The Worst Thing You Can Call an Australian

Warning: This video is liable to make you hungry. An American might imagine some pretty horrible insults passed around Down Under, but Australians can laugh most of them off rather easily. To some, the very worst insult is to be called "un-Australian." The latest annual ad from Meat and Livestock Australia makes it clear that the consequences of being un-Australian are harsh. But there's peril in such a narrow and rigid definition of what's Australian (and what isn't) that's dangerously xenophobic. She's right; it's getting out of hand. But when everyone is un-Australian, they can all be un-Australian together, and enjoy a lamb barbecue! You may need to consult an Aussie slang dictionary to understand everything these folks are complaining about, but it's not necessary to enjoy the video. Check out some funny outtakes, too. Still, you may be left with questions, like exactly how do Australians eat a meat pie? With a spoon? -via Metafilter

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Now I'm starting understand why charging someone a dollar for tomato sauce is "un-Australian." It's a condiment for your meat pie!

In the US, tomato sauce could well cost a dollar for a 16-ounce can, or a brand name 8-ounce can, but in Australia that would be called pasta sauce.

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I Googled 'hot pocket'. They look like our sausage roll, another great Aussie snack. They're filled with sausage meat...don't go there... goodness only knows what that is. Flaky pastry..super yummy... also eaten with heaps of dead horse.The Aussie meat pie has evolved from the basic beef meat and gravy in a flaky pastry case to such delights as the chunky steak, the curried chicken, potato pie (like a shepherd's pie) and the scallop pie. The latter is THE pie in Tasmania, my home state. A great pastry with lots of real Tasmanian scallops (seafood) in a delicious gravy. Every bakery worth its salt bakes meat pies and sausage rolls and there are nationwide competitions to find the best pie. And what about Chiko Rolls? Another great Aussie culinary delight (although they're not as good as they used to be). A takeaway used to be an order of flake and chips with a Chiko roll. (That is: a piece of gummy shark in batter, thick French fries and a sort of big spring roll filled with vegetable matter, all deep fried.) Oh!, horse feathers! All this talk about pies and sausage rolls has made me hungry. I'm off to the bakery for a chunky steak and a sausage roll!!!

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Thanks! That's a matter of terms used. In the US, a "meat pie" would make people think of a pot pie, which has a lot of gravy. I guess an Australian meat pie is more like a burrito or Hot Pocket.

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Eat a meat pie with a knife and fork!!!!! Jeeez... First you plaster it with lots of dead horse (that's tomato sauce...also known as red ned). Then you check that it's not gone nuclear, ie very hot. The sauce generally is a good indication as it tends to dry out pretty quickly if the pies too hot.Then you pick up the pie in your bare hands and eat it. You might have to lick some of the meat sauce off your fingers, and if your messy, the front of your shirt, but that's all part of enjoying a real Aussie meat pie.As for lamb chops, they're tasty beggars, but they make me f**t.

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