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Offline gertbysea

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Re: Food glossary for Non-Aussies
« Reply #60 on: February 12, 2014, 12:34:26 pm »
You wanna crack a tinnie with me   cookie?

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Re: Food glossary for Non-Aussies
« Reply #61 on: February 12, 2014, 12:43:24 pm »
Yes. I will edit the original post, thanks for the additions!
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Re: Food glossary for Non-Aussies
« Reply #62 on: February 12, 2014, 10:42:49 pm »
OMG Gert, that one made some memories surface...

I used to hang out with my cousin and his mates many moons ago and we drank copious amount of liquid amber or brown champagne and one certain tinnie had an emu on it. Many a time we had to save the emu at the bottom of the can by drinking it quick.
Many a time I spent hugging the porcelain bus :-))

It took me a while, but I figured it was better to let the little buggers drown than save them, there's plenty more in the bush!
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« Reply #63 on: February 12, 2014, 10:50:16 pm »
It was all a bit "how's yer father" .. ;)
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Re: Food glossary for Non-Aussies
« Reply #64 on: February 12, 2014, 10:56:28 pm »
This makes me LOL - being an Aussie import and all!!! I have had to ask DH to explain some..... :o
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Re: Food glossary for Non-Aussies
« Reply #65 on: February 13, 2014, 07:14:59 am »
Quote from: Gertbysea on February 12, 2014, 12:34:26 pm
You wanna crack a tinnie with me   cookie?

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Sure Gert. Whose shout is it?
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Re: Food glossary for Non-Aussies
« Reply #66 on: February 13, 2014, 07:45:13 am »
Laura will be thinking we are all just a bit doolally!
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Re: Food glossary for Non-Aussies
« Reply #67 on: February 13, 2014, 08:22:35 am »
Quote from: cookie1 on February 13, 2014, 07:14:59 am
Quote from: Gertbysea on February 12, 2014, 12:34:26 pm
You wanna crack a tinnie with me   cookie?

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Sure Gert. Whose shout is it?

Must be mine cobber!
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Re: Food glossary for Non-Aussies
« Reply #68 on: February 13, 2014, 08:25:25 am »
Quote from: Cuilidh on February 13, 2014, 07:45:13 am
Laura will be thinking we are all just a bit doolally!

Or a bunch of drongos!

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Re: Food glossary for Non-Aussies
« Reply #69 on: February 14, 2014, 12:02:26 am »
Loving this thread!

I don't post a lot here but talking of school milk took me down a memory trail...I went to small country primary school in central Victoria. The school was surrounded by irrigated paddocks and our milk was dropped off by the milk tanker driver and left in a table drain nearby. Two of us would be monitored to go and get the crate at morning recess and it was usually sitting in water so it never seemed to get hot and in winter the water usually had ice on it! Like everyone else I had a glass jar with a mixture of cocoa and sugar to add to the bottled milk...much more palatable!

And just to be confusing - there are regional variations in our lingo too, such as 'ports' for 'luggage'...I'm sure there are more.
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Re: Food glossary for Non-Aussies
« Reply #70 on: February 14, 2014, 04:04:03 am »
Do you say piers and we say jetties?

Gosh us Aussies are are funny lot. We need to give others a 'fair suck of the sav.'

On a slightly different vein. Did anyone read "They're a Weird Mob" and other associated book?
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Re: Food glossary for Non-Aussies
« Reply #71 on: February 14, 2014, 04:13:44 am »
I've just had to clean my laptop screen, don't drink and read this thread at the same time.

Now I'm as cross as a frog in a sock the dam  air conditioner is cactus again.
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« Reply #72 on: February 14, 2014, 04:32:35 am »
You lot better not come the raw prawn with me... you gotta be fair dinkum to be a dinky di Aussie !!! Been flat out like a lizard drinking ...
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Re: Food glossary for Non-Aussies
« Reply #73 on: February 14, 2014, 08:49:08 am »
Cookie, I read some of the Niņo Cullota books many moons ago.
JenJan what do you wear when you're swimming? I wear bathers, but when I lived in NSW, I wore my cossie.
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Re: Food glossary for Non-Aussies
« Reply #74 on: February 14, 2014, 09:30:15 am »
ES I wear my Togs.
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