what is "Australian food" ?

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I know very well about boracasli. He spammed my e-mail account with swastikas...

But the question is still valid for whoever reads that sentence: "Australian food" doesn't mean a thing. Australia is a giant continent where hundreds of cultures inhabited, each with their own food, and was later colonized by dozens of other european and asiatic cultures that have each very different food traditions...

So your critic is :"Australian food" says not much. But nevertheless this sentebce still makes sence. The one, who is telling this, may have a quite clear image, what in his or her eyes constitutes australian food, and even I understand at least that this must be food available in Australia, whatever may be meant in detail.

Or should we abolish sentences like "You are beautiful" too ? (What the hell means "beautiful"?)

Sorry, please read "critique" instead of "critic"!

>So your critic is :"Australian food" says not much. But nevertheless this sentebce still makes sence.

No it doesn't more than "European food", ie NOTHING...(think of French and Hungarian, if you have doubts...)

> No it doesn't more than "European food", ie NOTHING...(think of French and Hungarian, if you have doubts...)

I believe it's a very strange point of view. The same reasoning leads us to the decision that "Indo-European languages" mean nothing (think of Sanskrit and Welsh) and all more or less generalised concepts mean nothing. Which is, of course, false.

well, then I defy you to define what Australian food is...

It's food that is thought to be characteristic of Australia.

such a thing doesn't exist: Australia is a whole continent, holding hundreds of cultures and languages, an entire distinct system of wildlife with various climates from desertic to mediterranean to tropical...No single food element is common across the continent and its diverse population groups...

It's a pity some people can't understand abstractions...

You know in China they have a lot of "Western food Restaurant" ....

Australian food is a hunter gatherer diet known as 'Bush tucker". Australian food has diversified with immigration. Did anybody think of googling "Australian Food" before getting into a silly argument??!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_cuisine

> Did anybody think of googling "Australian Food" before getting
> into a silly argument??!!
It's sacredceltic. He doesn't trust Google. :D

Someone's nitpicking again. Is this the right place to discuss about what everyone of us considers Australian food, just because one person doesn't have an idea what this might mean?

Anyways, let me refer to a question I happened to read on Quora just the other day, about the exact same thing:

http://www.quora.com/Cuisine-1/...ralian-cuisine

And I found another question with answers on the same topic:
http://www.quora.com/Australia/...ustralian-Food

By the way, I ate kangaroo before. Not the best meat I've ever had, but not bad either. Reminded me of rabbit. That's just one example which must be considered "Australian food", because it's definitely not American, European, African and especially not Asian. The term "Australian food", as vague as it may be, subsumes kangaroo meat and all the other things mentioned in the answers on Quora (as well as Google, probably).

>Australian food is a hunter gatherer diet known as 'Bush tucker".

It's a western Hollywood-type generalisation, grouping all indigenous populations (and settlers populations) in one single stereotyped category, when indigenous Australians are extremely diverse and live in very different climates and types of lands, not limited to "bush". There is no "bush" in Queensland, for instance, which is 8 times the size of the United Kingdom, just to name one example...
At best, this type of stereotype is demeaning...

>Someone's nitpicking again. Is this the right place to discuss about what everyone of us considers Australian food, just because one person doesn't have an idea what this might mean?

Nobody forces you to take part in debates you're not interested in...and curiously though, while saying this, you give your opinion anyway (the standard stereotyped one...)

>By the way, I ate kangaroo before.

There are millions of square kilometers in Australia where no kangaroos live...