And here I thought that important bit of Australian food culture was the meat pie, Aliantha. Something we mostly see around here at Highland Games, where Forfar Bridies and such are expected -- haggis not being among the "such."

So, might meat pies get seasoned/salted with a little Vegemite, or is that heaping Pelion on Ossa? Er, Uluru on Kosciuszko?

Lamingtons I've never had -- they sound rather related to trifle, only less juicy. Or is it something more like an elaborated, chocolatey-coconutty Twinkie?

"...Ray, a personal friend of mine [Ray Charles!]/Mi, the first word in Mi Casio, su Casio..."

You know, you guys are all really bad pun-things. You know that, don't you?

Meanwhile, over at Food And Drink...

There are lots of important bits to australian food culture, and lamingtons are definitely one of them. I guess they are kind of like a twinky covered in chocolate and coconut...only better! The cake is not so sweet. You yankees use too much sugar in your cakes.

Don't get me started on trifle. My mum used to make a great trifle.

If you can get her great trifle recipe up, I'll post it in the Recipe thread -- unless you'd rather do it directly.

Right now, I don't know great trifle from trifling trifle. Yet.

Well, I'd have to speak to her through a medium to do that, but I know how she used to do it anyway, so I'll give you the recipie some day when I'm a bit bored. ;)

Only a trifle bored? Will we have to wait but a trifle?:cool:

Any Internet recipes that cause you to nod slowly and say, "That one's outstanding"?

lol...probably not. It's mostly just yummy.

Triffle really is just a fun desert to make and then equally fun to indulge in. ;)

Aside from lamingtons, Anzac biscuits and pavlova, what else would you add to Australia's culinary 'must try' list?

Mmmm ... does beer count? The wine is good.

Oh man, why did you have to bring up lamingtons? I'm dying over here!

Easy to fix, either make or just go and buy yourself some kind of vanilla cake, slice it up into cubes, make some chocolate icing, dip the cubes in the chocoate icing (or let them soak if you prefer), then roll in coconut. No need to suffer at all.

Beer's good-Coopers is available, but only pale ale and sparkling. There was only one bottle of Australian wine available http://www.thelittlepenguin.com/
The supermarket employee who I accosted in the liquor aisle told me that a shipment of Coopers stout and Australian wine is due to arrive on Saturday.

I'd add kangaroo steaks for starters. There would be more, but right now, thats the main one I can think of.

I read somewhere that some people are now saying Australian wine has become over rated. In some cases I'd say that's true, but there are still some awesome winemakers over here.

There have got to be some Aussie lollies that others would like, and of course, we can't forget the timtams.

anyway...where the hell are you casi?

All will be revealed in about 3.5 weeks.