Posted 2015-10-24 9:03 PM (#516623 - in reply to #516622) Subject: RE: Aussie Gathering Jan 2016
Joined: December 2014 Posts: 1713
Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota
Our State Fair is famous for having really odd food served on a stick (I don't know why...)
Last year they had Alligator on a Stick, it was a big hit - everyone said it tasted like Chicken!
(Brain Freeze???)
Posted 2015-10-24 9:42 PM (#516629 - in reply to #516506) Subject: Re: Aussie Gathering Jan 2016
Joined: September 2006 Posts: 10777
Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR
Aussie and Cajuns would get along splendidly.
I was talking to locals in Baton Rouge LA and the subject turned to cooking Nutria...
When I expressed disdain for eating huge water rats I was told,
"We're Cajun... If we can Kill It, we'll Eat It."
Posted 2015-10-25 6:32 AM (#516630 - in reply to #516619) Subject: Re: Aussie Gathering Jan 2016
Joined: September 2012 Posts: 811
Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia
fillhixx - 2015-10-25 12:51 PM
"It has more things that will kill you than anywhere else.
Of the world's ten most poisonous snakes, all are Australian. Five of its creatures - the funnel web spider, box jellyfish, blue-ringed octopus, paralysis tick, and stonefish - are the most lethal of their type in the world.
This is a country where even the fluffiest of caterpillars can lay you out with a toxic nip, where seashells will not just sting you but actually sometimes go for you.
... If you are not stung or pronged to death in some unexpected manner, you may be fatally chomped by sharks or crocodiles, or carried helplessly out to sea by irresistible currents, or left to stagger to an unhappy death in the baking outback. It's a tough place.”
Bill Bryson, In A Sunburned Country
Hey Fill.
I used to ski with a Canadian guy who worked in your forests in the summer. He was comfortable there with the bears and other huge wildlife that can tear you apart, but when he visited Australia with his Aussie wife, he was terrified in the bush (which is what we call forests) because there are so many sneaky little creatures that can kill you before you know anything's happened.
I guess I'm more comfortable with funnel web spiders than grizzly bears.
Posted 2015-10-25 3:54 PM (#516635 - in reply to #516619) Subject: Re: Aussie Gathering Jan 2016
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Location: Flahdaw
fillhixx - 2015-10-24 8:51 PM
... If you are not stung or pronged to death in some unexpected manner, you may be fatally chomped by sharks or crocodiles, or carried helplessly out to sea by irresistible currents, or left to stagger to an unhappy death in the baking outback. It's a tough place.”
Bill Bryson, In A Sunburned Country
Not to mention choking to death from eating Vegemite sandwiches.
Posted 2015-10-26 4:26 AM (#516650 - in reply to #516619) Subject: Re: Aussie Gathering Jan 2016
Joined: September 2012 Posts: 811
Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia
fillhixx - 2015-10-25 12:51 PM
"It has more things that will kill you than anywhere else.
Of the world's ten most poisonous snakes, all are Australian. Five of its creatures - the funnel web spider, box jellyfish, blue-ringed octopus, paralysis tick, and stonefish - are the most lethal of their type in the world.
This is a country where even the fluffiest of caterpillars can lay you out with a toxic nip, where seashells will not just sting you but actually sometimes go for you.
... If you are not stung or pronged to death in some unexpected manner, you may be fatally chomped by sharks or crocodiles, or carried helplessly out to sea by irresistible currents, or left to stagger to an unhappy death in the baking outback. It's a tough place.”
Bill Bryson, In A Sunburned Country
Here's a very topical news story from today. According to The Brisbane Times, 'A man has died and two others are in a stable condition after being bitten by venomous snakes across Queensland yesterday.' ... '954 people were admitted to hospital in Queensland in 2014 after being in contact with or bitten by a snake.'
If the snakes don't get you the sharks or Queensland beer will - or both.
Posted 2015-12-22 2:51 AM (#519666 - in reply to #519664) Subject: RE: Aussie Gathering Jan 2016
Joined: September 2012 Posts: 811
Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia
Teach Beal Goanna's Solid Rock or the Diamantina Drover, Eagle Rock - or anything by Paul Kelly!
Well for that matter: AC/DC, Easybeats, INXS, Jimmy Barnes/Cold Chisel, Diesel, Bee Gees, Little River Band, Richard Clapton, The Saints, Midnight Oil, Silverchair, Savage Garden, Australian Crawl, Men At Work, Hoodoo Gurus, Chain, Billy Thorpe, Skyhooks, Russell Morris, The Church, Nick Cave, The Go-Betweens, Normie Rowe, The Triffids, You Am You Am I, Hunters & Collectors, Regurgitator, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, The Masters Apprentices, Vanda and Young, Johnny Young, Mental As Anything, The Models, Kids in the Kitchen, You Am I, The Cruel Sea, The Dingoes, Double Time, Rose Tattoo, Baby Animals, Jet, Parkway Drive, Wolfmother, Divinyls, Eurogliders, and Crowded House, Dragon - well the last two are sort of Kiwi bands that made good in Oz.
Aussie Gathering Jan 2016
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