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.

mien Gott... I have such massive cravings for really fatty melbourne style flake and potato cakes... maybe a few battered scallops, and a few bucks of real chips, the ones where every chip is different... I crave...

...almost forgot: proper sausages for the bbq, not these pretentious "wursts" with their fancy real meat and stuff...

Tim-tams; Minties; Decent lamb that doesn't cost an arm and a leg; mangoes by the trayful; salt and vinegar chips in a bag; decent affordable Thai food; chicken and mushroom pies; Milo (have had to have that shipped in!); Nutrigrain for brekkie ... shall I continue ???
Heading home in 8 weeks and plan to eat nothing but the above the entire time I am there!

freddy frogs, flakes, villies pies and pasties, vegemite for husband and kids (hate the stuff myself), weatbix that don't fall apart the minute you put milk on them (no frills home brand), shower power (I know it is a cleaning product but still)

i miss absolutely everything already mentioned. especially cordial - cottee's. roast lamb and mint sauce. *fresh* fruit and vegetables. sour skittles, apple chews, allens snakes and pineapples, pascals liquorice chews (who will have no teeth in five years time?), cafe primo (would never have thought), seafood available in the supermarket, cracker barrel cheese, even coon cheese. decent bbq sauce!!! have bought every version on offer here and haven't found anything similar... pasties. beetroot - decent sliced stuff in a tin. beetroot and shredded carrot at subway. chilli sauce (yeah, u can get it here, but not so easily living in the backwaters)... domino pizza's. silverside. and most of all, mum's home cooked tomato sauce... oh damn, now i feel sad. i also miss having a fridge with a freezer section that actually freezes. and pumpkin, all year round. ohhh butternut pumpkin how i miss you. cambells soup, haha, in particular the pumpkin varieties... one last one, purely for sentimental reasons - pie and pea soup floater

- Yum Cha
- Lamb Roast
- Kebabs with Lamb
- Proper Christmas Ham on the bone

Meat pies
Bundy ginger beer (or any ginger beer, for that matter)
Lollygobbleblissbombs
Toffee apples (the lolly, not the ones involving fruit)
Decent steak and seafood

Been feeling a bit homesick and this thread has really cheered me up. Lucky it went that way and didn't make me even more homesick.

I miss:
Fresh Asian ingredients.
Fish and chips
DIM SIMS (where are they people?)
Big potatoes
Curry Laksa
Lamb chops (I know I could get them but frozen isn't the same)
Lebanese food (cheese pies and meat pizzas especially)
Freddo frogs
MEAT PIES (will be making some soon me thinks)
Beef steak
Low Salt foods.
Cottee's Apple and Raspberry Cordial.

For those of you wanting cordial, I happily found some at my local Edeka - the brand is FUN, but steer well clear of the Apple and Lemon.

Come to think of it, I could really go a cherry ripe about now. Funny that a country so obsessed with cherries doesn't have the Cherry Ripe.

I have only been here 7 weeks and so I am sure that I will need to add to this in the coming months.

Ive been making some potato cakes at home, but they are bastard-hard to make...I dunno how they get the middle cooked before the batter burns, or the batter so deliciously thick and artery clogging... any hints?

Par-cook the spuds first. I've never done it myself, but a friend of mine used to work in a roadhouse where they made awesome potato cakes and that's how they did it.

BBQ Shapes / Pizza Shapes / Dixie Drumsticks
Milo
Flat whites
Sausage rolls
Salad/pork rolls from Vietnamese bakeries (which I always have with a Strawberry Moove)

ok, I'm getting sad now...

Betty, you could take a cheap flight to the UK. I've just done that, it's great, you'll find almost everything there.

Flat whites? Go to McCafé. Seriously. They do a flat white in every branch as the concept was born in Melbourne.

And, *cue fanfare* the chiko roll is now available in PennyMarkt.
Yes, Australia's nastiest fast food can now be found frozen in Germany's nastiest supermarket.
Spring rolls and samsoas also available, made by Daikoon in Denmark. Pre-fried and can be heated in the oven.

Bah, none of that. What I miss basically are the brilliant, fresh, tasty produce from the chinese market in Sydney and the killer seafood from the fish market in pyrmont.

Definitely the seafood at Pyrmont ... plus Yum-cha ... the Asian food in general ...

Yeah actually, add the asian food court and LAKSA!

The Sydney Fish Market, Laksa, China Town, now that you mention them I realize how much I miss them.

Not an Aussie, but I have missed the Melbourne markets with the most fabulous fresh stuff you can imagine. Equally perfect for foodies, families and fatties (some of the hugest bums queuing for "fast food" at the markets - Chinese, pies, fried fish, etc - are enough to make you check out the diet sheets). I loved living in Melbourne, miss chooks, pies, flake and chips (but best in Fremantle), prawns, wine, fabulous food. We once had a joint birthday party just before Christmas - just 8 of us and we had bought masses of fish - oysters, scallops, prawns, and some other stuff. We made the mistake of eating the oysters first, followed by scallops au gratin, naturally lots of garlic bread etc. Then walked round the garden for ages trying to "make space" before giving up and just drinking. We continued the feast the next day.

I miss the pies from "Harry's Cafe de Wheels" in Wooloomooloo. I lived around the corner in a small terrace house on crown street a few years ago and coming home late at night, walking past the huge navy ships and eating a pie at Harry's is one of my favourite memories. The area has changed since then with the warfs being redeveloped and Russel Crowe and some other famous people moving there, but Harry's is still great: http://www.nsw.nationaltrust.org.au/harryscafe.html

kangaroo burgers.

Lidl has Barramundi fillets occasionally, just in case anyone is interested

I miss:

Reef Fish
King Prawns
Mangoes that are actually ripe and juicy
Lychees that aren't already rotten
Good fruit and veges in general
Top notch eye/rib fillet steak
Chip varieties that aren't fucking paprika
Good Thai food - mind you I have only tried a couple of places here in Munich, so i could find somewhere yet!

TWISTIESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
And everything that has been mentionned so far! The turkish pizzas there are also much better!

When I go in a couple of months, I'm going to bring back 20kg of Snack chocolate, and another 20kg of musk sticks and bananas and probably some Allens lollies if there is room. I really only miss the sweet stuff.

less then a month and i will be eating bbq shapes . mmmmm . for all you guys who are missing flakes and other thinge like milo and that - keep your eyes open in Munich - Flakes are €1 in the english shop near gartner platz, Milo you can buy from a shop in glockenbach ( I can get the name tonight) and everything else from the aussie shop (apart from Fish from the fish markets) now what i am going to really look forward to is drinking Tempus Two merlot eating at Restaurant Mezzaluna and eating a GAYTIME... wow i miss that so much. I will have one suitcase coming back with me full to the top with BBQ shapes and they are all for me...

Milo you can get in the Asian shop at Munich Hauptbahnhof. About 6€ a tin, but.
You like Tempus Two Merlot? I preferred the Vine Vale Shiraz, bought it at the cellar door and am saving it up for someone thing special.

I lived in a terrace House in Crown Street too in 1992/93 ...can´t remember the number now (154 perhaps), however I shared it with 5 other people of dubious quality including a drugged out English hippy, a smart med student and an ecstasy fueled perennial law student. I was waitressing at the art gallery of NSW at that time and walked to and from 5 days a week along a fantastic and interesting drag until I got a job as an accountant. I used to sit and eat my lunch looking at the cranes at Wooloomooloo writing sad stuff, lol...

hi Katrina , did they deliver here? >>I just went on the website and couldnt work it out. I am very lucky as my mum lives just up the road from the Cellar door so I can drunk on the stuff every night for three weeks but I cant bring it back as I will have no room left in my bag because of the bbq shapes - mmm maybe they shouöld do a tempus two merlot shape biscuit to solve my problem... someone call Arnotts!

No I self-shipped, but think they can ship for you. Will check my brochure at home, ok? Know that Rosemount do, I've deffo got the contacts for that one. Because if you fancied going splits on a case and shipping...

Hi Renia, very nice to hear from someone who lived in the same street. I lived there in 1996/97 on the corner of Broughton Street, just across the road from Cafe Corona. I always loved being so close to the Art Gallery, I think I went there at least twice a week, it's something else I really miss.

They had the best exhibitions...I used to buy all the posters too lol- cheap way of decorating my bedroom! I would live in inner city Sydney again in a heartbeat.