So I thought I would talk about the noms in this country. The main reason for this is that I've just sat down to finish off eating the horrible crisps I bought ages ago which have gone further into being disgusting. I sat down and brought before me the cheap orange juice that I had just bought. I probably should have been alerted to the suspiciousness of it all when this 'orange juice' was picked up by me. I must admit that this was one of those cases where we take for granted our food know how in a supermarket, how we can pick up foods and we know what we're getting just from glancing at the packaging. Don't get me wrong becauase this orange juice tastes really nice and it tastes better than the 'from concentrate' stuff that I don't like mostly because it doesn't taste of oranges. But what should have started getting my attention was the fact that this stuff costs slightly less than the basic range (Cole's - the name of the supermarket) which is orange, mango and other fruit plus this orange juice is called Orange C... now what the flip do we need that C on the end for? Back home I would have just assumed it was a packaging joke and name and so I would have bought it to try, which is what I did here... only after starting to drink it I realised that this thing only has 25% orange juice! I was like what then... what then is in it? So I read the ingredients... wondering why orange juice should have ingredients, and read; water, sugar, orange juice... and I'm thinking... the reason that it is so cheap is that instead of filling this orange juice with oranges they've filled it with water and sugar -_-
So I started thinking and then I realised that I should have picked up on how the makers of this drink also make one of the two largest producers of cardboard tasting milkshakes (I name this so because not only do they come in a cardboard carton which you are likely to taste but also because they have a rough after taste but refreshing artifical cooling initial taste). But yeah, if they're making milkshakes then they're probably not the best people to be making normal orange juice. This got me thinking about how sunny D is no longer in the UK (the original stuff) and how during Jamie Oliver's inspiration that people should stop drinking and eating rubbish that we have a lot less of this bad stuff on our selves.
Something else that I've mentioned is how they have these two mikshake companies which produce the same thing but are obviously competing. One of them is called 'Chill' and the other 'Brownes'. The thing about these is that being as it is hot here in AUS people will turn to these drinks for refreshment and its the most perfect market. I haven't seen any adverts yet but I see no reason for this not to be as big as coke here (jks, no one is as big as coke) but every fridge you see in newsagents, hostels and cafes has one of these drinks in. When you first get here I thought that these milkshakes were a novelty people just drank because it tastes nice and is cold without realising that they're sheep to the marketing... but you quickly get sucked in (like coke vanilla... which they have here but the vanilla is not as strong).
Something different now... and I'll try and speed up. Corn chips. When you take a walk down the snack aisle you have to be careful here not to buy things that aren't what you want. Back home you know you're buying potato snack which, apart from being salty, are kind of good for you because of the potato... but here I do wonder what goodness you can get out of fried corn. They also have rice craker crisps. I managed to accidently buy some yesterday because I thought they were crackers for cheese.
Also... the main meat here, the cheap one which you can get most places is kangaroo. Now I haven't tried it yet but at some point (maybe Sunday) I will buy a steak and cook it. I really want to try it but what was putting me off was how readily available it is. I felt like a hunter... like how I should find it difficult to get a hold of and that way I would enjoy it more... but to be honest I haven't been to the beach yet either so maybe I'm just being lazy and distractable and getting up too late. I had an early dinner today and afterwards I wondered around the library cultural area. There I passed a place selling crocidile, kangaroo, emu and shark burgers... I know where I'm eating out next Friday (it's only on during the 9th and 16th).
The fruit here doesn't taste as nice but they do have some odd things, like pomgreat with dragonfruit... must try at some point. They also have this drink that is pressurised to keep in flavour and they have flavours like granny smith apple and pink lady but the flavours aren't very strong and they don't taste as nice as juice from Cyprus.
Thats all for now but I will think on more for now
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