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I've often wondered what an Australian thinks when they go into one. I don't think there's a single menu item that is even distantly related to Australia.
by tyingq 3y ago
I've often wondered what an Australian thinks when they go into one. I don't think there's a single menu item that is even distantly related to Australia.
- AnotherGoodName 3y agoWe laugh. It's almost a tradition when visiting to America to go to one and see what they make of Australia. Imagine if there was a 'texas bbq' chain in Australia that had deep fried hotdogs, cowboy hat fries or whatever other plausibly American thing you could think of. You'd go there to have a laugh at the sillyness of it all. That's what we do :)
- hooverd 3y agoIt's true, Americans will fry anything. We'll fry your shoe.
- monocasa 3y agoI had a deep fried stick of butter once. Was great, would have it again after checking if my heart can physiologicaly handle it.
- 542458 3y ago> deep fried hotdogs You mean a corndog? Nothing inauthentic about that!
- monocasa 3y agoOr better yet, the abominations that appear to be all "Mexican" food in Australia.
- bitwize 3y ago> Imagine if there was a 'texas bbq' chain in Australia that had deep fried hotdogs, cowboy hat fries or whatever other plausibly American thing you could think of. Imagine? Given what I saw in Australia, finding such a place is probably relatively easy and would make a fun vacation exercise. In just about every major city there is a place called "New York Pizza" or something similar. There is an inverse relationship in these places between distance to actual New York and closeness of the pizza to real New York pizza. The New York Pizza in Boston is pretty close. The New York Pizza in Brisbane? I'm not sure but I think they used salami for pepperoni...
- mhoad 3y agoI found the whole experience rather amusing. I’ve spent a lot of time overseas so for me it’s just another iteration on country x’s interpretation on country y’s food and it’s always a fun game to try and reverse engineer in your mind how they arrived at that idea of it.
- bitwize 3y agoSome of the most popular restaurants I found in Australia were ordinary steakhouses. I don't think you can get much more Australian than a juicy sirloin steak, without exploring delicacies like bush tucker and roo meat -- "as Australian as it gets without breaking any laws," as a member of $WORK at the time's Australian office told me. That said, Outback is definitely trying too hard.
- taberiand 3y agoThough kangaroo meat is available at the supermarket in Australia; it's decent but overpriced.
- mitchdoogle 3y agoThey never claim to serve Australian food. Nobody says they are going out for some Australian food they way they might say they are going out to get Chinese food. It's an Australian themed restaurant. And much of the theme does actually consist of things related to Australia. Lots of restaurants have themes. Rainforest cafe, Hard Rock Cafe, Planet Hollywood.
- tyingq 3y ago>They never claim to serve Australian food. They did, though. Pitching "walkabout soup" as a "unique presentation of an Australian favorite". And, a pretty regrettable suggestion at one time that a Blooming Onion was "Ab-original". Something on a barbie they should have called prawns, "Brisbane Shrimp Saute", and more.
- prpl 3y agoYou could go to a Spur in south africa for the same experience https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spur_Steak_Ranches https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spur_Steak_Ranches