The Food Thread - comments and recommendations

[griffin]

An online friend and I were talking about snacks we like recently and it got me thinking, how many snack foods, and foods in general do we have here that other countries don't have? what foods/dishes and snacks do we have that are unique to Australia, Originated in Australia and can only be obtained in Australia?

Shapes is a favourite of mine that originated here, and only recently is being exported to some other countries... but no America, and it is something I think the Americans would love.

TimTams were mentioned already, and I think that's because the Americans have Oreos dominating the "cream-filled" biscuit market to make it difficult for any real competition breaking into the market.

Slow-cooked "Kettle/Red Rock" chips aren't very common in America. Considering their appetite (figure of speech) for potato chips & corn snacks in America, that's one that surprises me every year over there (when you see how much they dominate out store shelves now, compared to regular potato chips and corn chips).

Burger Rings and Twisties appear to be fairly unique to Australia, due to the dominance of the American Frito/Lays chip company in most western markets. Some countries have Twisties, but in places like New Zealand, they only have the Cheese flavour. (that was a couple years ago, so could have changed since then)

I remember a few years ago at a Los Angeles "International Food Market" of imported, uniquely national foods, the Australian shelves were very bare of anything unique.

[Zippo]

Burger Rings and Twisties appear to be fairly unique to Australia, due to the dominance of the American Frito/Lays chip company in most western markets. Some countries have Twisties, but in places like New Zealand, they only have the Cheese flavour. (that was a couple years ago, so could have changed since then)

Still only Cheese
I am counting down the days till I come over, the first stop at the supermarket will be Chicken Twisties

[Bidoofdude]

Shapes is a favourite of mine that originated here, and only recently is being exported to some other countries... but no America, and it is something I think the Americans would love.

TimTams were mentioned already, and I think that's because the Americans have Oreos dominating the "cream-filled" biscuit market to make it difficult for any real competition breaking into the market.

Tim Tams leave Oreos in the dust. I've frankly had better cream filled biscuits from Aldi brands.

[Megatran]

Any suggestions for Luis Suarez?

[yoshi594]

Any suggestions for Luis Suarez?

anything italian/serbian/ or dutch

[Mythirax]

Tim Tams leave Oreos in the dust. I've frankly had better cream filled biscuits from Aldi brands.

The big question is, can you dip a Tim Tam in Peanut Butter? Like you can an Oreo. Oh how I miss doing that