Soul food/peasant food from your country.

[Heaven Hieghts]

Next to sex, food is the reason I think life is worth it, despite all the shit.

I know! I feel the same way!

[Blouman Empire]

I don't think Australia really has anything unique but really what has been brought in like bangers and mash and fish and chips and others. I could classify damper as a peasent food.

Arroz con Gandules

What is Gandules?

[Blouman Empire]

Next to sex, food is the reason I think life is worth it, despite all the shit.

I have a little saying; There are only three things worth living for good food, good drink and good women/men.

The bad thing is that you have to do a lot of crap to be able to enjoy and indulge within these things.

[Daistallia 2104]

Yep, that's it - Osaka soul food at it's best. (Insert country mouse, city mouse argument between me and Nev here, about wheter Osaka has better food than Nagano. lol )

I still say that I'm willing to put a meal of Shinshu beef, soba, Nozawa veggies, and topped off with watermelons from my town against ANYTHING you can come up with from Osaka. I'll have you weeping that Kansai is so damn far away from here by the time it's over.

Heheheh. I am going to have to take you up on that one of these days. If you've got better access to some Echigo beer up there, I'm a hopping a train right quick.

I can no longer eat okonomiyaki with them on it. I spend all my time watching them wave back and forth because it's just too damn entertaining to eat.

LOL

Indeed. I've had kimchi based nabe that were heavenly, and of course my favorite food of all time is sukiyaki (And yes, techncially that IS a nabe).

Indeed. Kimchi nabe on a cold night is ambrosia. (Must resist the urge to post about that shabu shabu scandal yet again...)

[NERVUN]

I still say that I'm willing to put a meal of Shinshu beef, soba, Nozawa veggies, and topped off with watermelons from my town against ANYTHING you can come up with from Osaka. I'll have you weeping that Kansai is so damn far away from here by the time it's over.

Heheheh. I am going to have to take you up on that one of these days. If you've got better access to some Echigo beer up there, I'm a hopping a train right quick.

I honestly don't know as I'm far more into nihonshu than beer, but I'll keep my eye out the next time I'm in the store. Given that we're snugged up next to Niigata, I wouldn't be surprised.

Indeed. Kimchi nabe on a cold night is ambrosia. (Must resist the urge to post about that shabu shabu scandal yet again...)

Alas, this talk of nabe is making me hungry and now it is just too hot to even think of a hotpot.

[Daistallia 2104]

Alas, this talk of nabe is making me hungry and now it is just too hot to even think of a hotpot.

Here ya'll go:


For the curious, that's warabimochi, a gelatinous confection made from brackens, eaten as a chilled summer treat. It's often sold by vendors driving about in little trucks, sort of like the ice cream man back home.

(Dang, where's my local warabimochi man when I want him.)

[Ferrous Oxide]

Next to sex, food is the reason I think life is worth it, despite all the shit.

I know! I feel the same way!

Aren't you like, fourteen? How much sex can you possibly be having?

[Milks Empire]

Next to sex, food is the reason I think life is worth it, despite all the shit.

I know! I feel the same way!

Aren't you like, fourteen? How much sex can you possibly be having?

You'd be surprised.

[Reijvajik]

Well, I'm Australian, so I'm seriously not sure what we have in terms of unique foods besides random berries and shit that you find rotting on the ground. :/
We have damper, Anzac Biscuits (high energy hard biscuits, basically, they're what the Australian and New Zealand(ian?) soldiers ate in WWII because they were so packed with fats, sugars, energy, etc.), which are packed with butter which makes them taste really good, and pavlova (which I'm pretty sure is meringue + fruit).
Everything else is pretty much either pub food, Asian, or McDonalds.
And salads. Shitloads of salads.

Also, my parents are Chinese, and most of the conventional Chinese stuff is pretty tasty.

[Beachchairs]

[Heaven Hieghts]

Next to sex, food is the reason I think life is worth it, despite all the shit.

I know! I feel the same way!

Aren't you like, fourteen? How much sex can you possibly be having?

None! I was just saying that food is like the best that ever happened to the universe!

[Heaven Hieghts]

Ew

[Lunatic Goofballs]

What is Gandules?

Pigeon peas. It's a little bean that grows on a perennial bush and is a staple food in many cultures.

[Nadkor]

At any rate... I'm not from Ireland personally, but I'm half Irish, and I love corned beef slowcooked with cabbage, potatoes, and... mm, throw some carrots in there.

Corned beef and cabbage? Probably not something anyone in Ireland has ever eaten...

[Blouman Empire]

What is Gandules?

Pigeon peas. It's a little bean that grows on a perennial bush and is a staple food in many cultures.

Ah ok, not that I have heard of pigeon peas either but ok.

[Maurepas]

Ew

Agreed, after youve worked there you try and avoid it at all costs...

Just hope the Gods never have me work at Taco Bell, Subway, or Popeyes, I might die,

[Beachchairs]

Ew

Ew all you want, the people seem to have disagreed with you. Over 99 Billion times.

[Icelavic]

Fried chicken.

[Maineiacs]

Up here, lobster rolls:




Down where I grew up, enchiladas and refried beans:

[Milks Empire]

Up here, lobster rolls:




Down where I grew up, enchiladas and refried beans:

*drools*

[Sarkhaan]

New England clam bake


New England clam chowder


Corned beef and cabbage (more American-Irish than Irish-Irish...a form of New England boiled dinner)


and, of course, the fluffernutter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluffernutter

mmm

[Heinleinites]

Biscuits and gravy. It's what God eats in the mornings:


He also eats red-eye gravy and cheese grits with the biscuits:


Can't forget the chitlins:


Or the pork rinds, available from, where else, the Piggly-Wiggly:

[New Dracora]

To the aussies who have thus far posted in this thread - get out, you fail at culture

Examples of true-blue aussie tucker:










Mmm... crocodile.......

[Rambhutan]

Alas, this talk of nabe is making me hungry and now it is just too hot to even think of a hotpot.

Here ya'll go:


For the curious, that's warabimochi, a gelatinous confection made from brackens, eaten as a chilled summer treat. It's often sold by vendors driving about in little trucks, sort of like the ice cream man back home.

(Dang, where's my local warabimochi man when I want him.)

We had a Japanese visitor to the library where I work. She brought some warabimochi in, it was kind of strange to me very different from anything I have had before.

[Ferrous Oxide]

You must be a fake Aussie, nobody in their right mind drinks Foster's here.

Real Australian beer: