Australian cuisine

Time to talk about the food. Let's start with the meat!

Kangaroo. It's by far the cheapest meat in the supermarket, which probably says a lot about how popular it is. Or they just have very efficient processing structures. Anyway, it looks like beef, and tastes very much like venison. Not my taste really.



Crocodile. I haven't seen it anywhere down here in southern Queensland. But I had it in Cairns. It looks like chicken, and it tastes like chicken. Nice! Four forks out of five.








Vegemite. Australians' favourite. It's made from yeast extract - a by-product of beer manufacture - and young and old love it on their sandwich. It looks like crude oil and tastes like a rotten bouillon cube. I cannot recommend this one.



Beetroot. Yes, beetroot. Australians cannot get enough of it. I would have expected North Korea to be the only country in the world with a turnip as its national dish, but Australia proved me wrong. They love it! Especially on their burgers (even at McDonald's). And at the supermarket you get 5 litres tins of this delicious vegetable, which tastes like an old, dump sock if you ask me.