I love learning about other cultures, but often it's the weird little things that amuse me the most. I thought British cuisine was strange as I learned about tuna and canned corn on pizza, spaghetti sandwiches and chip butties. But they aren't alone. I thought an Aussie friend was joking when he asked if we liked beets on our hamburgers. But, no, I did a little research online and discovered that in Australia it's not considered a proper hamburger without beetroot on it! Not to mention a few other things like pineapple, fried eggs...... (take a close look at the photo, you can see the beet peeking out). Anyway, here's some info from an Aussie website in case you're looking for something different for dinner...
"Aussies love hamburgers whether it's from the ever present take away shop or from Burger King (Hungry Jacks) or Mackers. But to the dinky-di Aussie, it must have beetroot on it to be a proper burger.
The funniest sight is to see an Aussie order a burger in America with beetroot. Americans can not conceive of "wanting" to eat beetroot on anything, let alone a hamburger. The Yanks don't know what they're missing!
The following is a Hamburger with the Works the way Aussies like it.
Ingredients
120 grams minced meat patty (4 ounces ground hamburger)
1 slice cheese
2 bacon rashers
1 large slice onion
1 large slice tomato
1 egg
1 large slice beetroot (beets)
1 pineapple ring
1 hamburger roll
lettuce
margarine
tomato sauce (ketchup)
Method
1. Cut the hamburger roll in half and butter both halves.
2. Toast both bun halves on the grill.
3. Fry the meat patty, the bacon rashers and the onion.
4. Flip the meat patty over and add cheese on top.
5. Fry the egg.
6. Butter the bun and add tomato sauce to taste. Assemble the hamburger: lettuce, tomato, beetroot, pineapple and the meat patty. Top with onion, bacon, egg and the bun top."
3 comments:
Eeewwww...
Reminds me of seeing something online about how many people in the British culture (and apparently Canadian as well) do not rinse their dishes when they wash them - so the soapy taste you might get while visiting your friend in England or Canada is probably, well... soap! Gross
Whitney, you are right, I'd forgotten about that! I'd heard about it before I went over there and didn't think it was true, but it is. They scrub the dishes in the soapy water (using "Fairy liquid", the most popular dish detergent there) and then just set the dishes in the dishrack to drain. Their theory is that the soap drains off. It doesn't a good share of the time ... lol. If they saw me rinsing the dishes they would comment on it being a waste of time.
Well, I love pineapple on pizza, especially with hamburger and onion, and I've had teriyaki burgers with pineapple, so I can totally see that more than beetroot.
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