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Okay I have a related inverse rant. I love Australia but good lord are you guys getting carried away with your semi fictional origin stories to Australianize pr

Okay I have a related inverse rant. I love Australia but good lord are you guys getting carried away with your semi fictional origin stories to Australianize products, food especially. For example, the cheesecake box says "Sara Lee, est. 1971 Lisarow NSW", except it was already a 50 year old American company when they expanded to Australia in 1971. Or the "made in Australia from at least 12% Australian ingredients" labels on ALL the food. Like https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/5b8b48cb5d8051c3c6734cebfff65b9b https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/5b8b48cb5d8051c3c6734... Yesterday I picked up a bottle of mustard that said American Mustard, proudly made in Australia. It's surreal! Let's not even mention the pavlova.

phkahler 2y ago
One thing the U.S. and Australia have in common... Giving the finger to the brits a while back.
- skissane 2y ago
  > One thing the U.S. and Australia have in common... Giving the finger to the brits a while back. If you are talking about independence, no. The US won independence through a violent rebellion. Australia became independent through a very gradual and consensual process, so gradual it is hard to pinpoint the exact moment at which Australia became independent. A major step was the Statute of Westminster in 1931, by which the British Empire extended full legal sovereignty to its "Dominions". The Canadian, Irish and South African governments were keen on this law, so it applied to them immediately. However, the Australians, New Zealanders and Newfoundlanders (at the time not yet part of Canada) were hesitant, so the UK agreed the law granting them sovereignty would not apply until their own national parliaments consented to it. Australia didn't agree to accept it until 1942, New Zealand didn't until 1947, and Newfoundland never did (which helped pave the way for its annexation by Canada). So Americans fight a bloody war for their independence, Australians are offered (a big chunk of it) by the UK and drag their feet for over a decade before accepting the offer, and New Zealanders for even longer.
roflmuffin 2y ago
Well the Country of Origin labels are a requirement. I'd also argue that providing more information about the origin of food to consumers is always a good thing. Do I care that there's a little kangaroo on the label? No not really, but at least I know that my orange juice is juiced in Australia from foreign oranges.

phkahler 2y ago

One thing the U.S. and Australia have in common... Giving the finger to the brits a while back.

skissane 2y ago
> One thing the U.S. and Australia have in common... Giving the finger to the brits a while back. If you are talking about independence, no. The US won independence through a violent rebellion. Australia became independent through a very gradual and consensual process, so gradual it is hard to pinpoint the exact moment at which Australia became independent. A major step was the Statute of Westminster in 1931, by which the British Empire extended full legal sovereignty to its "Dominions". The Canadian, Irish and South African governments were keen on this law, so it applied to them immediately. However, the Australians, New Zealanders and Newfoundlanders (at the time not yet part of Canada) were hesitant, so the UK agreed the law granting them sovereignty would not apply until their own national parliaments consented to it. Australia didn't agree to accept it until 1942, New Zealand didn't until 1947, and Newfoundland never did (which helped pave the way for its annexation by Canada). So Americans fight a bloody war for their independence, Australians are offered (a big chunk of it) by the UK and drag their feet for over a decade before accepting the offer, and New Zealanders for even longer.

roflmuffin 2y ago

Well the Country of Origin labels are a requirement. I'd also argue that providing more information about the origin of food to consumers is always a good thing. Do I care that there's a little kangaroo on the label? No not really, but at least I know that my orange juice is juiced in Australia from foreign oranges.