Hmmm, trying to follow this conversation here...several people have many good points
KmL a écrit :
Et C pas ma faute si y a plus de trucs degueu ds les grandes surfaces en Australie qu'en France et le premier qui me dit le contraire est un menteur!!
sur FDU.
but I find this comment a bit inflammatory, and it sure stands out of a lot of other stuff I couldn't quite understand (probably best that I don't!)
Siski has a good point: a lot of the food termed 'degeulass' here, could in fact be made elsewhere.
And if we're having a category for it, I really think you can't do it justice in 1 section: you'd need more: disgusting according to foreigners, disgusting according to Aussies, and then there are the kids who often don't find either of them disgusting (like the Kraft cheese we all grew up on - the thin stuff that looks like plastic in its own individual wrapper - it started out as fantastic in childhood, but then when you grow up and tastes change, it can be disgusting....but it's the same food throughout, just a matter of opinion.
Ballarat has one of the biggest McCain factories in Australia, and sometimes they have 'special sales' when some pizza toppings aren't quite perfect, etc, and people go there to the factory on these days and fill entire trolleys full of McCain products (not that I've ever tried it). I guess for people who live alone those who can't cook, they might not think twice about living on McCain Pizzas or those 'dinners for one' that they advertise so heavily on tv.
And when off camping I eat a lot of those 'pasta and sauce' packet dishes (not the Macaroni & cheese one!
) that I'd never bother with at home, but when you're starving...you're starving and it tastes as good as at a restaurant.
As for whoever mentioned meat pies, they do have something there - ie Four and Twenty may be one of the most famous pie brands, but I personally find them disgusting and wouldn't eat any pie that came out of a plastic packet.
But hey, for where they're most eaten, at the footy, no doubt washed down with a whole lot of beer, maybe they taste great that way.
And though France is known for its culinary heights, 20 years ago as kids I can remember that more of us laughed about it because we seriously thought most French people all ate snails and frogs legs - and that was REALLY disgusting to us. We couldn't think of anything more disgusting than that (not even Aboriginal wichetty grubs!)
So, in summary, I think the category of disgusting food in Oz must depend on at least:
A: whether you're child or adult
B: whether you're foreigner or Aussie
C: whether you know how to cook for yourself or not
D: how hungry you are at the time,
E: if you can afford to buy better than plain label foods or not.
Kate