Thursday, April 28, 1983
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Daily Nebraskan
Stewed tomatoes for breatifast
part of Aussie's everyday Sife
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NEW SOUTH WALES. Australia - I
thought this last letter should be about
aspects of everyday life in Australia -what
people eat and drink, what they wear
and what they watch on TV.
There's no typical Australian dish that I
can find - no Kangaroo Casserole, for ex
ample - but there are some foods that you
wouldn't find in the states. I've asked kids
around here what a typical menu would be
in their homes, and they said it's usually
cereal for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch
and chops or steak and vegetables
("veggies") for dinner or "tea." Dorm food,
in that case, isn't quite typical. Breakfasts
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here have sometimes consisted of stewed
tomatoes, sometimes fish, sometimes
baked beans on toast. Chunder city.
I usually have Rice Bubbles - Rice
Krispies - orangemango juice, toast and
milk. And hard-boiled eggs if they're avail
able. Nearly everyone drinks coffee andor
tea at every meal, but I've never been fond
of either, so I don't. I don't put Vegemite
on toast very often, either. You've heard
about Vegemite through Men At Work's
"Down Under" song, but you have to taste
it to appreciate it. It's some kind of yeast
extract, and it has a sharp, vegetable-like
taste. It's not horrible, but it's not as great
as everybody around here says it is. It
looks like black peanut butter, or maybe
thick axle grease, but the Aussies eat it
from childhood on.
They put a lot of curry in some dishes
here, influenced, probably, by East Indian
cuisine. We also have sweet and sour pork
and some other Chinese food in the dorm,
and in Sydney there are a lot of Indian,
Chinese and Lebanese restaurants. There
aren't many Italian restaurants, however,
and the only pizza I've had has been twice
in the caveteria and once at Pizza Hut.
(Yes, they have Pizza Huts, millions f
McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chickens and,
as I wrote earlier, Burger Kings which are
called Hungry Jacks.)
As far as what people drink, it's mostly
coffee and tea aftermeals and beer after
(during, or before) anything. Beer
consumption, or should I say inhalation, is
high here, second in the world, it's said, to
Germany. Aussie beer supposedly is higher
in alcohol content, at 4.9 percent, but I
can't tell any difference from ours. Beer
consumption in bars or "pubs" has
dropped recently, though, because of a
tough drinking and driving law. "Random
breath testing" allows police to stop any
motorist and cheick him for blood aocohol
content.
Clothes, well, it's tough to generalize
because there are so many different modes
of dress. Businessmen ook like businessm
men everywhere, I suppose, but most other
groups would be easily distinguishable
from Americans.
Most of the kids who live n the dorms
dress like kids would back home, with
Levi's jeans the official uniform. But there
are a lot of punkers around campus and
anything goes with them.
One bunch wears jeans, jean jackets and
a T-shirt of some punk of New Wave band
underneath the jackets. Another group
wears long earrings, skin-tight pants or
short skirts with black tights (I'm talking
about the females now), lots of eye
makeup and black suede ankle boots. A lot
of males and females have spiked hair or
hair piled high like the Stray Cats, or hair
with different colors in it or various com
binations thereof. Most of the hair that's
dyed is bright red, but I saw one blonde
girl who had purple at the ends of her
bangs. I also saw a girl who couldn't have
been older than 13 with a Mohawk haircut.
It didn't look very good.
As for television, a lot of it is old junk
from the United States. I counted 40
American television shows in a weekly
listing with 13 of those during prime time.
The most popular American shows are
"Dallas," "Dynasty" (pronounced
dihnisty"), "MASH" reruns, "Magnum '
P.I." and "Fame."
There's so much more to say about this
place where I've been for two months and
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