Sunday, May 13, 2007

Australia is weird.....

You couldn't make this stuff up....

They have a chedder type cheese here called 'Coon'. It doesn't seem to matter that to the rest of the world coon is offensive, no, here it's cheese. They've got no shame.
http://www.dairyfarmers.com.au/s02_products/coon.jsp

Here in Australia people 'joke' that it's ten years behind the times. To be fair, it's more like twenty. They don't have places where you can buy chilled ready meals. Not exactly something in the UK that you would think as unusual or special. You know, whatever they have in Tesco, Sainsburys or M&S - like ready pasta, mmmm spaghetti bolognaise, or mmmm macaroni cheese, or ready made chicken pie from M&S, yummmm. Australian equivalent - ZIP. You wouldn't think it would be that difficult - I mean think how many british ex-pats there are here who would sell their soul for an M&S??? M&S people listen up OPEN A STORE IN SYDNEY!!!! I mean they've got one in Hong Kong, why not here????

Other weird stuff:
They don't sell antibacterial hand soap here - you know like Carex.... why???? Surely germs don't avoid Australia??
They have maybe 2 or 3 brands of deodorant- that's it. Weird.