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denI'm looking at the sandwiches on offer at the Outback Steakhouse. It reads like something set up by a person whose knowledge of Australia is a vague idea that it's in the south, somewhere.
This is their Mad Max burger: "A serious burger. For warriors only, please. Served with bacon, American cheese, pickles, onions, mayonnaise, lettuce and tomato"
This is a hamburger I ate for lunch today: Hamburger, fried onion, lettuce, tomato, fried egg, bacon, pineapple, chedder cheese, beetroot, tomato sauce.
Tell me which is the serious burger? Mayonnaise? oh give it a rest! and what sort of a steak house doesn't have a hot chips option to go with the salad or veggies option? Attention Outback Steakhouse: Chips are not a side dish. Now I really must go to one in the US so I can take the piss.
"How would you like your steak?"
"Knock the horns off, wipe its arse and bung it on a plate. And don't forget the chips. And if you say 'bonzer' at me I'll shove it up yer clacker and sink the slipper." I wonder if the one in Sydney is actually part of this chain. I Must Find Out.
And in other news, I ate the pickled onions.
This is their Mad Max burger: "A serious burger. For warriors only, please. Served with bacon, American cheese, pickles, onions, mayonnaise, lettuce and tomato"
This is a hamburger I ate for lunch today: Hamburger, fried onion, lettuce, tomato, fried egg, bacon, pineapple, chedder cheese, beetroot, tomato sauce.
Tell me which is the serious burger? Mayonnaise? oh give it a rest! and what sort of a steak house doesn't have a hot chips option to go with the salad or veggies option? Attention Outback Steakhouse: Chips are not a side dish. Now I really must go to one in the US so I can take the piss.
"How would you like your steak?"
"Knock the horns off, wipe its arse and bung it on a plate. And don't forget the chips. And if you say 'bonzer' at me I'll shove it up yer clacker and sink the slipper." I wonder if the one in Sydney is actually part of this chain. I Must Find Out.
And in other news, I ate the pickled onions.
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 00:12 (UTC)how about stakes in Grams, or more hopefully
kilos :)
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 00:17 (UTC)i should of realised it, by looking
at the full menu...
This is(and i repeat)
this *IS* Lonestar returant.
Its owned by the same ppl,
smae menu, differnt names.
My cousin now lives over there,
said it was funny as all hell,
them trying to Aussie it up,
and as disapointing too when
he realised that its just lonestar.
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 08:39 (UTC)no subject
Date: 30 Aug 2003 09:05 (UTC)3 or 4 Mcdonalds in a row
trying to compeat with each other.
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 18:59 (UTC)The clustering is a business idea called "synergy" where you gain customers by being close to a competitor. In Dubbo we have a cluster of Pizza Hut, Subway, Maccas, Red Rooster, with KFC and Hungry Jack's (ie Burger King) within 1 block of that.
It leads to an ugly patch of ground, but it's contained in one area and doesn't bleed into the rest of the business district.
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 00:18 (UTC)From what I gather, Outback Steakhouse is overly commercialized, and they must play on every Australian stereotype there is in order to trick you into thinking that their mediocre food is authentically Australian.
As for stereotypes, just look at their website: boomerangs, "G'day Mates!", Mad Max, and much more. I've never actually been to an Outback, but I'm sure the Aussie stereotype is played ad nauseum there.
*grin*
Date: 30 Aug 2003 00:25 (UTC)Aw Hell, I manage to go out to dinner with you period and it's my treat.
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 01:11 (UTC)The Outback Steakhouse is about as Aussie as Budweiser. Then again, the Lone Star Steakhouse is about as Texan as a Mini Cooper.
The food was pretty good on both occasions, though.
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 04:46 (UTC)but then, Most Americans I've ever talked too, don't seem to understand beetroot..
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 06:16 (UTC)"What's a beetroot"?
Anyway, don't be too offended. ;) After all, in the French Restaurants over here, they don't insult you or take 3 hours
to serve you a plate of cold snails. :)
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 06:28 (UTC)http://www.thompson-morgan.com/seeds/us/list_beetroot_0.html
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 06:33 (UTC)Oh, and unforunately, over here, if you order "Chips" you're going to get what you all call "Potato Crisps", so
be aware of the difference. :) The Outback Steakhouses
I've been to around here do have them, but they call them
"Fries" anyway, because their American customers wouldn't
have the slightest idea why their order of Chips came out
as enormous 'French Fries'.
Scott
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 06:51 (UTC)If you're in a restraunt and order chips, you'll get fries because getting crisps would be silly. Sometimes they're just called hot chips. It's a context thing we Aussie don't have a problem with 8)
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 06:42 (UTC)Imagine Beetroot SPAM! :o
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 06:53 (UTC)no subject
Date: 30 Aug 2003 10:06 (UTC)Scott (Do 'Roos eat Beetroots?) Kellogg
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 18:12 (UTC)But a civilized roo would, especially if it's been cooked properly and added to a salad.
Beet juice is pretty persistent. I imagine a SPAM thrown into beet waste would take on the purple colour, not just as a stain on the outside. They might be different flavours but they all look the same. The FAB1999 chefs could use colours to give the carnivores some variety in their diet. 8)
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 14:46 (UTC)no subject
Date: 30 Aug 2003 18:14 (UTC)no subject
Date: 30 Aug 2003 06:32 (UTC)Beetroot is a purple vegetable - we mostly buy it tinned.
The whole point to beetroot is that it has a strong pinky purple colour that leaves a near permanent pink stain on clothing.
The whole point to eating a hamburger (or salad sandwich) Aussie style is to eat it without the beetroot slices or juice escaping and ruining your t-shirt.
No mean feat if you pile up a burger with all the ingredients Den listed ;)
That should cover things.
Oh yes, in the interest of culinary science I just have to add the following recipe for Beetroot Cake wiht Peanut Butter icing... (http://www.abc.net.au/darwin/stories/s887852.htm)
Sounds absolutely vile :)
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 06:43 (UTC)(Bleah!) ;)
Scott
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 11:32 (UTC)I prefer them fresh. They are those dark red root things in the fresh veggie section. Not all stores carry them. I prefer to rinse them off and trim off the green end. Then boil them until tender. You do need to be careful as the juice will dye anything and everything. Slip the skins off after they have cooled enough to handle and slice. I prefer them with salt and pepper only.
I have never had them on a burger tho. It has been years since I have been to an Outback due to crappy service. They didnt put beens on burgers then, but then maybe they dont think of it as an american thing
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 13:35 (UTC)no subject
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Date: 31 Aug 2003 12:18 (UTC)no subject
Date: 30 Aug 2003 18:02 (UTC)You only need 1 slice on a burger, and you have to be extra careful the juice doesn't drip on something you want to keep.
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 06:32 (UTC)no subject
Date: 30 Aug 2003 08:11 (UTC)Yum yum yum yum yum yum!
You don't buy sliders for their taste. You buy them because you are drunk and they slide down your throat! Plus, they are 50 cents!
Beetroot!
Date: 30 Aug 2003 06:30 (UTC)In salads and as a side dish.
I like it.
Never had it on a burger.Or a fried egg either. But I have had the sour cream/avocado sprouts bacon tomato cheese lettuce and grilled onion bit.
Outback Steakhouse is like a genuine Aloha Ukelele that was made in Japan. I'll stay with the cookbooks:D.
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 06:34 (UTC)no subject
Date: 30 Aug 2003 07:41 (UTC)I know my Australian rural cooking. This ain't it. But we go because they have really good prime rib, and DJ loves good prime rib scraps.
(In SA, my host father tried to freak me out by saying that he "wipes the possom piss" off the grill -- a sheet of steel held up with cinder blocks on the ground -- before using it. He didn't know I was a country girl from California, he figured we were all city girls. So I told him that I'd only ever seen sheep castrated with the farmer's teeth, no other method. After his color came back, he cooked tea.)
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Date: 30 Aug 2003 11:05 (UTC)uyguy
Date: 10 May 2004 12:33 (UTC)