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Talking of roadkill, has anyone been to Tassie?
Spent 10 days there over Christmas (excellent trip, barely scratched the surface) and was amazed at the incredible amount of roadkill. Wobbles, pademelons, possums, the odd devil (or at least looked like it), and definitely a quoll or two.
Dunno if you get similar amounts elsewhere in Aus but certainly not here in Qld, and I don't recall it in SA either.
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Talking of roadkill, has anyone been to Tassie?
Spent 10 days there over Christmas (excellent trip, barely scratched the surface) and was amazed at the incredible amount of roadkill. Wobbles, pademelons, possums, the odd devil (or at least looked like it), and definitely a quoll or two.
Dunno if you get similar amounts elsewhere in Aus but certainly not here in Qld, and I don't recall it in SA either.
I've always wanted to do a food trip to Tassie. Looks fantastic.
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@MajorRage said in Straya!:
@Hooroo oysters I had there were the best I've had on the planet.
Thing which seemed weird and completely unappealing to both Mrs Boo and I but popped up on signs everywhere was "scallop pies".
Seemed to be a waste of both scallops and pies.
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Growing up on a dirt farm in country NSW you're never far from the wildlife.
When I lived in semi-rural Berkshire, we used to often attend parties/dinner parties with friends who lived near a large country estate with a menagerie (Lord Hanson's place IIRC). The wine often flowed freely and semi-comatose party-goers staggered or were driven home, generally very post-midnight and generally very pissed. Good times.
One night several party-goers returned in a stare of shock shortly after leaving, almost psychotic with fear and vowing never to drink again, babbling about seeing white kangaroos hopping down rural Berkshire lanes
In said menagerie were several Albino Wallabies who often found ways to escape......
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surprised me because the seafood in Australia is usually great.
Personally I have had mixed results.
Prawns usually great, oysters not even close to Bluff but I'm not a fan of the "Pacific" variety anyway. Some of the fish is O.K. but the favourite "Barra" was best summed up by my nephew when he moved over to Straya as a kid - "Mum it tastes like mud" were the words to my sister. You would need to know my nephew to understand how he knew what mud tasted like, but I think his assessment would be accurate.As for phucking scallop pies, I have no words. That says more about the people than the produce.
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surprised me because the seafood in Australia is usually great.
Personally I have had mixed results.
Prawns usually great, oysters not even close to Bluff but I'm not a fan of the "Pacific" variety anyway. Some of the fish is O.K. but the favourite "Barra" was best summed up by my nephew when he moved over to Straya as a kid - "Mum it tastes like mud" were the words to my sister. You would need to know my nephew to understand how he knew what mud tasted like, but I think his assessment would be accurate.As for phucking scallop pies, I have no words. That says more about the people than the produce.
Yeah, I don't find Aussies seafood that great, obviously they do pretty good prawns. But agree with you on Barra, also the stock/standard fish here is Basa compared with Hoki back home. Basa is an awful fish.
The mussels are midgets too.
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@Nepia Basa tastes like egg white. It's a bottom-feeding fish out of the Mekong river. The pollution in the Mekong has turned the water black and killed just about every other living thing, except the Basa. DO NOT EAT IT.
We eat Flake or Hoki. Don't mind Barra when its good. But when its bad its horrible.
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Barracks straight out of a river is beautiful. Farmed is shit. And fresh water is like any fresh water fish, tasteless.
Coral Trout, Red Emporer, Nanigai. Beautiful
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@mariner4life said in Straya!:
Barracks straight out of a river is beautiful. Farmed is shit. And fresh water is like any fresh water fish, tasteless.
Coral Trout, Red Emporer, Nanigai. Beautiful
I've eaten barra and coral trout. Give me NZ tarakihi, blue cod, hapuka, gurnard, flounder and all the rest thanks
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@raznomore said in Straya!:
Snapper seems pretty serviceable here but I find it pretty hard to get anything that tastes good to cook at home. Had loads of good fish in restaurants though.
What these people call snapper just isn't. Looks like snapper. Tastes like ... not snapper.
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@raznomore said in Straya!:
Snapper seems pretty serviceable here but I find it pretty hard to get anything that tastes good to cook at home. Had loads of good fish in restaurants though.
What these people call snapper just isn't. Looks like snapper. Tastes like ... not snapper.
A quick internet search suggests the fish is the same species. I reckon our colder waters make it taste better
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