Originally Posted by
mre5765
I am clued into it now. Again, no other country is that anal.
No other countries has such good reason to be - New Zealand and Australia are blessed in not having many of the diseases which cause problems in other parts of the world for food production. As a result, they are determined to keep them out - remember the UK Foot and Mouth outbreak was traced back to illegally imported foodstuffs which made it's way into the animal feed chain. Many people (including you I would suggest) have no idea about the potential range of disease vectors which can be found in food, especially since the discovery of what nasty little hard to kill things prions are...
No they aren't. Junk food is not food, it is junk. That's how it is viewed in North America, and North America has more native speakers of English that the rest of the world combined. That's how it is viewed in the EU, and the EU probably has an even better grasp of English.
Really? Well I'm in the EU and I consider junk food still to be food. Perhaps you should have remebered you were not in Kansas anymore - that you had travelled outside your own country and American rules would not apply?
Australia is a sovereign country. It is free to instigate whatever rules it needs to protect itself and its economic interests. It takes the trouble to fully explain those rules to those who care to listen and not just assume that because they (kind of
) speak English there, it will be the same as in the US.