"Australia? ..... Never Heard of It"

[juddles]

It should be cream. Maybe they have creamed off the cream from the cream?

 

[thehound]

If the cream in coffee is actually cream - how come I never got any cream in my coffee?

I can tell the difference between cream and milk.

The jugs with "Whole" and "Half-Half" did not contain any cream in the sense that Australians recognise as cream. Cream is viscous, milk isn't. Everything that came out of those jugs was watery like milk.
Regards,
Renato

When the Americans and Canadians refer to cream in their coffee, they do literally mean cream. But they don't normally have straight cream. I've just lived in Canada (1 year) and US (4 months). The most common thing they like is half & half, which is pre-mixed milk and cream with a milk-fat content of 10.5-18%. Whole milk is 3.25% fat content. In fact, when I first arrived and wanted "normal" milk, it took me a few google searches to realise that's what the "Milk 3.25%" was!

The reason it probably didn't seem like cream to you is that in Australia the milk-fat content of cream is much higher, up to 45%. Even light cream in Australia is about 20%. Half and half still isn't viscous, and is poured very easily, but side-by-side it's easy to spot the difference to milk. Plus I've got no idea why the yanks love it so much - I think it's not very pleasant at all with coffee, and even worse if you accidentally put it in your tea!

 

[TomVexille]

When the Americans and Canadians refer to cream in their coffee, they do literally mean cream. But they don't normally have straight cream. I've just lived in Canada (1 year) and US (4 months). The most common thing they like is half & half, which is pre-mixed milk and cream with a milk-fat content of 10.5-18%. Whole milk is 3.25% fat content. In fact, when I first arrived and wanted "normal" milk, it took me a few google searches to realise that's what the "Milk 3.25%" was!

The reason it probably didn't seem like cream to you is that in Australia the milk-fat content of cream is much higher, up to 45%. Even light cream in Australia is about 20%. Half and half still isn't viscous, and is poured very easily, but side-by-side it's easy to spot the difference to milk. Plus I've got no idea why the yanks love it so much - I think it's not very pleasant at all with coffee, and even worse if you accidentally put it in your tea!

Very well explained

 

[Renato1]

When the Americans and Canadians refer to cream in their coffee, they do literally mean cream. But they don't normally have straight cream. I've just lived in Canada (1 year) and US (4 months). The most common thing they like is half & half, which is pre-mixed milk and cream with a milk-fat content of 10.5-18%. Whole milk is 3.25% fat content. In fact, when I first arrived and wanted "normal" milk, it took me a few google searches to realise that's what the "Milk 3.25%" was!

The reason it probably didn't seem like cream to you is that in Australia the milk-fat content of cream is much higher, up to 45%. Even light cream in Australia is about 20%. Half and half still isn't viscous, and is poured very easily, but side-by-side it's easy to spot the difference to milk. Plus I've got no idea why the yanks love it so much - I think it's not very pleasant at all with coffee, and even worse if you accidentally put it in your tea!

Thanks for the thorough explanation.

I suspect that I must have gotten the 10.5% fat - because it tasted nothing like what I recognise as cream in coffee (something I have occasionally with coffee - but it interferes with the absorption of coffee into the Teddy Bear biscuits I dunk into it).
Regards,
Renato

 

[marki]

Is it typical for "Germans getting undressed bare naked " in Saunas OMG. Don't think you can bring children along no defn. Not.

 

[JessicaTam]

Marki, how is that relevant to the thread?

 

[JohnK]

I vaguely recall my/our image of Australia as a young kid before migrating here. We thought it was a jungle with wild animals such as lions and tigers. Quite tame actually.

I am hopeless with accents. Most people can pick my accent overseas.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

We thought it was a jungle with wild animals such as lions and tigers. Quite tame actually.

Havent been to an AFF get together recently?

 

[medhead]

A few years ago flying from YVR to LAX homeward bound, an American couple sitting next to me asked about my Accent, told them I'm from Australia.. " Oh where is that ? anywhere near Florida? was the reply... LOL... seems Geography is not taught @ schools in the USA... Yikes !!!! what is the world coming too... or the other response seems to be " Oh maybe one day I would love to travel there, maybe hire a car and travel from Sydney n the next day to Cairns or Darwin "... They have absolutely know idea just how big our Island Home is...

Reminds me of an english colleague of dad's who got to Brisbane on a work trip. They called to ask for our address (in Cairns) to give to the taxi driver.

You would be wrong

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jennaguillaume/sorry-america?utm_term=.qmKv2R8KRn#.puZo5WwPWj

Those are pretty much spot on, in the typical P-take way of Australians.
Well maybe not for Kansas.

"I can see russia from here"
"Bogans"
"tourists"
North and south korea.

Marki, how is that relevant to the thread?

I don't even know what it means...

 

[JohnK]

Havent been to an AFF get together recently?

Last month in HKG.

 

[marki]

Marki, how is that relevant to the thread?

JT it seemed relevant yesterday when I thought of it but not today oops sorry

 

[whatmeworry]

Oh the Americans.

 

[juddles]

Reminds me of an english colleague of dad's who got to Brisbane on a work trip. They called to ask for our address (in Cairns) to give to the taxi driver...

suffered the same from south americans - when some family friends heard we were going from Chile to Sydney they wanted to send some gifts for us to drop off to some friends "west of Sydney" - you guessed it - turned out to be Perth.

 

[Warks]

This will sort things out.

 

[Renato1]

This will sort things out.

Fascinating thanks.
I guess the fence would have to go up either along northern Australia, or along the Istrian coast.
Cheers,
Renato

 

[Moorepreneur]

This happened during the volcano eruption in Iceland in 2010 that distupted flights across Europe.

I was at a big IT conference in Miami once and was speaking to the CEO of a very large software company.

There were lots of people missing from the conference from London etc due to not being able to get their flights.

We were talking and when he asked where I was from and I mentioned Australia, he asked - "Oh, how did you manage to get here then - so many others couldn't get out of Europe".

I was shocked. They've since opened an office in Australia though.

 

[coco50]

This happened during the volcano eruption in Iceland in 2010 that distupted flights across Europe.

I was at a big IT conference in Miami once and was speaking to the CEO of a very large software company.

There were lots of people missing from the conference from London etc due to not being able to get their flights.

We were talking and when he asked where I was from and I mentioned Australia, he asked - "Oh, how did you manage to get here then - so many others couldn't get out of Europe".

I was shocked. They've since opened an office in Australia though.

I suppose that it is mistaked identity. I remember the kitschy tourist rubbish as if road signs in Salzburg and Vienna: There are no kangaroos in Austria.

 

[Limewood]

I remember on one of my many trips to the US trade convention, invited to dinner with 6 Americans, said I lived (then) in Cairns on the doorstep of The Great Barrier Reef, they said Cairns and GBR?, I thought how dumb, I then said I lived next door to the crocodile man Paul Hogan, one said really lucky you nice guy is he

 

[jastel]

Saying you live near "Nemo" works better now I have found...

 

[Denali]

A few years ago, in a US restaurant

Waitress: Where are you from?
Us: Australia
Waitress: Oh I want to go there one day! You know, the alps and the mountains, just like Heidi.
Me: Thats Austria.