I Wondered why the "Scallops" were so cheap!?!!

[medhead]

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Potato scallops are made from a vegetable. A scallop is an animal.

I think they're limited themselves on cozzies and togs. What about DTs and budgie smugglers?

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[amaroo]

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Grew up with potato scallop (QLD), I've noticed they've been removed from many blackboards these days

 

[Flashback]

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Scalloped potatoes and potato scallops/cakes are two different things. They're potato cakes in Victoria, only heard them called scallops in qld....

I've only heard of them when in SYD before, and it was scallops. You'll imagine my surprise when I went to pickup the order and received battered potato rather than real scallops :mrgreen:

 

[docjames]

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It's the cost nowadays of the potato cake / potato scallop / scallop that's the real scandal.

Who cares what they're called - they taste great!

 

[Bundy Bear]

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A map of Australian language.
Maps of Australian language

Very interesting survey,

The sausage one is good; as I used to call it luncheon when I grew up and would buy it every so often, but then when I moved to WA I couldn't find it; eventually I think someone said it sounds like polony.

I think it used to be called a school port; generally when you went away it might be a suitcase but your school bag was a port.

Togs is another good one; definitely they weren't called budgie smugglers or DT, that is a definitely newer terminology.

And its a drinking fountain; I would never have guessed it had another name.

Good survey, as communication goes more global we might lose more of those regional terms.

 

[Major]

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Surely you have had scalloped potatoes - sometimes known as potato dauphinoise!

I remember racing out of High School to gallop to the fish & chip shop near the station to order 3 potato scallops (3 for 6d) before the train came. Great value, wonderfully cooked and we worked off most of the effects of this wonder food in the race to the shop.

I remember doing something similar, also a heap of chips wrapped in newspaper for 3d

 

[JessicaTam]

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And of course you get a potato cake from the takeaway, and a fritz sandwich from the deli, washed down with an echo or two from the bottlo.

 

[JessicaTam]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Surely you have had scalloped potatoes - sometimes known as potato dauphinoise!

I remember racing out of High School to gallop to the fish & chip shop near the station to order 3 potato scallops (3 for 6d) before the train came. Great value, wonderfully cooked and we worked off most of the effects of this wonder food in the race to the shop.

At that price, was it a steam train?

 

[Rox]

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At school in QLD we used to have delicious scrolled spicy fruit buns with pink icing that were called Boston buns.
If you ask for them in Victoria you get something quite different, that is covered in coconut and you slice and then butter it. The closest pale imitation is a coffee scroll.

 

[JessicaTam]

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At school in QLD we used to have delicious scrolled spicy fruit buns with pink icing that were called Boston buns.
If you ask for them in Victoria you get something quite different, that is covered in coconut and you slice and then butter it. The closest pale imitation is a coffee scroll.

Can you get finger buns or kitchener buns outside SA?

 

[Julesmac]

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Can you get finger buns or kitchener buns outside SA?

I remember we used to get Boston buns and coffee scrolls at school canteen but we also had a thing called an Albert Bun which was yellowish and dome-shaped, with sultanas in it. Cake-y in texture. You get certainly get finger buns here (in Melbourne); I've not heard of Kitchener buns though

 

[OATEK]

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Can you get finger buns or kitchener buns outside SA?

What sort of question is that? Finger Buns can be acquired almost anywhere in OZ, perhaps not tho "Kitchener" buns. And the good old Chelsea bun and equivalents (jam and pink icing) lives on in the East.

 

[Shelf]

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Can you get finger buns or kitchener buns outside SA?

Kitchener buns remind me of annual trips to Goolwa as a child.

 

[Pushka]

The totally off-topic thread

Kitchener buns made with real cream are wonderful. Hugely popular in SA.

The Goolwa bakery is going strong. Huge queues at Christmas time.

Bakers delight make excellent finger buns.

Cossies isn't a term you hear much in SA. Bathers is the correct term.

Fritz.

 

[amaroo]

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Togs .... is the word up here.

 

[blackcat20]

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Togs .... is the word up here.

My grandma is a queenslander and always used togs...

 

[OATEK]

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My grandma is a queenslander and always used togs...

I grew up with togs (eg 1950s), and cossies came much later.

 

[serfty]

Grew up in Victoria - never used "cossies", and scallops were shelfish.

"Togs" and "Potato Cakes" where what I was weaned upon ...

 

[straitman]

What a flaky conversation this has turned into :!:

 

[Bundy Bear]

What a flaky conversation this has turned into :!:

Someone rearranged the deck chairs.