Habibi wrote:Alls I need and want learn about Australia I can get by re-watching Crocodile Dundee uno and dos.

"Now THIS is a knife."

I am amazed how many people have seen that movie. They are both classics.

You also need to see "Chopper" with Eric Bana as the lead. Great movie and makes Crocodile Dundee look like a shoe store assistant.

Some others:
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Wolf Creek (makes Eric Bana look like a shoe store assistant)
10 Canoes

MarlaCollins'Husband wrote:Really?

jimswside on May 31, 2010 wrote:I also noticed a few steak and lemonade places as we cruised down 87th street to get to the Dany Ryan, Ill need to check my gang affiliation & life insurance and hit a few of these places for a Chicago style philly.

guess you either havent been to, or done business in that neighborhood. To protect our assets down there we have to hire "neighborhood approved" security. My comment wasnt off base at all.

Big difference between generalizations about whole countries(eating habits, drinking habits, etc. as I was commenting about) vs a 1/2 joking statement about one of the rougher hoods in Chicago.

jimswside wrote:guess you either havent been to, or done business in that neighborhood. To protect our assets down there we have to hire "neighborhood approved" security. My comment wasnt off base at all.

Big difference between generalizations about whole countries(eating habits, drinking habits, etc. as I was commenting about) vs a 1/2 joking statement about one of the rougher hoods in Chicago.

I used to stop by this area all the time to eat when I lived in Hyde Park.
Grabbing a sandwich is hardly the same as conducting some sort of formal business on a long-term basis.

TomInSkokie wrote:
I used to stop by this area all the time to eat when I lived in Hyde Park.
Grabbing a sandwich is hardly the same as conducting some sort of formal business on a long-term basis.

perhaps I shouldnt have driven through there @ 10:00 p.m.

this thread really should get back to this visitors impressive eating tour.

Welcome to LTH, really enjoyable first post, thoughtful and well written. I'd love to hear what you think about TAC Quick, Spoon Thai & Sticky Rice since you're so familiar with Thai. Also, please consider coming to the picnic if you're in town, I think we'd all be delighted to hear more.

I had some of my Aussie relatives in town a couple of years ago and really enjoyed hearing their perspective on our eating habits and food. My parents were born in Ireland and could never really get used to the processed food here, they used to drive out of Chicago to the country to buy eggs, butter and chickens, and the pork here as compared to Ireland was so different. That's really changed over the last few years with the advent of the slow food movement, farmers markets and a realization by some people that there was a taste difference in really fresh food as compared to something grown out of season and shipped.

Keep posting, we're really enjoying your thoughts.

Since we're discussing the odd habits of Americans...It's odd how fascinated we are with foreigners who speak funny forms of English. If the same post had been written by a guy who titled it "Reviews and Observations from a Dude in Logan Square" we would still be waiting for the first reply instead of reading comment after comment about how great the post is.

Kennyz wrote:Since we're discussing the odd habits of Americans...It's odd how fascinated we are with foreigners who speak funny forms of English. If the same post had been written by a guy who wrote "Reviews and Observations from a Dude in Logan Square" we would still be waiting for the first reply instead of reading comment after comment about how great the post is.

For some reason I find Americans are fascinated by Australia as we are with American culture. When I first came to the USA I was single and quickly realised that frequently saying "crikey" (which nobody would say in Australia) in the presence of any female Americans would increase my attractiveness by many orders of magnitude. In my pauper backpacker days in 2001 I was sitting in an Olive Garden in Miami testing the limit of the all you can eat soup, salad and bread some random guy heard me talking to the bar staff in my broad Australian accent and offered to drive me all the way down the keys and took me home to have dinner with his family.

I certainly agree external observations on your food, culture, traditions and society is always far more interesting than an internal one. If any of you made the same post about our food on an Australian board I would see your recommendations as having a higher value.

Kennyz wrote:foreigners who speak funny forms of English

http://rinkworks.com/dialect/
Aw, don't cop depressed. Add a wee spice ter yor next posts
and maybe more blokes will give a shit. Keep yor loaf of bread up,
right, mate.

SCUBAchef wrote:

Kennyz wrote:foreigners who speak funny forms of English

http://rinkworks.com/dialect/
Aw, don't cop depressed. Add a wee spice ter yor next posts
and maybe more blokes will give a shit. Keep yor loaf of bread up,
right, mate.

This is what happens if you try to dialectize any LTH post:

We regret to inform you that the owner of the web page you are trying to dialectize has requested that it not be translated by The Dialectizer.

Knock yourself a pro slick. Gray matter back got perform' us' down I take TCBin, man'.

Kennyz wrote:Since we're discussing the odd habits of Americans...It's odd how fascinated we are with foreigners who speak funny forms of English.

Aussies speak English?