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Posted by Ebonyswanne on 02-05-2007 at 22:09:
I mainly like wine good Hunter Valley red wine from the cellar door...my hubby drinks beer he's going through a "cascade" phase at the moment...me shiraz...
Darling harbour in Sydney serves the best beer, James Squire can't get more Aussie than that..I will drink it and I'm not a beer drinker by a long shot!
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Posted by Metaliant on 03-05-2007 at 08:17:
Everytime my parents go to my brother's for a meal or Xmas dinner, my brother ALWAYS tops up my mum's wine glass with, as she likes wine but I don't think that much.
Still it's funny to watch and her answering my brother saying she will have a tiny bit more when her glass is half full.
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Posted by Cep on 03-05-2007 at 08:49:
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Its a damn sight better then Budweisher, that's all I have to say.
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Posted by Metaliant on 03-05-2007 at 09:18:
I have tried the orignal Czech Budweisher which is better than the American one.
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Posted by SJ_SwanJun on 03-05-2007 at 12:32:
The only American beer i can actually admit to liking (although I was drinking it during a baseball tournament my husband was in and was thusly bored out of my freaking mind on the second day - so you never know) was Bud Light.
It was the only beer they were offering, and, being a red-blooded Aussie Sheila with a penchant for a brew on a hot day, I simply had to try it.
Needless to say, after the lunch time break (which was two hours) I'd downed an entire six-pack ...
Yet, was remarkably sober, if not running to the ladies every two seconds because ...
say it with me ...
YOU DON'T BUY BEER, YOU ONLY RENT IT
If I get to choose here in Toronto, I'll go Millers or Labatt Blue.
Fosters only when I'm desperate and in the most impossibly NON Australian eatery, the OUTBACK Steakhouse.
Speaking of ...
I've been away from home now for 8 years ... Has the delicacies of the nation changed since I was away?
I mean ... Pumpernickel as an "Aussie" bread? The deep-fried Bloomin' Onion? Is that an Eastern State thing?
And no lamb ... An Aussie restaurant with NO LAMB!
I simply don't understand.
I always thought the good Aussie meal was a pie and a six-pack, or steak eggs and chips, or a Lamb roast - perhaps even mutton.
Or Kiwi Kick on Bloor Street here in the TO, who claims to be an Aussie eatery (but, Kiwi is NZ) ... I strode in there in search of an Aussie meal, and there wasn't one Aussie meal on the menu.
When I huffed, finished my Smirnoff Ice and stood to leave, the owner actually chased me out asking what was wrong. He had a Kiwi accent and all that, and I told him I saw nothing Australian, or even New Zealand on the menu, so I wasn't interested.
He told me that Thai shrimp was an Aussie meal.
What?!
Huh?!
Yeah?!
I would think the word "Thai" in the food's name would indicate the meal was, in fact, a meal made in Thailand ... But, apparently it's Australian.
BUT AUSSIES DON'T EAT SHRIMP! We eat Prawns, dagnabbit!
There's no Shrimp on the Barbie - it's PRAWN!!
And big ones at that!
Man ... I am so out of touch with my homeland ... and, in case you couldn't tell of late, desperately homesick!!
Sigh ...
Back to work ...
SJ
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Posted by gatchgirl on 03-05-2007 at 12:42:
I'm enjoying all the info on Aussie SJ.... I've heard from a friend a few years back that it's a great country and to check it out if I can in my life.
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Posted by Metaliant on 03-05-2007 at 13:37:
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My Supervisor has a friend who once went to New York and went into a bar there. BAiscially what happened was the Americans in the bar wouldn't beleive that the beer in the bar was weak (2 % ABV I think) and so the British bloke just drank jugs of the stuff and he was still sober. I just wish I was a fly on the wall there as I can't believe that story but it's true I have been told.
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The thought that the good Aussie meal was a pie and a six-pack, or steak eggs and chips, or a Lamb roast - perhaps even mutton, sounds like our meals over here as well and I agree with you on that supposedly Aussie eatery, though how come a Kiwi can't tell the difference between NZ and Oz is just staggering and as for shrimps on the Barbie......errr that doesn't sound right to me either.
My guess SJ is that you have gone through the Twilght Zone.
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Posted by Ebonyswanne on 04-05-2007 at 10:08:
Hi Swanjun
How's Canada...I published my first story today on Fanfiction.net. I hope it loaded up O.K as I'm not much of a computer wiz. any way I thought I'd have a go hope you like it
Cheers ES
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Posted by Ebonyswanne on 06-05-2007 at 07:27:
All this talk of beer a VB goes well in a good Aussie beef stew....other than that I stick yo wine...have a Lamb roast tonight so I'll have a bottle of Mt Pleasant Phillip shiraz 2003 to go with it mmmmm followed by Pavalova...mmmm
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Posted by SJ_SwanJun on 06-05-2007 at 11:55:
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I am so jealous
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Posted by Ebonyswanne on 06-05-2007 at 12:37:
Dinner was good... I think my husband has come to the conclusion can't beat 'em join 'em....he watch a Gatchaman episode with me after dinner and even suggested we watch the next one.....English translation...Starting on my next fanfic....talk to ya soon
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Posted by Metaliant on 06-05-2007 at 13:24:
Is this your plan, to convert your hubbie? Are you going to try to get him in here with us mad people?
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Posted by Cep on 06-05-2007 at 21:04:
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Posted by Ebonyswanne on 07-05-2007 at 04:44:
Naah it wasn't actually but he's right into online gaming and LANS so it's the way it goes....my house gets invaded by about 20 males with computer every couple of months.....fairs fair
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Posted by Metaliant on 07-05-2007 at 09:17:
Maybe you can make......I mean invite them to watch Gatchaman or BOTP every so often and just slowly convert them.
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Posted by Ebonyswanne on 07-05-2007 at 12:56:
These guy go by names likeQ,raghead,sven,cugar (who I didn't know he a real name for 2yrs) so I guess they could be considered well strange. They fly alot of flight syms at the moment. Gatchaman keeps me sain....Cugar was airforce intelligence so that expalins a few things...hahaha
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Posted by Metaliant on 07-05-2007 at 16:38:
Strangely, a friend of my supervisor used to be in the RAF and likes to play Halo 2 a lot, though he never went "into the field" at all.
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Posted by Ebonyswanne on 08-05-2007 at 05:08:
all this talk of food.....my cat is about to be renamed Berg Katse at the kill rate he has on birds at the moment...how many bell can you put on a cat he has 3 already...
Aussies still like pies chips and peas as a staple meal but multicultural society has expanded the menu a bit, anyone for Thai????
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Posted by Metaliant on 08-05-2007 at 18:34:
Blimey, you may hae to stick bells everywhere on the cat.
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Posted by Ebonyswanne on 09-05-2007 at 08:32:
Metaliant were are you from? By the lingo I guess you could be an Aussie????
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