1. Choccy milk.
Back in Australia and having culture shock about how much chocolate is for sale everywhere compared to Beijing. As my cousin opined - Australia is one of the few countries where chocolate milk is viewed as a perfectly reasonable drink for an adult.
While chocolate milk isn't by any means an Aussie invention, it's definitely a drink that is well entrenched in our culture. Go into any Aussie 7/11, supermarket, or petrol station and there's always a massive section of flavoured milk. Overseas, you'll probably get a handful of options and that's it.
2. Frozen Coke.
3. Good Asian food.
One of the most popular takeaways in Australia, the humble pad Thai #Cabramatta
Even tiny, takeout-only Asian restaurants in Australia are better than what you'll find in a lot of other cities around the world — outside Asia, of course. There's nothing like picking up a $10 pad Thai or laksa on a Wednesday arvo after work, knowing it'll hit the spot.
4. High-quality supermarket bread.
5. Late-night kebabs.
America needs halal snack packs. Kebab meat loaded with sauces on top of fries. Australia knows what’s up. #HSP
Don't worry, I'm not out here claiming that Australians invented the kebab. But we've kinda cornered the market for it as a late-night drunk food. Some big cities in Europe and the US have all-night kebab shops, but most of the time, you'll be left having to choose between local street food or Macca's after an all-night pub sesh.
6. Good coffee.
7. A wide variety of good cereal that won't make your teeth fall out.
what you think nutri-grain is vs what it ACTUALLY is
How good is Australian cereal?! Nutri-Grain, Weet-Bix, Crunchy Nut, Milo, Special K, Just Right...the list goes on. Sure, you can get a wide variety of breakfast cereals in most other countries, but they're either a) bland or b) absolutely loaded with sugar. Somehow, we've managed to nail the perfect balance.
8. Drinkable tap water.
Tasmania Victoria Queensland ACT NSW NT SA WA This is the official rankings for tap water in Australia. There will be no recount. Also, if I could put WA lower I would.
Of course, you can drink the tap water in many places, but as soon as you can't drink it, you realise how inconvenient it really is. Plus, our tap water actually tastes really good? I still can't get that gross flavour of London tap water out of my mouth.
9. Macca's.
10. Chicken shops.
Is Australia the only country on earth where you can get a cheap quarter chicken and chips at most takeaway shops?
The humble neighbourhood chicken shop is a thing of beauty. Nothing says "Friday night" like a half chook and chips, maybe with a side salad if you're feeling healthy. But curiously, they don't seem to exist in many places outside home.
11. In fact, any type of fast food.
12. Cyclone icy poles.
13. Chicken salt.
just found a place online where they sell chicken salt in the uk tears are running down my face i’ve mISSED YOU
Chips are only worth having if you can douse 'em in chicken salt. Or gravy. That's all.
14. Smarties.
15. Beef sausages and BBQs in general.
Happy Sunday Twitter Peeps- enjoying an Aussie BBQ lunch 😃
Sausages aren't exclusively Aussie, by ANY stretch of the imagination. But there's something about a $10 pack of beef snags from Woolies that is just so Australian. Especially when you pair them with soft white bread and caramelised onions. No one does it like us.
16. Snakes.
natural co’s snakes > allen’s snakes
Whether your poison is Snakes Alive, Natural Confectionery Co., or Killer Pythons, there surely isn't an Australian alive who doesn't love snakes. They're the perfect snack, and it's downright criminal that we're the only ones who get to enjoy them.
17. Twisties.
Now this is what I call living. Why choose between chicken and cheese twisties when I can have both?
Cheetos could NEVER — and UK "Twisties" don't even come close.
18. Good peanut butter.
Can recommend Mayver's dark roasted natural peanut butter. Best of all it doesn't have stuff added that makes it unnaturally sweet and unspreadable!
Not to sound picky, but I just haven't found good, tasty peanut butter outside Australia that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. American PB is way too sweet, European PB is too oily, and the best stuff is all imported Aussie and New Zealand brands.
19. And finally, Bundaberg ginger beer.
