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20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)

They're not all beauties, but you gotta try them at least once before you make up your mind!

1. ANZAC biscuits

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)
Anzac biscuits have long been associated with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) established in World War I. It has been claimed the biscuits were sent by wives to soldiers abroad because the ingredients do not spoil easily and the biscuits kept well during naval transportation.

Technically, they’re New Zealand biscuits as well, but everyone forgets about NZ so it’s okay. :P

2. Bunnings Snags

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)

Bunnings Warehouse is an Aussie hardware store, that’s infamous for having a sausage sizzle outside its stores. The snags are so popular that memes have been made about them.

3. Caramello Koala

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)
It’s a small chocolate in the shape of a koala, with a tasty caramel filling.

4. Cheesymite Scrolls

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)

Thank you, Bakers Delight, for these beauties. They're bread scrolls with cheese and Vegemite spread in the middle, and are absolutely delicious.

5. Cherry Ripe

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)

Kind of like a bounty, but with dark chocolate, and sort of a glace cherry taste as well. They’re GOOD.

6. Chiko Rolls

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)

A Chiko Roll's filling is primarily cabbage and barley, as well as carrot, green beans, beef, beef tallow, wheat cereal, celery and onion. This filling is partially pulped and enclosed in a thick egg and flour pastry tube designed to survive handling at football matches.

Personally, I think it's gross. It's something the previous generation grew up with, but it's rare to find a place that still sells these now.

7. Fairy Bread

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)

It’s as simple as white bread, butter, and sprinkles! This is what all the cool kids have at their parties.

8. Fantales

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)

Caramel dipped in chocolate, with really cool celebrity trivia wrappers.

9. Golden Gaytime

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)

I know the name is funny, but this ice-cream is amazing. There's nothing else like it - with it's unique combination of smooth creamy ice cream and delicious biscuit pieces. (The ice-cream in the photo on the left is called a Bubble-O-Bill btw).

10. Hundreds and Thousands Biscuits

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)

Sweet biscuits with pink icing and sprinkles! What's not to love?

11. Iced Vovos

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)

Sweet biscuits with marshmallow, jam and shredded coconut on top.

12. Lamingtons

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)

Squares of sponge, rolled in chocolate and shredded coconut.

13. Meat Pies

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)

Especially Balfours, there’s nothing like an Aussie meat pie.

14. Milo

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)

Milo is malt drink powder that *is* available in other countries, but I still like to think it's Aussie. I mean, when we did cricket workshops in primary school, they’d hand out little sachets of these! Everyone has also eaten a spoonful of Milo without milk at least once in their life.

15. Mint Slices

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)

Delicious mint and chocolate biscuits.

16.Minties

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)

Chewy mint flavoured lollies that I associate with old people because my Grandma used to give them to me every time I went to visit her.

17. Paddle Pops

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)

Ice creams that everyone loves.

18. Shapes

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)

They’re baked biscuits with seasoning, and are a staple of any Aussie kid’s diet.

19. Tim Tams

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)

They’ve started selling them in other countries now which is really disappointing, but they’re still Aussie!

20. Vegemite

This one doesn’t need explanation, other than an obvious point, if you eat a spoonful of this thing with nothing else, obviously it’s going to taste disgusting. So do yourself a favour and spread a very small amount on top of buttered toast, and you’ll find your opinion of it might change.

(sorry for the lack of the image, there's a 20 image limit, but I figure this one is the most recognizable.)

BONUS: A few months ago, Cadbury decided to launch Vegemite Chocolate. It was a disaster and it's safe to say that *no one* liked it. This image pretty much sums it up:

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)

Hope you enjoyed and that you'll try some of this stuff once ^^

20 True Blue Aussie Foods You Need to Experience (At Least Once!)
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