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We DO NOT mix beetroot into meat patties that’s very strange. We eat a “hamburger with the lot” or “Aussie burger” beef, cheese, tomato, lettuce, Onion, egg, beetroot, pineapple and bbq sauce *edit* and bacon too
I have found the beetroot mixed into the patty in Coles, it was as bad as it sounds.
Don't forget about the bacon as well mate
You forgot the bacon and I put cucumber on my too
Me and my family do this actually
@Jon mmmm bacon!
If you haven’t burnt the roof of your mouth eating a meat pie- it wasn’t an Australian meat pie 😂
The hardest part to comprehend is the closer the fill looks like dog food the nicer it is.
Or burnt your chin or hands when you don’t bite it carefully enough and the hot meat falls onto you! 🔥
The proper way to eat a pie is driving and the pie is red hot dropping meat in your lap
@@johnprout7260 😂 😂😂😂😂😂
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Fairy bread is 100% a food we make for kids parties, cheap and fun. It's not a snack your mate is gonna serve you for Sunday drinks and football. For many Aussies our favourite thing about Fairy Bread is the nostalgia.
Fairy bread is commonly served at children's birthday parties. This guy is really killing the vibe.
I agree
I agree too
Well, my comment was going to be..... Why are we listening to an American tell other people about Australia's top 10 best foods.
A video like that needs to be done by someone who has lived in Australia for most of their life or all of their life. To be able to give a fair review on Aussie foods.
Someone who really knows their food, too. Not just some bogan who likes to assume they're some food connoisseur, but their diet consist mostly of Big Mac's every other day.
Beetroot is added sliced like the tomato. Never heard of mixing beetroot into the patty.
I wouldn't buy it if they did as I don't care for beetroot.
Beetroot is in the vegetarian burger you can get.
That'll be from the same restaurant that serves coffee in avo peels.
In Finland we have dishes with beetroot-meat mix patties, but they don't belong to burgers
Michael Fisher. A hamburger meat would not fry if beetroot added in.
Being a native Aussie who loves beetroot, having it mixed in the beef like that is an atrocity and I have never seen it in my life. Usually if you have beetroot on hamburgers it will be in slices and its soooo good.
Indeed. I did try the patty with beetroot in it but it lowered the taste of the beetroot. Better to just have them separate.
Remember, you can whip cream but you cannot beetaroot!
He missed out on dim sims. They're quasi-seemingly-Asian dumplings, but are an Australian invention. And you have to eat the South Melbourne Market ones. You can get dim sims anywhere, but to know what they're supposed to taste like, you have to eat the South Melb Market ones. They even sell SMM ones in supermarkets, as they mass-produce them.
Also the Chiko Roll. Which is kind of like a large Chinese spring roll, but again, invented in Australia.
A lot of Americans get super weirded out by the idea of beetroot (what y'all call beets) on a burger, but canned beetroot is preserved by pickling in vinegar with a few herbs and spices, like cucumbers are. Think of beetroot as basically the Australian version of pickles.
Also, if you do decide to try kangaroo (many of us just call it "roo"), the medium rare recommendation is really important. Because roo has less than half the fat of lean beef, it's very healthy, but gets dry and tough easily if you overcook it because there's not much fat to keep it moist. But marinating can help with this, and you also don't have to eat roo as a steak; it's also great if you cube it up for a slow-cooker recipe like a curry or stew.
And for meat pies - you said you don't need the pie part, but honestly the pie crust is really just there to be an edible container so you can eat a stew with your hands :P
Don't knock fairy bread until you've tried it! A staple of every kids birthday party for generations (and the parents ALWAYS eat a heap of it too)
Some parents perhaps but others care what they put in their bodies.
Considering how much sugar is in normal American bread, you would think that they would have some kind of candy bread dish too.
@@RexAlfieLee Aww Debbie Downer, in the 70's noone cared what they put in their bodies, regardless nothing wrong with slice of fairy bread even the most fittest of men n women stop for.
@@CQuinnLady well that was rude! I've not been a big sugar eater most of my life & much of it none at all including all wheat products & bread. However I'm not purrfekt & I occasionally fall down in this area. No matter I would never eat fairy bread, ever (he says munching on fairy bread roll). Never! Debbie Downer indeed! I'm not a Debbie Downer! I'm going to hide in my suicidal depression for a month or two now & repress my emotions!
@@RexAlfieLee Says the judgemental person who decided to look down your probably not inconsiderable nose at anyone who eats Fairy Bread! Just shut up! You most certainly are not 'purrfekt'.... but you certainly are a KAREN.
40 years and I've never seen a burger pattie with beetroot mixed into it, in either Australia or New Zealand. Weird >.
You can buy beetroot burger patties in the vegetarian section of the supermarket.
@@crystalclear8358 Yeah my niece loves them
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There is one food that comes from Australia that he didn't include in the list. This one I know originated in Australia. It's called the CHIKO Roll. It was invented by a guy who wanted a snack that could be eaten with one hand, whist cheering on his favourite AFL team with the other. It has a vegetable centre stuffed in a pastry outer cylinder, similar to in shape to the Sausage Roll, but a totally different pastry. These are deep fried, or oven fried.
They are very different, try one Ryan
Are Chicko rolls still around? They were being phased out when I emigrated, so I'm surprised they have survived.
@@Rionnagan Absolutely, you can get them from most deli's and also in Coles & Woolies in frozen form in boxes (I think there's 4 in each box - around $6)
@@Rionnagan Yes! They are still sold in self-respecting takeaway food places. I don't like the frozen ones you get in supermarkets. They are best done in commercial deep fryers. They need to be cooked "just so". From the Google research I did, they do have a bit of beef in the filling but it's mostly barley and veges. A well cooked Chiko roll is a nice lunch.
@@skippymaster57 yikes Chiko rolls .. never really like them back in the 19'60s and still don't .. all that cabbage!
To me it's still a teenager's snack.
@@tonywright560
You gotta try one that has been cooked in an air fryer.
I've long cooked them in a deep fryer at home. But have recently converted to cooking them in my air fryer (15 mins at 180 degrees, although other fryers may vary in time) OMG They still taste just as delicious, perhaps even slightly better since they're not drowning in all that fatty oil.
When I went to Japan they had a local Australian restaurant that my host family took me to so that I could try what Japan's interpretation of our food was like! All the waiters greeted you at the door with "g'day mate". I loved it!
Sorry needed to edit my comment - fairy bread is a staple!! Everyone has had these at their parties as a kid.
Edit 2: i dont know what on earth those beef and beetroot patties are - but yes, a typical burger sandwhich is meat, cheese, egg, beetroot, tomato, onion and lettuce.
You called a burger a sandwich???
Get out--->
@@Vince_Steele haha literally only for the benefit of the americans in the comments. I realised "burger" might get misinterpreted as the patty 😆
@@Lussuriaif it's a beef patty, then the entire thing is called a burger. If the patty's made from anything else, it's a sandwich, although they do call their burgers sandwiches too. 🙄
@@Vince_Steele 😂
I remember taking a class where we had an American lecturer. Someone brought in Pavlova. This guy went nuts. “Man, I gotta get the recipe for that and take it back to the states, that’s the best thing I’ve ever eaten.”
Ahah nicee
Happy arvo Ryan.
Fyi the 🐟 is pronounced BarraMUNdi not BarraMOONdi like he said lol. Yes seafood is widely consumed here. Yes we call them 🍟 chips! We also call a packet of potato chips...chips too! We have some really good fish and chip /seafood shops here.
Fairy bread is something you'd have at birthday parties as a child. It's not something that adults generally eat.
Lamingtons are simple but very tasty, sold in every bakery and supermarket, and at just about every school fete fundraiser (bake sale) etc.
The sausage sizzle is the most common way to eat a sausage in Australia. Basically just a cheap BBQ sausage on a slice of bread with BBQ'd onions and tomato sauce(ketchup for you) or barbecue sauce. Even at our Bunnings hardware stores, local groups and charities sell them out front to raise money. Look up the bunnings sausage sizzle.
Vegetmite on toast is all about the ratio. A good spread of butter on hot toast, followed by a thin scraping of Vegemite. It also goes well with cheese in toast or a sandwich or in a toasted sandwich. And with egg or avocado on toast.
Another concoction to look up is the HSP. 😜. You can get them from any kebab shop.
Totally agree. Vegemite and avocado, or cheese or egg on toast. I love it. Also, the ratio of vegemite to butter on toast is a skill, even how you spread it. The HSP is good but the original AB from Adelaide is the best IMO and it has been served here since the early 70's. You don't want to know what AB stands for :)
Yes, but he also said “borra- moondy, I explained the first part sounds like our yarra with a B.
The more Vegemite on toast the more Aussie, thick!
A friend of mine introduced me to the “gourmet” Vegemite melty which is basically a slice of bread buttered and Vegemite scraped over it, a slice of cheddar cheese on top then garnished with a quartered thin slice of tomato with a sprinkle of thinly sliced onion rings, seasoned and lightly sprinkled with dried Basil (if you don’t have any fresh to put on after you grill it) then grilled as an open sandwich … delicious 😋 and win win, my British husband finally ate Vegemite with relish.
@@judileeming1589 oooh that sounds yummy. I've had a vegetmite and cheese toastie before. As in vegetmite and cheese in a flat sandwich press or a jaffle maker. And I've had Vegemite and tomato before. But haven't had the lot, grilled with the onions added.
Australian pie culture is next level. In all of my years, I've only had one dodgey pie.
When I was overseas and couldn't get Vegemite, I stressed so much that an English coworker brought me some 'Marmite' from London and I found it to be a pretty good substitute. Toast, lot's of butter and a little spread of Vegemite is how it's done. WHY so many foreigners hate the stuff is interesting. Fun Fact. It's a by product of the beer brewing process. ie. waste product.
I lived in the USA for 30 years & have to tell you that the sausages there are awful & NOTHING like the Aussie ones - totally different in flavour & texture!! We traveled all over the States & the only thing close to our sausages were the Bratwurst type. Ryan will never know the difference unless he tries them.
Yup, what Peter said - US sausages are generally awful unless you go somewhere like a German restaurant or an Italian deli.
One thing worse is the US hog dog, yuk. I will take our sausage (any type) or frankfurt in a bread roll any time.
Yes, I visited America at 18 & so the first thing I bought was yoghurt & custard things, lol, they weir so gross, just powder 🤗
@@claren2792 yes, lol, so true, weird hey, corn breads yummo
Australian sausages are terrible
There is apparently an "Australian" themed chain in the US called "Outback Jack's". They serve food we would never eat 🙂
And we NEVER put chopped beetroot in the meat - we eat it as a separate accompaniment to the meat, like an American would use lettuce, or tomato. Those pink burger patties looked just creepy.
Yes, I remember my first trip to the US and we went to the "Outback Steakhouse" supposed to be an Aussie themed restaurant. They had one menu item called "Alice Springs Chicken" so I said I would try "The Alice Chook" the waitress looked at me like I was speaking Japanese. So funny. My boss ordered a "Blue" T-bone, they had no idea what "blue" meant. Then they said they had Australian beer and you can guess which one. Yep "Fosters" we all laughed and said Australians never drank Fosters we only export it because it is rubbish. So a very Australian themed chain restaurant but they try hard.
@@kevin_g1164 Foreign based restaurants in different countries do tend to make for funny results lol.
@@kevin_g1164 The "Outback" owners once admitted that they had never been to Australia.
@@mikeparkes7922 THAT doesn't surprise me. Went to one and they brought out the onion... whatever they called it. A large roasted onion that you peeled slices from. yeah, nah.
Believe the one I attended has since gone out of business.
@@lawriemillar4932 Ugh...several have (thankfully)
To the non-Aussies out there: Barramundi is "Asian Seabass", the name we use here is adopted from a native name for the same fish. It's mostly popular in QLD and NT and maybe WA, basically those Northern states where it's also available in the wild (it's widely farmed). For the rest of Australia there are other fish that are much more common - flathead, whiting, snapper, etc - although barramundi is still a popular enough choice in restaurants across the country
An Australian pie can also be egg and bacon inside the pastry, meat and potato (potato pie) or any of dozens of different fillings including a curry pie or a meat and cheese pie. It could be a huge family sized pie or it can be what we called a party pie….often used at kids parties along with fairy bread (usually kids under 10). A pie is often used as the main part of a cheap meal alone or on a plate with Vegetables or a salad. Come visit for the real deal.
Barramundi ('barra') is delicious pan-fried with lemon 😋 Fairy bread is a cheap kids' party staple. Adults rarely eat it, cos we have a slightly more sophisticated palate 😂 Kangaroo meat tastes quite gamey. It's low in fat, so if you buy it, don't overcook it. Lamingtons are just yum 😋 Meat pies and sausage rolls vary from fabulous to gross, depending on where you buy them. BTW that is WAAAAY too much Vegemite 😂
NOT enough Vegemite, i love it very thick , mmmm. but for a new person trying it. more butter and a very light coating.
Fairy Bread is my #1 request at birthday parties and I'm 68yrs old. National Fairy Bread Day 24/11/22.
bullshit if i'm making fairy bread for a bunch of kids , i'm having a few slices
I like fresh King George Whiting and fresh raw Tuna better than Barra. But the seafood here is great.
My partner and I are having fairy bread on the dessert table at our wedding next year. Gonna be awesome!
The reason subscribers send you stuff Ryan is because we want to see you react, so please react to every parcel you receive from Australia or any country really 😂
I thought that there would be no country on the planet that could beat French cuisine until I spent 2 weeks in Brisbane! The city reminded me of the East coast in South Africa - so much was similar. The restaurants were awesome - Asian fusion really provided taste sensations! One of the best tv programmes screened here is Masterchef Australia. WOW!
MasterChef is 👌
I didn’t realise how funny fairy bread is. The go to for kids🎉
Hurry Ryan get to your ‘local Australian restaurant’😂🇦🇺
There are hundreds of "Outback Steakhouses" in the US. Ryan probably lives near one without knowing. They probably don't do fairy bread though.
Bull twang. If there's fairy bread, i'm eating it. (i'm 45)
If you have never tried Vegemite, here's the drum. Only eat it when spread very thinly on toast which has been buttered while it was still hot! (Unless you've been raised on it). The closest flavor many people would know from outside Australia would be Soy Sauce. Imagine Soy Sauce evaporated down into a paste. Yes, it's THAT salty! But just like Soy Sauce enhances Sushi Rolls, Vegemite has that effect on toast.
Great description. I'd add.... for goodness sake, don't smell it before you taste it. Will definately put you off. LOL
Here in Germany we have something called Maggi Würze. A different flavour, but also very salty. Its meant to be used as a additional flavour for soups and stews, but some people get addicted and use it on all sorts of food. It was invented in 1886.
Great point! People have their preferred way of eating vegemite but I love to eat mine as you’ve described; a little bit goes a long way! I did cringe at some of the photos with it slathered on the bread.
When my friend and I travel overseas we always bring a small jar of vegemite. When we visited Thailand we offered some to the hotel staff in the eating area to try. They wrongly believed it was some kind of chocolate spread and ate a whole teaspoon full in one go…. That didn’t end well for their breakfast but we all had a good laugh about it afterwards!
Well described, the butter must have melted into the toast before lightly spread Vegemite….. the best brekkie ever especially with a cup of coffee
That is a weirdly accurate description. Although I'd add that it's like someone dissolved an Oxo cube in the Soy Sauce before they evaporated it.
Had an Aussie burger yesterday, egg, bacon, beetroot and pineapple.
Was the Pineapple raw or grilled? I have had both and like grilled. And beetroot has always been on a burger in Australia even 60 years ago.
... I sit in the font seat of a taxi...
Yay pineapple, also great on pizzas!
Needs fried onions to make it more authentic.
Curious that my bro, we have the same setup in NZ (maybe minus the pineapple slice) and its labeled the... Wait for it... Kiwi burger. Just like that famous NZ expression "You can beat an egg, but you can't beet a root".
The sausages we do are thin beef sausages, we put it on bread diagonally, preferably with onion and sauce and fold it into a triangle like a triangular hot dog. They normally sell them at fundraiser bbqs at our local hardware store.
I was at a beach cafe today and a tradie dad and his son (12 yo) ordered two Works Burgers and it brought back memories on my childhood. Beef pattie, egg (still a bit runny), beetroot, bacon, pineapple…I was tempted but I have to maintain my figure. I introduced tinned/canned beetroot to a Japanese friend years ago expecting her to think it was horrible. She loved it and took cans of it back for her family.
Also fairy bread is still loved by Australian kids at birthday parties. At my granddaughters double b’day party recently I was amazed how much and how quickly the fairly bread was consumed. It has stood the test of time.
Aussie Pies and Sausages in Los Angeles will ship across the US. Can get pies, sausage rolls, snags and lamingtons
The fairy bread is more of a child birthday party thing...but I must admit..I still enjoy it occasionally when I'm in the mood 😁
I'm 45 and still get cravings.
When ever its bring a plate to work, I take fairy bread always a hit with adults.
@@MsGoodhen and a pack of jam filled lamingtons :)
@@michaelburns1096 aahhh yeah nah I’m a traditionalist , no jam shall go in the Lammo! And it’s a potato scallop.
@@MsGoodhen deffo!!
A traditional "Aussie Burger with the lot" would come in a toasted burger bun, buttered, with cheese, a large meat pattie, lettuce (either shredded iceberg or torn leaves of cos), fried onion, sliced beetroot, fried egg and your choice of barbecue or tomato sauce. A pineapple ring is optional as it can offend just as many people as it does on pizza.
Obviously there are many variations, but this is the standard Aussie Burger going back at least 3 or 4 decades.
Best served with "Minimum Chips" and a can of Solo.
Recently scientists at the CSIRO (An Australian Research agency) found that the hottest thing in the universe is not actually stars but the filling in a Four'n Twenty meat pie from the football. Additionally, they also found that paradoxically, the crust of said pie was also the coldest thing in the universe
*Waits to see the reaction of Aussies re the dissing of Fairy Bread*😁
Lol
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Also, its Hundreds and Thousands, not Sprinkles!!
And what were the single coloured things? That’s just not right!
Australia: where they beat up 2 dozen egg whites and a kilo of sugar and serve it to adults (that’s the pavlova Ryan)
Plus a mound of ice cream and cream and berries please.
It's merengue. Simple as that.
G'day Ryan, Im from Sydney Australia and recently starting watching you on utube. You crack me up so I had to subscribe. Anyway I just read the few comments before typing mine and not 1 Aussie has mention our famous "Vegimite". That is our countrys national food. you cant beat vegimite. I grew up on it and love it still today. my parents, grandparents all the family had vegimite as an essential kitchen cupboard staple.
when I was growing up fairy bread didn't have butter on it, we spread condense milk on the bread then sprinkled with hundreds and thousands, it's soooo much nicer!
Fairy Bread is a staple from kids parties because it's so cheap and easy and looks pretty festive. Every Aussie ever knows it from kids parties, but we never see it or eat it beyond that.
until your friends start having kids. Then it's fairy bread city~ nom nom nom
I went to a wedding where the wedding "cake" was a nicely arranged pile of fairy bread. The bride and groom fed one to each other, then the guests lined up to take their own piece.
Our meat pies are a hand held snack mate which is why we love them easy to eat at the footy and also filling
There is an art to eating a meat pie while holding it, it takes some practice so you don’t burn your face on the hot meat filling or lose it completely on the floor
We enjoy eating and growing beetroot. In fact, I have just made some pickled, middle eastern flavoured beetroot to give as Christmas gifts. Beetroot is a root vegetable, but we usually pickle it and have a slice of it ON TOP of the burger. We can buy it in tins.
We have a very international, eclectic taste in food.
He said "Barramoondi" ... it's BarramUndi. It's delicious!
Fairy bread is children's party food! We're a bit more health conscious now though.
We have a very famous meat pie shop in the Dandenong Hills (Melbourne) called 'Pie in the Sky'. They have every flavoured pie you could wish for (savoury and sweet). The pastry also is amazing.
Home made pavlova is AMAZING! I make it regularly if we have guests for dinner. It is easy to make and I love to add a bit of yoghurt to my cream when I whip it, then decorate it with kiwifruit, berries and a drizzle of pomegranate molasses! Yum!
In Australia, we often have fundraiser BBQ sausage stalls at school fetes and at our voting booths at election time!
Peanut butter toast is popular here in Australia. Vegemite is salty and a newbie should have it thinly spread!
I'm 27 and my dad still makes me fairy bread for my birthday each year. When I was younger I had it for lunch at school, now I have it for lunch at work
If you find Vegemite, whatever you do, start small! A very thin spread on buttered toast or bread is the way to go. But it's absolutely delicious
Yes, BUTTERED. That sad picture of vegemite on try brown toast. LOL nobody eats it like that 😂
I personally wouldnt describe vegemite as delicious. Its ok. Come on Australians, show a bit of humility. From a fellow Australian.
@@eurekaelephant2714 so you don't like it. OK. Most of us do. I don't even understand your comment - humility? WTF does that have to do with Vegemite?
There is way too much Vegemite on that toast they are showing lol
I don't know, the ones with the thicker spread of Vegemite looked pretty good to me 🤣
When it comes to Vegemite it's best with warm toast, butter and then the amount you like of Vegemite. Beautiful 👌
Ryan, as everyone's said, you need to set up a PO box, so that you can get Aussie stuff sent to you to try & react to on camera!
Re Fairy bread, don't knock it till you try it :P White bread, nice thick butter/marg layer & then hundreds & thousands on top. Try it, love it, then serve it at Jace's birthdays & blow the minds of all the parents in attendance. Yes it's kids party food, but it's also a trip down memory lane for us as adults & great comfort food cause of that - and it does taste good
Re Kangaroo, if you do get it & try it on camera, make sure you have it super rare, as it tastes horrible overcooked! If you don't like rare meat, you need to mince it for it to taste good, so make it into a burger patty or "kanga banger" (otherwise known as a sausage or snag - & of course we can't say sausage in Australia, did you see how many syllables in that word! As if an Aussie's not going to shorten that!)
& you can't go to the AFL without eating a meat pie!
YES to this, I want to send him some authentic australian food. There is a place in LA (cant think of the name at the moment) that is run by an ozzie.
Yes, the nostalgia of eating Fairy Bread at every party as a kid...LOL, that's why we are all so defensive of it. 😂
Glad you corrected the "ee-moo" to eem-you 👍👍😄
Meat pies & sausage rolls are a must.
Lamingtons with jam and cream are delicious.
Beetroot in the burger is just yummm.😋
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Don't be disrespecting Fairy Bread
Haha exactly!
I have to say... I was offended!
I will disrespect fairy bread. It's diabetes in a sandwich!
@@RexAlfieLee nah diabetes in a sandwich is the abomination that is a fluffernutter.
Fairy Bread Matters.
There are a few Australian food shops/ restaurants in America such as Aussie pie shops selling pies, sausage rolls ,etc. These are rare but becoming popular.
Outback Steakhouse is an American chain of Australian-themed casual dining restaurants, serving American cuisine, based in Tampa, Florida. The chain has over 1,000 locations in 23 countries throughout North and South America, Asia, and Australia.
A standard Australian burger (in NSW/Sydney) is toasted bun with butter, meat patty, tomato sauce (some younger people prefer barbeque sauce), grilled onion, slice of pickled beetroot, slice of tomato with sprinkle pepper & salt, Lettice leaf. Extras are cheese slice, pineapple slice, fried egg, bacon. A burger with the Lot - is with all the extras. It does vary a bit between states a little.
Potato cakes, not scallops, they're marine animals.
@@CryptikConstruct Depends where in Australia you are from. The Potatoes are "scallop cut" then battered before frying so Potato Scallops. They are not baked. Don't get why southerners call them Potato Cakes.
Don't mind the difference in names of Potato Bake & Scalloped Potato due to the same cut being used before they are layered with cheese sauce & cheese before baking
I've been living in Aus for the last 18 months and a standard burger is more like two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun.
@@cyc00000 🤣🤣
@@cyc00000 That sounds suspiciously like the American burger sold at Maccas.
You should do one on mateship and comraderie , with what's going on in the eastern states right now, everyone in communities are working together and building sandbag walls to fight mother nature herself for their homes. Anzacs would be proud of the spirit.
yup or even how our news covers our disasters compared to how American news does. Ours always focuses on the volunteers helping & the rescues of various animals (pets & wildlife) & always upbeet & positive in it's outlook & that we'll get through it, cause we'll all pull together, cause that's what being an Aussie is about. Pretty sure at least most channels in America don't go with such a positive outlook, but rather for the drama & making it sound as horrible as possible
So true about the mate ship of Aussies . The ANZAC spirit , lives on. Mates always help their Mates . Especially , during the fires , floods and severe weather events.
Fairy Bread is a traditional kids birthday party food - it has been around as long as the 100's and 1000's have been around - a cheap colorful food afforded by all. I make a couple of pavlova's every year for Christmas day - different toppings - very sweet but so good - crisp outer shell of meringue that should melt in the mouth with a marshmallow centre - topped with cream and anything you would like. I have been baking them for well over 40 years and the recipe came from my grandmother to my mother to me. They should have included Jelly cakes in with the lamingtons and Anzac biscuits. Another couple of sweets I can remember from my childhood - Bread and butter pudding, Rice pudding, Golden syrup dumplings and Apple crumble, and pumpkin scones and Ginger fluff sponge.
Haha, love your drooling reactions. Everything looks good hey 🤤. I know that I should never go grocery shopping when I’m hungry, costs me a fortune! At least you’re not “hangry” 😂
5:57 sliced tinned beetroot, egg, bacon, cheese, pineapple, lettuce, onion, bbq sauce and beef patty. THAT is a hamburger!
BarraMUNdi, not BarraMOONdi. We make pies with all the things - beef, lamb, pork, chicken, seafood. You'll get a great scallop pie in Tassie. Fairy bread is pretty much exclusively for children's parties, it's not a "snack" for adults. Sausage rolls are great. The best toast has a thin smear of Vegemite with smooshed avocado on top.
Nah yuck, both avo and vegemite are disgusting!
Vegemite & avocado is really good. Sausage rolls are shite but pasties are the real deal, mince with veggies in a pillow of pastry - awesome!
hi btp, have you ever tried oyster pie? not a dough pie , crispy, stuffed with fat oysters in a rich cheese, cream bacon sauce. they stay scolding hot for a very long time, ouch. the only place i have seen then is bulhadela , nsw.
OMG, scallop Pie? that sounds just... amazing. But yeah, we'll pie-ify most things in my house. best gimmick-turned-staple kitchen gadget I own is the pie maker. Leftover Anything gets made into Pie. from stir fry to spag bol, curry to sunday roast. Pie. makes for brilliant lunches.
@@stephenhoward4191 Nope. Didn't know that was a thing. Sounds amazing though.
Pies are definitely a spectrum - from the classic dirty service station pie to a good bakery pie
Hot toast that's got the buttered melted into with vegemite is great , fairy bread is something for kids parties, meat pies are awesome and seafood and good steak is big here. Pavalova although sweet is real good with the fruit on it .
Vegemite, spread it really thin on top of lots of butter on hot toast.
Yes Best eaten while toast is hot 🔥
If you get hold of some kangaroo meat be careful cooking it, super easy to overcook it cos its so lean
I second that.
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yup has to be rare, otherwise mince it don't try to cook it as a steak!
5:01 "you'll see it especially at many kid's parties"
My mates 18th birthday: fairy bread
Me when I turn 1000: 🧚♂️ 🍞
If you try kangaroo meat, try it with a red wine marinade. Its delicious. You got to try emu ( yep, the other part of Australian national emblem). & crocodile too. Yes, fairy bread. That made me smile, it's good for ppl of all ages.
Aussie endemic foods. Emu kangaroo massive prawns Bug-meat barra crocodile witchetty grubs finger limes Quandong rosella jam Mountain pepper rainforest strawberries Illawarra plum saltbush bush tomatoes. Love it all.
I love rosella jam! My Nan always made it. I haven’t had it in years!
That’s a way more interesting list.
You will have him googling all those things for hours.
I had a cheese and beetroot sandwich for lunch today, that's how much I love beetroot.
Yes love a cheese and beetroot sandwich 🥪😋
I used to eat beetroot sandwiches. Nothing except some bread, butter and beetroot. Yum.
I just eat them whole from a can but remember if you eat alot of it you pee red which can be scary lol
@@GypsyGirl23 😂 😂😂😂😂
Hi, I enjoy your channel. Love the fairy bread 🤣😂🤣, it reminded me of every children's birthday party I've ever been too😂🤣.
the overcooked sausages get a crunchy outside layer that is just divine. its fine to overcook unless they go dry inside or you burn the outside (those looked a lil burnt). we also have hot dogs. some people grill them, i do not know why.
Lamingtons are an Australian food invention, actually from Queensland by a house wife with left over sponge cake dipped in chocolate then rolled in desiccated coconut, not a Kiwi creation like someone posted earlier, fact check thanks, you have the pavlova ( still hotly contested between Aust and NZ who invented that one also?) but they are both delicious anyway…
The Kiwi chef who invented it did so in Perth for the Queen's arrival in Perth but as stated earlier named it after the ballet dancer.
And the sponge cake is left to become a little stale.
I don't know about the house wife thing. It was invented by the staff of Baron Lamington while he was Governor of Queensland (hence the name 'Lamington Cake'). He served "poofy wooly biscuits" at Fernberg House, and subsequent governors continued the tradition. Presumably it was invented by one of his chefs and not his wife.
@@RexAlfieLee You mean Queen Victoria?...they have been around a lot longer than Lizzie was. Named after Baron Lamington, a Queensland Governor BUT he also has towns in NZ bearing his Christian names. For God's sake...the ballet dancer was Anna Pavlova and the Pavlova is named after her. You've had a shocker.
@@MrSupdup Baron Lamington had an affiliation with NZ before Qld. There are two towns named after him in NZ.
Hey Ryan,
The U in Barramundi is the short uh sound as opposed to the long eew sound in Emu.
Barra is predominately farmed but we still have wild barra in some restaurants throughout the country and at fish markets and has a distinctive musky flavour where the farmed fish loses the muskiness.
Fairy Bread is served at kids parties and then the birthday cake is brought out at some point through the party.
Also, consider en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flake_(fish)
Vegemite will give you a big umami hit (spread THINLY on buttered fresh bread or toast - a good tip is to not cover the whole surface with the Vegemite for your first try of it but maybe 50% leaving gaps so the Vegemite is not all concentrated in one area ).
Pavlova consists of egg whites whisked then baked (so that it's crispy on the outside and soft and marshmallow like near it's centre) topped with cream and then the fruit of your choice is placed carefully on the very top layer.
A snag in 1 piece of bread with tomato or BBQ sauce cooked onions ( optional ) is still one of my favourite meals and actually breakfast on a Saturday morning for thousands of people who flock to their local Bunnings warehouse ( Big hardware store ) which have sausage sizzles to raise money for local charities Can't beat it 😂😂
You need a PO box so we can send you some Aussie foods!!!!
He's got one.
He’s got one, details in description below 👍
Ooh thankyou! Last time I looked there wasn't one!!!
Hell get a can of beetroot slices 🤣
@@missqiqilamour yup, about time he got one!
Anyone know when he got it/how long till stuff starts arriving for him to react to?
I had no idea for years that the US didn't have stuff like eggs, beetroot, lettuce, or even pineapple on their burgers. Then I saw a cheesy beef abomination from America that they called a 'burger'. No mate, that's not a burger.
I'm an old bloke, so a 'works burger' for me is:
Beef rissole/pattie
onion
Beetroot
Lettuce
A thin slice of Pineapple
shredded carrot
cheese
Bacon
and an egg
Sauce: Tomato or Barbecue. Don't dare put mayo or any 'ranch dressing' pus.
A Bacon and Egg burger must be a hearty breakfast.
It must have:
Bacon, egg, lettuce, beetroot, cheese and fried onion. Maybe even the shredded carrot
Fairy bread has to be served on the freshest white bread with loads of butter and the crusts cut off, beetroot is served on hamburgers in a similar manner to tomato slices, in the genre of pies our scallop pies are a pure delicacy which must be baked in a curry mixture with the roe ON. Our scallops don't have the big 'frill' around the white meat like yours in the US so the roe is a delicate gem.
Pavlova Is egg white and sugar whipped to stiff peak. Baked in the oven and comes out crisp on the outside and a bit like marshmallow. Usually whipped cream and decorated with fuits
That fish is pronounced barramundi like the spelling not barramoondi Can be caught wild up far North HUGE! Vegemite should just be a "smidgen" on top with lot's of butter underneath.It is a concentrated vegetable extract.Heaps of B's and protein
Mate, don't worry what everyone else says. You're a good bloke.
The snags in the bottom left are the ones that are done and ready to eat! The black bits are the best bits.
the indigionous actually used to hand kang meat up until it went green and then boil it and THEN cook it to eat and it apparently rly good
Love the gurgle noise you made on first seeing the burger! Yes, a proper "burger with the lot" is a great meal.
You want to try a hamburger "with the lot", Including Beetroot, fried egg and Pineapple.
Pineapple? I haven't seen that on a hamburger with the lot but why not, doesn't it make the burger a bit sloppy (given they are pretty much already)?. A steak sandwich with the lot
@@David_Beames Pineapple slices, usually grilled on the same hotplate as the rissole / egg, have long been part of real hamburgers with the lot. Goes back to pre Muckas days to when there were great cafes and fish / chips shops. You can still find them if you force yourself to drive past Muckas.
@@flamingfrancis Hey Frank, I'm not talking about Maccas I'm talking about local chicken and fish shops that make burgers with the lot. You know, with beetroot and an egg. Maybe it's an Adelaide thing. No need to be snarky with me about Maccas. I don't like their stuff.
Thai Green Curry Pies from Gum Tree Pies in Bright, Victoria. Awesome.
"classical and traditional Australian cuisine" and we're all standing around with our Four'N Twenty pies from the Milkbar 🤣🤣
I have never in my life had a burger with a beetroot patie. We put beetroot on our burgers which is a absolute must on a burger here in oz. And i don't eat vegimite anymore thanks to the vegimite kid. Thanks for another awesome video Ryan i really enjoy the journey were taking of our home land.
I hate beetroot and don't like onion so a definite "no" in my burgers.
You are spot on mate with the pies being on a spectrum. That's half the fun. Finding the best pie.
A few years back my family caravanned around the country over 4 months. We tried pies at the local bakery in all the towns we went to and rated them. Best pies were in Mataranka, NT.
so true! we've road tripped a lot and I have some good memories. There's a pie shop in Bright, Vic that is amazing, and a few places in the Adl Hills that are incredible (our local butcher makes pies and sells them uncooked, and they are insane). A scallop pie in Tassie is weird but has to be done, and of course the Pie Floater.
When you try Vegemite put a good amount of butter and just a thin smear of it over the toast. It was on fairly thick at times in the video.
Hi Ryan, Try ordering from Aussie Pies And Sausages in LA. They'll deliver frozen Pies 🥧, Sausage Rolls, Lamingtons, etc. straight to your door. Our Supermarkets sell Frozen Pies and Sausage Rolls. Unfortunately you have to be in LA to try their Pavlova. Order some Beef Sausages and you'll be able to try our beloved Aussie Sausage Sizzles, it's our favourite type of Fund Raiser. It's pretty easy to make too, although it'll be a little different in America. For one thing the cooking surface on an Aussie Barbie (Barbecue) is different ours has a flat surface. Over here we have ones you can use for free in pretty much every park and beach 🏖. Aussie Tomato Sauce and American Ketchup are also quite different from each other. What I still can't get over is you can easily by Ketchup in Oz, but you guys can't buy Aussie Tomato 🍅 Sauce in the U.S. Once you get your Sausages it's easy to make a Sausage Sizzle. Simply slice your Onions, cook them and your Sausages in a frying pan. Then lay your Sausage diagonally across a slice of bread, add Onions and top with your choice of Ketchup or Barbecue Sauce. Yes we call our French Fries Chips over here. But it's still a bit different from England. They call the ones that come in bags "Crisps". Over here it's "Packets Of Chips" and "Hot 🔥 Chips" once you try them with Aussie Chicken 🐔 Salt, you won't go back.
yeah the burger with beetroot images are off until the one where u can see the slices of it. there are beetroot burgers out there for a vegetarian or healthy eater types. i have had those and do like them. but the picture with the slices of beetroot on the open burger is what most of us would eat
I have sent you some Vegemite. It is winging its way to you now
The lamington is also laced with a rum or port that gives it that special flavour.
Snags are sausage sandwiches with onion (chooseable) and a choice of sauce normally from a Bunnings every sunday
Our beetroot is made by steam/pressure cooking peeled beetroot (beets in USA) then canning in a low concentration liquor of vinegar maybe with salt added. Delicious on a burger or in a mixed salad. We grew our own beets at home vege patch and mum would serve them boiled with the roast lamb or corned beef weekend meal. As an aussie might say "Yum Yum Pigs B..)
Great baked too. Chuck them in with the spuds and pumpkin.
Some of the pre prepared leaf salads available in supermarkets and greengrocers contain the baby leaves of beetroot. I agree there is nothing in cans that is as good as home prepared beetroot.
Peanut Butter on Toast without Jelly/Jam is very common in Australia. I have eaten that many many times in my life. The debate though is whether to have it crunchy or smooth. I say crunchy. :)
Team Smooth. although I do like that Mayvers one with the 7 seeds.
@@ssp4795 lol idk what that one is
Its better with honey
For me it ok as a cooking ingredient in something sweet. I like Vegemite better but only rarely eat that much anymore.
We definitely don’t mix beetroot into the beef patty because you don’t cook beetroot but place it on the cooked beef patty with salad (must have salad). Yes beetroot is bought preserved in tins, you don’t use it fresh. Plus fairy bread is ONLY made at home. As for the avocado, I think it’s more for gourmet burgers just not for us normal folk lol.
I lived and worked in London in 1975 and back then the only place you could buy Vegemite was at the Australian and New Zealand Consulates, for all the ex-pats living overseas. We had to have our daily "fix". It was the fortification we needed to cope with the warm beer they serve in England. (We drink it cold here).
In Australia is required 75% meat in the pie
Fairy bread is a classic! Lamingtons are best with whipped cream in the middle.
Maybe set up a postal box so we can send you Aussie treats?
And, maybe, once you’ve finished exploring Australia, start with NZ. After all, it’s so close you wouldn’t visit one without going to the other.
If you go to the bakeries for the fresh baked individual ones that are plain beef or with different flavours like, mushroom, chicken, curry, shepherd's pie (should have lamb) but might be just beef with mashed potato on top) sausage rolls and quiche, these days they are mostly all good quality and you can't go wrong. We even have Crocodile in some places and of course Rabbit pie was popular in the home. You can also get family sized pies. The ones that aren't so good are the ones mass produced in factories. Four n' Twenty is the most iconic brand of these in Australia. We used to have a brand called 'Noon' which was the first square pie I ever saw. Now most of the bakery pies are square. There are a few other brands as well as the 'no name' brands in the supermarkets.
Hi from Western Australia! 👋🏽
There’s an Aussie bakery somewhere in the US and actual Australians run the place, I saw it a while back on the yt channel The Commodity.
They’re obsessed with Australia and Tim Tams as well lol 😆
Fairy Bread is specifically for kids parties (but we adults do steal a bit, as it was a treat when we were kids, so a lot of nostalgia in there).
It is pretty much a doughnut, as the butter & white bread give it the gluggy consistency, and the Hundreds-&-Thousands (ie "Sprinkles") adds the sweetness.
I've never liked fairy bread even as a kid. Love cinnamon doughnuts though.
Lamington is god tier
A recipe I learned from the Australian meat (beef) pie was my own version of the Lamb Pie. Same basic idea, but less strong, and I do it as chucky meat instead of ground meat, and then a gravy made from the lamb juices from the simmering of the lamb. Because I make my own I don't have an overly thick puff pastry crust spoiling the experience of the pie.
Barramundi is the fishist of fishes. My father was a Barra (Barramundi) Fisherman, in the Gulf of Carpentaria... Based out of Karumba. The fishing boat was named after me ;-) He's passed away recently.
Try the Lot Bugger:
Beef Patty
Lettuce
Pineapple (fried if you wish)
Beetroot
Fried Onions
Fried Egg
Fried Bacon
Cheese
Tomato
And Aussie BBQ Sauce!
@Rodney 1984 ty 🙏
hi ryan old mate! i suggest making taco's with ground kangaroo to make the flavor a bit milder , or a kangaroo stew where you sear the meat in cubes first [2 lbs] , add bacon , onion and garlic [ 2 strips, 2 large onions and tablespoon of garlic crushed] to a big pot and cook on high stirring constantly til the onion is caramelized , them add the roo meat seared cubes, 2 quarts of beef or chicken stock , half a quart of vegetable stock, 3 tablespoons of woostershire sauce, 5 medium potatoes chopped into 6ths, 2 carrots chopped in circles, 1 bell pepper diced, a can of peeled tomatoes, and any other random vegies from the fridge [ spring onions that are a bit dry or sweet potato] add a good 20 grinds or so of black pepper a pinch of smoked hungarian paprica , cook on low simmer for 1 hour and a half , prize winning pie filling with the left overs if thickened a bit with gravy powder, enjoy matey!
Sounds yummy
he's gonna be paying a fortune for the roo meat though, so he wants to be able to really taste it! That recipe sounds great for here, where roo meat's cheap, but not at the prices he'll be paying! The tacos idea I do like, cause as mince it's much harder to screw up by overcooking, but I'd just go with basics, maybe some tomato in their with the taco shells & not really anything else, so that he can get a really good taste for the meat. I know the flavour's strong & it's great for stuff like you describe, where the flavour of the meat is often washed out with beef etc, but with roo it will hold it's taste, but he's still not going to get to really be able to identify the taste with all those extras mixed in with it