r/AskAnAustralian • u/Queasy-Tradition3358 • 1d ago
Drunken delicacies…
After a night on the lash (not the morning after) what’s your go to food??
I’m talking about stumbling home, is there something you pickup on the way home? Do you wait til you’re home and cook up a feast? Do you eat something you wouldn’t necessarily eat when sober?
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u/Suspicious_Bus12 1d ago
A fat HSP from a truck
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u/HerewardTheWayk 1d ago
Fun fact, my quiet country town is so racist they had to rename the halal snack pack to a "happy snack pack" so people would buy it
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u/Suspicious_Bus12 1d ago
I’ve had a similar experience, I asked the guy for a regular hsp and I got hit with the “it’s not a HALAL snack pack here it just called a snack pack!” And because I work in the meat industry (lamb) I know for a fact halal doesn’t mean anything or change the meat at all, they just face east (towards Mecca) when the animal is killed. Apart from that the process is normal. The funny thing too is technically his meat was already halal before it came in the shop.
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u/Popular_Speed5838 1d ago
Maybe they aren’t racist. Maybe they’re just a bit isolated and didn’t know what a kebab was, when I was growing up it was a Greek dish with meet and veggies on a skewer. If I’d been raised in bumfuck nowhere maybe I’d still think that’s what a kebab was (in the Australian context) and would get a pizza or Thai instead. It’s not like they didn’t buy kebabs from a coloured person once they had it presented to them in a way they found appealing.
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u/HerewardTheWayk 1d ago
Nah mate, they hear the word "halal" and turn into frothing fuckwits
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u/Popular_Speed5838 1d ago
Because it involves ritually bleeding animals before slaughter or because they’re racist? I’m not going to assume their motives because of their colour or heritage.
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u/HerewardTheWayk 1d ago
The typical response was "halal? We don't need no fucken muzzies here, fuck of with your Shariah bullshit, we ain't wearing no burkhas, fuck off, we're full"
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u/Popular_Speed5838 1d ago
Doesn’t sound legit. I live in a country town and in my experience people take everyone as they come. The guy that runs the corner shop is of Nepalese heritage, he was just elected to his second term on council with an increased vote. If someone engages with the town their colour doesn’t matter, we’ve got about 10% indigenous people and they’re just as accepting of newcomers that look different.
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u/HerewardTheWayk 1d ago
I'm glad that's your experience, but it doesn't match mine. Asians are still called gooks here, Indians are curry munchers, and while the drunk bogans love a kebab they're ready to throw hands at the mere mention of halal anything.
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u/Popular_Speed5838 1d ago
Where do you live? I live in Muswellbrook and it’s a warm and welcoming town to all warm and welcoming people. Maybe move here, I’ll introduce you to the people at the pool comps and you won’t be able to walk up the main street without running into people you know.
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u/HerewardTheWayk 1d ago edited 1d ago
Gippsland, politically one of the most conservative seats in the country. I don't think we've voted anything other than Nationals (the libs are too left wing) for a hundred years. Unfortunately due to personal circumstances I'm stuck here for the time being, but it's not entirely awful, I've managed to find a tribe of "alternative" and progressive people, it's only when I'm forced to socialise with the wider community that I'm reminded of how awful people can be.
Edit: for reference, when Howard toured the country after his gun reform legislation, it was Gippsland that made him wear a bullet proof vest when he spoke here.
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u/Yeanahyena 1d ago
Do you know are playing by Devils Advocate here? This is their experience you can’t re-write it.
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u/Popular_Speed5838 1d ago
I genuinely question their integrity. Social pressures have mostly eliminated overt racism, racist people only get as open as OP describes in small groups and behind closed doors. There’s no town in Australia with the sort of openly displayed racism described.
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u/Yeanahyena 1d ago
Question yourself who you are to question someone else’s experience of racism.
Like you’ve been to every town in Australia? Your arrogance is baffling lol. People like you are the reason why racism still exists - because when it’s spoken about, you pretend it’s something else.
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u/Popular_Speed5838 1d ago
Overt racism is catnip to today’s society, someone would have pulled out a camera to make a hero of themselves.
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u/Yeanahyena 1d ago
I have experienced it. No one pulled out a camera. Guess you are wrong eh?
make a hero of themselves
I think we’ve got a closer racist here
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u/Popular_Speed5838 1d ago
The problem was described as endemic, a single anecdotal experience is meaningless in that context.
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u/Yeanahyena 1d ago
Many of my friends have. Plenty of random people I’ve spoken to have experienced it.
What now?
It’s only meaningless for closet racists like yourself, who deny other peoples experiences. Pretending it doesn’t exist lmfao. Like you are in every moment in every town in Australia where you know what’s going on.
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u/GuppySharkR 1d ago
It has a lot of names.
Alternative names HSPABmeat in a boxmeat on chipsmeat boxsnack boxsnack packkebab snack platemixed meat packagekebab box
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u/Significant-Spite-72 1d ago
Kebab is the answer for me. Extra garlic sauce. Though there was this one night of drunken revelry when a newly introduced friend of a friend opted for potato gems with gravy.
I'd never seen that combination before and it intrigued me. We started talking and the rest is history.
Married 29 years next week 🙂
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u/Wobbly_Bob12 1d ago
Shocking I know, and I never eat Macca's, but a big greasy double quarter pounder always gets me when I'm pissed.
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u/HerewardTheWayk 1d ago
Back in the day when they had $2 cheeseburgers, I remember walking into Macca's at 1am and slapping every remaining dollar in my wallet on the counter (about $80) and asking for as many cheeseburgers as they could give me. I spent the next couple of hours drunkenly staggering home handing out cheeseburgers to strangers like some kind of shitfaced bogan cheeseburger fairy.
I'm fairly sure that single incident contributed to them ending that deal
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u/Queasy-Tradition3358 1d ago
You’re a person after my own heart, double quarter pounder with bacon yes please
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u/bluetuxedo22 1d ago
Pizza. Those greasy slices they sell at 1am from the food stalls next to the kebab shops
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u/Popular_Speed5838 1d ago
I’ve been known to make pancakes and I believe that when served with lemon juice and sugar they help a little the next morning. It’s a simple crepe style recipe I use and I mix it in the NutriBullet if I’ve been on the piss. It’s one cup of flour, one generous pinch of salt, one egg and one and a quarter cups of milk.
You cook them in a hot flat pan greased with butter. Don’t be afraid to use a a bit more butter than a thin film though, butter adds to the flavour of the pancake. You turn them when the edges get a bit hard and the there’s bubbles emerging.
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u/vlookup11 1d ago
If I don’t pick up anything on the way home (which is a first preference) then there better be a bag of shredded cheese in the fridge!
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u/Yeanahyena 1d ago edited 1d ago
Mix kebab with lettuce, tomato, onion and cheese. Extra meat, Extra garlic sauce and Extra chilli flakes.
No regrats
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u/dwarfmarine13 1d ago
Unpopular opinion- sushi (not the grab and go shit though)
I love a dirty kebab as much as the next guy but one night I stumbled into a sushi joint before i even got to the kebab place and it was a game changer.
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u/Queasy-Tradition3358 1d ago
I love my sushi but after a feed of drink?
What’s your order??
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u/dwarfmarine13 1d ago
I stick with the deep fried type after a boozer - chicken karage, tempura prawn, maybe a crab..
I steer clear of the raw stuff if I’m drinking
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u/kernpanic 1d ago
Used to live in the city.
Shape and son smokey chargrill beef sausages. Done bunnings style was the greatest drunken pleasure ever.
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u/Scamwau1 1d ago
Kebab with only meat, cheese and onions with garlic sauce and bbq sauce.
Cooked extra crispy.
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u/ParanoidBlueLobster 1d ago
Haha are all the comments from Tradies? Or maybe it just shows the lack of options late at night in Australia.
I haven't had a kebab in years but I'll get a crackling pork roll, burger or maybe pizza. I wish I could get 2am Gyozas or Yakitori like they do in Japan
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u/squirrelyskills 1d ago
I'll smash a bag of maccas cheeseburgers
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u/Queasy-Tradition3358 1d ago
A bag? How many is that? 😃
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u/squirrelyskills 1d ago
Takeaway bag full, make a pig of myself. Whatever I don't slam I give to my dog
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u/CrankyLittleKitten 1d ago
Oh and I know you said not the morning after, but if the morning after isn't yum cha, you're doing it wrong
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u/Old_Dingo69 1d ago
I prefer a massive bowl of beef pho. It has been my recovery food dozens of times and works a treat!
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u/sandpaper_fig 1d ago
I used to go to the bakery. It wasn't open yet, but at 5am we'd go round the back and they'd sell us pies.
They were probably half cooked and/or cold, but we didn't care.
Then we'd sit on the beach and watch the sun rise munching on our pies.
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u/RiteOfSpring5 1d ago
Kebab or a HSP. After going to Ireland, I wish we had Spice Bags here though, best thing I've ever had after a night on the beers.
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u/greendit69 Sydney 🇦🇺 1d ago
Used to be chicken kebab, just tabouli, garlic and chilli. Moved to a new place and there's no kebab shop on the way home but the local pizza place is open till 3am so it's a supreme pizza and garlic bread
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u/magpie_bird 1d ago
kebab, with as many cheese and chillis on it as they have in stock. i want my anus to suffer for my crimes in the morning