Spag Bol?

Even the article admits it's Italian.

Really reaching for it, ain't we?

Now we come to my staple food when in the UK.

Meat Pie!

Pie and mash, pie in licquor, pie 'n chips.

If it don't have 'Made in Leicester' on it, it ain't a proper pie. (And I'm not using the word Pukka)

I used to do a lot of demolition and rebuild work in East London (UK not RSA). Excel Meat Pies was next to a glue factory, with a paint factory down the road, a printing ink factory over the road and other assorted stinky works all around Stratford. Never ate their pies.

Pizza?

Seafood Pizza?

Go to Amalfi, old son, and get the real deal.

With the Vegemite on toast, I'm not arguing that Vegemite ain't Australian (which it isn't - being owned by the Dutch company Kraft, bought by the bloody septics), but that Marmite isn't a yeast derivative.

Marmite was invented by Marston Brewery, hence the name, as a way of profiting from the yeast waste after brewing that best of all beers - Marston Pedigree.

This reporter should apply for a job with Boater.

9 - Vanilla Slice.

Teach the reporter some French - mille feuilles translates as a 'thousand leaves'.

And is one of those froggie eats that clog the mouth when eating, clog the arteries later.

Ban all froggie foods.

Now we come to my staple food when in the UK.

Meat Pie!

Pie and mash, pie in licquor, pie 'n chips.

If it don't have 'Made in Leicester' on it, it ain't a proper pie. (And I'm not using the word Pukka)

I used to do a lot of demolition and rebuild work in East London (UK not RSA). Excel Meat Pies was next to a glue factory, with a paint factory down the road, a printing ink factory over the road and other assorted stinky works all around Stratford. Never ate their pies.

Handy next to the glue factory, they never had far to go to find a use for the rest of the horse.

OK, I'll give you witchetty grubs and Croc.

Emu as well, although South Africa's ostrich is more popular abroad.

Barramundi is a specialised part of a greater set of foods (i.e. it's a fish)

And as for the rest - all bloody suasages and things burnt on a barbie.

I'm off for a full English breakfast now - eggs, sausage, bacon, fried tomatoes, Heinz BBs, black pudding, sauteed spuds with onions, toast, English Breakfast Tea, Bitter Orange Marmalade (maybe Rose's Lime Marmalade if I'm lucky) and the trimmings.

All in a bar in Saigon owned by a Kiwi.

Good luck to you, I'm about to make a traditional Australian meal of kartoffelpuffer, I need to use up some potato.

Good luck to you, I'm about to make a traditional Australian meal of kartoffelpuffer, I need to use up some potato.

Is that like stekt potatis?

(Traditional Swedish)

I prefer Janssen's Temptation - again Svensk.

Where's Meadish when you need him?

I like cheese.....(if that helps ?)

I like cheese.....(if that helps ?)

That's another thing ....

Over here we get packaged Bega cheese (From NSW)

Red Leicester, Mild Cheddar, mature Cheddar, Gloucester, and so on.

All pale imitations of the originals.

No wonder Australia trades so much with China - nothing original - all pale copies!!

Gawd Humph - are you going for the daily posting record? I note that article was written by some joker named Thomas Woodgate - probably named after the English cricketer.

As is common in this particular patch of the world (the Kiwis suffer from the same delusion), many Australians - being residents of a rather isolated nation - tend to have an inflated opinion of their importance on the world stage. This is less a product of arrogance than ignorance. Yes, I know that Americans suffer from the same delusional characteristic despite having many other countries on their doorstep, but Americans are... let's call them a 'special' case.

So when an Aussie journalist decides to spend half an hour knocking out some tripe that he likes to call an original piece, there are a few things to bear in mind:

* It is one person's opinion. Being a journalist does not automatically bring with it the qualities of omniscience (although people like Laurie Oakes and Michelle Grattan may take issue with this statement).

* Any resemblance of the statements in the article to fact is purely coincidental.

* It is written to fill a quota and pad out some space in a newspaper - similar to a 'stocking filler' at Christmas, it often disappoints.

* In all probability, Australian journalists learnt their trade in producing stocking fillers from their British counterparts.

Yes, Humphry seems to have an obsession with many of the inanities of Australian popular culture (an example would be his nik). Something I call Boater's disease.

He also exhibits a need to disprove any and all wild statements made about Australia. I'm not sure why he has this problem, perhaps he once ate a bad witchety grub and washed it down with West End lager!

LOL Humph.

I was gunna shoot down a lotta the crap.

Thanks matey, I guess you were bored, or incensed........ lol

I reckon this Woodgate guy was a yankee backpacking in Sydney..

Had heard stories, so did a bit of research and sent to CnnGO.for money to help pay for his trip.

Loved your comments.

I woke up after a couple of days recovery from work - read that pathetic article on food and, before my morning shit, shave, shower and shampoo, decided to respond. This made my stomach far more receptive to brekky.

I'm not particularly anti-Aussie, or anti-Kiwi. After all, outside work almost all my social life is conducted within these two tribal gatherings. There's a few Brits in Saigon, but mainly stuck-up, nose-in-the-air bankers (well actually people who gamble with the banks - i.e. your and my - money).

So I don't mix with them.

But, Jeez fellas, get a grip on reality sometimes, will ya?

Britain has invented almost everything in the world.

America then takes our ideas, develops them into marketable goods and sells 'em.

China copies 'em and sells 'em cheaper - having used Thai and Vietnamese labour to make them.

That's the world in a nutshell.

Is that bait fresh?

Worth dropping a hook now and then.

See what bites.

You could drop that hook over the side of the last reasonable invention the Brits made - the Hovercraft.

Best inventions, aircraft...

VTOLs, are the primary air transport and combat vehicle used by the US Marine Corps.

They initially were vetoed, but insisted, NO other aircraft had the ability, the pentagon gave in.

British aircraft were BEST.

ALL Kiwis and Australians will observe this

day.

At 11 a.m. on 11 November 1918, the

Armistice marked the moment when hostilities

ceased on the Western Front.

The "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the

eleventh month" thereafter

became universally associated with the remembrance of

those who had died in

the First World War.

1919: Introduction of the Silent Tribute

On the first anniversary of the Armistice, 11 November 1919, two minutes silence was instituted as part of the main commemorative ceremony in Whitehall, London. King George V had personally requested all the people of the British Empire to suspend normal activities for two minutes on the hour of the Armistice. Two minutes' silence was popularly adopted and it became a central feature of commemorations on Armistice Day.

Gawd - the cricket! C'mon Pete, stick the knife in and twist it.

Gawd - the cricket! C'mon Pete, stick the knife in and twist it.

Hafta be careful there, Ping.

Da BLACK CAPS and the BAGGY GREENS are due to clash soon.

Well rumble at least.

LOL, was so funny, but mustn't laff too soon.

Australia all out of 47 runs

NZ still holds the record, unfortunately, 26

Item deleted due to not being able to function on TV

Great game of cricket from Hobart.

Reckon the groundsman should be sacked.

NZ bundled out for 150, OK.

OZ for 136, unbelievable.

Interesting day coming up.

The unbelievable has happened.........

New Zealand broke an 18-year drought with a thrilling seven-run cricket

victory over Australia in Hobart today.

Australia, chasing 241 to wrap up a 2-0 series win were dismissed for 233 when last man Nathan Lyon, after adding 34 with undefeated opener David Warner, was bowled by Black Caps seamer Doug Bracewell to nail the win.

Watch here. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10772764

Gawd help OZ when the indians arrive

The unbelievable has happened.........

New Zealand broke an 18-year drought with a thrilling seven-run cricket

victory over Australia in Hobart today.

Australia, chasing 241 to wrap up a 2-0 series win were dismissed for 233 when last man Nathan Lyon, after adding 34 with undefeated opener David Warner, was bowled by Black Caps seamer Doug Bracewell to nail the win.

Watch here. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10772764

Gawd help OZ when the indians arrive

At MCG there'll probably be more Indian supporters than Aussie fans.

Pete - congrats to the Kiwis. (After all, an 18-year drought is nothing to be ashamed of.)

Pete - congrats to the Kiwis. (After all, an 18-year drought is nothing to be ashamed of.)

TY Ping, amazing to watch.

Hunph, next for NZ, v Sth Africa in NZ

That will be interesting.

Yeah, injun fanatics at MCG

We will be watching

Fake Indian kidnapper loses appeal

A Victorian man who disguised himself, kidnapped his girlfriend and drove her to remote bushland where they spent a week wandering around naked has been refused leave to appeal against his conviction and sentence.

Julian Mathias Buchwald was sentenced to seven years and nine months jail after he donned a balaclava and kidnapped his girlfriend of two years in March 2008 while he was supposed to be taking her on a picnic.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/fake-indian-kidnapper-loses-appeal-20111220-1p3aq.html#ixzz1h44CZ5f2

Victorians are not typical Australians.....

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