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I know that it is a national dish ... (can I bear to ask)
I was wondering is Vegemite the same/similar to/ fundamentaly different from ... Marmite
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Both Vegemite and Marmite and yeast extracts, both have distinctive flavours, with their attendant followers - I'm in the Vegemite camp myself.
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What about sarnie and butty? They're English slang, as I understand it, and I always thought they meant sandwich. Am I much mistaken?
And I'm not even going to start a discussion about the difference between American and English pie (although one fears I may have done just that).
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Re Pasties
The town of Burra Burra in South Australia was put on the map in the late 1800's (can't say last century any more!!) by its large copper deposit - mined until the 1970's. (O/S Wordies may recall the film "Breaker Morant"? - it was filmed there - remember the beautiful metal gazebo/bandstand in the park?)
As was the case in most Australian mines of the day, most of the miners were of Cornish stock, many of whom had made the trek from Broken Hill in NSW by foot (no mean feat, hundreds of miles across some pretty harsh & dry country).
Anyway, the miners' lunches consisted of what we would refer to as pasties, they however called them "Tiddy Oddies" - ie small odds & ends/leftovers (wrapped in pastry).
Don't know if it's still there, but in 1982 this was the name of the local cafe/diner.
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We're not that clever in Australia (there's no need to add any comments Cap K!!) when it comes to naming food - have even given a Russian name to perhaps our most famous dish - Pavlova.
Our tendency is, wherever possible in the spoken word, to take as many shortcuts as possible, or round off a word with a superfluous syllable.
Thus, "sandwiches" are referred to throughout the land as "sarnies" and/or "sangers". The latter seems to have changed meaning over the past 25 years, back then it referred primarily to a sausage - especially those put on the barbie. To show how flexible we are, BBQ'd sausages wrapped in bread are known as "sanger sarnies". Easy!!
PS The Subway chain is doing its best to edjamacate us into using "sub", but it'll be a long time before a cylindrical sarnie is known as anything other than a "roll" in Oz.
PPS "Hoagie"???? Where the hell did that come from (or didn't I read all the post?)
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I've always assumed the fluffy, overflowing concoction created by combining "flavoured aerated water" (fizzy drink, soda pop - call it what you will) and a scoop of ice cream was globally known as a "Spider".
Is this the case?
(Compulsory order at the legendary Paragon Milk Bar in Katoomba, New South Wales (BTW, milk bar = cafe in NSW) is a pie floater, chips and a lime spider. Hmmm, is this why my cholesterol is 6.9?)
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Max - I thought Marmite was a beef extract? Vegemite is a yeast extract - urban mythology has it as a product of the spent yeast from the breweries.
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Stales stirred up turbulent waters by declaring in Australia - have even given a Russian name to perhaps our most famous dish - Pavlova.Now, them's fighting words!! I know hundreds of Kiwis who would happily form death squads to avenge any attempt by an Ocker to claim Pavlova as Australian, when all sentient hominids know that it was invented in NZ  
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And does anyone remember Maypo? Remember the little kid in the cartoon commercial? His famous line was "Horses get fed first".
And Marshmallow Fluff which my bro would put on a piece of bread with peanut butter. Ah...the 50s! The good old days! NOT!
"Adversity is the whetstone of creativity"
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