On Thursday 06 June 2002 08:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Exposing Australia to the world by the proliferation of Outback > > Steakhouse restaurants is badness and must be stopped immediately. > > What's funniest is that Outback Steakhouse head (hind?) quarters > is here in Florida, in the St Pete/Clearwater area. [...] > > <LEVITY LEVEL=11> > > It's an American idea of what Americans think Australian cooking > is like- which is odd. > > I would think that Australians would cook like their forbears- > i.e. English (boiling, etc).
When I was in England, I learned two things about the food: 1. The English cooking is usually quite good, contrary to its reputation. They don't boil everything. They *do* serve peas with everything, which is quite all right with me because I like peas, but which was not all right with my wife, who does not. They do not have English muffins. They *do* have superb beer, an important consideration. 2. The English have *extremely* strange ideas of what Americans eat, so the shoe can be worn on the other foot, so to speak. For example, we were in a British grocery store and nearly gagged when we saw the pizza with baked beans on it..."American Style!" bragged the package. Yuck!!! I've never even heard of such a hideous pizza. They claimed it was from Chicago, but I have family there and they have never heard of baked bean pizza, either. There were other such atrocities, but this is the one I recall most clearly. Maybe this pizza *does* exist, perhaps in Texas. But Texas is actually a separate country, not part of the United States. They prefer it that way. So do the other 49 states. </LEVITY> Scott -- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney | "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them [EMAIL PROTECTED] | having a bad operating system." -- Linus Torvalds http://www.4th.com/ | ("The Rebel Code," NY Times, 21 February 1999)
