Australian food is British food that moved somewhere sunny and learned to barbecue, plus the best Asian food outside Asia. Children do well.
The meat pie is the national food. A hand sized pie of minced beef in gravy, from a bakery, eaten from the paper bag with tomato sauce squirted in the top. Every town has a bakery with a pie warmer and every one claims the best. A sausage roll for the child who does not like gravy.
The sausage sizzle is the barbecue on the free public grills in every park and on every beach. Sausages in white bread with onions and sauce. Australians do it on a Saturday at the hardware store and at every school fundraiser, and a family can do it any evening in a park with a view. Buy the snags at the supermarket and the gas is free.
Fish and chips, brekkie and the biscuit
Fish and chips on the beach at dusk, flake, which is shark, or barramundi, with potato scallops and a pineapple fritter. Brekkie at a cafe is the Australian breakfast, avocado on toast, a flat white for the parents, a babycino for the kids, which is a cup of milk foam with chocolate on top and the reason Australian children behave in cafes.
Vegemite on toast with butter, the dare that every visiting child must attempt and most reject. Fairy bread, white bread with butter and sprinkles, at every birthday. Lamingtons, sponge cubes in chocolate and coconut. Pavlova for dessert with passion fruit.
Tim Tams are the biscuit, chocolate covered, and the Tim Tam slam is biting off both ends and sucking hot chocolate through it like a straw until it collapses. Teach the kids. Then a bag of Cheezels, a Golden Gaytime from the servo, and a mango from a roadside stall in Queensland that will spoil every other mango.
Planning Australia with kids? Start with the full Australia family travel guide, or send me the ages and the dates and I will come back with what is really available.
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