A Simple Question For You Australian Guys...

[DramaFoYoMama]

Do you have strawberry or fig Newton-meters of torque? :-P

[Blacky]

Huh? I think there's a joke in there somewhere but I don't get it :(
Paul

[wait4me]

You guys dont have strawberry or fig newtons? The cookies?


lol, I got the pun,, but it wasnt very phunny,
:hihi:

[bink]

I'm not an Aussie and I have Newton-Meters of torque and kPas of pressure. What in the hell possessed you to start this thread??

I like original Nabisco Fig Newtons. I hate the strawberry flavored ones........taste like Pepto-Bismol. YUCK!

[EFILive]

Ya know, someone has to post a picture so I know what the heck you are talking about.


Paul

[vzsv8]

Do you want a before or after picture?
By consulting my Strine to foreign language dictionary I have found that a fig newton is a laxative of the American variety. We don't need them here... we have a selection of potitical leaders to choose from to achieve the same result:hihi:
Cheers, Steve

[joecar]

Do you want a before or after picture?
By consulting my Strine to foreign language dictionary I have found that a fig newton is a laxative of the American variety. We don't need them here... we have a selection of potitical leaders to choose from to achieve the same result:hihi:
Cheers, Steve
He he he, now that's funny :hihi::hihi::hihi: , good work Steve.
Cheers,
Joe

[johnsZ06]

Let me set them strait. In the land down under they are refered to as biscuits, not cookies. I think that's where the confusion lies. :beer:

[Blacky]

And I also found out the hard way, in the US that:

when I asked for chips I got crisps, when I wanted fries.
when I asked for a serviette the waitress was sent over, when I actually wanted a napkin.
when I said I left my thongs in my hotel room, I did not mean a collection of g-strings, I meant jandals (or flip-flops)

:cheers: I'm learning...
Paul

[johnsZ06]

My favorite Ozzy expression has to be..."Hey mate, owz about a pint of piss." :beer::beer::beer::muahaha:

[VetPet]

Now I'm not sure if I'll be able to understand my daughter when she comes back from Australia. :help2: Now where did I put that translator?:banana:

:cheers: :beer:

[TAQuickness]

And I also found out the hard way, in the US that:

when I asked for chips I got crisps, when I wanted fries.
when I asked for a serviette the waitress was sent over, when I actually wanted a napkin.
when I said I left my thongs in my hotel room, I did not mean a collection of g-strings, I meant jandals (or flip-flops)

:cheers: I'm learning...
Paul

Tell us yankee's what a bonnet it is :banana:


At least you didn't try to suck a fag while you were here (our brothers in the UK really talk funny).

[joecar]

Tell us yankee's what a bonnet it is :banana: And what a boot is. :D

[johnsZ06]

We'll get back to you in a fortnight! :banana:

Any of you blokes know this...

Two eyes, two legs, two steely bends
Beneath the Southern Cross I stand
With a can of Southark in my hand
Symbol of my native land
Up the ol red rooster
Suck more piss


I think I got that right?

[bink]

Ya know, someone has to post a picture so I know what the heck you are talking about.


Paul
Couple pics of Fig Newtons:

1st Pic is from a 1960s advert (No I don't work for Nabisco!:D)

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-12/1117406/61fignewtons.jpg


http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-12/1117406/00945cl.gif

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-12/1117406/00527cl.gif
They are great with ice cold milk.


Cheers,
joel

[TAQuickness]

Couple pics of Fig Newtons:

1st Pic is from the 1960s advert (No I don't work for Nabisco!:D)


They are great with ice cold milk.


Cheers,
joel


do you think they are still good?

[kbracing96]

do you think they are still good?
:muahaha:I think there are...Arn't they like twinkies with a shelf life of like 400 years...

[bink]

:muahaha:I think there are...Arn't they like twinkies with a shelf life of like 400 years...

Twinkies are a delicacy!! Delicacies won't last 400 years.

[caver]

Always remember that in the USA you cant ask for a spanner you must ask for a wrench and the letter Z is pronounced Zee and not Zed.

Ohh Also remember that "I let one rip" means "I cut one" to a yank.

[emarkay]

Just to chime in:

Correct!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton
are not the same as:
http://www.nabiscoworld.com/Brands/brandlist.aspx?SiteId=1&CatalogType=1&BrandKey=newtons&BrandLink=/newtons/&BrandId=75&PageNo=1/

But, the question of the day is:
How many Newtons can a Fig Newton take until a Fig Newton is not a Newton anymore? :)

[Blacky]

:muahaha:I think there are...Arn't they like twinkies with a shelf life of like 400 years...
Now twinkies have me confused. When I was a kid I used to read loads of super hero comics (didn't we all?). In the front cover was usually an add for twinkies. NEVER ONCE did the adds actually say what twinkies were. I still don't know. As close as I can figure they are some sort of cake? (I guess I should just google it)

EDIT: Well I googled it but I still don't know what a twinkie is made of.

Anyone?

Paul

[emarkay]

What Makes a Twinkie?

The list of ingredients of a Twinkie is a veritable Who's Who of the food chemical world and the following is a list of ingredients as provided on a ten-pack of Twinkies. Take a deep breath:

* Enriched Wheat Flour - enriched with ferrous sulphate (iron), B vitamins (niacin, thiamine mononitrate [B1], ribofavin [B12] and folic acid).
* Sugar
* Corn syrup
* Water
* High fructose corn syrup
* Vegetable and/or animal shortening - containing one or more of partially hydrogenated soybean, cottonseed or canola oil, and beef fat.
* Dextrose
* Whole eggs

How's your stomach? Really? Oh dear... Well hold tight because Twinkies also contain 2% or less of:

* Modified corn starch
* Cellulose gum
* Whey
* Leavenings (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate)
* Salt
* Cornstarch
* Corn flour
* Corn syrup solids
* Mono and diglycerides
* Soy lecithin
* Polysorbate 60
* Dextrin
* Calcium caseinate
* Sodium stearol lactylate
* Wheat gluten
* Calcium sulphate
* Natural and artificial flavours
* Caramel colour
* Sorbic acid (to retain freshness)
* Colour added (yellow 5, red 40)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A516836

[Blacky]

Got it - thanks. I'm going to try one next time I'm in the US. Is it possible to eat just one?

I got a suprise at a convention in San Jose on one of my first trips to the US. The program said "breakfast supplied" so I declined the hotel's room service breaksfast expecting a hearty breakfast at the convention. I got there and breakfast consisted of coffee, jolt cola and donuts. Now I like cola and donuts as much as the next guy but for breakfast? Call me old fashioned but where's my cornflakes and vegemite toast? Ha! who would eat vegemite as an adult if you had not eaten it by the spoonful, as a kid? It looks awful, it smells awful, is the waste sludge from manufacturing beer, but tastes great. (I'm off to have some now).

Paul

[joecar]

Ha! who would eat vegemite as an adult if you had not eaten it by the spoonful, as a kid? It looks awful, it smells awful, is the waste sludge from manufacturing beer, but tastes great. (I'm off to have some now).
Paul

Paul,
I disagree, it looks great and it smells great...:cheers:
...and of course the taste is just fabulous...:cheers:

(Beer products and by-products are all good).

Cheers
Joe :wave:

[TAQuickness]

Paul,
I disagree, it looks great and it smells great...:cheers:
...and of course the taste is just fabulous...:cheers:

(Beer products and by-products are all good).

Cheers
Joe :wave:


I dunno Joe. I've made some beer by-products, aka toxic waste, I wouldn't let near my mouth :D

[TAQuickness]

Programmers are the only creatures that will spend half an hour figuring out how to save five minutes.
Paul


:rockon:


Do you know the difference between an optimist, pessimist, and an engineer?

The optimist will say the glass is half full

The pessimist will say the glass is half empty

The engineer will say the glass is twice as big as it needs to be
:notacrook:

[joecar]

I dunno Joe. I've made some beer by-products, aka toxic waste, I wouldn't let near my mouth :D
He he he, then you got Vegemite, mate. :anitoof:

[joecar]

The engineer will say the glass is twice as big as it needs to be
He he he, that's funny...

And the engineer will be able to tell you the mechanical, electrical and thermal properties of the glass [and the water], will run some partial differential equations to find the optimum size of the glass, and will proceed to cut the glass and to heat treat it for strength. :banana::banana::cucumber::banana: Hmmm... the green banana has a misfire...

[Tordne]

He he he, that's funny...

And the engineer will be able to tell you the mechanical, electrical and thermal properties of the glass [and the water], will run some partial differential equations to find the optimum size of the glass, and will proceed to cut the glass and to heat treat it for strength. :banana::cucumber::banana: Hmmm... the green banana has a misfire...

The "green banana" is in fact a cucumber, they can not be trusted to perform, not like the banana's:muahaha:

[TAQuickness]

i smell another engineer in our midst Joe
:muahaha:

[bink]

Found this on Yahoo - I'll try it.
Is this a warning?? ->
Start small if you're a first timer :D






http://us.st11.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/farawayfoods_1880_5633 (http://store.yahoo.com/farawayfoods/index.html)

http://us.st11.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/farawayfoods_1881_24274412 (http://us.st11.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/farawayfoods_1881_24266727)

http://us.st11.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/farawayfoods_1881_24318709Product of Melbourne, Australia

As Australian as the Sydney Opera House, the Harbour Bridge, or kangaroos! Loved by Aussies since the early 1920s, Vegemite is a thick dark spread used on toast or bread, or as a flavoring in soups and casseroles. It is said that a Vegemite sandwich to an Australian kid is the equivalent of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to an American kid.

Hungry for a Vegemite sandwich? Take two slices of bread and slab on some butter and a small dollop of Vegemite. Start small if you're a first timer. The Vegemite will mix right in with the butter and spread easily. Enjoy. 4 ounces (113 grams)

[caver]

We have 2 versions Marmite and Bovril

[njj502]

Paul,
I disagree, it looks great and it smells great...:cheers:
...and of course the taste is just fabulous...:cheers:

(Beer products and by-products are all good).

Cheers
Joe :wave:

Can any of you boys down under send us some of this beer by product?????????? I have never seen or heard of this fantaboulous stuff............

[bink]

Can any of you boys down under send us some of this beer by product?????????? I have never seen or heard of this fantaboulous stuff............google it. Yahoo stores has it. ;)

[deano]

We have 2 versions Marmite and Bovril

Marmite is the Kiwi version and of course tastes better :rockon:

Oh Oh think I might of just started a trans tasman war!!

Marmite :master: vs Vegemite :Throwup: ....:muahaha:

Bovril... Hmmm the less said the better

[caver]

I used to think that Marmite was Souff Effrican in my youth but then thought it was a limey invention?

[joecar]

Yeast based:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegemite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenovis

Beef based (but now altered to yeast based):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovril

So it seems there must be quite a few earthlings that eat the stuff, otherwise the food companies would be wasting their time on this. :notacrook:

[mnotx]

Well, that finally solves the curious lyrics of the song Down Under:

"He just smiled and give me a vegemite sandwich."

That lyric has always stumped me...until now.

[joecar]

Vegemite sandwich...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/10/Vegemiteontoast_large.jpg/250px-Vegemiteontoast_large.jpg

I would put the Vegemite on thicker than that (about 1 mm evenly spread on each slice).
:exactly:

[deano]

Hmmm after reading joecar's reference material I now know why kiwi marmite tastes so much better than that pommy shite!!!

Blended to perfection, not to mention seeing it is a beer by-product, that means it is made from the far superior NZ beer to start with!!! :rockon: :beer:

[Blacky]

Getting back to the Twinkies and Fig Newtons...thanks Bink, the box arrived yesterday.

I didn't realise you bought up the entire local supply of twinkies and Fig Newtons - we'll be eating them till next Christmas.

They get the big thumbs up from our two daughters (4 and 7 years old). One prefers Twinkies the other prefers the Fig Newtons. They really did not know what to make of a Twinkie when I first showed it to them. They backed away like I was holding a brussel sprout or something equally hideous to children.

Now I am fighting them off to get to the next box first...

:cheers:
Paul

[joecar]

http://www.vegemite.com.au
http://www.ozbird.com/oz/OzCulture/oz_culture/vegemite/default.htm
http://www.gigglepotz.com/f_songs7.htm
http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/vegemite/vegemite.html
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/13/214522/234
http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/marmite.htm (http://www.spurgeon.org/%7Ephil/marmite.htm)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Vegemite
http://grudnuk.com/vegemite/
http://www.simplyoz.com/products/aussie_food/groceries/vegemite

[joecar]

Found on web: This is the correct way to consume Vegemite/Marmite...

http://www.spurgeon.org/%7Ephil/images/marmite.jpg

[joecar]

Variety...

http://photos.andrew.net.au/albums/1962/image2006_01_06_07_30_01.sized.jpg

[Tordne]

You are all starting to seriously scare me about now :rolleyes:

[joecar]

You are all starting to seriously scare me about now :banana::cucumber::banana::banana:

It's too late...

[TAQuickness]

Found on web: This is the correct way to consume Vegemite/Marmite...

http://www.spurgeon.org/%7Ephil/images/marmite.jpg


As silver back once told me, "It ain't no good unless you get it all over!"

[Tordne]

You're right... You all scared me a long time ago. :help2:

[bink]

Getting back to the Twinkies and Fig Newtons...thanks Bink, the box arrived yesterday.

I didn't realise you bought up the entire local supply of twinkies and Fig Newtons - we'll be eating them till next Christmas.

They get the big thumbs up from our two daughters (4 and 7 years old). One prefers Twinkies the other prefers the Fig Newtons. They really did not know what to make of a Twinkie when I first showed it to them. They backed away like I was holding a brussel sprout or something equally hideous to children.

Now I am fighting them off to get to the next box first...

:cheers:
Paul

:D Happy to hear they're enjoyed!

I can see how a "little one" would be apprehensive about a Twinkie. Twinkies look like someone made a mistake - or worse. But, they are soooo good.

Neither of my kids cared much for cookies or cakes growing up. Damn if I understand that!

:cheers:
joel

[joecar]

Neither of my kids cared much for cookies or cakes growing up. Damn if I understand that!
Joel,

Some things are a fathomless mystery... :hihi:

Cheers
Joe