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Date Posted: 03:17:35 07/29/02 Mon
Author: Stardoe
Subject: Re: I'm a Los Angelino
In reply to: detoured 's message, "I'm a Los Angelino" on 17:50:10 07/28/02 Sun

I remember watching Zorro and he lived in pueblo de los Angeles. I loved that show. I thought the horse was just the best thing. And I was , like, 29 at the time. lol.So I guess tostadas are the original sterotypical foods of that area. I love Mexican food. But we don't have many restaurants around. Chinese and pizza are the main takeaways as well as the good old Hamburger/Fish and Chips shops.

Typical kids lunch here is....you guessed it....vegemite sandwiches!!!! When we were kids we watched Sesame Street and the kids would be having peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. We made our grandmother make them for us all the time but we didn't know that jelly was really jam so we made Nannie make them with jelly [jello] . For years we thought that's what the Sesame St kids were eating until we grew up and found out that jello is jelly and jelly is jam. But our version did taste nice except that the jelly [jello ] kept falling out of the sandwhich. LOL.

Yes I think you are right that we aren't known about by Americans or other people for that matter. I like that you know stuff so you know that when I am stereotypicalising it is usually only that even though alot of that stuff is true to an extent. I mean, everyone thought Crocodile Dundee was a mythical character who would never be real and yet we have Steve Irwin running around wrestling crocs. The difference is that Dundee killed them and Steve saves them. OUr stereotypes are funny and we make fun of them all the time in our comedy. Our comedy isn't very sophisticated and usually consists of making fun, although I must say that a couple of shows did this really well. ONe show is called "The Games" I think, and is about the people organising the olympics. You have to look hard to really be sure it is a take off and not the real thing. Also there was another show that was in a similar vein which made fun of the media and the star was this really arrogant news reader. It was a funny show.

But as for ordinary Aussies wrestling crocs, well my son wants one to put in our backyard swimming pool. That's as close at it gets.

Spy kids was a good movie. When I saw Dog Drool I let out this huge squawk. Just built in XF radar reaction reflex. I surprised myself considering it was only doggy bag.

Did you try a meat pie when you were here Det? I heard that when they are being sold during the olympics, foreigners were asking for forks. They had to have a lesson on how to eat one properly. There's an art. WE dont' have a huge number of foods that are typical. Pies, chicko rolls, minties, vegemite, damper, lammingtons, pavlovas [NZ invented those though] timtams, jaffas. Can't think of anything else at the moment. WE mainly eat British type foods; those people who are of British decent. But really there is such a variety now we eat just about anything. Just tonight I made Chile concarne for tea. Starbuck cooked chinese the night before and I made a lamb roast the night before that. Friday night we had takeaway fish and chips and last thursday I made spaghetti bolognaise. Most times it is steak or sausages or a chop with veges with this other foreign stuff mixed in but it doesn't seem foreign anymore as it's all a part of us now. I also made pizzas until the kids complained that they weren't as good as Pizza Hut.lol.On the rare occasion I make burritos or tacos or nachos. Yes, I too can be a Los Angelina. :-)

I only know all that stuff you eat [well regular people who aren't los Angelinas by nature] because of TV. We get all your shows. But we also have many more of our own now and all the British dramas but once it was mainly American TV. Sometimes the kids get confused with the accents and I have to explain them. My neice calls Tommy [on Rugrats] Tahmy,like you say it. It took my sister forever to convince her it was T-O-mmy.
Fun! :-)
I'll be able to sleep well tonight knowing that Mulder and Scully live.
Stardoe

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I meant to write SNOWBuck not Starbuck. (NT) -- Stardoe, 03:22:09 07/29/02 Mon
Bugs and Bacon -- kenamom, 07:08:18 07/29/02 Mon
- Ants on a Log? -- CW, 19:45:29 07/30/02 Tue
  - The best steak sandwiches -- SMH, 04:22:34 07/31/02 Wed
    - Re: The best steak sandwiches -- STardoe, 07:34:17 08/01/02 Thu
      - Ya mean Ketchup? -- detoured, 21:32:41 08/01/02 Thu
        : Ya mean chips? -- Stardoe, 01:02:53 08/02/02 Fri
        We call them all french fries -- detoured, 00:33:33 08/03/02 Sat
        This discussion is sending me into carbo-overload! -- SMH, 19:32:38 08/05/02 Mon
        French fries are terribly unhealthy -- Stardoe, 02:38:15 08/09/02 Fri
        Re: We call them all french fries -- Stardoe, 02:17:54 08/09/02 Fri
  - Dressed up celery -- detoured, 21:40:32 07/31/02 Wed
  - We call those.... -- Stardoe, 07:16:41 08/01/02 Thu
    - Or hot beef[or chicken] and gravy roll. (NT) -- Stardoe, 07:36:38 08/01/02 Thu
Pizza Hut can be vastly different in other countries -- detoured, 22:32:54 07/31/02 Wed
- Well it's not quite T-oe-my -- Stardoe, 07:28:02 08/01/02 Thu
  - I will bring the mint jelly -- kenamom, 09:02:52 08/01/02 Thu
    - yes, mint jelly would ber perfect -- Stardoe, 01:10:12 08/02/02 Fri
  - Pizza -- detoured, 01:07:35 08/03/02 Sat
    - Re: Pizza -- Stardoe, 02:42:47 08/09/02 Fri