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Australian gourmet dinner

Postby Binky » Mon Nov 26, 2018 4:08 pm

I found this video and felt the need to share it with you.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OmkwcB4iPBg


I think it was meant as a joke, but I'm not so sure now.......

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Re: Australian gourmet dinner

Postby Renee » Mon Nov 26, 2018 5:07 pm

I won't be bothering Binky after watching!

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Re: Australian gourmet dinner

Postby Binky » Mon Nov 26, 2018 5:11 pm

Everything about it is.....horrible. The chef, the method of cooking, the finished product.

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Re: Australian gourmet dinner

Postby Stokey Sue » Mon Nov 26, 2018 5:49 pm

The pie floater is genuinely an Australian thing, I saw it on a John Torode programme. And I think it was also known in parts of England as I remember referdnces to it in a children’s book

However I didn’t remember Torode’s being quite like that and Wiki confirms that the pie usually floats in pea soup, without mash or gravy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_floater

So I think Greg’s student-after-the-pub style of cuisine is meant to be A Joke, though a failure in my view too.
Think how funny it would have been as an early Paul Hogan sketch :(

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Re: Australian gourmet dinner

Postby Lusciouslush » Mon Nov 26, 2018 5:50 pm

:vomit :vomit :vomit


That looks like a trailer from ..…………..Cooking For Criminals...…..!!

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Re: Australian gourmet dinner

Postby Sakkarin » Mon Nov 26, 2018 6:51 pm

I discovered the floater a while back, and fancied slumming it, so made it using Tesco's economy range of stuff, including instant mash!

Ties in with Mark's post (No 5), it's not a million miles from pie and mash, minus liquor.

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Re: Australian gourmet dinner

Postby Binky » Mon Nov 26, 2018 9:08 pm

I can feel the indigestion coming on.

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Re: Australian gourmet dinner

Postby karadekoolaid » Tue Nov 27, 2018 12:15 am

I reckon that´s the Ozzie version of an American TV dinner - or a version of Tesco´s Steak Pie Supper.

Just to calm the waters, Binky.... my Australian mates would rather lose the Ashes than cook a dinner like that.
With social media and freedom to download what ever crap you feel like downloading, things like this happen.
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Re: Australian gourmet dinner

Postby Rainbow » Tue Nov 27, 2018 12:37 am

The pie- floater is a South Australian tradition - there was a pie cart outside Adelaide station for years and it's come back recently, so I've been told.

I think they look disgusting and wouldn't know about the taste - they were something to eat on a Saturday night in town, "they taste better when drunk", and I know some people who did that in their youth! I think it was the only fast food option available very late!!

The video clip must have been a joke - but not a good one I agree. I could only watched a few seconds of it!

Here's a link to an ABC article about the history of pie-floaters, in case anyone is interested!!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-06/ ... ut/9018094

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