In case you didn't know, Outback Steakhouse is an American chain of Aussie-themed restaurants. The thing is, most Americans take this restaurant at face value, thinking that the food on the menu is exactly what they'd find when visiting Australia.
Take, for example, the "Bloomin' Onion", which is meant to be a "true Outback original," but I guarantee that you'll be hard-pressed to find one in Australia.
Considering this, Reddit user u/DelectPierro asked Aussies: "If you were to open a real ‘Outback Steakhouse,’ with authentic Australian food and not simply stuff catered to Americans, what would you include on the menu?"
And here are some of the top-voted responses! You can check out the full thread of answers here.
1. "Fish and chips with barramundi, flake and hoki. Fish and chips is common in the States and in the UK, but those fish are unique to Australia."
2. "Chicken salt HAS to be an option."
—u/Jeffscrazy
3. "Gotta have proper good potato cakes too."
4. "A slow cooked lamb shank on a bed of mashed potato."
—u/librarygirl80·
5. "If you're fair dinkum about it, you'd probably just do a pub menu, but do it well. Chicken parmigiana, schnitzels with a choice of gravy/sauces, T-bone, rump, eye fillet, porterhouse, scotch fillet, crumbed lamb cutlets, decent mixed grill, burgers with beetroot and a good barra dish."
—u/active_snail
6. "Fisherman's basket!"
7. "Beetroot on burgers is amazing. It's the sort of thing that may seem strange until you try it."
"An egg is mandatory. I don't mind pineapple too, and a beef patty and bacon."
—u/PonyKiller81
9. "Meat pie, sausage roll and Vegemite toast. Dessert: lamingtons and fairy bread."
—u/KoalaBJJ96
10. "Vegemite, jaffles and cordial."
—u/blackdarrren
11. "Cappuccino with a Tim Tam."
—u/malaliu
12. "Desert would need to have sticky date pudding and pavlova on the menu."
—u/m0zz1e1
13. "Wedges with sour cream and sweet chilli."
"This is not a thing in the USA! My wife, who is American, was mind blown."
—u/hnj90
14. "Dimmies [dim sims] and jam donuts."
—u/mamakumquat
15. "Chicko roll and a Passiona."
16. "Bunnings snag."
"Translation: Plain beef sausage on white bread with caramelised onions and tomato sauce."
17. "Surf 'n' turf would have to be on the menu."
—u/m0zz1e1
18. "For seafood, prawns, bugs, oysters and lobster. For meat, kangaroo steak and emu sausage. For breakfast, eggs benny, and some fucking Smith's chips for some crunch."
—u/damos03
19. "A good selection of steaks (with the option of good mash and veg), ribs, parmis, schnittys, mixed grill, a selection of different gravies (mushroom, pepper, Diane, red wine jus) and a selection of different snags, bangers and mash.
"Different fish, prawns/seafood pasta, spag bowl and a cheese plate, showing the amazing different Aussie cheeses and wines."
—u/purity33
20. "The Great Aussie Platter — an assortment of party pies, party sausage rolls, party pasties, dim sims, chiko rolls and chips with chicken salt."
—u/aytakk
21. And lastly, "Drinks: Spiders, ginger beer, Milo, coffee, soft drink and some Aussie cocktails."
"Desserts: slice platter (rocky road, vanilla slice, Weet-Bix slice, Mars bar slice); biscuit platter (ANZACs, Tim Tams, Iced Vovos, Wagon Wheels etc); classic party platter (honey joys, chocolate crackles, fairy bread, frog in the pond etc); and Christmas platter (pavlova, chocolate ripple cake, lamingtons)."
—u/Pennypenngo
Some Reddit responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.