It’s uh… It’s literally just noodles, pastas, and meats. Gets really monotonous tbh.

Don’t even get me started on Panda Express. Americanized Chinese cuisine that’s been completely bastardized because most of us white people flip out over a single drop of hot sauce in their food.

    • Dort_Owl [they/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      8 days ago

      Eating out in Australia is a lesson in pain. I was out with friends the other weekend and we all were hungry and decided to find a place to eat. All of these places were expensive as hell and served shit you would find at a cheap cafe. The same mass-produced muffins and slices you see in every cafe here, same stuff you’d find at a super market except they charge 9 dollars for a custard square that tastes like fridge. The actual meals? Nothing under $30. That wouldn’t ve so bad if the food was good, but it was awful. I got fish and chips and the fish was very obviously a “we buy a ton of cheap, already battered fish and oven chips and just heat them up” kind of thing.

      As someone who grew up in New Zealand, I could rant for ages about how god awful Australian takeaway is, especially fish and chips. In New Zealand, Fish and Chips is cheap, and they actually batter and fry the food there. It’s unhealthy but it actually tastes like food at least. In Australia I have never had takeaway that I didn’t immediately regret eating. It all tastes stale and is always undercooked. The batter on their fish and chips (if you can even call it batter) IS FREAKING YELLOW SOMETIMES! They batter their hotdogs on a stick in some weird sickly sweet powerdy yellow flour too! Always massively expensive and yet genuinely cheaper and nastier tasting than microwave meals you get at the supermarket.

      I’m not a food snob I swear, it’s just that bad. It’s even worse than the cornsyrup slop most US food is now, at least Dr Pepper is good.

      Okay fine Australia has one good food product, Bundaburg Ginger Beer (not the rum, that shit sucks) probably because that ginger beer is the only drink here outside of Dr Pepper that actually uses real cane sugar.

      I just realised that this is the most New Zealander comment I have even made lol

      • Blakey [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        8 days ago

        The batter on their fish and chips (if you can even call it batter) IS FREAKING YELLOW SOMETIMES!

        Complaining that Australians sometimes use an unfamiliar spice in a food is an incredibly white person thing to do:p

        It’s just turmeric mate. It barely affects the flavour but if done right the batter has a nicer colour after cooking, that’s all. Not that the food here is good, you aren’t wrong at all… But complaining about Australians actually employing a spice where the kiwis don’t made me laugh. You can get good meals in Australia but a lot of it is overpriced garbage.

        • Dort_Owl [they/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          7·
          8 days ago

          WHY THE FUCK DO AUSTRALIANS CALL THEM MEAT PIES. WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHY DON’T YOU SAY WHAT KIND OF MEAT? HOW CAN THIS COUNTRY BRAG ABOUT PIES BUT ONLY HAVE THE MOST BASIC ASS PIE FLAVOURS! IT DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE! I HATE IT HERE!

          • KuroXppi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            7·
            8 days ago

            Idk I’ve never called them meat pies, just pie. The only reason you’d say meat pie is to disambiguate from mince pies, which is only gunna be relevant for like three months of the year for most people

            Low key I don’t think our pies are that good. I haven’t been to nz but i heard that they run laps around ours

            Four n twenty is absolute trash. Gravy with gristle. Average cbd bakery (bread shop) is a roll of the dice between 4n20 analogue and ‘i guess this’ll do’, I’ll drown it in sauce. Country bakery will be the same lows with a 1/20 chance of ‘someone back of house actually put their foot down and says we want to introduce some standards around here’. 1/35 bakeries will be ascended but will be in some far off suburb or town that you only ever pass through once a year on way to (other destination). If you think you live next to your city’s best bakery, you don’t.

            (Two of my good mates are kiwi expats and say that yeah while the economy over there is a cooked chook, the food is actually what we imagine ours to be)