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Appendix: Australian English Terms For Food And Drink ... General vocabulary list arse nuts or bum nuts - eggs avos - avocados barbie short form of barbecue (also written as BBQ); an outdoor meal of cooked chops and sausages (snags or bangers) and usually garnished with "dead horse" (tomato sauce) or sometimes BBQ sauce bikkie - biscuit, also it cost big bikkies - it was expensive billy - teapot, container for boiling water billy - a deep, round tin used to make tea (or used more generally for cooking) over a campfire brekky short for breakfast Breville - a toasted sandwich. Breville is the name of a company that makes sandwich toasters bubble and squeak - a stew made from leftovers chewie - chewing gum chokkie - chocolate chook - chicken counter lunch/countery - pub lunch cuppa a cup of tea or coffee cut lunch - sandwiches damper - bread made from flour and water dead horse - tomato sauce deli - a small shop open at times when other shops are closed and selling food, cigarettes and convenience items...

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Where is the literature which gives expression to Nature? He would be a poet who could impress the winds and streams into his service, to speak for him; who nailed words to their primitive senses, as farmers drive down stakes in the spring, which the frost has heaved; who derived his words as often as he used them,—transplanted them to his page with earth adhering to their roots; whose words were so true and fresh and natural that they would appear to expand like the buds at the approach of spring, though they lay half smothered between two musty leaves in a library,—aye, to bloom and bear fruit there, after their kind, annually, for the faithful reader, in sympathy with surrounding Nature. I do not know of any poetry to quote which adequately expresses this yearning for the Wild. Approached from this side, the best poetry is tame.
I do not know where to find in any literature, ancient or modern, any account which contents me of that Nature with which even I am acquainted. You will perceive that I demand something which no Augustan nor Elizabethan age, which no culture, in short, can give. Mythology comes nearer it than anything. How much more fertile a Nature, at least, has Grecian mythology its root in than english literature! Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted, before the fancy and imagination were affected with blight; and which it still bears, wherever its pristine vigor is unabated. All other literatures endure only as the elms which overshadow our houses; but this is like the great dragon-tree of the Western Isles, as old as mankind, and, whether that does or not, will endure as long; for the decay of other literatures makes the soil in which it thrives.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

Some have been puzzled to tell how the shore became so regularly paved. My townsmen have all heard the tradition—the oldest people tell me that they heard it in their youth—that anciently the Indians were holding a pow-wow upon a hill here, which rose as high into the heavens as the pond now sinks deep into the earth, and they used much profanity, as the story goes, though this vice is one of which the Indians were never guilty, and while they were thus engaged the hill shook and suddenly sank, and only one old squaw, named Walden, escaped, and from her the pond was named. It has been conjectured that when the hill shook these stones rolled down its side and became the present shore.... If the name was not derived from that of some english locality,—Saffron Walden, for instance,—one might suppose that it was called originally Walled-in Pond.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

Here are a couple of generalisations about England that would be accepted by almost all observers. One is that the english are not gifted artistically. They are not as musical as the Germans or Italians, painting and sculpture have never flourished in England as they have in France. Another is that, as Europeans go, the english are not intellectual. They have a horror of abstract thought, they feel no need for any philosophy or systematic “world view.” Nor is this because they are “practical,” as they are so fond of claiming for themselves. One has only to look at their methods of town-planning and water-supply, their obstinate clinging to everything that is out-of-date and a nuisance, a spelling system that defies analysis and a system of weights and measures that is intelligible only to compilers of arithmetic books, to see how little they care about mere efficiency.
—George Orwell (1903–1950)