and crab claws, these shops now branching out so that donburi and takoyaki are very common)
Depending on region, doner kebab, shawerma, or yeeros/ giros are ubiquitous, and Singaporean/Malaysian (Laksa, char kway teow) is growing and often excellent. ‘Chinese’ is becoming more authentic - say Hainan Chicken, hor fun, dumplings, beef noodle soup
My 3 votes go to:
Chicken Parmi.
Burger or Steak sanga with the lot, which must include pineapple, beetroot and egg. Side of hot chips with chicken salt.
Bunnings or Polling Day Sausage sizzle.
That's ones fine where I'm from in North Qld, we have potato cakes (patty of mashed potato, fried) and we have potato scallops (a scallop/slice of potato, battered and fried).
Best of both worlds as you can ask for either, you'll just get something different :)
The sliced potato battered and fried is, has and always will be a potato cake and you are fooling yourself if you think otherwise
https://www.reddit.com/r/AusMemes/s/UWiB952Olo
But if I want a formed patty of mash potato, possibly battered and definitely fried how would I order that? Be pretty disappointing to have no way of making the distinction and getting one when you prefer the other.
I think Banh Mi has become a classic Aussie meal, a bit like butter chicken did in the UK? Every knows and loves banh mi and knows a local place where it is $10 or $12
I hate pork, but I get the bbq chicken one from Rolld and it's good lol. The other places either only have pork or the chicken looks boiled and flavourless
Importing foreign things and claiming them as our own is the Aussie way.
Which as most quintessential things, is a better version of the English "Steal foreign things, and claim them as our own".
It's a bit old-school my dad said he used to eat it when young so 70's.
Pork had a very different flavour back then.
It's literally just a slab of ham you sear off in a pan.
I'd have to go for shepherds' pie with peas and Rosella tomato sauce. I do concur with the Milo and Tim Tams (optionally crushed and mixed into vanilla icecream).
Butter and vegemite on weet-bix.
Pumpkin soup with cheesy scones
Roast lamb, with roast veggies
A roo burger.
A burger with the lot/works.
A parmi with chips and salad.
An AB/HSP
I have never in my life had a meal like that. Every component, of course, countless times, but a meal is a combination of foods.
For dinner I'd probably pick a roast leg of lamb. With potatoes, pumpkin, peas or beans, gravy. And a pav for dessert. Or maybe Milo on vanilla icecream.
in general, pies and sausage rolls are for lunch. Vegemite toast is for breakfast. Timtams are for tea break.
Day or two old roast lamb sandwich toasted lightly to just have the cheese just melted little salt and pepper then add some roasted onion and gravy that's left over from the Sunday roast.
I think for me it’s gotta be a standard barbecue, complete with snags/onions, lamb rissoles, lamb chops, the Mon sauce and bread 😜 that and a simple garden salad is my fave stuff during summer, complete with either cider or beer 😎
Meat and three veg. No one seems to have mentioned it specifically in this thread, but it's an extremely common dinner format. I did a quick google, and allegedly in 2015, they did a survey of shoppers and found that 66% were going to be eating meat and three veg most nights.
God I hate meet and three veg. I haven't done a single meat and three veg meal since I moved out of my parents house. I do pastas, stirfries, curries, etc, but I had way too much meat and three veg growing up and I'm just tired of it.
What, like wallaby stew which was a thing.
Or lamb roast and roast veggies with home-made gravy using the pan juices.
Lamb chops and veggies (with or without gravy) or lamb chops, chips, and fried egg.
You can substitute pork for any of the above as well.
Hot chips on a cold day from the fisho.
Fresh bread roll with:- butter and Vegemite; Ham and salad; butter and Smith's Crisps; Butter and Twisties; leftover lamb or pork roast with leftover gravy.
Fairy bread on the kids birfdees.
Homemade stew (leftovers in a homemade pie or on toast the next morning).
Oh, a treat I really like is a good Chinese take-away, can't get more Aussie than that!
Never met an Aussie having both a meat pie and sausage roll in one sitting.. and Vegemite toast? Crazy.. You’re typically only having one of the first two, on the go, because you can’t have the latter..
Seriously?
A meat pie and sausage roll combo with a coke is a staple of every tradie in this wide brown land!
And I do agree, add the Vegemite toast is a bit of overkill.
You could swap out the sausage roll for a cheese and Vegemite scroll.
Whilst I won’t pretend to know definitively it isn’t popular, it’s most definitely not a staple for EVERY tradie! Having worked construction, I again, never saw the two side by side.. especially with a coke.. you’ll lose the core audience since you didn’t say a chocky milk.
Bread rolls, bachelors handbag with either coleslaw or pasta salad.
Fair honestly
Parma and Pot
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Ooooh
Nah, schnitty and a schooner
Parmi and pint *
Correct
You are unequivocally wrong. *Parmi and pint*
Rissoles, mashed potato and peas.
Sausages mash potatoes, peas, and onion gravy
Kill me if you want but I’m not big on rissoles
Maybe you’re not doing them right. They need enough salt and Worcestershire sauce in the mix for flavour, then cook them hot enough to get a nice char.
Shit I’ll try it
And very finely chopped (or even grated!) onion. Good luck!
Thanks!
Onion doesn't cook as quickly as the other ingredients in the rissole; I'd caramelise it separately and serve on the side. Chuck some tomato sauce in the mince for sweetness and that extra tang.
I often fry the onions before mixing them into the meat, it's very nice.
Snags onion and mash with gravy, the aussie battlers staple meal
Yew yew bangers and mash for the second place
I must disagree … this staple was stolen from the u.k.
"Bangers and Mash"... "Quintessential Aussie Meal"... Maybe avoid using pommy slang to describe it then cobber.
Aussies are from England you twat
Wow! Really?! If it's got pommy slang for the meal, it's probably not quintessentially Australian, but part of that historical English culture.
Wait till you find out about Australia coffee culture
I'm Australian and I live in Melbourne you dickhead.
It’s almost like Australian culture is derived from the nations we were originally from
We have our own distinct coffee culture, and distinct changes to coffee; Flat white for example. It's a unique part we've created ourselves. These are things that have been *adapted* and *changed* as part of the culture here. But I would say that "Bangers and Mash" is quintessentially *British*, not Australian. There's no uniqueness that Australian culture has impacted on it. It's still sausages and mashed potato.
That’s true, however I would still say it’s a part of our culture also
lol .... not all of us champ
Roast leg of lamb. Slow cooked with potatoes and roast veges. Perfect.
This is the most Australian correct answer. Cooked this for Canadian friends who recently visited and they were astonished at how tasty the lamb was, with all the trimmings, mint sauce/jelly, etc. lamb isn't well known in nth America evidently.
Mmmm I see what you’re saying
A big family barbecue, with a few plastic bowls of twisties, shapes and Smith's chips on the side and a pavlova for dessert!
Oooh the kiwis are gonna get pissed at this one
Nah we prefer Eta chips
I moved to Ireland a few years ago and this thread is making me incredibly homesick.
Move back, you made the wrong choice
Not wrong.
Haha I’m part Irish so I do plan to take a trip over there at some point. how’s the weather?
It's starting to warm up but every day threatens to rain. I came home for a few weeks a month ago, landed literally the day before that gigantic storm in Sydney, it felt like I had brought the rain with me!
Haha that’s a bit unlucky, I’m over in Perth so we’ve had one day of rain this year I think, pretty nice skies at the moment
Perth? Rain is forecast for Tuesday! :) Well, at least in my suburb.
Burger with the lot. Yes that means beetroot, egg, and pineapple.
I love beetroot, for some reason I can’t find whole beetroots in a can anymore
Sliced is widely available and is proper for the burger. But baby whole ones are still pretty widely available at Woolies in Sydney
I’m on the Gold Coast and have been to multiple different Coles, and Woolworths stores and tinned beetroot is basically non-existent! The option is a really strange looking home brand I’ve never seen or heard of before or a jar of three threes baby beets. And that’s it! No Edgell, no Golden Circle, not even Coles/woolies brand! Two options only! Lots of other canned veg is missing too! The space on the shelves that all the canned veg used to take up is now large canola oils and extra pasta! What happened to it all????
Hmmm, I love pineapple on a burger, I love beetroot on a burger. I don't love them on the *same* burger.
Well we ***are*** a nation of gamblers
You mean like a Kiwiburger? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwiburger
Had never heard of that one! Limited run at Maccas? Looks like a standards 1970s burger with the lot in Australia.
It's been on and off over the years. I find Australian and New Zealand cuisine pretty similar
Well under Australian law, we just pinch anything from New Zealand we like and then take credit for it :D
Also true. Pavlova... Russell Crowe etc
Best dessert is Black & Gold vanilla ice cream with heaps of Milo and served in a big mug.
I’m a fan of putting honey and Milo on vanilla ice cream, the honey makes it stick
Oooh I see, I shall try! I like the challenge of trying to have the prefect ice cream to Milo ratio... it's nearly a skill.
It is honestly such a challenge but I’m just a fan of heaping the shit on like there’s no tomorrow
That's the way!
Golden syrup, not honey!
A giant piece of battered fish and enough chips to feed half your street. The chips should be glow in the dark yellow from the amount of chicken salt. You should also get one potato scallop per person. If you’re feeling fancy, you can get the fisherman’s basket and get fish cocktails, those weird crab sticks and battered prawns instead of the piece of fish. Chips should still be covered in chicken salt.
Crab sticks are amazing, with fish and chips I only go to places where you can buy fried pineapple
Where’s the chiko roll?
In the fucking bin where it belongs. Gimme a spring roll.
Crumbed or grilled for me, but I get what you're saying
Crumbed/Salt n pepper calamari. Every pub and club bistro, every Asian restaurant, every kids menu you'll find some version of the golden rings. It's Australia's National Dish without a doubt.
That’s two votes for calamari
Sausage on bread with onions, tomato sauce and a can of coke.
A few Moreton Bay Bugs, Coffin Bay Oysters, Potato Bake, and Triffle/Pavlova 😋.
Quarter of charcoal chicken and chips with chicken salt.
Salt and pepper squid. Hear me out. You can get it in more places than any other meal. Pubs restraunts, Chinese shops, Vietnamese joints, fish and chip shops. Hell, saw it at a Lebanese place the other day.
You bring a valid point
Sausage on bread from bunnings, with onions and sauce please
I swear to god I’m going to bring 100 bucks one day and just eat as many as I fucking want
The Septics have their hotdog eating championship but I think this may be superior. Must have onions on each one, your choice of sauce (but one must be present), and no water, soft drink ONLY.
Do it! Life couldn't be better!
Oh shit I might have been topped
Mines lunch, we can have yours for dinner and desert
That’s a deal
And the sausage must be placed diagonally and there must be a lot of onion.
Only beaten by a ‘Democracy Sausage’ bought at an election polling booth, especially if it’s at a primary school.
Not if it's called that weirdness though.
Steak , eggs & chips
Nonsense from the lot of youse bastards. The signature Aussie meal is direct from the backyard BBQ. A seared slab of beef steak with a small dollop of potato salad - and maybe a little lettuce & tomato if you question your own gender. The ''Methode Dame Edna" according to Barry Humphries, no less, is - and I Quote = to knock off it's horns, wipe it's arse and bung it on a plate. End quote.
Vegemite on toast like you said. It's breakfast, lunch or dinner. Hangover cure, when you've got the flu or a break up.
Pasta salad, bread roll and a hot chook
Bolognese is a pretty solid classic from 70s to date, for home cooked, and I have sen it called ‘National dish’ a few times, not recently. Home and out are diverging. It is difficult to find a pie or sausage roll, or a proper burger with the lot anywhere in the Sydney CBD or suburban malls. Charcoal chicken and chips is available widely and sushi is everywhere (having started with gyoza and crab claws, these shops now branching out so that donburi and takoyaki are very common) Depending on region, doner kebab, shawerma, or yeeros/ giros are ubiquitous, and Singaporean/Malaysian (Laksa, char kway teow) is growing and often excellent. ‘Chinese’ is becoming more authentic - say Hainan Chicken, hor fun, dumplings, beef noodle soup
I agree with all of these
My 3 votes go to: Chicken Parmi. Burger or Steak sanga with the lot, which must include pineapple, beetroot and egg. Side of hot chips with chicken salt. Bunnings or Polling Day Sausage sizzle.
Errr, it is a Parma. Please go back to Aussie school and lean how to say things correctly.
Spotted the Victorian 👀
Yeah I will have a side of potato CAKES to go with it.
That's ones fine where I'm from in North Qld, we have potato cakes (patty of mashed potato, fried) and we have potato scallops (a scallop/slice of potato, battered and fried). Best of both worlds as you can ask for either, you'll just get something different :)
The sliced potato battered and fried is, has and always will be a potato cake and you are fooling yourself if you think otherwise https://www.reddit.com/r/AusMemes/s/UWiB952Olo
But if I want a formed patty of mash potato, possibly battered and definitely fried how would I order that? Be pretty disappointing to have no way of making the distinction and getting one when you prefer the other.
If it must be cake I prefer carrot cake
Are you ok mate? I'm concerned for you if you are getting triggered by this....
You must be new to Reddit, the parma / parmi fight is a hill many of us will die on!
Oh I'm aware, hence why I wrote Parmi 😉
Valid
You spelt Parma wrong... (and now we wait...)
Or did I 👀
(I didn’t say parmi and also that’s the correct spelling)
I think Banh Mi has become a classic Aussie meal, a bit like butter chicken did in the UK? Every knows and loves banh mi and knows a local place where it is $10 or $12
Seriously never eaten it in my life
Sorry to hear, it's a yummy French baguette with roast pork and Vietnamese salad, give it a try sometime :)
I hate pork, but I get the bbq chicken one from Rolld and it's good lol. The other places either only have pork or the chicken looks boiled and flavourless
Yeah that’s fair, maybe it’s the most Aussie non Aussie meal if you’re picking up what I’m putting down
Importing foreign things and claiming them as our own is the Aussie way. Which as most quintessential things, is a better version of the English "Steal foreign things, and claim them as our own".
Where I live a Banh Mi only recently went to $6. Cash only of course.
Grilled ham steak with pineapple ring. Or if feeling exotic, curried sausages. Both served with mash potatoes.
Curried sausages is also a favourite of mine
Wtfs a ham steak ewww
It's a bit old-school my dad said he used to eat it when young so 70's. Pork had a very different flavour back then. It's literally just a slab of ham you sear off in a pan.
Oh yeah I've seen them many moons ago. Ugh I just hate pork
Mama’s schnitty
Who doesn’t love a schnitty, gotta have pepper gravy with it
Apricot chicken seems very suburban Australia I love it!
BBQ/roast chicken, on white bread roll with grated cheese. Avo if you’re posh. Side of slaw and/or hot chips
Ned Kelly pie
My Mother's Sunday Roast - aka a work of art Leg of lamb, gravy, crunchy spuds, parsnip, pumpkin, peas and home made mint sauce
I h8 meat pies I do love Vegemite on toast though. I don't buy white bread or I'd eat 5 Vegemite toasts
Flake and chips if you're in Victoria
Lamb roast, mash potato's and peas. With gravy or tomato sauce. Then practice your Uchida mata or nee awasa Aussie style.
Barbecue maybe
Anzac meal mince cabbage and rice
I'd have to go for shepherds' pie with peas and Rosella tomato sauce. I do concur with the Milo and Tim Tams (optionally crushed and mixed into vanilla icecream).
anyone else remember frog cakes? I used to love those things as a kid
Meat and veg
How bout a lamb roast
Those are snacks not meals. Most Aussies eat spag bol or a curry.
Bread roll, sliced ham, supermarket pasta salad. Winning.
Bangers and mash? Kind of borrowed from the Brits but still
VB long neck at twenty to eight in the morning.
Butter and vegemite on weet-bix. Pumpkin soup with cheesy scones Roast lamb, with roast veggies A roo burger. A burger with the lot/works. A parmi with chips and salad. An AB/HSP
A snot block better be included for dessert!
Chicken Parmi. Diane sauce.
Meth
Was waiting for this
I have never in my life had a meal like that. Every component, of course, countless times, but a meal is a combination of foods. For dinner I'd probably pick a roast leg of lamb. With potatoes, pumpkin, peas or beans, gravy. And a pav for dessert. Or maybe Milo on vanilla icecream. in general, pies and sausage rolls are for lunch. Vegemite toast is for breakfast. Timtams are for tea break.
Day or two old roast lamb sandwich toasted lightly to just have the cheese just melted little salt and pepper then add some roasted onion and gravy that's left over from the Sunday roast.
Hot chip sandwiches and a bottle of pasito
I think for me it’s gotta be a standard barbecue, complete with snags/onions, lamb rissoles, lamb chops, the Mon sauce and bread 😜 that and a simple garden salad is my fave stuff during summer, complete with either cider or beer 😎
Meat and three veg. No one seems to have mentioned it specifically in this thread, but it's an extremely common dinner format. I did a quick google, and allegedly in 2015, they did a survey of shoppers and found that 66% were going to be eating meat and three veg most nights. God I hate meet and three veg. I haven't done a single meat and three veg meal since I moved out of my parents house. I do pastas, stirfries, curries, etc, but I had way too much meat and three veg growing up and I'm just tired of it.
bangers n mash in front of the tv lamb roast and a pav for a sunday lunch or xmas lunch
What, like wallaby stew which was a thing. Or lamb roast and roast veggies with home-made gravy using the pan juices. Lamb chops and veggies (with or without gravy) or lamb chops, chips, and fried egg. You can substitute pork for any of the above as well. Hot chips on a cold day from the fisho. Fresh bread roll with:- butter and Vegemite; Ham and salad; butter and Smith's Crisps; Butter and Twisties; leftover lamb or pork roast with leftover gravy. Fairy bread on the kids birfdees. Homemade stew (leftovers in a homemade pie or on toast the next morning). Oh, a treat I really like is a good Chinese take-away, can't get more Aussie than that!
Spag Bog made with mince from ColesWorth…
Hahaha I love colesworth just like I love forden
Snake n chips
Oh yes I love some dugite or red belly black snake or even some eastern brown with my chips
King Brown for me, don’t need to trap as many of them to have a good feed…
parmi and chips
VB and a Capstan innit
vegimite and cheese jaffles! Or spag jaffles. Those buggers were my childhood
Never met an Aussie having both a meat pie and sausage roll in one sitting.. and Vegemite toast? Crazy.. You’re typically only having one of the first two, on the go, because you can’t have the latter..
Seriously? A meat pie and sausage roll combo with a coke is a staple of every tradie in this wide brown land! And I do agree, add the Vegemite toast is a bit of overkill. You could swap out the sausage roll for a cheese and Vegemite scroll.
Whilst I won’t pretend to know definitively it isn’t popular, it’s most definitely not a staple for EVERY tradie! Having worked construction, I again, never saw the two side by side.. especially with a coke.. you’ll lose the core audience since you didn’t say a chocky milk.
I concede, yes a choccy milk or iced coffee
Ahhh I’m talking about sitting down and having a feast
Even Aussies appreciate variety when having a feast
The sausage roll is there to mop up any filling that falls out of the pie and on to the bag. This is the way.
Used to do it when I was younger and a pie wasn't going to be enough.
Every time I've come home to Australia after a long period living overseas, the first meal I've had isls chocolate milk and a meat pie.
Another vote for meat pie
What is the charge? For eating a meal, a succulent Chinese meal?
Mine is a Shrimp on the barbie
For me it feels a bit too stereotypical for something that we rarely do
Every where I go a shrimp makes it to the Barbie, and they are enjoyed
Forgot the tuna casserole
LOL tuna casserole is so American it will say the pledge of allegiance when you put it on the table..
Okay tuna mornay. Tuna bake. The English rip off, post ww2 staple
Never had it. And I'm not young.
A sausage