Oz words

By Kel Richards

Aussie for food There are a number of distinctively Aussie expressions for food. Most people will have heard of a “brown sandwich” – that’s a bottle of beer. But what about a “seven-course meal” – that’s a six-pack of beer and a meat pie. Also on that subject, there are all those delightful expressions for meat pie in Aussie English – such as a “rat coffin” or “maggot bag”. With the same display of exquisite good taste Aussie English has nicknamed the vanilla slice either a “snot block” or else a “phlegm sandwich”. By the way, in both Perth and Brisbane sandwich shops you should order a “round” of sandwiches (a round being one sandwich). But in Tasmania that same sandwich would be called a “four pointer”. And Aussie English has a…

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Australian Geographic (Digital) - 1 Issue, July/August 2019

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