Browsing terms categorised by: Aussie Food Slang
- Ab
- Abalone. Large, edible sea snails.
- AB
- Halal snack pack. Layers of hot chips and kebab meat topped with sauce (garlic, chilli and bbq). Said A-B, not ab.
- Avo
- Avocado.
- Barbie
- Barbeque (BBQ).
- Bauple Nut
- A macadamia nut (from Mt Bauple, QLD).
- Bikkie
- Biscuit (US. Cookie)
- Bush oyster
- Lamb's testicles; nasal mucus
- BYO
- Unlicensed restaurant. You have to Bring Your Own grog.
- Cakeage
- A fee restaurants might charge when people bring in their own dessert (like corkage for wine).
- Chockie
- Chocolate.
- Damper
- Tasteless bread made from flour and water and cooked over a campfire, often by unfortunate boy scouts.
- Dingo’s Breakfast
- No breakfast at all.
- Dog’s Eye
- Pie (rhyming slang)
- Esky
- Insulated plastic cooler box for food and drinks. Esky is short for Eskimo Box, a genericised trademark.
- Fairy Bread
- Buttered white bread sprinkled with 'hundreds and thousands' and served at children's parties. Always induces feelings of nostalgia in adults.
- Fairy Floss
- Candy floss, cotton candy.
- Frog Cake
- A frog-shaped cake with green icing (SA).
- Goolwa Cockle
- A pipi, an edible clam (SA).
- Maggot Bag
- Meat pie.
- Mushies
- Mushrooms
- Parma
- Chicken parmagiana. Australia's national pub staple.
- Pav
- Pavlova. A meringue-based dessert named after Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova. Ideally, soft and fluffy on the inside with a crispy outer crust. Many would argue it's just an oversized, overhyped meringue, the invention of which isn't worth the 'we invented it' argument between the Australians and the Kiwis. Sliced fruit and cream is placed on top to make it worth committing to the necessary pudding bowl space.
- Pubbie
- Lunch at the pub.
- Sando
- A sandwich. Predominantly QLD usage over Sanger elsewhere.
- Sanger
- A sandwich.
- Scroggin
- Trail mix.
- Snot Block
- Vanilla slice.
- Sweets
- Lollies, candy. Also, dessert after dinner.