Well I'll be burgered. Shopping Australia Day
It's that time again when we celebrate sunburn, sand in your swimmers and all things beetroot.
Yes I know most of you are still reeling from Christmas and New Year's, and the first hot cross buns have already appeared in the supermarkets in preparation for Easter, which doesn't appear till 8 April.
But in between, we still have Australia Day, on 26 January. I remember an Irish colleague marvelling at his first Australia Day barbie in rainy, wintery Dublin. "We had beetroot burgers!" he reported back to the rest of the Dublin newsroom, eyes wide with astonishment. Oh, the culinary heights. Australian theme bars the world over (most notably London's notorious Walkabout pubs) break out the Men at Work and Ganggagang records and the cricket and tennis are on.
This year, the Aussie Day theme seems to have gone into overdrive in the homeland. Building on the 2011 Christmas must-have decoration, reindeer antlers for your car, you can now replace them with car-safe Aussie flags. Forget that American 'respect for the flag' thing, our flag also appears on paper plates and serviettes, swimmers and dresses, tins of beetroot, inflatable thongs, singlets, and of course, eskies and beer coolers.
You can buy raw burgers moulded in the shape of Australia (yes, Tassie is attached), or savoury biscuits in Aussie bbq meat lovers flavour. Lamingtons, those all-Australian cakes, are on special, as are ANZAC biscuits and flag-emblazoned Nutri-Grain (IronMan food).
I nearly gave the award of most useless Australia Day object to the disposable nappies emblazoned with our Union Jack and stars, but the winner is... an Australian Flag car mirror sock, free when you buy slabs of beer from a leading supermarket. Yes, car mirror socks - you know, a sock for your car's side mirror. Total must-have.
Have a Happy Australia Day, wherever you are.
Yes I know most of you are still reeling from Christmas and New Year's, and the first hot cross buns have already appeared in the supermarkets in preparation for Easter, which doesn't appear till 8 April.
But in between, we still have Australia Day, on 26 January. I remember an Irish colleague marvelling at his first Australia Day barbie in rainy, wintery Dublin. "We had beetroot burgers!" he reported back to the rest of the Dublin newsroom, eyes wide with astonishment. Oh, the culinary heights. Australian theme bars the world over (most notably London's notorious Walkabout pubs) break out the Men at Work and Ganggagang records and the cricket and tennis are on.
This year, the Aussie Day theme seems to have gone into overdrive in the homeland. Building on the 2011 Christmas must-have decoration, reindeer antlers for your car, you can now replace them with car-safe Aussie flags. Forget that American 'respect for the flag' thing, our flag also appears on paper plates and serviettes, swimmers and dresses, tins of beetroot, inflatable thongs, singlets, and of course, eskies and beer coolers.
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You can buy raw burgers moulded in the shape of Australia (yes, Tassie is attached), or savoury biscuits in Aussie bbq meat lovers flavour. Lamingtons, those all-Australian cakes, are on special, as are ANZAC biscuits and flag-emblazoned Nutri-Grain (IronMan food).
I nearly gave the award of most useless Australia Day object to the disposable nappies emblazoned with our Union Jack and stars, but the winner is... an Australian Flag car mirror sock, free when you buy slabs of beer from a leading supermarket. Yes, car mirror socks - you know, a sock for your car's side mirror. Total must-have.
Have a Happy Australia Day, wherever you are.
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