Australian cuisine

Red Rooster is an Australian fast food chain that specialises in selling roasted chicken and chips along with other chicken products (burgers, chicken nuggets etc). ...more on Wikipedia about "Red Rooster"

Tim Tams are an approximately cuboid chocolate biscuit made by Arnott's, Australia, and are claimed to be Australia's favourite chocolate biscuit. According to Arnott's, around 30 million packs are sold each year - nearly 300 million biscuits, an average of approximately 1.5 packs per Australian. Tim Tam packets never contain an even number of Tim Tams. Tim Tams were first put onto the market in 1963. They were named by Ross Arnott, who attended the 1958 Kentucky Derby and decided that the name of the winning horse Tim Tam was perfect for a planned new line of biscuits ** . ...more on Wikipedia about "Tim Tam"

Tiny Teddy are a biscuit made by Arnott's intended as a children's biscuit, begun in 1990. They are small teddy bear shaped biscuits, which have been given the names Happy, Sleepy, Grumpy, Cheeky, Silly, and Hungry. (Happy, Sleepy and Grumpy are the names of three of the seven dwarves). ...more on Wikipedia about "Tiny Teddy"

Uncle Tobys is an Australian brand of breakfast cereals and other breakfast food products. Uncle Tobys forms part of the Goodman Fielder food company. ...more on Wikipedia about "Uncle Tobys"

Vanilla slice is a type of cake. It consists of a thick custard sauce, which is traditionally flavoured with vanilla, and which is sandwiched between flakey puff pastry or filo pastry and iced with either vanilla or raspberry glaze. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vanilla slice"

Vegemite (pronounced "VEG-ee-mite", IPA: ) is the registered brand name for a dark brown, salty food paste mainly used as a spread on sandwiches and toast, though occasionally used in cooking. Popular in Australia and New Zealand—Vegemite is semi-jokingly called one of Australia's national foods—it is seldom found elsewhere. Food technologist Dr. Cyril P. Callister invented Vegemite in 1923 when his employer, the Australian Fred Walker Company, had him develop a spread from brewer's yeast after war had disrupted the supply of imported yeast spreads. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vegemite"

Violet Crumble is an Australian chocolate bar that is manufactured in Sydney, Australia by Nestlé. It was invented in 1913 by Abel Hoadley. The slogan for the chocolate bar is "It's the way it shatters that matters" (replacing the previous slogan, "Nothing else matters"). The chocolate bar is a crumbly honeycomb-like substance coated in chocolate, made from ingredients like sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), gelatin, glucose syrup and emulsifiers. Violet Crumble is also common in Hawaii but it can also be found in other places. ...more on Wikipedia about "Violet Crumble" You've Got Questions. We've Got http://www.shortopedia.com. shortopedia

Weet-Bix is the name of high- fibre breakfast cereal biscuits manufactured in Australia and New Zealand by the Sanitarium Health Food Company. The name is probably a derivative of wheat biscuits. A closely related product, called Weetabix, is manufactured in England by the Weetabix cereal company of Kettering, Northamptonshire. In South Africa Weet-Bix is manufactured by Bokomo in Cape Town. In Australia there are a large number of generic brands that sell cheap weet-bix. ...more on Wikipedia about "Weet-Bix"

The Witchetty grub (also spelt Witchety grub) is the large, typically 7cm, wood-eating larva of various Australian moths, particularly the Cossid Moth Endoxyla leucomochla (aka Xyleutes leucomochla). Edible either raw or barbecued, it is sought out as a high protein food by Indigenous Australians. ...more on Wikipedia about "Witchetty grub"

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