Don't care what anyone else says. Cake shop pies from rural and country areas make the best meat pies. During the 60s and 70s, before there were heaps of supermarkets, there used to be cake shops in every town and suburb. Apart from that there are some other independents such as Garlos pies, etc, that can be bought in corner stores or recreational places. Just as nice.
My first pie was a 4nTwenty, eaten at the 1966 Grand Final. Go the saints!!!! But yeah country bakeries do the best ones.. love Ned Kelly pies... lookitup.. as for ketchup, it's too 'claggy', and Heinz should be shot for using those stupid inverted squeeze bottles that squirt unpredictably. You can't finesse the application... so I'll stick to rosella etc.
1980's... I was shopping in Perth ( Hay Street Mall) and a tourist approached me and asked " can I get a taxi to Sydney from here" 😂 People really do have no idea how big Australia is.
Friends visited from the UK and asked if we could do a day trip to the Great Barrier Reef ........... from Hinterland of the Gold Coast !! We sent them off for a weekend on Stradbroke Island - much more cost effective 😆
Regarding the Voice we will be voting on, the government wants to change our constitution to give aboriginal people of which are approximately 3% of the population the right to be involved with every decision the government makes. The elitist aboriginals are basically saying we, the current Australians owe them & should pay rent & reparation even though around 40 aboriginal agencies get billions of dollars each year to help aboriginal people to better themselves. Unfortunately there has been no improvement. We haven’t been given the details for how the voice will work, we are being asked to vote yes & then they will give us the details. It’s like signing a blank contract. 63% of Australians surveyed have said they will be voting NO, as will I.
Another thing about the Aussie polymer notes, they are all sized differently - the $5 note being the smallest, and then it getting progressively bigger - to make it easier for those who are visually impaired to differentiate between notes!
And they have recently (a few years ago) redesigned the notes with different numbers of tactile bumps, so even the completely blind can easily tell if they're accidentally paying for a $5 pie with a $50 note.
Ketchup is sweeter as its sugar content is much much higher than Tomato Sauce! These birds are called white Ibis or as others call "Bin Chickens". This name has come about due to the fact they have adapted to the population sprawl especially in the metropolitan areas where scavenging and raiding bins is a possibility.
Agree. Because so many swampy areas have been reclaimed for urban land the poor ibisies have had to adapt and raid the bins. And that' also why we have locust plagues as their apex predator is no longer in the rural and outback areas in great numbers.
Bin chickens are actually a protected species in Australia believe it or not. There are thousands of them in the big cities eating everyone's garbage, but they're protected.
Haha.. She's hilarious! As an Aussie I can attest to everything she's saying. Yes this is what we are like to differing degrees... It's our culture... 😂🇦🇺
The best meat pies normally come from a local bakery as the big brands that are sold in supermarkets are normally full of preservatives and salt.Also kangaroos can be a pest for farmers as when they eat grass they normally eat it roots and all plus they can jump fences to access water from dams reserved for livestock
yeah, have to agree. the best 'servo' pie in my opinion is a 'national pie', but apparently that's just a tassie thing. I have seen them on the 'mainland' a few times, usually without the wrapper.
Remember that kangaroo numbers were controlled before European migration to Australia. There are far more of them in Australia than any time; both Europeans and kangaroos. Yes we eat kangaroos, this a traditional food.
Voting day is always on a Saturday and they make it as easy as possible to vote by having so many polling places (generally at schools and community centres) that everyone can likely walk to one in minutes and making the voting process streamlined and straightforward. As part of the experience, and in case it's busy and you have to wait in line, many polling places will also have a sausage sizzle on, so you can treat yourself to what we call a Democracy Sausage while you perform your civic duty.
Meanwhile in America, they make it hard to vote. Voting day is on Tuesday and any worker deciding to take a bit of time off work to go vote will end up with a high chance of getting fired (much less worker's rights over there than Australia).
Why can't people get it right. YOU DON'T HAVE TO VOTE. OK, over with the shouting. What you have to do is either front up at a voting booth and register that you did i.e. cross your name off and having attended you walk out. Job done. Or send the postal vote back filled with cocky's bird cage liner. Job done. I have known people who have either never registered (illegal) or simply never bothered to attend a polling booth. They won't vote for whatever reason. Haven't for years. I've never heard of anyone being fined. Simple.
@@banta-pd8zj Yep, you need to turn up, you can hand in a blank form if you want, or write "hang all the buggers". (I worked elections a few times). Hell the fine for not showing up is only about $25, but it's a weekend, it's easy, 95% of the time it's quick, and you get to support your local youth group/charity/kids sports team with a democracy sausage. :)
@@banta-pd8zj if you gone out of your way to go to the voting booth or get the postal vote, the vast majority of people will check a few boxes (like, at that point why wouldnt you?)
Haa! Collingwood supporters. Hilarious. I'm not into footy but even I know I'd have to be toothless & a bogan to follow Collingwood. Cane toads & Colllngwood in the one sentence. Seems about right. Good one Sticks. x Linda
+ rabbits, foxes, water buffalo, horses, donkeys - there is an extensive list of introduced species that are considered feral or pests. European arrival into Australia made surface water much more available, leading to an explosive growth in Kangaroo/Wallaby numbers. There are far more of them now than before Captain Cook.
There are brands of meat pies in Australia, but the best ones are made by a baker in his own bakery! Same with ANZAC Biscuits, home made beats commercial brands hands down!
Yeah a lot of Aussies know we came up with those notes. Kangaroos have been used as food in Australia for thousands of years, but some namby-pamby people refuse to eat them. Chicken salt on chips is awesome 😎. You can get any type of meat pie, I like lamb, rosemary and mint sauce, or beef, mushroom and blue cheese. But everyone literally has a different favourite meat pie here. The funniest thing a guy from Liverpool asked me was what we called cupcakes in Australia. Of course we call them cupcakes, but it was funnier to tell him we called them bajangawangs so that he would go to a bakery and ask for that instead 😂.
Polymer notes were invented in Australia and they are very hard to make forgeries of. Thats why they were made. The simply also happen to be colourful which makes it easy to tell whats when when you are 10 beers in at the bar.
Regarding our coloured notes, it's part of their security features. A note (or series of notes) that use different coloured ink is harder to forge. Same thing with being plastic, not only is it harder to fake, but it lasts longer and it's not a big deal if you accidentally send it through the wash. I worked at Hungry Jack's as a teen and we were told to call the sauce on the burgers 'ketchup' because the ingredient composition was different to tomato sauce.
Best meat pie I've ever had was from a drive-thru pie shop called Yatala Pies in Queensland. They've been making pies in their area for 130 years and are just off the highway making it a perfect pit stop for anyone heading north into Brisbane. The gimmick of it having a drive-thru too is genius on their part because it gets people talking about the shop
Oh YES Yatala pies have been the best for over 70 years. When I was a child driving from Ipswich ( QLD) to Brunswick Heads ( northern NSW) or on the return journey our Dad ALWAYS stopped at Yatala for a single serve Chicken Pie for each of us. BEST chicken pie EVER.
These pies started in Ayr Nth. Qld , as Phelan’s Pies( still in Ayr and have a drive thru), one of the Phelan’s sons moved to Yatala, taking the family recipe with him. So Yatala’s pies and Phelan’s Pies are the same. Best pies ever!!!
It started life as a corner bakery and pie shop in 1914, and only moved to the current location when the motorway was built. The Pies in the old shop were much better. There's a great pieshop in Fernvale, out past the Wivenhoe Dam, and the bakery in Landsborough, up past Cabolture is excellent. Best pie I've ever had was from a pie van outside Sarina, back in the early 70s. The bloke had been selling pies from the same van at a level crossing since WWII. He used to sell out, three times a day, serving troop trains heading up to Townsville. They were so good I had 2, and then 2 more.
The cask wine was also an Australian invention. The kangaroo and emu are on the Australian coat of arms because neither can move backwards, they can only move forward and you can eat them. Kangaroo is available prepackaged in some supermarkets. Ketchup originated in Asia, a long time ago, but didn’t contain tomatoes. The name was eventually used in America for the tomato based sauce. We have a total fire ban today as we are having a heatwave in Sydney at the start of spring. That means no naked flames outdoors e.g , no campfires, no BBQs using wood or coal as fuel, no use of machinery outdoors that can cause flames or sparks e,g angle grinder
Aussie here, it took me a long time to try Kangaroo because as a young child I was obsessed with the show Skippy the bush Kangaroo. It's a very lean gamey meat and when cooked right it's super delicious. I tend to Marinade it in some Asian ingredients and serve it with a salad.
Yep. I cut it into medallions and only lightly sear it. Can just about eat it with a teaspoon it's so tender. With each mouthful it's "mmmmm ohhhh yes yess". My son and a mate came thru the front door. Mate asked if Dad was ok. Yeaaah. He's just into the kangaroo steak again. LOL LOL LOL.
I knew our currency was invented here, Australia actually helped design and implement a lot of other countries currency as well because of the technology Australia invented for their own currency. Australia has one of the strongest security implementations in currency, makes it very hard to counterfeit our money and that's why a lot of other countries use our technology for their own currency.
Just FYI- the polymer film is (or at least was) made by 3M. Back in the day, I sold self adhesive vinyl to the sign writing trade. We sold popular 3M transparent application tape. It was suddenly withdrawn from the market, because it (minus the adhesive of course) was going to be used for the new banknotes!
I was speaking to an American in the USA, and said I'm Australian. And he asked if I'd ever seen a gun. Because (apparently) there aren't any guns in Australia. He was very confused when I told him I've legally shot rabbits with a .22 rifle in Australia.
Because the rightie media tries to tell them that we had them taken from us and are communist or some shit 😂😂😂😂 Just because not even person owns an anti aircraft weapon 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ketchup and tomato sauce are different. I lived in the UK for 6 months and I've never missed tomato sauce so much. There is vinegar in Ketchup where there isn't in tomato sauce.
We are very similar to the uk. Half of us are the children of ten pound poms, the immigration of many uk born citizens that came by boat for ten pounds at the time. My mother came over from Scotland with her family when she was six. We needed workers and we built areas of family homes that were owned by the government and rent was cheap. Here in Adelaide we built another city an hour north and named it Elizabeth. Jimmy Barnes was from there and bon Scott, the original AC/DC singer. I say from there but they’re actually born in the uk and came over as children of 10£ poms
Do a cheesymite scroll from a good bakery when you come over for one of the best vegemite experiences. There are so many degrees of quality in meat pies - the best one I had recently was a proper menu option at a restaurant with mash and red wine jus, and it took it up a notch to perfection. You can get them at so many places though and they're usually good.
Actually! the plastic notes are invented because it was less able to be counterfeited like paper money but yes durability is another reason for their introduction, now they have braille on each note. Ps: Boxed wine is also an Australian invention. and kangaroo meat is beautiful meat. similar to beef but not as stringy.
I've eaten kangaroo and crocodile. Kangaroo has a very strong taste and can taste terrible if not cooked correctly. Personally, I think it's better as per food. Crocodile also has a very unique taste. I haven't tried emu, but I'm told it can be gamey. Edit: Camels, brumby's (wild horses), emus and kangaroos are all considered pests and when the numbers get high, there are culling programs.
When I was a kid I remember at school we had this event to celebrate and learn about the Noongar culture (A huge tribe of Indigenous Australian's in Western Australia) while we were learning about the culture and doing different activities from making traditional artwork, to playing the digeridoo ( Or trying to at least) they had been cooking up the best damn food I have eaten even to this day it was a beautiful Kangaroo tail stew but the meat was so tender it melted right on the tongue almost. Best part was my Mum got me some then when Dad showed up he got me more because he didn't know I had already eaten... Didn't stop me though 😋
I worked the Inala voting booth for a federal election, we had folks come in in their swimmers with a towel wrapped around them fresh from the pool. (dry by then but still.) 40 degree day, we had lots of "barely wearing it" outfits.
Kangaroo is amazing if cooked properly, which is medium rare it's also very high in protein and very low in fat so all in all quite a healthy option. As for tomato sauce and ketchup they are totally a different thing ketchup is way more sweeter and slightly tangier than tomato sauce for me
The best meat pie I've ever bought was from a random service station. Apparently they got delivery from a local bakery. But you would not ever pick it. They were delicious
yeah thee's a referendum on the 14 October about a thing called the Voice to parliament (the Voice). Basically it's to add some text to the consitution that says that there will be an advisory body made up of First Nations people (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders) and they will have an opportunity to make comment to parliament about topics that affect them. The current prime minister (Anthony Albanese, Labor party) has proposed this and is obviously on the 'yes' side of the referendum, whereas many of the opposition (Liberal/National parties) are on the 'no' side because they're saying it will be divisive, that it's risky putting something like that in the constitution and basically they're stirriing up lots of arguments suggesting that it will disadvantage everyone who doesn't get that same opportunity...which is just ridiculous. In my opinion, it's the very least we can do, considering British colonists took their country and took their children away from them, put them in chains, didn't allow them to vote.......i think just asking for their opinion on stuff is actually the least we can do.
I thought there was already representatives in parliament who were there to advise. Unfortunately this was happening all over the world back in time, yes it wasn't good but life was different back then, it was only a matter of time before they were over run by a stronger nation. History isn't all about peace and caring as we all know. Aborigines ( oh sorry am I allowed to call them that or is it now first nations people) do get a lot of help from the government that I don't receive. The way the government has gone about this is not helping.
Kangaroo are pests in certain areas. Instead of culling them and throwing the meat away, we eat it and also use it in pet food. That way it doesn't go to waste.
I'm Aussie, and I LOVE kangaroo tail soup yummmmm 😁. I lived in Esperance for years, and during drought, camels would come into town in large groups, and what a pain in the neck they are, especially trying to get them to leave. They destroy gardens, fences, knock down sheds, knock down letter boxes, they stand in the middle of the road holding up traffic for hours - a real nuisance.
@@cypherglitch If you mean camels, yes they're pests / invasive introduced species, but it takes a proper experienced licenced shooter, with a high powered rifle by law. One of my cousins is the local licensed shooter, with the feral animal license , but the camels don't wait for harvest to be finished before gate crashing into town lol, and where is everyone during harvest? Out of town harvesting and trucking grain up to CBH, 8hrs away lol
the plastic $5 note was the first to come out, my dad went drunk swimming in his jeans (dived into the pool randomly fully clothed, typical Australian summer dad at a family party like Christmas etc.) He had to carefully lay out his notes from the wallet to dry, a few teared from soggyness, but he had one of those new 5's in there and we were all impressed that it was uneffected
First was $10 as a prototype. Totally unsuccessful as it would creep out of pockets and wallets. With drawn. Second was another $10 which was both a new design of the polymer and picture.
Goon of fortune is the game she’s explaining about the goon bag on the hills hoist 🤘🏼 and good thing about them is when you’re at a house party (back in the day) when you finish them, you can blow the bag up and use it as a pillow 🤷🏼♂️😂
In the bath too as a pillow, port-bags in the nape of your neck when you are sitting in a chair or couch, & at the small of your back. 3/4 filled with water then put & or 1/2 fill with water fold then freeze & put them in an ice-box / esky, blow them up hang on fruit trees to keep birds away. As a practical joke open bottom end of a wine box take bladder out put box aside, when wine bladder is finished pull out black plug wash out with water, put one litre vinegar or more top up with water & use a bit of natural yellow food colouring not too much test in a glass for colour a small amount then replug it, put it back in the box where spout has to come out, heat up a glue gun to attach short sides to long sides, then hand to your worst drunken friend at a party who drinks wine like water & say here this is yours to open now & drink, but stand back as you may be sprayed out of their mouths. 🎉😂😂🎉
Polymer - Australian banknotes are printed on polymer, a type of plastic, and they have a distinctive feel. Polymer banknotes were developed to make our currency more difficult to counterfeit. The polymer makes it possible to include a range of security features on our banknotes.
Yeah no, ketchup isn’t just tomato sauce. There’s stuff added to flavour it that isn’t in tomato sauce. Also the cost is because the price of this individual sauce packets is a lot more than when we used to just have squirt bottles of tomato sauce in the counter for people to squirt into or onto their pies for free. In those days you would get a huge jug of tomato sauce and decant it into the squirt bottle and the amount people were using it would last so long and the jug was so cheap (economies of scale) it wasn’t worth charging for it and people would have gone berko. But once we switched to these bloody hyper convenience little packets their price per was just so much more than a big jug of sauce and two squirt bottles we had to start charging. Most cafe’s that still have the squirt bottles will just bring you a squirt bottle for free if you ask for sauce.
5:25 Nope! Compulsory voting is a misnomer. It is compulsory to turn up at the polling place and have your name checked off. They then give you some voting papers, but what you do with them is entirely up to you. Some, bin them and walk out - nothing illegal about that and there'll be no fines for not turning up/not voting.
I've been say same too (as what you do on the paper is a secret). Mind you, as a polling place worker, it's irritating when the counts don't balance because folks didn't put the papers in the ballot box. I.e. so many checks and balances and we have to account for everything. 😮
You should absolutely be putting the ballot in the ballot box. Whether that ballot has a proper vote or just a picture of a giant schlong is up to you, but put it in the box.
Dumbest question from an American staying in Sydney was requesting I drive him to "Ayers Rock", now known as Uluru since he had a day to spare. 5,500 km round trip- yeah. No worries!
the money is also different sizes so that the blind can distinguish the coins are notched on the edge as well being different sizes for the same reason
regarding voting - I rang our local police station to ask them if they would mind not wearing their weapons when they went to vote. They seemed to agree. One of the reason for the casual attire is that we always vote on a Saturday and you are wearing casual clothes.
Ketchup and sauce are actually different, as ketchup is vinegar based and sauce is oil based. As for sauce at the pie shop, it used to be a freebie, and a travesty that they started charging for it. I would have rather seen pies go up by 50 cents to make up for the cost, as the freebie makes you feel like you're getting a bargain.
Vegemite is a super food. It's 25% protein and has more vitamin B than a Barocca, and vegemite on toast is the best hangover cure ever since 1920. We're 50yrs ahead.
At a servo (petrol/gas station) in Gawler South Australia a Japanese Tourist approached me and asked me for directions to Ayres Rock. It's about a 1550 km (960 miles) drive. I gave him directions and i'm sure he didn't believe me. I did tell him he was better off going to the airport, returning his hire car, catching a flight to Alice Springs, then hiring a car there to drive the 4 hours to Ayres Rock. This was also in summer so you're looking at temperatures of 45 - 50 ℃ along the way with distances of up to 400 km of absolutely nothing between towns. It's actually quicker to fly to Japan than to drive from Gawler to Ayres Rock.
A lot of Aussies avoid kangaroo due to it being an ‘unusual’ meat, cuteness, difficulty in cooking it well (has to be rare or it’s tough) being from culling of wild populations and not conventional farming. The Voice referendum is about changing the constitution to add a representative Indigenous voice to Parliament. It’s either a yes or no vote. Unfortunately the debate has been used for political and personal gain. Also a lot of racist misinformation from the No camp (supported by mining interests) in my opinion.
As an Anarchist, and renter, I once wore my “Keep Calm and Unf**k the World” T-Shirt to a 85% Liberal/Tory/Republican area, just to get a free sausage, onion, sauce on bread. 😀 P.S Vegans lol - Viva Le Sausagelution mate.
I remember back decades ago America did war games with Australia and when I was on the Gold Coast when a group of American's was on R&R were sold Genuine Kangaroo Feathers? If I hadn't seen it I wouldn't have believed it, there wasn't a grey Sparrow feather anywhere around the beer gardens, pubs, etc and because of their rarity and a strong good luck charm plus was why Aussies didn't like to part with them so they sold for $50 a feather🤣😆🤣
Probably the most recognisable pie brand is "Four'N Twenty". From the old song about four'n twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. They were notorious for using really cheap meat. Still are. They earnt the nicknames for pies "rat coffins" or "lips'n arseholes".
Yes kangaroos are considered as pests, but would never eat it. It is a very lean meat and our cat loves it, it is sold as pet food, either raw or in dry nibbles. After eating it he gets the zoomies, high energy and just runs around well nourished. His favourite. Chicken salt, hmmm well you have to try it, it is scrumptious to add to your chips, can't go past it. Meat pies, the most Aussie meat pies back in the day a called Four'n Twenty pies, but I think they have been surpassed by other brands in terms of taste. You can find them anywhere, it's the Aussie staple. Yes it would be great to ask a Scottsman some questions about your home land!
Tomato sauce tends to be made with just tomatoes, herbs, onion, garlic, oil, vinegar, salt and pepper. On the other hand, ketchup usually has added sugar in it (usually cane or corn syrup) which gives it its sweeter flavor
Funniest anectode was from a visit by a Texan drilling contractor to Mount Isa. We hosted a BBQ for him at Lake Moondarra near the town. It's partially surrounded by steep rocky hills with lots of rock wallabies. By end of it we had him convinced they were carnivorous and would attack any human who tried to scale the hills.
Great video as usual 👍 Can I ask...what language is most spoken in Scotland and if Gaelic is spoken in certain areas do the rest of Scots understand it? How would you rate your healthcare, justice system and education? Are many people religious and practicing? What is the immigration policy like and are people accepting of it. How would you rate the transportation system and work opportunities. And lastly, why did you leave? 🙂
The best meat pie in Australia is made by any local bakery. My favourite type is a steak and mushroom pie: chunks of tender beef with sliced mushrooms and a thick gravy with a big helping of pepper throughout. It is the best savory meal you will ever eat, and it can be enjoyed out in the shade on a warm day. It is perfect.
The Burger King in Adealide was a resteraunt within a department store called John Martins, which doesn't exist any more. That was the only place I ever saw one, as I used to be a display artist there.
There was a Burger King on the corner of South Rd and Marion Rd for decades. It was a thriving business already when my family arrived in Adelaide in the 1960's.
to covert C to F in temperature you double it and add 30 eg 40c is 110f. Bin chickens are actually Ibis birds, but because they are all over the city dipping into bins for food - they are nicknamed Bin Chickens
There's no "best meat pie brand". Meat pies are made at small local bakeries in every town & city. There's usually at least 6 flavours, beef, pepper steak, steak and mushroom, chicken curry, chicken vegetable, pork and Ned Kelly (beef and egg). There's also pasties & Cornish pasties (mince meat, carrot, potato, onion & black pepper)
As someone of part-Cornish descent, I feel like I have to say that a true Cornish person would never put carrot (or peas) in a pastie! It is mince and all white vegetables only - potato, onion, a bit of turnip or parsnip. Cornish pasties also usually have the pastry crimped together at the top and ones that are folded over are just "pasties". My mum made the best Cornish pasties I've ever had - she had one of those old mincers that that attached to table edge and would mince the meat herself. Those pasties are a nice childhood memory for me- they were even tasty cold. They were made to be an easy to handle meal for the men down the mines.
I have voted in my PJs because I wanted to get it done early and over with The polling booths are just down the street from us at the local primary school
The Australian Coat of arms has a Kangaroo and Emu on it...... Besides being native to 'Straya, The actual reason is because neither can move backwards.... Its all about moving forward... But allas, they both taste damn good as well, but like any meat, (say game meat, eg venison) It must be prepared and cooked the correct way.,... (PS : Though not on the coat of arms.... Wallaby , done right is amazing.... )
Wiki "Emus. Emus are flightless birds that resemble ostriches, though they are slightly shorter. Unlike their look-alike, emus can only walk forward and not backward. They can sprint forward and over a long distance because of the presence of calf muscle which is not present in other birds."
Just to add information re the colour of the Aussie notes. When we went to decimalisation (ie pounds shillings and pence) to dollars and cents, the first notes were paper and kept the colours of the pound. Ie 1 dollar was brown. A dollar was the new equiv of a 10 shilling note .A pound was a $2 note $10 was the same colour as a 5pound note and a 10 pound note was the $20 dollar bill. This assisted the older population being able to recognise the notes. Please note we withdrew $1 and 2 dollar notes and 1 and 2 cent coins then we added the $5 note as well as the $50 and $100. So there ya go. If you want to see how the Govt did it, look at the decimalisation song in the ad
Disagree with the swearing thing. I work with thousands of people and there is only a little bit of swearing during work hours. People CAN control themselves. We’re not all raving bogans.
We actually know a bit about Scotland. But I'd like to ask about the Scottish pound. I was older before I knew that Scotland has its own currency. I know it's legal tender all over the UK, but are all the notes and coins of similar amounts? Can you also spend it in Northern Ireland? Second question - which came first - Irish or Scottish dancing? Pies which have brand names are junk. The only good pies are made by bakeries and each one has its own resipes. Yes, some are better than others, but as long as they are meaty (beef and mutton was the traditional filling) with a slightly peppery hot and runny brown gravy, and as long as they have firmer pastry in the base and flaky pastry on top (flaky is mandatory!), they will generally be delicious. And they come in all varieties, with mushroom, steak and kidney (yuck), onion, tomato, ham or bacon and even an egg with bacon for a brekky pie, and chicken pies. The sausage roll must have flaky pastry all over. I think it's similar in Britain. We don't have pork pies here as general snack food. We also have pasties and a varitey of triangles with delicious content (like chicken and garlic), all with flaky pastry.
Best pies are from local bakeries, just like coffees and cakes. Some places do all three. In Aus the artisanal independent food eateries are still a huge thing and large chains like Macca's and Subway aren't as widespread. We do get a lot more American stuff nowadays but we also contributed a lot like Concentrated Solar Thermal power, WiFi, refrigeration and several industrial processes to make things like sheet steel and the like. It's because of that latter bit that a lot of Australian sheds are made from corrugated steel as opposed to the weatherboard you find in the states and UK.
Voting, or at least turning up at the polling place, and getting your name marked off the roll, is compulsory in Australia. Polling booths are at local government schools and open from 6am to 6pm. Voting is always done on a Saturday nominated by the government. Part of the whole process usually involves buying a sausage sandwich to support the local school. Pre poll and postal voting options are available if you are going to be out of your electorate on the day "The Voice" thing at the moment is actually a referendum on changing the constitution. To be successful, a referendum needs a majority. "Yes", vote in at least 4 states.
Tomato sauce and ketchup definitely taste different. Also kangaroo meat stinks, it smells vile and a lot of dogs won't even eat it. (I've never eaten it and never will)
@@edwardfletcher7790 They're delicious. My favourite meat. Flame-grilled over coals. Charred on the outside, bloody on the inside. It's very important not to over-cook it, or it turns into old boots.
Do people not eat kangaroos because they're cute? Well, that might apply to some. And they're not always cute. I live on a rural property. I went out to the vineyard to move a sprinkler a few nights ago (We're currently in drought. Again.) and a number or roos had jumped the fence for the green grass. They're hungry because of the drought. Eastern Greys at least two metres tall and built like brick dunnies. My appearance startled them and in their hurried panic to find their way out, one of them tried jumping through the trellis wires. He hit the trellis so hard that it bent the steel stay posts as the end of the trellis. They're not always cute, and, under the right circumstances, could kill a man. So, cuteness wouldn't stop me eating them. The strong, gamey flavour might, though.
Kangaroo meat is very tough if it is cooked more than rare. Or seaweed on each side. There are more Kangaroos in Australia than before whits arrived. We gave them many more watering points. I can say if you hit one while driving and they try out your crumple zone on your vechicl.
Don't care what anyone else says. Cake shop pies from rural and country areas make the best meat pies. During the 60s and 70s, before there were heaps of supermarkets, there used to be cake shops in every town and suburb. Apart from that there are some other independents such as Garlos pies, etc, that can be bought in corner stores or recreational places. Just as nice.
A few still have the wood fired bake houses too.
My first pie was a 4nTwenty, eaten at the 1966 Grand Final. Go the saints!!!! But yeah country bakeries do the best ones.. love Ned Kelly pies... lookitup.. as for ketchup, it's too 'claggy', and Heinz should be shot for using those stupid inverted squeeze bottles that squirt unpredictably. You can't finesse the application... so I'll stick to rosella etc.
Yep. Got a bottle in the cupboard.@@chrlz904
@@chrlz904 Only Fountain Tomato Sauce - None of this American Ketchup Crap. It's too thick on a pie.
Mat spot on
If you want a good meat pie, you have to go to a bakery rather than a supermarket.
Don't settle for crap pies from a petrol station either.
Yep.
You need to buy a pie and beer at the Dagular Pub, or just a pie from Yatala bakery :)
The best pie is from your local bakery
herbet adams pies are the best shop pies
1980's... I was shopping in Perth ( Hay Street Mall) and a tourist approached me and asked " can I get a taxi to Sydney from here" 😂
People really do have no idea how big Australia is.
Friends visited from the UK and asked if we could do a day trip to the Great Barrier Reef ........... from Hinterland of the Gold Coast !! We sent them off for a weekend on Stradbroke Island - much more cost effective 😆
Reminds me of Not The Sunscreen Song from John Safran, when the guy advises everyone to steal a cabcharge from work and take a taxi to Perth.
Regarding the Voice we will be voting on, the government wants to change our constitution to give aboriginal people of which are approximately 3% of the population the right to be involved with every decision the government makes. The elitist aboriginals are basically saying we, the current Australians owe them & should pay rent & reparation even though around 40 aboriginal agencies get billions of dollars each year to help aboriginal people to better themselves. Unfortunately there has been no improvement.
We haven’t been given the details for how the voice will work, we are being asked to vote yes & then they will give us the details. It’s like signing a blank contract. 63% of Australians surveyed have said they will be voting NO, as will I.
@@aussiepom I have done that trip in 10 hours - no sleep and only a couple of comfort stops
@@aussiepom American logic!
Another thing about the Aussie polymer notes, they are all sized differently - the $5 note being the smallest, and then it getting progressively bigger - to make it easier for those who are visually impaired to differentiate between notes!
And they have recently (a few years ago) redesigned the notes with different numbers of tactile bumps, so even the completely blind can easily tell if they're accidentally paying for a $5 pie with a $50 note.
Ketchup is sweeter as its sugar content is much much higher than Tomato Sauce!
These birds are called white Ibis or as others call "Bin Chickens". This name has come about due to the fact they have adapted to the population sprawl especially in the metropolitan areas where scavenging and raiding bins is a possibility.
Agree. Because so many swampy areas have been reclaimed for urban land the poor ibisies have had to adapt and raid the bins. And that' also why we have locust plagues as their apex predator is no longer in the rural and outback areas in great numbers.
Bin chickens are actually a protected species in Australia believe it or not.
There are thousands of them in the big cities eating everyone's garbage, but they're protected.
And the Cochlear implant, which now aides' people to hear, worldwide!
Haha.. She's hilarious! As an Aussie I can attest to everything she's saying. Yes this is what we are like to differing degrees... It's our culture... 😂🇦🇺
Shes an idiot!
The best meat pies normally come from a local bakery as the big brands that are sold in supermarkets are normally full of preservatives and salt.Also kangaroos can be a pest for farmers as when they eat grass they normally eat it roots and all plus they can jump fences to access water from dams reserved for livestock
yeah, have to agree. the best 'servo' pie in my opinion is a 'national pie', but apparently that's just a tassie thing. I have seen them on the 'mainland' a few times, usually without the wrapper.
Remember that kangaroo numbers were controlled before European migration to Australia. There are far more of them in Australia than any time; both Europeans and kangaroos. Yes we eat kangaroos, this a traditional food.
I was in a rehab hospital(learning to walk n talk again) and we were loaded onto a bus, taken to vote in our jammies 😂🤣, but we voted lol
when My Uncles went to war to keep our freedom, countries murder people to stop voting and corrupt the votes I think you should try as hard as you can
Great job. And you have a 'hospital adventure to tell your grand kids or brag about at the pub👍 ' When I was rehabbing we went to vote in our PJs🙏👏👏👏👏
@@micheledix2616 lol high 5 and hugs to you ✋🤗❤ congrats on your rehab success also 👏👏👏
Can confirm. I've voted in flanny jammie pants, T shirt & thongs. 😅
Voting day is always on a Saturday and they make it as easy as possible to vote by having so many polling places (generally at schools and community centres) that everyone can likely walk to one in minutes and making the voting process streamlined and straightforward. As part of the experience, and in case it's busy and you have to wait in line, many polling places will also have a sausage sizzle on, so you can treat yourself to what we call a Democracy Sausage while you perform your civic duty.
Meanwhile in America, they make it hard to vote. Voting day is on Tuesday and any worker deciding to take a bit of time off work to go vote will end up with a high chance of getting fired (much less worker's rights over there than Australia).
Why can't people get it right.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO VOTE.
OK, over with the shouting.
What you have to do is either front up at a voting booth and register that you did i.e. cross your name off and having attended you walk out.
Job done.
Or send the postal vote back filled with cocky's bird cage liner.
Job done.
I have known people who have either never registered (illegal) or simply never bothered to attend a polling booth. They won't vote for whatever reason. Haven't for years. I've never heard of anyone being fined.
Simple.
@@banta-pd8zj Yep, you need to turn up, you can hand in a blank form if you want, or write "hang all the buggers". (I worked elections a few times). Hell the fine for not showing up is only about $25, but it's a weekend, it's easy, 95% of the time it's quick, and you get to support your local youth group/charity/kids sports team with a democracy sausage. :)
@@banta-pd8zj if you gone out of your way to go to the voting booth or get the postal vote, the vast majority of people will check a few boxes (like, at that point why wouldnt you?)
@@warcheddar4163 personally I vote. Just saying nobody needs to. A lot of people are under the impression that the law compels you to vote.
Go figure.
Camels, feral pigs, feral cats, cane toads, Collingwood supporters. Oz has a lot of pests that we'd love to get rid of.
You forgot the bloody bunnies.
Haa! Collingwood supporters. Hilarious. I'm not into footy but even I know I'd have to be toothless & a bogan to follow Collingwood. Cane toads & Colllngwood in the one sentence. Seems about right. Good one Sticks.
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+ rabbits, foxes, water buffalo, horses, donkeys - there is an extensive list of introduced species that are considered feral or pests. European arrival into Australia made surface water much more available, leading to an explosive growth in Kangaroo/Wallaby numbers. There are far more of them now than before Captain Cook.
Feral goats
So speaketh a Melboure resident.
There are brands of meat pies in Australia, but the best ones are made by a baker in his own bakery! Same with ANZAC Biscuits, home made beats commercial brands hands down!
Yeah a lot of Aussies know we came up with those notes. Kangaroos have been used as food in Australia for thousands of years, but some namby-pamby people refuse to eat them. Chicken salt on chips is awesome 😎. You can get any type of meat pie, I like lamb, rosemary and mint sauce, or beef, mushroom and blue cheese. But everyone literally has a different favourite meat pie here. The funniest thing a guy from Liverpool asked me was what we called cupcakes in Australia. Of course we call them cupcakes, but it was funnier to tell him we called them bajangawangs so that he would go to a bakery and ask for that instead 😂.
We dont call them cupcakes thats a yank word!!!
@@chrismaynard4117Yep! It is totally as American as saying ‘super’ instead of extra, extreme etc.
@@chrismaynard4117Wrong. There other words available, but I do not remember or use them
That's a much better word for them! 🤣
My favourite is a steak and kidney or pepper steak.
Polymer notes were invented in Australia and they are very hard to make forgeries of. Thats why they were made. The simply also happen to be colourful which makes it easy to tell whats when when you are 10 beers in at the bar.
Regarding our coloured notes, it's part of their security features. A note (or series of notes) that use different coloured ink is harder to forge. Same thing with being plastic, not only is it harder to fake, but it lasts longer and it's not a big deal if you accidentally send it through the wash. I worked at Hungry Jack's as a teen and we were told to call the sauce on the burgers 'ketchup' because the ingredient composition was different to tomato sauce.
That's true Tomato Sauce and Ketchup are different, in fact they sit side by side on supermarket shelves.
But the different colours, sizes, and braille markings also help tell them apart easily. Even if you don't have perfect vision.
And Australian ketchup is different from American because HFCS is banned here, thank goodness.
Best meat pie I've ever had was from a drive-thru pie shop called Yatala Pies in Queensland. They've been making pies in their area for 130 years and are just off the highway making it a perfect pit stop for anyone heading north into Brisbane. The gimmick of it having a drive-thru too is genius on their part because it gets people talking about the shop
Best pie I ever had was also from Yatala Pies. Amazing :)
Oh YES Yatala pies have been the best for over 70 years. When I was a child driving from Ipswich ( QLD) to Brunswick Heads ( northern NSW) or on the return journey our Dad ALWAYS stopped at Yatala for a single serve Chicken Pie for each of us. BEST chicken pie EVER.
These pies started in Ayr Nth. Qld , as Phelan’s Pies( still in Ayr and have a drive thru), one of the Phelan’s sons moved to Yatala, taking the family recipe with him. So Yatala’s pies and Phelan’s Pies are the same. Best pies ever!!!
It started life as a corner bakery and pie shop in 1914, and only moved to the current location when the motorway was built. The Pies in the old shop were much better. There's a great pieshop in Fernvale, out past the Wivenhoe Dam, and the bakery in Landsborough, up past Cabolture is excellent. Best pie I've ever had was from a pie van outside Sarina, back in the early 70s. The bloke had been selling pies from the same van at a level crossing since WWII. He used to sell out, three times a day, serving troop trains heading up to Townsville. They were so good I had 2, and then 2 more.
Another one here.
The cask wine was also an Australian invention. The kangaroo and emu are on the Australian coat of arms because neither can move backwards, they can only move forward and you can eat them. Kangaroo is available prepackaged in some supermarkets. Ketchup originated in Asia, a long time ago, but didn’t contain tomatoes. The name was eventually used in America for the tomato based sauce. We have a total fire ban today as we are having a heatwave in Sydney at the start of spring. That means no naked flames outdoors e.g , no campfires, no BBQs using wood or coal as fuel, no use of machinery outdoors that can cause flames or sparks e,g angle grinder
The video used some strange words that, for the wine container, I have not heard in my 78 years.
The coat of arms also has wattle, and some types of wattle produce edible seeds, so the coat of arms can, theoretically, all be eaten.
Ketchup actually originated in ancient Greece but yeah it was very different. No fish guts in the modern one 😅
Aussie here, it took me a long time to try Kangaroo because as a young child I was obsessed with the show Skippy the bush Kangaroo. It's a very lean gamey meat and when cooked right it's super delicious. I tend to Marinade it in some Asian ingredients and serve it with a salad.
Yep. I cut it into medallions and only lightly sear it. Can just about eat it with a teaspoon it's so tender. With each mouthful it's "mmmmm ohhhh yes yess".
My son and a mate came thru the front door.
Mate asked if Dad was ok.
Yeaaah. He's just into the kangaroo steak again. LOL LOL LOL.
I knew our currency was invented here, Australia actually helped design and implement a lot of other countries currency as well because of the technology Australia invented for their own currency. Australia has one of the strongest security implementations in currency, makes it very hard to counterfeit our money and that's why a lot of other countries use our technology for their own currency.
Just FYI- the polymer film is (or at least was) made by 3M. Back in the day, I sold self adhesive vinyl to the sign writing trade. We sold popular 3M transparent application tape. It was suddenly withdrawn from the market, because it (minus the adhesive of course) was going to be used for the new banknotes!
I was speaking to an American in the USA, and said I'm Australian. And he asked if I'd ever seen a gun. Because (apparently) there aren't any guns in Australia. He was very confused when I told him I've legally shot rabbits with a .22 rifle in Australia.
Lol you can even buy .50 cal in nsw
Americans think gun control means no guns, when it actually means gun control.
Something they will never understand
Was the .22 a hand me down that was about 109 years old and used on the farm for generations to control rabbits??
Because the rightie media tries to tell them that we had them taken from us and are communist or some shit 😂😂😂😂
Just because not even person owns an anti aircraft weapon 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ketchup and tomato sauce are different. I lived in the UK for 6 months and I've never missed tomato sauce so much. There is vinegar in Ketchup where there isn't in tomato sauce.
We are very similar to the uk. Half of us are the children of ten pound poms, the immigration of many uk born citizens that came by boat for ten pounds at the time. My mother came over from Scotland with her family when she was six. We needed workers and we built areas of family homes that were owned by the government and rent was cheap. Here in Adelaide we built another city an hour north and named it Elizabeth. Jimmy Barnes was from there and bon Scott, the original AC/DC singer. I say from there but they’re actually born in the uk and came over as children of 10£ poms
Do a cheesymite scroll from a good bakery when you come over for one of the best vegemite experiences. There are so many degrees of quality in meat pies - the best one I had recently was a proper menu option at a restaurant with mash and red wine jus, and it took it up a notch to perfection. You can get them at so many places though and they're usually good.
Actually! the plastic notes are invented because it was less able to be counterfeited like paper money but yes durability is another reason for their introduction, now they have braille on each note. Ps: Boxed wine is also an Australian invention. and kangaroo meat is beautiful meat. similar to beef but not as stringy.
They're also all different sizes to each other. Australia also prints the money for other countries that use our patented system.
so was the hills hoist, where the goon bag lives :)
'Roo meat is extremely healthy
I heard an American say "Kangaroos are just deer that went to prison" How insulting is that?
I've eaten kangaroo and crocodile. Kangaroo has a very strong taste and can taste terrible if not cooked correctly. Personally, I think it's better as per food. Crocodile also has a very unique taste.
I haven't tried emu, but I'm told it can be gamey.
Edit: Camels, brumby's (wild horses), emus and kangaroos are all considered pests and when the numbers get high, there are culling programs.
I think we're the only country that eats the animals depicted on their Coat of Arms
Yummmm too.@@Kenmanhl
She is good and honest but above all a joy to listen to. I am smiling all through.
In fairness to our American friends, our local ranter has recognised that US cash is made of cotton…
When I was a kid I remember at school we had this event to celebrate and learn about the Noongar culture (A huge tribe of Indigenous Australian's in Western Australia) while we were learning about the culture and doing different activities from making traditional artwork, to playing the digeridoo ( Or trying to at least) they had been cooking up the best damn food I have eaten even to this day it was a beautiful Kangaroo tail stew but the meat was so tender it melted right on the tongue almost.
Best part was my Mum got me some then when Dad showed up he got me more because he didn't know I had already eaten... Didn't stop me though 😋
Topless voting isn't a thing. But I'd totally expect people in tropical Australia to vote in beach wear as it's well over 30 deg and 90% humidity !
and it is on a Saturday
They'd get a better turnout if there was.
I worked the Inala voting booth for a federal election, we had folks come in in their swimmers with a towel wrapped around them fresh from the pool. (dry by then but still.) 40 degree day, we had lots of "barely wearing it" outfits.
Kangaroo is amazing if cooked properly, which is medium rare it's also very high in protein and very low in fat so all in all quite a healthy option. As for tomato sauce and ketchup they are totally a different thing ketchup is way more sweeter and slightly tangier than tomato sauce for me
google Rabbit Diet Starvation and rethink what you have suggested.
@@tom5051666 yeah nah don't need too, I didn't suggest eating it every meal of every day
The best meat pie I've ever bought was from a random service station. Apparently they got delivery from a local bakery. But you would not ever pick it. They were delicious
A million camels, 50 million kangaroos, 68 million sheep, 25 million cows, 2 million pigs, 100 milkion chooks.
25 million people.
yeah thee's a referendum on the 14 October about a thing called the Voice to parliament (the Voice). Basically it's to add some text to the consitution that says that there will be an advisory body made up of First Nations people (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders) and they will have an opportunity to make comment to parliament about topics that affect them. The current prime minister (Anthony Albanese, Labor party) has proposed this and is obviously on the 'yes' side of the referendum, whereas many of the opposition (Liberal/National parties) are on the 'no' side because they're saying it will be divisive, that it's risky putting something like that in the constitution and basically they're stirriing up lots of arguments suggesting that it will disadvantage everyone who doesn't get that same opportunity...which is just ridiculous. In my opinion, it's the very least we can do, considering British colonists took their country and took their children away from them, put them in chains, didn't allow them to vote.......i think just asking for their opinion on stuff is actually the least we can do.
I thought there was already representatives in parliament who were there to advise. Unfortunately this was happening all over the world back in time, yes it wasn't good but life was different back then, it was only a matter of time before they were over run by a stronger nation. History isn't all about peace and caring as we all know. Aborigines ( oh sorry am I allowed to call them that or is it now first nations people) do get a lot of help from the government that I don't receive. The way the government has gone about this is not helping.
BS @margymckenzie74 get ya facts straight!
Australia invented box wine - to limit the spoilage from opened wine bottles.
Kangaroo are pests in certain areas. Instead of culling them and throwing the meat away, we eat it and also use it in pet food. That way it doesn't go to waste.
I'm Aussie, and I LOVE kangaroo tail soup yummmmm 😁.
I lived in Esperance for years, and during drought, camels would come into town in large groups, and what a pain in the neck they are, especially trying to get them to leave. They destroy gardens, fences, knock down sheds, knock down letter boxes, they stand in the middle of the road holding up traffic for hours - a real nuisance.
My granny used to make roo tail stew, grew up on it!
aren't they considered a pest and its legal to kill them?
@@cypherglitch If you mean camels, yes they're pests / invasive introduced species, but it takes a proper experienced licenced shooter, with a high powered rifle by law. One of my cousins is the local licensed shooter, with the feral animal license , but the camels don't wait for harvest to be finished before gate crashing into town lol, and where is everyone during harvest? Out of town harvesting and trucking grain up to CBH, 8hrs away lol
@@geofftottenperthcoys9944 Same here. Roo tail soup is the best thing about winter
@@roslynjonsson2383 how big are the herds? when they show wild camels roaming the country side, there are only about a dozen at most together.
the plastic $5 note was the first to come out, my dad went drunk swimming in his jeans (dived into the pool randomly fully clothed, typical Australian summer dad at a family party like Christmas etc.) He had to carefully lay out his notes from the wallet to dry, a few teared from soggyness, but he had one of those new 5's in there and we were all impressed that it was uneffected
Actually, the $10.00 was the first polymer note. Just saying.
First was $10 as a prototype. Totally unsuccessful as it would creep out of pockets and wallets. With drawn. Second was another $10 which was both a new design of the polymer and picture.
She has a great sense of humour !
Goon of fortune is the game she’s explaining about the goon bag on the hills hoist 🤘🏼 and good thing about them is when you’re at a house party (back in the day) when you finish them, you can blow the bag up and use it as a pillow 🤷🏼♂️😂
In the bath too as a pillow, port-bags in the nape of your neck when you are sitting in a chair or couch, & at the small of your back. 3/4 filled with water then put & or 1/2 fill with water fold then freeze & put them in an ice-box / esky, blow them up hang on fruit trees to keep birds away. As a practical joke open bottom end of a wine box take bladder out put box aside, when wine bladder is finished pull out black plug wash out with water, put one litre vinegar or more top up with water & use a bit of natural yellow food colouring not too much test in a glass for colour a small amount then replug it, put it back in the box where spout has to come out, heat up a glue gun to attach short sides to long sides, then hand to your worst drunken friend at a party who drinks wine like water & say here this is yours to open now & drink, but stand back as you may be sprayed out of their mouths. 🎉😂😂🎉
Polymer - Australian banknotes are printed on polymer, a type of plastic, and they have a distinctive feel. Polymer banknotes were developed to make our currency more difficult to counterfeit. The polymer makes it possible to include a range of security features on our banknotes.
Yeah no, ketchup isn’t just tomato sauce. There’s stuff added to flavour it that isn’t in tomato sauce.
Also the cost is because the price of this individual sauce packets is a lot more than when we used to just have squirt bottles of tomato sauce in the counter for people to squirt into or onto their pies for free.
In those days you would get a huge jug of tomato sauce and decant it into the squirt bottle and the amount people were using it would last so long and the jug was so cheap (economies of scale) it wasn’t worth charging for it and people would have gone berko.
But once we switched to these bloody hyper convenience little packets their price per was just so much more than a big jug of sauce and two squirt bottles we had to start charging.
Most cafe’s that still have the squirt bottles will just bring you a squirt bottle for free if you ask for sauce.
Best pie I’ve had so far is a crocodile laksa pie in Port Douglas (I think) near cairns. Genuinely amazing.
People don't eat kangaroo because they don't like the gamey taste. I eat Kangaroo mince and sausages and they're awesome and much healthier than beef.
In regards to the temperature question, I think only the us uses f. The entire world uses C.
5:25 Nope! Compulsory voting is a misnomer. It is compulsory to turn up at the polling place and have your name checked off. They then give you some voting papers, but what you do with them is entirely up to you. Some, bin them and walk out - nothing illegal about that and there'll be no fines for not turning up/not voting.
I've been saying this exact thing for ages!
I've been say same too (as what you do on the paper is a secret). Mind you, as a polling place worker, it's irritating when the counts don't balance because folks didn't put the papers in the ballot box. I.e. so many checks and balances and we have to account for everything. 😮
You should absolutely be putting the ballot in the ballot box.
Whether that ballot has a proper vote or just a picture of a giant schlong is up to you, but put it in the box.
Not quite true. It is illegal to destroy it, take it home or give it to somebody else.
Dumbest question from an American staying in Sydney was requesting I drive him to "Ayers Rock", now known as Uluru since he had a day to spare. 5,500 km round trip- yeah. No worries!
As a kid Vegemite was too strong, but now as an adult the smell of Vegemite on hot toast is irresistible, totally irresistible.
the money is also different sizes so that the blind can distinguish the coins are notched on the edge as well being different sizes for the same reason
regarding voting - I rang our local police station to ask them if they would mind not wearing their weapons when they went to vote. They seemed to agree.
One of the reason for the casual attire is that we always vote on a Saturday and you are wearing casual clothes.
Yeah, wouldn't be a good look to have armed police (or soldiers) at a polling booth.
Cooking Kangaroo is a bit like venison, its low fat so you need to either cook it fast so it doesn't dry out, or slow cook it for 6 months.
Ketchup and sauce are actually different, as ketchup is vinegar based and sauce is oil based. As for sauce at the pie shop, it used to be a freebie, and a travesty that they started charging for it. I would have rather seen pies go up by 50 cents to make up for the cost, as the freebie makes you feel like you're getting a bargain.
Vegemite is a super food. It's 25% protein and has more vitamin B than a Barocca, and vegemite on toast is the best hangover cure ever since 1920. We're 50yrs ahead.
As an aussie this chick rocks 😎💯👍 well done. Perfectly said.
At a servo (petrol/gas station) in Gawler South Australia a Japanese Tourist approached me and asked me for directions to Ayres Rock. It's about a 1550 km (960 miles) drive. I gave him directions and i'm sure he didn't believe me. I did tell him he was better off going to the airport, returning his hire car, catching a flight to Alice Springs, then hiring a car there to drive the 4 hours to Ayres Rock. This was also in summer so you're looking at temperatures of 45 - 50 ℃ along the way with distances of up to 400 km of absolutely nothing between towns. It's actually quicker to fly to Japan than to drive from Gawler to Ayres Rock.
Lol you could have told told them to just keep driving if you were in Gawler.
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7:51 the game is called goon of fortune… basically who ever the bag lands on has to drink! It’s more like Russian roulette then everything!
Best part of the kangaroo is the tail
A lot of Aussies avoid kangaroo due to it being an ‘unusual’ meat, cuteness, difficulty in cooking it well (has to be rare or it’s tough) being from culling of wild populations and not conventional farming.
The Voice referendum is about changing the constitution to add a representative Indigenous voice to Parliament. It’s either a yes or no vote.
Unfortunately the debate has been used for political and personal gain. Also a lot of racist misinformation from the No camp (supported by mining interests) in my opinion.
Pigeon ? Thats a Bin Chicken - actually an Ibis but practically, its a bin chicken. Scavenger extraordinaire !
As an Anarchist, and renter, I once wore my “Keep Calm and Unf**k the World” T-Shirt to a 85% Liberal/Tory/Republican area, just to get a free sausage, onion, sauce on bread. 😀
P.S Vegans lol - Viva Le Sausagelution mate.
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I remember back decades ago America did war games with Australia and when I was on the Gold Coast when a group of American's was on R&R were sold Genuine Kangaroo Feathers? If I hadn't seen it I wouldn't have believed it, there wasn't a grey Sparrow feather anywhere around the beer gardens, pubs, etc and because of their rarity and a strong good luck charm plus was why Aussies didn't like to part with them so they sold for $50 a feather🤣😆🤣
Probably the most recognisable pie brand is "Four'N Twenty". From the old song about four'n twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
They were notorious for using really cheap meat. Still are. They earnt the nicknames for pies "rat coffins" or "lips'n arseholes".
Mind you if you've been on the 420 than you won't object to a four N Twenty pie. :)
Maggot bags you mean!
Yes kangaroos are considered as pests, but would never eat it. It is a very lean meat and our cat loves it, it is sold as pet food, either raw or in dry nibbles. After eating it he gets the zoomies, high energy and just runs around well nourished. His favourite. Chicken salt, hmmm well you have to try it, it is scrumptious to add to your chips, can't go past it. Meat pies, the most Aussie meat pies back in the day a called Four'n Twenty pies, but I think they have been surpassed by other brands in terms of taste. You can find them anywhere, it's the Aussie staple. Yes it would be great to ask a Scottsman some questions about your home land!
Tomato sauce tends to be made with just tomatoes, herbs, onion, garlic, oil, vinegar, salt and pepper. On the other hand, ketchup usually has added sugar in it (usually cane or corn syrup) which gives it its sweeter flavor
Don't you mean sickly flavour?
@@kenchristie9214 I agree
Funniest anectode was from a visit by a Texan drilling contractor to Mount Isa. We hosted a BBQ for him at Lake Moondarra near the town. It's partially surrounded by steep rocky hills with lots of rock wallabies. By end of it we had him convinced they were carnivorous and would attack any human who tried to scale the hills.
Great video as usual 👍 Can I ask...what language is most spoken in Scotland and if Gaelic is spoken in certain areas do the rest of Scots understand it? How would you rate your healthcare, justice system and education? Are many people religious and practicing? What is the immigration policy like and are people accepting of it. How would you rate the transportation system and work opportunities. And lastly, why did you leave? 🙂
The best meat pie in Australia is made by any local bakery. My favourite type is a steak and mushroom pie: chunks of tender beef with sliced mushrooms and a thick gravy with a big helping of pepper throughout. It is the best savory meal you will ever eat, and it can be enjoyed out in the shade on a warm day. It is perfect.
The Burger King in Adealide was a resteraunt within a department store called John Martins, which doesn't exist any more. That was the only place I ever saw one, as I used to be a display artist there.
There was a Burger King on the corner of South Rd and Marion Rd for decades. It was a thriving business already when my family arrived in Adelaide in the 1960's.
@@oursharon1001 South road and Marion road don't intersect, so there's no corner.
Oh, and those plastic banknotes have an actual hologram embedded in them. Suck on that one.
to covert C to F in temperature you double it and add 30 eg 40c is 110f. Bin chickens are actually Ibis birds, but because they are all over the city dipping into bins for food - they are nicknamed Bin Chickens
Sauce and Ketchup are different, ketchup is also thicker than sauce.
We actually get both in Australia eg: Heinz Tomato Sauce & Heinz Tomato Ketchup all supermarkets
Roo is a lean red meat. Excellent protein for those in training. You can buy it in a normal major grocery store (Coles, Woolies and some IGA).
There's no "best meat pie brand".
Meat pies are made at small local bakeries in every town & city.
There's usually at least 6 flavours, beef, pepper steak, steak and mushroom, chicken curry, chicken vegetable, pork and Ned Kelly (beef and egg). There's also pasties & Cornish pasties (mince meat, carrot, potato, onion & black pepper)
Curry steak, steak and onion, steak and kidney, steak cheese and bacon.
Never been to a bakery selling pies that doesn't also have Steak and Bacon, and Steak and Onion
As someone of part-Cornish descent, I feel like I have to say that a true Cornish person would never put carrot (or peas) in a pastie! It is mince and all white vegetables only - potato, onion, a bit of turnip or parsnip. Cornish pasties also usually have the pastry crimped together at the top and ones that are folded over are just "pasties". My mum made the best Cornish pasties I've ever had - she had one of those old mincers that that attached to table edge and would mince the meat herself. Those pasties are a nice childhood memory for me- they were even tasty cold. They were made to be an easy to handle meal for the men down the mines.
Um you left out the best one- Steak, bacon and cheese 💁♀️
@@lonnie224 Damn ! I should have Googled it 😲
The bin chicken is an Ibis, a native bird that's adapted to living around us.
I have voted in my PJs because I wanted to get it done early and over with
The polling booths are just down the street from us at the local primary school
Box wine would kill a brown dog….bloody marvellous.
The Australian Coat of arms has a Kangaroo and Emu on it...... Besides being native to 'Straya, The actual reason is because neither can move backwards....
Its all about moving forward... But allas, they both taste damn good as well, but like any meat, (say game meat, eg venison) It must be prepared and cooked the correct way.,...
(PS : Though not on the coat of arms.... Wallaby , done right is amazing.... )
@michaelrogers2080 Ok then.. Who's talking PNG or Indo ?
Wiki
"Emus. Emus are flightless birds that resemble ostriches, though they are slightly shorter. Unlike their look-alike, emus can only walk forward and not backward. They can sprint forward and over a long distance because of the presence of calf muscle which is not present in other birds."
@michaelrogers2080
Do some research first... FFS.
Beers and Cheers from Straya'
Nah kangaroo is disgusting.
Just to add information re the colour of the Aussie notes. When we went to decimalisation (ie pounds shillings and pence) to dollars and cents, the first notes were paper and kept the colours of the pound. Ie 1 dollar was brown. A dollar was the new equiv of a 10 shilling note .A pound was a $2 note $10 was the same colour as a 5pound note and a 10 pound note was the $20 dollar bill. This assisted the older population being able to recognise the notes. Please note we withdrew $1 and 2 dollar notes and 1 and 2 cent coins then we added the $5 note as well as the $50 and $100. So there ya go. If you want to see how the Govt did it, look at the decimalisation song in the ad
These changes did not happen at the same time, but each was done individually.
Love me some Tannar, so down to earth.
boxed wine was also an aussie invention
LOVE your channel Mat! I’d never eat roo meat but I do feed it to my dog for his dinner, it’s a cheap pet food.
Disagree with the swearing thing. I work with thousands of people and there is only a little bit of swearing during work hours. People CAN control themselves. We’re not all raving bogans.
We actually know a bit about Scotland. But I'd like to ask about the Scottish pound. I was older before I knew that Scotland has its own currency. I know it's legal tender all over the UK, but are all the notes and coins of similar amounts? Can you also spend it in Northern Ireland? Second question - which came first - Irish or Scottish dancing? Pies which have brand names are junk. The only good pies are made by bakeries and each one has its own resipes. Yes, some are better than others, but as long as they are meaty (beef and mutton was the traditional filling) with a slightly peppery hot and runny brown gravy, and as long as they have firmer pastry in the base and flaky pastry on top (flaky is mandatory!), they will generally be delicious. And they come in all varieties, with mushroom, steak and kidney (yuck), onion, tomato, ham or bacon and even an egg with bacon for a brekky pie, and chicken pies. The sausage roll must have flaky pastry all over. I think it's similar in Britain. We don't have pork pies here as general snack food. We also have pasties and a varitey of triangles with delicious content (like chicken and garlic), all with flaky pastry.
I was once asked, by an American, if all Aussies have a pet Kangaroo.
Naturally I said yes and the kids ride them to school.
😂😂😂😂😂
Yanks will believe that too.
The fire rating system is based on fuel load on the ground and there's nearly always a high level
You’re a good man.
Got to be, are drop bears real! and the answer... yes, YES THEY ARE!
People always get it wrong. You don’t have to vote. You do have to tend the polling booth. Once your name is marked off you can leave.
I dont usually use the c-word. But I have. If I drag out the c-word, you know you're in trouble.
Exactly. I think most Aussie women don’t use it as often as Aussie men in their daily chatter.
I’m one who can’t bring myself to eat kangaroo. Not because it’s cute but because it’s Australia’s national animal. It’s on our coat of arms
Best pies are from local bakeries, just like coffees and cakes. Some places do all three. In Aus the artisanal independent food eateries are still a huge thing and large chains like Macca's and Subway aren't as widespread. We do get a lot more American stuff nowadays but we also contributed a lot like Concentrated Solar Thermal power, WiFi, refrigeration and several industrial processes to make things like sheet steel and the like. It's because of that latter bit that a lot of Australian sheds are made from corrugated steel as opposed to the weatherboard you find in the states and UK.
I’m Australian never ate Kangaroo. Never will.
There's 50 million of them, they aren't going to miss a couple 👍😆
You're missing out on the most delicious and nutritious meat in the world, mate. :P
Why not?
Cuteness factor, or are you vegan?
Same here. I like my meat nailed to a fence in a bushfire but I've been told that the best way to eat roo is still hoppin'...🤢
🙃🐨🇦🇺
Voting, or at least turning up at the polling place, and getting your name marked off the roll, is compulsory in Australia. Polling booths are at local government schools and open from 6am to 6pm. Voting is always done on a Saturday nominated by the government. Part of the whole process usually involves buying a sausage sandwich to support the local school. Pre poll and postal voting options are available if you are going to be out of your electorate on the day
"The Voice" thing at the moment is actually a referendum on changing the constitution. To be successful, a referendum needs a majority. "Yes", vote in at least 4 states.
Australia's shortening of words is because of our Irish heritage - they do it too.
Can't beat a curry pie, close second is pepper.
Tomato sauce and ketchup definitely taste different.
Also kangaroo meat stinks, it smells vile and a lot of dogs won't even eat it. (I've never eaten it and never will)
It smells like every game meat. It's a little off putting but you just need to spice it correctly.
It's one of the healthiest meats in the world !
USA uses more sugar, Oz uses more vinegar. So it's sweet verses tangy.
@@edwardfletcher7790 They're delicious. My favourite meat. Flame-grilled over coals. Charred on the outside, bloody on the inside. It's very important not to over-cook it, or it turns into old boots.
Do people not eat kangaroos because they're cute? Well, that might apply to some. And they're not always cute. I live on a rural property. I went out to the vineyard to move a sprinkler a few nights ago (We're currently in drought. Again.) and a number or roos had jumped the fence for the green grass. They're hungry because of the drought. Eastern Greys at least two metres tall and built like brick dunnies. My appearance startled them and in their hurried panic to find their way out, one of them tried jumping through the trellis wires. He hit the trellis so hard that it bent the steel stay posts as the end of the trellis. They're not always cute, and, under the right circumstances, could kill a man. So, cuteness wouldn't stop me eating them. The strong, gamey flavour might, though.
Vote YES for including first nations people in our constitution. Should have happened 120 years ago.
It’s the least we can do. People who are voting no are just douche buckets
Mistake,look at NZ!
@@chrismaynard4117 NZ is just fine. Who are you to tell other countries that their systems are shit? Such an entitled person
Kangaroo meat is very tough if it is cooked more than rare. Or seaweed on each side. There are more Kangaroos in Australia than before whits arrived. We gave them many more watering points. I can say if you hit one while driving and they try out your crumple zone on your vechicl.
Not casual but i turned up to vote in armour because I was on my way to an event at the time. I did leave the sword in the car though 😂
Yes ketchup and tomato sauce are different.
And yes chicken salt on chips is a must 😁
My quiz team is called "The Goonbags", and no I don't drink the shit!