Attention Australians!

Best food on Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, is the Chocolate Hedgehog at the asian bakery down past 7-11 that's open 24 hrs on weekends. I dream about that stuff.

Sounds crap.

I live just down the street from the North Carlton La Porchetta (mafia AS!) which is cheap and, well, okay so I've not tended to bother with anything else...

Yes they are soggy because they are overflowing with goodness. I like the challenge of trying to keep the Supreme from falling apart on its journey between the plate and my mouth.

I list Ferrari though for contrast, because it's the absolute best for that crisper 'classic' style.

Let's go to the Blue Room in South Melbourne where they do pretentious pizza that tastes surprisingly good and where we can spot Aussie Rules players from Richmond and Hawthorn and studiously ignore them.

Or, um, go somewhere completely different?

I had dinner at one of the 3AW pubs of the year. The food was really good. Normally I boycott these places due to the 3AW endorsement.

Why?

perfect thread title!
just wondering if there are any australians that have spent these past few days in the northern hemisphere this december? how have you found it?

it has been many many years for me. i still prefer the sunburnt sensation to that of seeing my breath in the air when i go outside. and kangaroos pulling a sleigh! yes!

I recommend pizza from Bimbos or from Lucky Coq (both run by the same mob, so same pizza stylee). Very thin bases, awesome toppings. At lunch you can get a pizza for $3 and a pot of Pipsqueak cider for $4. What more could you want?

how about the return of the fucken punters club!!

hahaha

The best pizza I have ever had was in Adelaide! I can't remember where though :(

No Trayce, the pizza at Bimbos is definitely not that good. Pizza Meine Liebe in Northcote is actually pretty good for one of those pretentious pizza joints. The pizza joint near me is run by a guy called 'Rehab'!

i don't want to go to rehab's

Don't worry, they deliver.

stupid people.
i love Bimbos

Good pizza places in Adelaide include Aussie Pizza House (despite the name) and Marcellina's. Oh, and Good Life if you're some trendy hippy wanker.

Aussie Pizza House! That was it. SO GOOD.

woodfired pizza is pretty gross

They've discovered fire in the south y'all now, Sunny?

Not yet, thank god!

Ach, Trayce, I had no idea you were in Canberra on Boxing Day. You fail once again to prove your existence ;)

thread idea: Moley, when/why did you stop believing in Trayce?

If you all believe in me, I can fly.

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Trayce please come to Sydney to FAP. I am tossing up whether to visit Adelaide next year.

Fuck Bimbos. Bring back The Punters Club!

Trayce please come to Sydney to FAP. I am tossing up

Someone come to Adelaide for FAP, tossers! We'll have Australian Pizza House for dinner...

...which I did tonight. Because this thread has given me the idea to have it so I had to drive in 50 degree heat to the nearest one in North Adelaide. It was worth it and it was good, esp. with a bottle of Passiona.

how great is passiona? i can buy a whole 600mls for $8ish here.

I LOVE YOU, PASSIONFRUIT SODA <3<3<3

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Passiona.gif/100px-Passiona.gif

PASSIONA'S BACK

Why isn't Passiona in Europe? I am sick of having the cherry ripe/coconut rough/double coat tim tams/vegemite/good muslie bars/hoards of flavoured milk/potato scallop 'why don't you have these ALSO conversation here.
Maybe it is just the food in general. My sister just also came back from Australia after another five year stint, and is close to depression every time she enters a supermarket. All of you go eat now!

Speaking of obscure soft drinks, here's as good a place as any to ask. My Perth b/f and friends are obsessed with finding this drink Kirks make called Kole Beer. It is common and well loved on the west coast but it has become apparent that it is a Perth only thing. We cant find it anywhere else, not even to buy online.

Anyone had this stuff/heard of it? Apparently its kind of their Coke, but tastes more like coke bottle lollies or something?

i've seen kola beer in melb on occasion, but it is definitely a specialist thing. it's quite nice, it's certainly not coke but i wouldn't want it to be

! Success! D'you recall where you've seen it? Certain supermarket chains? Sevs?

good question - off the top of my head i don't, but you occasionally see it in *.random corner store.. not helpful i know.. have you looked in the david jones food court? also places that like to stock moxie and similar drinks (and used to stock irn bru before it got better distro) might have it, like that lolly shop on mount dandenong

ooo good idea.

it's not the same thing, but try Curiosity Cola too. it has the coke bottle lolly kind of effect...all in a glass bottle! that's if you fail in your real search
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Kole Beer is fantastic - I grew up with it in Perth. And Sarsaparilla, Bitter Lemon, Pasito (YES!!!), Olde Stoney Ginger Beer and best of all RED CREAMING SODA!!! :)

Kole Beer used to be a Gest product until Kirks brought them out a few years ago, and Kirks is distributed by Coca-Cola (multi-national boo!!) Maybe a call to CC-Amatil in Melb is your best bet for retail outlets?

Hey Trayce, I'm going near that shop on Mount Dandenong today. Do you want me to get you some of that stuff if it's there (and if we go there)?

Dudes who was Queen G?

Adam: shit yeah, at least see if its there :) Dont go to too much trub but that'd be wicked, thank you so much.

queen g was geoff p, a bawdy but very nice dude.. from sydney i think. don't know what happened to him tho

Sorry Trayce, they don't have any.

;_;

i reckon the best bet is to check a few supermarkets - kirks stuff seems pretty common so it's bound to be in a couple of your more adventurous supermarkets (unlike the shitty one in northcote i'm not going to anymore)

http://ezyshop.com.au/shop.asp?terms=kole

ok so that's in WA, but my point stands

Yeah we already found the ezyshop link... they wont ship outside of WA =(

Kirks stuff is in Coles, but not that particular one! The Sars and the red creamy soda and the stoney ginger beer... weird.

Oh btw thanks so much Adam :)

There were two shops, and they both just had things like Tizer and Vimto. It was no effort, we were there anyway :)

A year after this I went to Perth to discover that the northern burbs there are so overrun with Poms the supermarkets have things like IRN BRU, right there on the shelf in coles.

I miss Perth.

irn bru is strictly a caledonian beverage, nae self respectin pom would drink it

Good point tha.

Perth is gonna be a cheerful place for its Pom population in a coupla days

and yeah it's all about sparkling Rubicon these days

I assume thats a cricket ting. I keep turning my radio on in the morning to hear ABC jibber jabber and it is all about the damn cricket >:|

yah rly Perth is gonna be the GRAVEYARD of yr great national game in a few days, carnival atmosphere a-comin'

maybe trayce ended up in the real perth

much the same but probably colder

don't talk about fucken sport on this lovely thread

you could get Irn-Bru in supermarkets here for a few years, but it all dried up earlier this year. QGP told me the distributors went bust or something?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irn-Bru#Australia

In Australia, IRN-BRU was manufactured and distributed under licence by Occasio Australia Pty Ltd[11] until 2009. (...) Due to manufacturing and bottling issues, Occasio ceased local production in late 2009 and are now importing IRN-BRU directly from the UK, with stocks now seen on IGA and Coles shelves in Western Australia as of October 2010.

There's a South African one called Iron Brew which is nothing like Irn-Bru (so essentially this is a warning) but nonetheless delicious.

they had the bru at my local coles for a while, then it went away ;_;

RIP

There were Bru but now there is none. Where are Bru?

BUT the Bottle-o in Petersham has WKD Iron-Bru Flavoured Vodka Drinks going cheap!

ooh

cheap for a reason iirc

personally i would only mix it with whisky

So the Bru I had in perf was a locally made one? I want my money back! :|

well that's where all the irn is

Did pizza in Melbourne really suck that much eight years ago, or did ILXors then have less taste than us cultured types now?

Hah I had that same thought when I found this thread and revived it, and forgot to comment on that bit. I think maybe we at least didnt have so much awesome stuff then.