Australian cuisine Australian cuisine ANZAC biscuits are a snack food most commonly made primarily from rolled oats, coconut, and golden syrup. The biscuits were first thought to have been made by Australian and New Zealand women for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) soldiers of World War I and were first called Soldiers' Biscuits. They were later named ANZAC Biscuits after the Gallipoli landing. Legend has it that the troops themselves also made these biscuits. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anzac biscuit"
Traditional Australian cuisine was based on English cooking brought to the country by the first European settlers. This cuisine generally consisted of Sunday roasts, grilled chops, and other forms of meat, and was generally accompanied by vegetables (often known colloquially as "three veg") such as mashed potatoes, beans, peas, and carrots (often served soggy or overcooked). This trend has declined considerably with the multicultural emphasis of Australian culture over the last thirty to fifty years. ...more on Wikipedia about "Australian cuisine"
Burger Rings is a popular burger flavoured Australian snack food distributed by the Twisties corporation but owned by its parent company The Smith's Snackfood Company. ...more on Wikipedia about "Burger Rings"
Bush Tucker is a colloquial Australian term for any food native to Australia and eaten before European colonisation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bush tucker"
Carpetbag steak is a uniquely Australian dish that was first popularised in Sydney around 1950. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carpetbag steak"
CC's are a popular Australian snack food. CC's stands for Corn chips and is a trademark owned by Snack Brands Australia. ...more on Wikipedia about "CC's"
A cheesymite scroll is a spiral of baked bread with vegemite and cheese baked into it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cheesymite scroll"
Cheezels are a popular Australian snack food that was introduced to the food market in 1971. Cheezels are owned by Snack Brands Australia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cheezels"
Chicken salt is a flavoured salt composed of herbs and spices and (in some brands) monosodium glutamate (MSG). It is sold across Australia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chicken salt"
The Chiko Roll or CHIKO Roll is an Australian savoury snack developed by Francis McEncroe, a boilermaker from Bendigo, and first appeared at the Wagga Wagga Show in 1951. It was inspired by Chinese spring rolls and designed to be able to be eaten with one hand whilst drinking a beer with the other. The Chiko roll consists of boned mutton, celery, cabbage, barley, rice, carrot and spices in a tube of egg, flour and dough which is then deep-fried. The wrap was designed to be unusually thick so it would survive transport to Football matches. It was originally called a "Chicken roll" despite not containing any chicken then later renamed to "Chiko Roll". ...more on Wikipedia about "Chiko Roll"
Chocolate crackles or Australian chocolate crackles are a popular children's snack in Australia especially during birthday parties and at school fetes. As the recipe is relatively easy requiring only copha, cocoa, Rice Bubbles, coconut and the optional use of sultanas, it is often used as a craft activity for young children. Kelloggs has promoted chocolate crackles by placing the recipe on boxes of Rice Bubbles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chocolate crackles"
Claytons is the brand name of a non-alcohlic, non-carbonated beverage coloured and packaged to resemble bottled whisky. It was the subject of a major marketing campaign in Australia and New Zealand in the 1980s, promoting it as "the drink you have when you're not having a drink" at a time when alcohol was being targeted as a major factor in the road toll. ...more on Wikipedia about "Claytons"
Damper is a traditional Australian outback food prepared by swagmen, drovers and other travellers. It consists of a wheat flour based, unleavened bread baked in the coals of a campfire. Damper is an iconic Australian dish. ...more on Wikipedia about "Damper (food)"
Fairy bread is white bread lightly spread with margarine or butter, and then sprinkled with either sugar or more commonly Hundreds and Thousands (also known as sprinkles, a Masterfoods product consisting of small balls of coloured sugar intended to decorate cakes). ...more on Wikipedia about "Fairy bread"
Flake is a term used in Australia to indicate the flesh of any of several species of small shark, particularly Gummy Shark. The term probably arose in the late 1920s when the large-scale commercial shark fishery off the coast of Victoria was established. (Until this time, shark was generally an incidental catch rather than a targeted species.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Flake (fish)"
Food Standard Australia New Zealand (FSANZ, formally ANZFA) is the governmental body responsible for developing food standards for Australia and New Zealand. ...more on Wikipedia about "Food Standards Australia New Zealand"
The Four'N Twenty Meat Pie was invented in Bendigo by LT. McLure in 1947. The pie is enormously popular in Australia. Strong demand for the pie saw production grow from 50 pies per day in 1948 to 50,000 pies per hour in 1998. ...more on Wikipedia about "Four'N Twenty Pie"
Lamingtons are a type of sponge cake (or more traditionally, butter cake) squares, coated in a layer of flavoured gelatin (or traditionally chocolate icing or strawberry jam), then desiccated coconut. They are sometimes served as two halves with a layer of cream between them, and are commonly found in New Zealand and Australian bakeries. Like many recipes common to both countries, there is dispute about who 'invented' the lamington, but it is fairly ubiquitous in both. The strawberry variety is more common in New Zealand, while sightings of a lemon variety have occurred in Australia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lamington"
Meadow Lea is an Australian brand of polyunsaturated margarine spread, produced by the Goodman Fielder food company. ...more on Wikipedia about "Meadow Lea"
Nobby's is Australias largest producer of pre-packaged nuts. The company is owned by The Smith's Snackfood Company. Nobby's products are typically sold in supermarkets as well as pubs. Nobby's famous sexually suggestive marketing compaign is "Nibble Nobby's Nuts". Crisps are also sold under the Nobby's brand. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nobby's"
Passiona is a passion fruit-flavoured soft drink only available in Australia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Passiona"
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Pavlova is a light and fluffy meringue dessert named after the ballet dancer, Anna Pavlova. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pavlova"
Peters Ice Cream is an Australian ice cream brand developed by former American Fred Peters in the 1930s, using his mother's recipe. The company ( Petersville Australia Limited) became based in the Melbourne suburb of Mulgrave from the 1960's until it was taken over by Adsteam in the late 1980s. Subsequently, the ice cream division was acquired by Nestlé, who still produces many Australian icon brands (such as ' Choc-Wedge', ' Drumstick', ' Eskimo Pie') under the Peters Ice Cream logo in all Australian states except Western Australia, where the company Peters and Brownes holds the trademark and continues to produce a similar line of products. In this state, Nestlé is forced to use different packaging on the reduced line of ice creams it sells. ...more on Wikipedia about "Peters Ice Cream"
Picnic is a chocolate bar similar in composition to a Snickers. It consists of milk chocolate, covering chewy nougat, caramel, biscuit and puffed rice. Unlike a Snickers, Picnic bars are lumpy in shape. A popular slogan for the Picnic, released in the early 2000s, was "Deliciously ugly". Picnic is manufactured by Cadburys. ...more on Wikipedia about "Picnic (chocolate bar)"
A pie floater is a meal served at pie carts in Adelaide and elsewhere in South Australia. It was once more widely available in other parts of Australia but its popularity waned. It consists of the traditional Australian meat pie sitting inverted in a plate of thick green pea soup, covered with tomato sauce ( ketchup). ...more on Wikipedia about "Pie floater"
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