Australia, New Zealand & the South Pacific - Do You Speak Aussie ?

Anyone speak Aussie ?

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Take your togs or cossies, your esky packed with amber fluid and maybe a dog's eye for a snack. Bend the elbow too much? Stop off for a long black, a short black or a flat white to make sure you don't end up a few kangaroos (roos) loose in the top paddock.

Translation: Take your swimwear and cooler box full of beer and a meat pie to eat. A bit too much to drink? Have a small or large black espresso coffee or a white coffee to make sure you are fully compos mentis when you get home.

Welcome to the Australian vocabulary.

CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/01/01/australia.slang.reut/index.html)

I thought it was "Strine"....

Dog's eye? NEVER heard that one, but then maybe it's not in the vocab of us Mexicans. Ask a banana bender or a crow-eater and see if they eat dog's eyes. :D

FOSTERS.

*okay, don't hit me*

Dog's eye? NEVER heard that one, but then maybe it's not in the vocab of us Mexicans. Ask a banana bender or a crow-eater and see if they eat dog's eyes. :D

Yeah right. :mad:

Only a Sydnit 'd admit to that'n. A bonza dog's eye is tru ozzie grub mate! ^

Never heard of Dog's Eye in Queensland! I'd love to know where they use the term though.....

You've never heard of rhyming slang??

Then you need to look at this Australian slang dictionary (http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html), or a better one here (http://www.australiatravelsearch.com.au/trc/slang.html).

Once you get the hang of it, get to this rhyming slang page (http://www.businessballs.com/cockney.htm#australian%20rhyming%20slang) and start rhyming away.

Quick one: For those who enjoy cricket, I hope either Shane Warne or Glenn McGrath (or both) get a Michelle against the Poms in the 5th Test

Never heard of Dog's Eye in Queensland! I'd love to know where they use the term though.....

The short answer is:
New South Wales,
Victoria,
Tasmania.
Australian Capital Territory,
South Australia,
Western Australia,
Northern Territory, &
Australian Antartic Territories.

Thay probably covers it!

Oops almost forgot the obvious,
Queensland. :D

Never heard of Dog's Eye in Queensland! I'd love to know where they use the term though.....

You are going to tell us you've heard of a pie and peas?

Aren't you?

so, back when the great penial colony 'down under' was populated... it would have taken - what? 3 months to sail there from jolly old England...
How did everyone forget how to speak ENGLISH in 3 months??

lol

I've never heard of a dog's eye here in Victoria.

The rest made perfect sense. I don't even think it really qualifies as "strine".

Audrey

I like to eat a Rats coffin with plenty of dead horse but it can give you a bad case of the horse and carts. :p

Never heard of Dog's Eye in Queensland! I'd love to know where they use the term though.....

Sandgropers have been known to use the term. Should have been some dead horse on the dog's eye.

Never heard of Dog's Eye in Queensland! I'd love to know where they use the term though.....

Don't come the raw prawn with me :p

One of our guys in Melb once explained to me why the local beer in Queensland is called "XXXX." He said it was because nobody in Queensland could spell "beer."

Banana benders don't give a XXXX about any other beer (:eek:)

Not universally true. Last winter at Hell's Gate Roadhouse (on the northwestern edge of Queensland for you Aussies who have no idea where it is), I saw VB dramatically outselling XXXX.

so, back when the great penial colony 'down under' was populated... it would have taken - what? 3 months to sail there from jolly old England...
How did everyone forget how to speak ENGLISH in 3 months??

lol

...because they wanted to. :rolleyes:

One of our guys in Melb once explained to me why the local beer in Queensland is called "XXXX." He said it was because nobody in Queensland could spell "beer."

Heard that one before. Never got around to drinking it though...ended up addicted to VB.

Not universally true. Last winter at Hell's Gate Roadhouse (on the northwestern edge of Queensland for you Aussies who have no idea where it is), I saw VB dramatically outselling XXXX.

It's easier to spell VB than XXXX! :p

The name VB caught my attention when I was in OZ in 2003--4 because I am a volleyball player! :)
I heard some bloke call it [Ladypart] Batter once! :eek:

How about, "Brendy broiled our brekkie on the barbie in Brizzy"?

I grew up in Adelaide and I remember always stopping by the Pie Floater truck outside the GPO at night after a long day at the beach.

Is it still operating and do they sell pie floaters anywhere else in the world?

A pie floater is a Balfour Meat Pie covered in hot mushy peas topped with heinz tomato sauce (yummy!)

I grew up in Adelaide and I remember always stopping by the Pie Floater truck outside the GPO at night after a long day at the beach.

Is it still operating and do they sell pie floaters anywhere else in the world?

A pie floater is a Balfour Meat Pie covered in hot mushy peas topped with heinz tomato sauce (yummy!)

davistev, have you been to this Aussie pie shop in WA (http://www.australianpieco.com/directions.shtml)?

Maybe other readers can let us know if these places are operating and OK...
AZ (http://www.mojopies.com/tobuy.html)
GA (http://www.australianbakery.com/)
NY (http://www.eightmilecreek.com/)
WA (http://www.australianpieco.com/directions.shtml)

UK and Portugal (http://www.jumbucks.co.uk/)

Has anyone tried a pie at Eight Mile Creek (http://events.nytimes.com/mem/nycreview.html?res=9B03E4D61F3BF931A25752C0A9669C8 B63)? We were very tempted at the time, but SoHo has so many temptations! :)

I grew up in Adelaide and I remember always stopping by the Pie Floater truck outside the GPO at night after a long day at the beach.

Is it still operating and do they sell pie floaters anywhere else in the world?

A pie floater is a Balfour Meat Pie covered in hot mushy peas topped with Heinz tomato sauce (yummy!)


I too grew up in Adelaide and held the un-official pie floater eating record with David Day from nearby 5KA in Franklin Street.

We went on a big before his on-air shift one night and he ate 7 and I somehow got through EIGHT. ;)

It was the epitome of the Australian lack of social strata. At 1am you'd be standing up eating a floater alongside a few heavily tattooed bikies, a couple of aboriginals and folks in evening dress coming back from a government ball or whatever. Aall chating along happily.

Yes they are still in ADL. MargoOz and I went for search for the caravans a few months back. Even a cabbie had no idea what we were talking about. We found one outside the casino/railway station in North Terrace. The GPO one (Franklin Street) still operates weekends.

The Casino one is pretty sad as the bowl was paper or cardboard now. Very yuppie. The GPO one had the old fashioned glass bowl IIRC.

And a gentle correction -

A pie floater is a Balfour Meat Pie covered in hot mushy peas topped with Heinz tomato sauce

It is and always was a huge bowl of green split pea into WHICH was dropped the pie. ;)

And of course there days, a 'meat' pie is just part of the act - about 10 flavors/variations are possible.

And please no-one visiting Sydney should neglect a visit to THIS place if you like pie floaters!

http://www.moremiles.org/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=52;t=000291#000003

FOSTERS.



Clearly someone who has never actually been here? ;)

No-one in this country actually drinks this stuff. In fact I bet it is hard to find in some pubs.


Glen

Heard that one before. Never got around to drinking it though...ended up addicted to VB.

Not VB:td: Worst beer Australia managed to muster up.

Not VB:td: Worst beer Australia managed to muster up.

A few million decendants from the former convicts wouldn't agree. :mad:

A few million decendants from the former convicts wouldn't agree. :mad:

But millions more decendants (myself included) agree with me;)

Thats why XXXX is cheaper in Melbourne go figure

Thats why XXXX is cheaper in Melbourne go figure

They have to make it cheaper to sell it! :rolleyes:

Not VB:td: Worst beer Australia managed to muster up.
I'm pretty sure VB stands for "vile brew". Slightly better than Fosters though.

I'm pretty sure VB stands for "vile brew". Slightly better than Fosters though.

Any Beer is better than 'NO BEER' :D

I'm pretty sure VB stands for "vile brew". Slightly better than Fosters though.

I'm pretty sure you're right.

I will point out how ironic is is that a thread about speaking Australian has turned into a thread about beer. Is there a thread we can't turn into a beer thread?

I'm pretty sure you're right.

I will point out how ironic is is that a thread about speaking Australian has turned into a thread about beer. Is there a thread we can't turn into a beer thread?

....MMMMM let me think?

Maybe one about Bundaberg Rum. ^

....MMMMM let me think?

Maybe one about Bundaberg Rum. ^

Thanks but I'd prefer a beer :D

I believe I know where Fosters has gone, it's been relabeled as Crown Larger so they can charge more for it.
I'll take a slab of Reschs silver bullets any day.

Have Fun, Ray

Anyone speak Aussie ?

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Take your togs or cossies, your esky packed with amber fluid and maybe a dog's eye for a snack. Bend the elbow too much? Stop off for a long black, a short black or a flat white to make sure you don't end up a few kangaroos (roos) loose in the top paddock.



CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/01/01/australia.slang.reut/index.html)

Strewth...
I reckon Rolf Harris would have scratched his head on this one!:)

I will point out how ironic is is that a thread about speaking Australian has turned into a thread about beer. Is there a thread we can't turn into a beer thread? Absolutely OUTRAGEOUS how that has happened - anyone would think this is the Qantas board! :D

Dave

Mmm...beer (Cooper's Red, anyone?)

And, Dog's Eye? That is NOT a Sydney term.

Dog's Eye's been a Meat Pie for as long as I can remembeer ...

As a banana bender Dad often grabbed a dog's eye before hitting the frog and toad! (Translantion - buy a meat pie before travelling/starting a road trip)

You forgot to translate 'banana bender' .............. :cool:

Strewth...

I reckon Rolf Harris would have scratched his head on this one!:)

Rolf has probably spent a few weeks total in Australia in the past 50 years. ;)

He's as British as Tony Blair in recent decades.

Now too many locals get festooned with MBEs, OBEs, and now CBE's:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5087294.stm

A Knighthood will be next.

Hey I am waiting for mine. Plus Reschs
Ray

Mmm...beer (Cooper's Red, anyone?)

And, Dog's Eye? That is NOT a Sydney term.

It is, it just doesn't get used very often, and by not very often I mean never;)

It is, it just doesn't get used very often, and by not very often I mean never;)

yep ;)