USA vs Australia snack wars

[el henry]

I thought this was pretty funny on its own merits (Aussie friends, are Lamingtons really that good?)

(You don't need to know anything about football (as that term is used by 75% of Anglophones and in the US and Australia , it's all about the snacks)

NFL SNACK WARS: Australia vs. America

Australian native Jordan Mailata puts his favorite snacks from his home country up against what America has to offer. Mailata's best friend and teammate Landon Dickerson represents the United States of America. Which country has the better snacks? Devour

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[TallyT]

I thought this was pretty funny on its own merits (Aussie friends, are Lamingtons really that good?)

(You don't need to know anything about football (as that term is used by 75% of Anglophones and in the US and Australia , it's all about the snacks)

NFL SNACK WARS: Australia vs. America

Australian native Jordan Mailata puts his favorite snacks from his home country up against what America has to offer. Mailata's best friend and teammate Landon Dickerson represents the United States of America. Which country has the better snacks? Devour

www.philadelphiaeagles.com

(the Eagles prohibit embedding YouTube vids. Boo)

Lamingtons should always be bought from a bakery so they are fresh (or be homemade of course), the ones he had, which came in a plastic packet from a supermarket? - would have been a bit dry yes. But a proper bakery-bought lamington is a thing of beauty, a joy forever and One Of The Things That Makes Australia Great (we have a National Lamington Day, no surprise) they are trotted out at every important occasion and are the staple of school cake stalls.

These days they also can come with a layer of jam, or cream, or jam and cream and also coated in a strawberry rather than chocolate sauce, and quite a few other variations. All of which are deliiiiiicious if a tad messy to eat (well, the coconut does get everywhere even if you are not a small child) but the one above is THE icon.

I notice they also mentioned two of our other famous foods, Tim Tams (Nature's Perfect Health Food) and Vegemite which... is famous for all the wrong reasons but I came here as a child and learned to love it; when I travelled overseas I took to packing my own because there is nothing like lying awake in a London hotel at 2 a m because you cannot have a vegemite sandwich on white bread. And you want it.

 

[Magill]

Lamingtons should always be bought from a bakery so they are fresh (or be homemade of course), the ones he had, which came in a plastic packet from a supermarket? - would have been a bit dry yes. But a proper bakery-bought lamington is a thing of beauty, a joy forever and One Of The Things That Makes Australia Great (we have a National Lamington Day, no surprise) they are trotted out at every important occasion and are the staple of school cake stalls. View attachment 8610

These days they also can come with a layer of jam, or cream, or jam and cream and also coated in a strawberry rather than chocolate sauce, and quite a few other variations. All of which are deliiiiiicious if a tad messy to eat (well, the coconut does get everywhere even if you are not a small child) but the one above is THE icon.

I notice they also mentioned two of our other famous foods, Tim Tams (Nature's Perfect Health Food) and Vegemite which... is famous for all the wrong reasons but I came here as a child and learned to love it; when I travelled overseas I took to packing my own because there is nothing like lying awake in a London hotel at 2 a m because you cannot have a vegemite sandwich on white bread. And you want it.

They surely look delicious and yummy!

 

[TallyT]

They surely look delicious and yummy!

They are totally that Australia has an odd array of 'our tradition so there!' foods, but hey, we like them.