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You only think you got best quality beef. While I have no doubt it was good quality, IME nothing beats beef grown in Gippsland. It's the combination of climate, soil and pasture.

Top End beef is exported from Darwin, Broome and Wyndham. It's close to Asian markets. It has to compete with Argentinian and US producers. OTOH, beef from Gippsland is only exported in limited quantities, due to local demand and the added cost of shipping. Take a look at where Melbourne and Darwin are on a map of Australia, relative to Asia. Maybe then you will understand.

From your posts, I'd say you are quite used to circular arguments.

Vance is strongly against abortion. So is Trump, in a nod to the Christian nationalists. Everyone knows he would sell his own mother for votes. Melania has come out pro-abortion. You don't think that is a significant development, telling Vance to pull his head in?

How would Australians force you to eat Vegemite, and why would they want to? I mostly live on what I or my GF cooks, street food can be a bit of a lottery.

I tend to judge any medical or dental facility by the age of the equipment it has. Such equipment does not come cheap. A high end CAT scanner can be north of $2 million. IMO doctors and dentists can only be as good as their equipment.

Just proves Australians have good immune systems.

I am quite confident any sentence ending in "it's a well-known fact" is utter bullsh!t.

When I was in Hong Kong, I found my palate had been so modified by Thai food the Chinese offerings were bland in comparison. Good luck with the implants, I am sure we will be hearing more.

Englishmen visit everywhere, to get away from their miserable climate. Sometimes they stay, then spend the rest of their lives whinging about how things are so much better in the Old Dart. Yabbies don't get liver fluke. While they do have livers, they are vegetarians, and are not suitable as a host.

You can have an implant done here using Chinese bone graft material, and over the space of a month. Or you can have one done over three months, using premium Swiss bone graft material. Guess which one has a failure rate of less than 5%, and which one fails 30-40% of the time?

Post a link to prove your assertion, then.

Mainland Tasty or Vintage cheese comes from the other direction. Unless you are talking about Stiltons and Bries.

Most comes from the Top End. It's good beef, but can't match the meat in Gippsland, which we keep for ourselves.

British cuisine is nothing to get excited about. The way you treat cabbage seems to consist of boiling it until it is gray. As for the Scots, how they consider haggis to be remotely edible is beyond my comprehension. Actually, there is an Australian cuisine - pavlovas, lamingtons, vanilla slices and real beef pies. We keep the best for ourselves. You've probably never tasted garlic yabbies either. Why should we be ashamed of ourselves? Australian debt as a percentage of GDP is 59%, yours is 85%. How can you be deadbeats, after looting the colonies for so long?

Deflection. Have you ever tasted any of the foods I mentioned? Why do you think Australian beef in the string of restaurants you mention is sold at a premium? We don't have Australian restaurants, we adopt cuisine from other countries just like Phuket does. A properly made Australian beef sausage is as good as any Cumberland, boerewors, chorizo, bratwurst or andouille. You've probably only eaten mass-produced stuff, which I agree isdreck.

Yeah, real well..... I assume it was not from Springfield....

If Vegemite is a copy of Marmite, can you explain how it was patented? AFAIK patents are not granted to copies. It's quite rich when a Brit talks about complaining Australians. The term 'Whinging Pom" entered our lexicon just after WWII. Poor food quality in Australia? You have obviously never tasted Gippsland eye fillet steak, King Island cheese, Tasmanian crayfish, barramundi, macadamias, Koo Wee Rup asparagus, the smorgasbord of Shepparton fruit. Carnarvon prawns and bananas. Where do you think the UK imports lamb from? The Chinese and Japanese can't get enough of our clean food. You couldn't even feed yourselves during WWII, even now the bulk of your meat, fruit and vegetables are still imported. Please get out more, you are embarrassing yourself.

You mean people who like warm beer and cold pork pies? Or the consumers of hot dogs and pork ribs? Vegemite is an Australian institution, kids get it the first day they are started on solid food. Our palates are trained for it. I am always amused by non-Australians who try it. They react as if they have been poisoned.

True. That's why I live here comfortably, instead of struggling in Australia. I don't buy much imported food here. Every month, I stock up my freezer with Atlantic salmon, chicken breasts, steak, and pork tenderloin. Fruit, eggs and vegetables come from the day market. I buy almonds and Kelloggs Bran Flakes on Lazada. IMO those complaining about high food prices are not looking hard enough at local alternatives. A failure to adapt. Example: Cheese prices at Big C and Tops are ridiculous. I can buy a 500 gm block of Mainland Tasty cheese in Makro for 270 baht. OTOH, I can also buy a 500 gm block of ARO tasty cheese for 190 baht, and I can't pick any difference in taste.

Certainly people on a salt-restricted diet should avoid it.

You forgot the cost of flour.

The free care is dependent on available resources and eligibility criteria. I was thinking more of the retirement villages, where the proprietors shaft property owners bigtime with maintenance and exit fees.

I can remember a guy I used to work with, who traveled to Libya with two large jars of Vegemite. The Libyan Customs thought it was plastic explosive. They made him eat half a jar to prove it wasn't.

$24.10/hour. The average suburban home is about $800,000, but very dependent on location.