What Australian foods do you miss?

Hi all,

Just a quick poll for the Aussies - what are the foods that you miss most from home?

- Australis

Where do i begin?

- Meat pies (and sausage rolls & pasties)
- Good steak (with mushroom or pepper sauce)
- Dim sims & potato cakes
- Cadbury chocolate
- Parmagiana (esp. curry parmas, yum)
- Thick pizzas with more than one layer of toppings
- Cordial, raspberry lemonade (not food, but miss it anyway)
- Proper BBQ meat (ie. safeway sausages, hamburgers, things that you can easily buy then cook without any preparation)
- Square bread (esp. for said BBQ's)
- Chip varieties (as in chicken, BBQ, light & tangy, burger rings)

How's that for a start?

I like sweet stuff, and miss Cadbury Chocolate for sure, especially Snack, and also decent lollies like Stawberries and Cream, Bananas, musk sticks etc. All they sell here is Haribo which is disgusting and all tastes the same anyway. I also miss soft white bread.

I miss Australian supermarkets and their opening hours. I wish I could go shopping at night, it is so much more fun.

BBQ Shapes oh yum, I go back in August for 3.5 weeks and I intend to eat a packet everyday
Mint Slice biscuits.
Extra Dry beer
I better stop otherwise I will have to make a quick stop out at the Aussie store

You lot have Cadburys chocolate? I am truly sorry for that and am deeply ashamed of my country. Btw, no one's mentioned Vegemite, the poor man's version of Marmite.

An Aussie worth his/her "Vegemite" would actually be resourceful enough to make sure supplies never ran out.

Fish and chips - flake and chips, 2 potato cakes, serving of calamari, a couple of dim sims, and a battered sav, thanks!
Ginger beer (Bundaberg, and not that Schweppes rubbish you get here).
Twisties.
Salt and vinegar chips.
The whole Arnott's range:
- BBQ shapes
- pizza shapes
- tim tams
- mint slice
- butternut snaps
- monte carlo
- venetian slice
- kingston
- custard cream
- caramel crown
Sausage rolls and pies.
Solo.

Kinda scary how it's all junk food, and yeah, a bunch of it is not particularly Strayan, but there's not much else I can think of that I like over there, that I can't also get over here...

Edit: Oh yeah, also did the musk sticks, bananas, jubes, mates, jelly beans and chocolate eclairs thing, but they just don't have the same appeal any more.

I know it doesn't really belong here, but almost more than food I miss good libraries and bookshops.

Back to the food:

Fish and Chips

Vegemite

Lamingtons

Milk ( much better in Australia, specially when it used to be delivered to your doorstep in glass bottles with blue tops)

I think milk deliveries stopped a long while back. And the milk in Australia is quite a bit more expensive than here, and is normally quite processed.

this is how i know there is a god www.australianstore.de I visit them once a month for a 6pac of crownies and 2 cherry ripes

I MISSS
-Sushi Train those $2 rolls you can buy anywhere (Sushi here is not really the same )
-Bigger choice of seafood & chicken in pubs/cafe/restaurants
-Chicken Parmigana
-A decent Tom Yum soup
-KFC Chips
-Sticky Date Pudding
-BBQ sauce (hate the ones i tried here)

Sticky date cake you can make, the Bill Granger recipe works a treat. His caramel slice is the best recipe ever.

Oh and mint Freddos.

Frankly any chocolate with a filling that isn't fucking praline or marzipan..

Hey,
I have been in Germany (Ulm) for 1 month and have seriously had a dream about Monte Carlos last night he he. I miss how much variety there is in Australia. I mean the grocery stores are so much bigger in Australia and there are a lot more choices in pretty much everything inc. fruit . I really do miss cordial because i cannot stand the water here and that could really help (i found a sports drink powder but it is nothing compared). I do hear you about the milk thing. At first it was so gross (same as apple juice with mineral water and spezi) but i am now getting used to it, i just have to have it with something and cannot just drink it on it's own like i would do back home. I think our milk is a lot more creamy, here it tastes like it has been watered down a bit, like light milk at home. I also miss Tim Tams a lot, Cadbury chocolate (mmm), lemonade and Shapes especially the chedder ones. I miss the chip varieties (esp. Kettles and Smiths, mmmmmmmm), lemon, lime and bitters drinks, Crunchie and Turkish Delight chocolate and a good BBQ with meat and onions. I don't so much 'miss' Vegemite but i used to eat it a lot at home so if it was here i would buy it. Oh and what i also miss is like water crackers because i love cheese and that is what i eat it wih but here i can't find any plain crackers, they are all like wholemeal and completely take away from the taste. I think i just pretty much miss everything that is Australian that you can't get here (the lollies are also just not the same). I apprecite aussie cuisine a lot more now that i can't eat it and when i do eventually go back i am going to spend the first week indulging.
Cheers.