20 Foods That Are Normal In Australia But Nowhere Else

20 Foods That Are Normal in Australia But Nowhere Else — a genuine countdown of the foods, snacks and combinations that Australians grow up thinking are completely ordinary. Part of The Golden Outback's look at the Australia we grew up in. There are 20 foods that are perfectly normal in Australia, but would make most of the rest of the world look at us like we've completely lost the plot. The snap of a fried pastry roll nobody outside this country has ever heard of. Hundreds and thousands scattered over buttered white bread at a five-year-old's birthday party. A salt that isn't really salt at all, dusted over hot chips at every fish and chip shop in the country. It starts with the Chiko Roll, invented by a Bendigo boilermaker in 1950 who thought he could build something sturdier than the flimsy rolls sold outside football grounds. From there we go through the Dim Sim (first fried, not steamed, at a fish and chip shop in Mordialloc), fairy bread (documented as far back as 1929 in the Hobart Mercury), chicken salt, frog cakes (a South Australian secret most of the country has never heard of), and kangaroo meat, which Australia didn't even export commercially until 2010. There's the Tim Tam, named after a horse that won the 1958 Kentucky Derby. The Iced VoVo, which Kevin Rudd accidentally turned into a piece of political history. The Adelaide pie floater — a meat pie, submerged upside down in pea soup. Golden Gaytime, Vegemite, and the flat white, an Australian-New Zealand coffee invention now ordered in cafes worldwide. We also cover three genuine Australian icons — the Anzac biscuit, the lamington, and the pavlova — and we're upfront about it: all three are honestly, permanently disputed with New Zealand. Then Weet-Bix, the macadamia (the only native Australian food that ever spread globally), the witchetty grub, the classic sausage sizzle, and a final round of food slang that will mean absolutely nothing to anyone who didn't grow up here. 20 foods, 20 small arguments about who actually invented what, and 20 things that somehow, between all of us, ended up meaning home. Which one did we miss? Let us know below. A few items on this list have cousins overseas — but the version, the name, or the story behind it is genuinely ours. This is about how Australia made it its own, not a claim nobody else has ever seen a food before. 🔔 Subscribe to The Golden Outback — stories about the Australia we grew up in. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 0:57 Chiko Roll 2:05 Dim Sim 3:02 Fairy Bread 3:54 Chicken Salt 4:46 Frog Cakes 5:20 Kangaroo Meat 5:56 Tim Tam 6:56 Iced VoVo 7:42 Pie Floater 8:23 Golden Gaytime 8:55 Vegemite 9:42 Flat White 10:24 Anzac Biscuit, Lamington & Pavlova 12:00 Weet-Bix 12:40 Macadamia Nut 13:22 Witchetty Grub 13:59 The Snag 14:37 Aussie Food Slang #GoldenOutback #AustralianNostalgia #AustralianHistory