I often see the British food slander and how they don't ever use spices, but it's so funny because I feel as though Australians are even worse offenders of this!
When im telling you "Australian" food is some of the blandest food you will have in your life I mean it. As an Australian I now yearn for leaving this place to discover other cuisines because I've realised, if something isn't from here that's where the flavour comes from! I guess maybe the Australian laid back attitude goes as far as to influence the food as most of it is pretty basic flavours with minimal effort or seasoning. I'm not saying people don't veer away from this but most people here only use salt, pepper and curry for pretty much everything. The most authentic experience of Australian food is probably when friends invite other friends over for a bbq. If it's lunch most dishes will usually be served cold such a pasta salads, potato salads, basic salad of lettuce, tomato & cucumber and meats from the bbq (generally unseasoned or just salt). The typical sauce options will be bbq or tomato and pretty much everywhere sauce options don't vary much from those, with the addition of gravy, which I like to be dark brown and thick. This trend of sticking to a limited flavour profile extends to the supermarkets too, pretty much everything stays within about 3-5 flavour profiles.There's not much of a range of really anything, for example, sodas pretty much stick to just being raspberry, orange, cola or lemon or some version of that. It's impossible to find things like a grape soda or anything even slightly adventurous. The same goes for candies anything more exciting like watermelon, grape & blue raspberry candies are sparse and the milks and ice creams pretty much everything sticks to being chocolate, vanilla or caramel.
The only exciting flavours come when things are limited edition or are internationally sourced. So I think I've quite literally out eaten this country, I've eaten it all so many times, I've eaten everything good in the supermarkets, and I just need a new world of food to try. There's so many countries I fantasise going to just for entire eating trips, I worry how I'd fit on the plane back but it sounds so exciting. Nothing makes me more excited than new flavours and textures of food, it will truly be a marvelous experience and would hopefully take a huge toll. I'd definitely document everything too so you could see how much I ate and gained. Idk about you but that sounds incredible and we've e got to make it happen this year!!
When im telling you "Australian" food is some of the blandest food you will have in your life I mean it. As an Australian I now yearn for leaving this place to discover other cuisines because I've realised, if something isn't from here that's where the flavour comes from! I guess maybe the Australian laid back attitude goes as far as to influence the food as most of it is pretty basic flavours with minimal effort or seasoning. I'm not saying people don't veer away from this but most people here only use salt, pepper and curry for pretty much everything. The most authentic experience of Australian food is probably when friends invite other friends over for a bbq. If it's lunch most dishes will usually be served cold such a pasta salads, potato salads, basic salad of lettuce, tomato & cucumber and meats from the bbq (generally unseasoned or just salt). The typical sauce options will be bbq or tomato and pretty much everywhere sauce options don't vary much from those, with the addition of gravy, which I like to be dark brown and thick. This trend of sticking to a limited flavour profile extends to the supermarkets too, pretty much everything stays within about 3-5 flavour profiles.There's not much of a range of really anything, for example, sodas pretty much stick to just being raspberry, orange, cola or lemon or some version of that. It's impossible to find things like a grape soda or anything even slightly adventurous. The same goes for candies anything more exciting like watermelon, grape & blue raspberry candies are sparse and the milks and ice creams pretty much everything sticks to being chocolate, vanilla or caramel.
The only exciting flavours come when things are limited edition or are internationally sourced. So I think I've quite literally out eaten this country, I've eaten it all so many times, I've eaten everything good in the supermarkets, and I just need a new world of food to try. There's so many countries I fantasise going to just for entire eating trips, I worry how I'd fit on the plane back but it sounds so exciting. Nothing makes me more excited than new flavours and textures of food, it will truly be a marvelous experience and would hopefully take a huge toll. I'd definitely document everything too so you could see how much I ate and gained. Idk about you but that sounds incredible and we've e got to make it happen this year!!
10 months