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Reply #15 - Feb 5^th, 2015 at 12:23pm

AiA wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2015 at 3:15am:

i think of vegemite more like the peanut butter of australia. yet peanut butter, an american creation, caught on in australia yet vegemite is only known in the states in the lyrics of a song.

When I introduced Vegemite to some American friends they spread it on their toast half an inch thick like they do with jam/jelly. No wonder they didn't like it. I like Vegemite but only a scraping.

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Reply #16 - Feb 5^th, 2015 at 12:29pm

Black Orchid wrote on Feb 5^th, 2015 at 12:21pm:

I have never heard of it being called peanut paste. It's always been peanut butter to me.

I Googled it and apparently peanut paste is a Queensland term. Something about Queensland legislation prohibiting anything other than dairy products to be called butter?

Well, you learn something new every day. Are you a Queenslander Mike?

Really?

The only time I've heard it called Peanut Butter, is on old American TV shows.

I've always known it as Peanut Paste.

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Black Orchid Moderator Offline Posts: 5826 Gender:	Re: Strange food from around the world Reply #17 - Feb 5^th, 2015 at 12:36pm I have only ever known it as peanut butter in NSW. Maybe I don't get out enough?
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Reply #18 - Feb 5^th, 2015 at 4:03pm

I'd always known of it as Peanut Butter in NSW, but after coming up here to Qld I started hearing people refer to it as Peanut Paste.

In regard to the buried, boiled Duck eggs, I've tried the unburied, but freshly boiled fertilised eggs of the Chicken variety, and despite what you'd think the whole crunchy bones, beak and feather experience would be like, they're a very yummo and recommended culinary experience.

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Redmond Neck Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 23729 ACT Gender:	Re: Strange food from around the world Reply #20 - Feb 5^th, 2015 at 4:33pm Peanut Butter for me!
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Reply #21 - Feb 5^th, 2015 at 4:44pm

I has always been Peanut Butter for me too and I was raised in Victoria.

It seems to be another strange Queensland thing. It's the heat and humidity up that way. NT is as bad. Very odd people.

Plus, I haven't had Vegemite for a long time. There is a small jar of it in the Pantry but I rarely use it and, as Black Orchid said, only on buttered toast and just a smidgen of Vegemite. It is an acquired taste. Americans slather everything an inch thick and stick CHEESE on Shepherds Pie! Shocked

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miketrees Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6492 Gender:	Re: Strange food from around the world Reply #22 - Feb 5^th, 2015 at 7:44pm Noooo, I am just so old I fart dust. It was always peanut paste in the old days. I am in Kalamunda West Australia, not a too shabby place to live
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Reply #23 - Feb 5^th, 2015 at 7:51pm

http://www.fishfiles.com.au/knowing/species/finfish/Pages/West-Australian-Dhufish.aspx

I have aquired a taste for Dhufish airbags.

I was at the Abrolhos Islands and met up with the skipper of a prawn trawler that went wet lining in his off season.
So he caught lots of the magnificent Dhufish.
He said the air bag was the only bit he ate,,, which makes sense as the fillets are worth a fortune.

He scrubbed the airbags, cut them into small squares then threw them on a hot oily barbecue plate.
They go all kind of soft and chewy, sticky.
The flavour is magnificent, so glad I tried it.

I would eat the airbag and leave the fillets also now, if I ever get the chance again.

Oh, thats my example of what could be considered as weird food, but not to me.

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Black Orchid Moderator Offline Posts: 5826 Gender:	Re: Strange food from around the world Reply #24 - Feb 6^th, 2015 at 1:52pm Neferti wrote on Feb 5^th, 2015 at 4:44pm: Americans slather everything an inch thick and stick CHEESE on Shepherds Pie! I put cheese on Shepherds Pie. My kids insist on it. Must admit, I like it too
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 154366 Gender:	Re: Strange food from around the world Reply #25 - Feb 6^th, 2015 at 1:56pm Neferti wrote on Feb 5^th, 2015 at 4:44pm: Americans slather everything an inch thick and stick CHEESE on Shepherds Pie! We always had cheese on Shepherd's Pie, when I was a kid.
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Happy Lucky Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1030 Gender:	Re: Strange food from around the world Reply #26 - Feb 6^th, 2015 at 1:59pm Africa- Geophagy is the practice of eating earth or soil-like substrates such as clay or chalk. EATING DIRT!!!!!
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Black Orchid Moderator Offline Posts: 5826 Gender:	Re: Strange food from around the world Reply #27 - Feb 6^th, 2015 at 2:08pm Not sure what Dhufish airbags are either. I Googled but came up blank.
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Reply #28 - Feb 6^th, 2015 at 5:59pm

In my day, Shepherd's Pie was made from the left-over Sunday roast lamb, minced up and topped with mashed potatoes.

These days they use raw minced beef to make it. No wonder they add cheese on top. Grin

An American friend rang me, years ago (from Connecticut), about making Shepherd's Pie. He figured it was a "Australian" recipe. He wanted to know whether he should grate some carrots into the minced beef mix and put cheese on top of the mashed potatoes. I laughed. Americans tend to put cheese on top of just about everything, so it seems. Oh, and I have from a reliable source that the cheese the Yanks use tastes like soap. Much like the Kraft Cheddar cheese you give small children to nibble. Grin

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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 154366 Gender:	Re: Strange food from around the world Reply #29 - Feb 6^th, 2015 at 6:06pm Neferti wrote on Feb 6^th, 2015 at 5:59pm: In my day, Shepherd's Pie was made from the left-over Sunday roast lamb, minced up and topped with mashed potatoes. Yep, that's exactly how we had it when I was a kid, and then we'd put cheese on top.
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