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there are two countries. USA, and Europe. and everyine who says anything about the USA, that isb ad, is a Europeman. you use Celsius? congratulations. youre from Europe (the country)(European). you dont .ike Eat Delicious Jimmy’s Regional Hamburger Chain? okay Europe guy. youre not Joe Biden president? well then youre Privileged to have EuropePresident (the president of Europe) (Boris Johnson? ithink) so shut up about our American politics you ()Europe) (the only other place in the world) would never undrestanding, rthat in America, we have regional subdivisions and local dialects(you dont have those in Europe)(the other coutnry there is)(iuts just one coutnry basically and america is like 50 countries in a trenchoat did you know that?). and so. Youre not allowed to be mean to me or hamburger every again :/
I feel this so much in Australia. If a people on the internet remembers that Australia exists it is always like one of the same 3 jokes and nothing else ever.
On the topic of cultural variation, Australian states are really far apart, but population wise very small (mostly in the low millions). I have a friend in a different state and we just keep running into odd slang that is specific to a single state.
What are the 3 jokes? I’ll guess:
spiders and snakes is definitely on the list
prisoners i don’t get so much
drop bears
SHRIMP ON THE BARBIE
No emu war?
Is the Michelin star KFC in Alice Springs one of them?
That’s crazy, how have I never heard about that. Maybe I’ll have to check that out.
One of the specific things i can remember is Meatbox and AB Pack are the same thing, just called that in WA and SA respectively.
Is AB even SA wide? It was once specific to one place in North Adelaide and the spread to inner Adelaide take aways but wasn’t common anywhere else when I lived there.
I’m not sure how widespread it is, I think from memory the only place i looked was Wikepedia, and it said specific to Adelaide, so i guess that one’s my bad. As for how widespread it is within Adelaide i have no clue, its the only name my friend knows it by and they live about half an hour north of the city center.
I have no context for what meatbox and ab pack mean, but given multiple options, I don’t think there’s a chance in the world that I would have matched those two terms, lol.
I think most places call them halal snack packs, its really just a box of chips covered in kebab meat and sauce. I will stand by Meatbox, it is a box of meat. I swear by these things, there’s always a kebab shop nearby that sells them, all the kebab shops are independent yet similar, and it’s like $15-20 (AUD) for far too much good food.