Well that's it, I'm not going back over there I'd starve.
Dunno what half that stuff is and to be honest have no desire to try hog jowels although having eaten so much Chinese cuisine I probably enjoyed them at some time or other. Anything is fine in sweet 'n sour sauce.
Not that picky about defining food. It's fish,meat,or veggies to me.
A fish in a can is Salmon, Tuna, Sardines, or if I'm broke, Barracuda. (that was better than it sounds really, haven't seen it for years though.)
If it's fresh and they don't have my fave, Sea Mullet, then it's whatever kind doesn't taste like it came out of the Mekong and is a reasonable price.
(But Sea Mullet, Barramundi (wild, not farmed) and Tailer are the faves.) I've never bought raw tuna or salmon, don't like 'em all that much.
Crawdads seem to be a kind of freshwater Yabbie so yes, and most everything else marine with a shell on it, except draw the line at oysters.
If it's red meat it's beef or lamb, if it's pink it's pork, if it's white it's a dead bird.
Whatever's on special is my fave of the week. But don't eat pork much, doesn't seem as flavourful as it was and it tends to go through me like paraffin so I give that a miss now.
My main vegetable is rice, fried, but Kumera, (sweet potato) is well represented, and what we call pumpkin and greens are usually just frozen peas or green beans. Sometimes silverbeet, not often.
Not into anything with chilli and beans associated, never part of our menu and never acquired the taste.
I just eat what's available and that's not much around here.
I've tried a few things others may not though.
Crocodile, Water Buffalo, Kangaroo and Emu. Can't say I'd make a habit of them, except maybe the buff fillet, that was a tasty morsel.
I've eaten stewed Caribou, and had venison served in a fancy restaurant and found it pretty much like lamb but far more expensive, here anyway.
I don't think we have much that would rate as 'strange' here on the everyday menu, at least I don't.
Most (all) of our food derives from European or foreign origins rather than local.
To be honest there's not a lot of edible native food to be found in OZ unless you're a Koori and want to work damned hard to find it.
No natural grain crop that would have sustained civilization, no wheat or maize etc type plants, just tiny grass seeds and I can't recall, though I may be wrong, any reference to poridgy type foods being eaten by the Kooris at all. Africans used maize meal etc but can't think of any basic grain meal being available here. There weren't anything approaching all those beans you folks eat either.
There was only what fruit or seed could be picked from a bush in passing, or dug up or hunted, which is why they were all nomadic and couldn't settle and 'civilize' the joint. No daily bread in OZ. Nothing starchy except some root plants that are probably a kind of yam.
Fish and shellfish are fine, but you'd soon get tired of that.
'Bush Tucker' is something quaint to try once but believe me, you wouldn't want to have live on our native flora and fauna long term. When a big fat white squirming wichety grub is considered a delicacy to be eaten raw then you know there ain't much else around on offer.
Kebab anyone??? No?
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