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Yes,I think they are more gen x sayings .

The postal service in the US is probably a lot slower because of the Suze of the population, they have more packages to sort through than here.

As you know, the USA European settlement had a strong religious component with many people wanting to keep their traditions. Keep the religious holidays as they were back home. However Australian early European settlement was largely after the Napoleonic Wars changed Europe and those wars weren't about religion. And Australia was also settled/invaded by people (sailors, convicts, gold miners etc) who deliberately left many of their traditions at home. Also there weren't many priests and ministers in Australia for the spread of the settlements in the early 1800s. My great--grandmother talked of her grandfather being baptised in the 1850s at 10 months old,, when the minister made his ONCE a year visit to their local small NSW town. People were often officially married and had their first kid baptised at the same time. Sometimes baptised by a completely different Christian religion because the only visitor that year was a Congregationalist minister and not a Catholic priest. In that environment people and relationships became the centre of a countryside Christmas and not traditions from a specific culture. (Especially when religious dates for things like harvest festivals, Easter etc are in the wrong seasons.) We still have a leftover of that even after we became more religiously segregated again in the late 19th and early 20th century. Catholic vs Protestant which eased off in the 1970s P.S. people eat turkey here for Christmas now but turkeys are a relatively new import to Australia. We had Christmas chicken in the 1970s.... Cold chicken and salad. Turkeys were a very expensive import then.

If you want good bagels go to a highly populated Jewish area such as Caulfield and surrounding suburbs.

I wish they stocked Butlers Soy Curls. They'd sell like crazy once the word got around amongst vegetarians and vegans.

I am fascinated with USA biscuits. I want to try a packaged version prior to making them myself from scratch, just to get an angle on what they are supposed to be like. They look wonderfully buttery and fluffy and fabulous! Thank you for the video.

Aussies move holidays to the working week, when that day fulls on a weekend, the long weekend is sacrosanct

Ashleigh, try using the flour from USA foods. I’m Australian but used the flour from USA foods for making plain vanilla cakes and the texture and taste was very different.

That american store was my obsession as a kid. Long car ride for what is all high fructose corn syrup tbh

Just incase you were planning a holiday based on this video, this place is about as long as a bowling alley and has nothing you want to buy.

Come to South Australia and go to Drakes Supermarket at Pasadena..A whole other experience in Aussie food..

I lived in Perth when I first moved here.

Sugar warehouse

Ashley I looked up google the difference between our sugar an American sugar is we use cane sugar an American uses sweet beets for sugar. You may understand that more then I do. Hope this helps.

American “food”😂

Suggest that you can get great bagels at Aviv cakes & bagels, Elsternwick

Ok say what you will about the US but it's also a very diverse country with a very large foreign born population

2 shots is double the amount of alcohol Americans use for drinks so naturally the price is double.

man love your blogs...about to head back to a saudi for new years, as I regularly done for the last 35 years, (totally unrelated to anything?_)...show me the $, actually the red sea projects looking for marine biologists....might be an opening...

Flora has been around since forever.

Hello. Ash now and then I like to see whatcha been up to. I live in Queensland in summer it’s amazing you gotta go there. For couple off days have seen what’s going on in your country more mass shootings Every day some body gets shot in. Amercia true facts. Idots. And the govement find with it. I couldn’t live there if you paid me a lot. Off money hell no. Hell no there. Was a time amercia was good not any more when there s a mass shooting they just chant USA USA USA what duz that do that’s weired. No common sense You guys seam pretty cool enjoy life

woah... you said melbourne correctly, how long did it take to practise not using the letter R? xD as an aussie, i am proud of you.

I’ve always found them to be waaaay too expensive compared to what it costs in the U.S.

I love vegemite. Vegemite and cheese toast or sandwiches- just great

Flora has been in Australia for 40+ years...

Herrs chips and snacks are the best things I've ever eaten. Beats any Australian snack like Cheezels or Cheetos.

motha fucka is out here ruining the magic. Ask any aussie and theyll get in on a joke without half of the contexxt

There's a couple of possibilities re the taste of your recipe: 1. Measures. Most US recipes are by volume, not weight. If you check the expected weight of an Australian cup of sugar (225 g) vs a USA cup (200 g) there is a significant difference. Flour is 125g vs 120g. So your measures may be off, depending on which country's measures you are using. Also Australia is one of the few places that uses a 20g tablespoon. Pretty much everywhere else uses a 15g tablespoon (or close). 2. Salted vs unsalted butter/fat. Salt usually intensifies sweet flavours so if the fats used here are less salted, that will change the taste slightly. The recipes my family used to use for baking used a lit of Crisco but we found here that using margarine worked better than the thing that looked most similar: Copha. That was 50 years ago so things may have changed. Also the saltiness strength of "cooking salt" vs "sea salt" is different (refer RecipeTin Eats for more details). 3. Its possible that more US sugar may come from sugar beets rather than sugar cane, and maybe there is a flavour difference. This last one I don't know much about, just remembering sources of sugar from my US childhood. The weights & measures thing really caught my family when we first moved to Australia in the 70s, but metric measures brought the equivalent measures a little mire into line with the US except for tablespoons. To really get them right, have a set of measuring spoons & cups sent over from the US as a start.

Just send your dad home with a big jar or two of the Vittoria Freeze Dried coffee. So much better than any American coffee.

Wow you sound unhappy and very negative like all your vlogs Mmm the reason cafe's close at certain times is we like life work balance I'm sure if you looked around i think you would find a few cafe's and shops open Australians are very direct and to the point with people they know we use a shovel in a peg hole I have many overseas friends and even from the USA who know where they stand with Aussies I would say your Aussie friends would probably not waste their breath because you sound rude condescending obnoxious and very negative And your not worth their time In all your time here and your vlogs it doesn't sound like you have acknowledged ir understood Australians our culture and bricks nand mortar of us and how and why we do things I have many American friends who have embraced the Aussie life and attitude of cafes stores closing early etc she'll be right The dinner you rubbished I am sure knowing Aussies would have gone who is self untitled yank who is so rude obnoxious and with a poor negative attitude stuff her In all your vlogs your so negative and unhappy Why are you here Aussies are positive and humble people We don't like attitude negativity or drama Thats what Americans bring

Madness...I say. The train is a couple bucks and takes 5 mins.

Hey Ashleigh, hope you had an awesome Xmas. My partner is also Lactose Intolerant. We found this product in the Woolies vitamin isle. They’re tablets called Lacteeze. You take a tablet before a meal or when you know it may contain Lactose. It stops the bloating and other yucky reactions. Not sure if you know about them or have tried them. Just makes life a little easier. Especially when going out for a meal. Also, did you know Tomatoes have Lactine in the skin and seeds. Once cooked they’re fine for you to eat. I’ll have to get to that store, as I would love to get some Rotel and Kraft Cheese and some proper corn chips…. All the best from Pakenham, Melbourne Australia.

Cute pre Christmas vlog 😊🎄. Re the cookies, we usually use caster sugar here for baking. That's possibly the difference in the taste? It looks like nostalgic fun going through the USA foods market.

if all powerful benevolent god is the true creator of every thing not the satans ruling you human slaves then why would god want & need to create you human slaves to be shemales ( stepping stone for transitioning men from copulating with women to copulating with men ) ? ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

I totally love visiting USA FOODS. They’ve got Sees candies now in stock, which I’m really happy about. The store is about a 10 minute drive from my house

Another traditional Australian Christmas food is cherries...they are in full season and are associated with Christmas big time. Huge platters of prawns sometimes served with mango slices and a bed of lettuce. Sliced ham and roast chickens, potato bake....potato, beetroot, bean, rice or tossed salads, cheese and spinach filled cob loaf dip, a melon bowl (watermelon, rockmelon and honeydew melon) pavlova with passionfruit, strawberries and kiwifruit and a couple bowls of cherries...Christmas crackers

We had dunkaroos here for a few years in the 90s, I still remember the strawberry & the chocolate, delish!

I spent time in Perth today and I didn't see this. Maybe this is in western Australia. I went to Perth in Tasmania.

I'm confused. You said this was American. But one of the Breakfast items on the menu said "Turkish Breakfast"?

This is ‘American goes to Australia’s American grocery store’! 🇺🇸 🛒 🇦🇺

Hi Ashley how are you happy Monday night and I enjoy your channel and you are amazing supporter

Why can't you have stuff with dairy in it? Are you lactose intolerant?

In Australia, we called them biscuits I hate when people call them cookies

If you are using an American recipe, and find it is not as sweet, I suggest using caster sugar instead. US sugar I think is finer grained than the standard white sugar sold in Australia, closer to caster sugar. I have never had an issue really but if it was not working right or tastes less sweet, that would likely make it closer. My inner nerd says it could be because of the finer grain, if you are measuring by volume rather than weight, a courser grain would mean you would get less sugar and thus it would be (a little) less sweet.

Hi Ashleigh great video and did you say where it is? Because my son is coming back to Australia and would like to show him because when we were in The States he was going nuts in the supermarket

Thanks for sharing ...but I have to ask ...how do you know you are in melbourne if you don't see one of the hemsworth kids? Like Where are they? We see the Zuckerberg kids everywhere here in SF ...;)

White sugar is very pure. They refine it well. It's almost 100% sucrose with some impurities remaining. I can't see that being any different in the US. The only time it really changes is with raw or brown sugars which have molasses added. I wouldn't be surprised if your tastebuds have changed. They do over time I believe

Some of those margarine/butter spreads say on the label “Not for cooking or baking”

Hi Ashleigh. I don't think our sugar is as sweet, and I found that in the US people use either raw sugar or castor sugar rather than the regular white sugar we use here. I'm sure others will probably add to the topic. Love USA Foods!

Purchased things from them online a few times when they have a discount coupon for the product or 9n free delivery