#but also augus doesn't mix vegetables with his meat fdslkafjsda

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I really can't get over whenever i'm typing ffs I am thinking of falling falling stars it just pops up but i'm really glad your tumblr is still here if it is okay to ask what are some australian foods/quirks apparently beetroot is on burgers a lot? I think augus would like beetrot but human burger

Tbh Australia is pretty big, and we not only have like country quirks, but also regional quirks that go state by state and sometimes even city by city. We can't even agree on what to call potato scallops at the local chippie, lmao.

As for general quirks... beetroot is a thing on burgers, yes. Though not usually all of them (you're not going to get it on a cheeseburger here unless you ask). McDonald's (Maccas) does a burger called the McOz which has beetroot on it, lol. Also Maccas has rebranded and some of their stores are literally now called 'Maccas.'

Chicken salt on chips is a huge thing, a huge thing. And so are rotisserie chicken chain stores that do chips with chicken salt. They're pretty much as common as McDonald's and KFC here, and have names like Red Rooster and Chicken Treat.

We don't call them 'chicken sandwiches' we call them chicken burgers, lol.

We are coffee snobs. Massive coffee snobs. To the point where - as with Italy - Starbucks just can't penetrate the market here because their coffee is shit. We also have types of coffee we ignore here re: terms that aren't used elsewhere, like 'flat white' and 'long black.' And was once hilariously asked if those terms were racist by someone editing a draft many years ago now.

From the Wiki page:

In 1952, the first espresso machines began to appear in Australia and a plethora of fine Italian coffee houses were emerging in Melbourne and Sydney. Pelligrini's Espresso Bar and Legend Café often lay claim to being Melbourne's first 'real' espresso bars, opening their doors in 1954 and 1956 respectively. This decade also saw the establishment of one of Australia's most iconic coffee brands, Vittoria, which remains the country's largest coffee maker and distributor. The brand has existed in Australia since 1958, well before it moved to the US. The flat white is purported to have originated in a Sydney café in the 1980s.

To this day, international coffee chains such as Starbucks have very little market share in Australia, with Australia's long established independent cafés existing along with homegrown franchises such as The Coffee Club, Michel's Patisserie, Dôme in WA, and Zarraffas Coffee in Queensland. One reason for this is that unlike with the United States and Asia, Australia for many decades had already had an established culture of independent cafés before coffee chains tried to enter the market.

Small savoury pies are very popular here, which is also popular in the UK, but not really found in the USA. You can get mince and beef and mushroom favour, there's also lots of other flavours like curry beef, peri peri chicken, satay chicken etc. There's a chain store called Jesters which does 'jaffle' style pies. (And yes, their chips also have chicken salt).

I would say we also have a huge cafe culture here in general, and also a massive breakfast culture. It's not uncommon for all 15 cafes in a suburb to open at 6am, and close by 2pm, with an 'all day breakfast' on offer. Other restaurants and cafes that are open later, will sometimes offer all day breakfasts until late into the night.

But otherwise I'm just going to end up listing all of things that Australia does and so I'm just going to link the Australian cuisine Wikipedia page which already exists (and has a whole section just on coffee lmao).

Honourable mention to the sausage sizzle, which you can get every weekend at our chain hardware store Bunnings, and is also known as the 'democracy sausage' when you get one from stalls while voting during state and federal elections.