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Don’t forget you are in Queensland which is different to other States. If you visited the other States in Australia you would find it quite different in many aspects.
Chip sandwiches aren’t weird in Australia, but your video has given me an idea. Chip sandwich with chicken salt. This is bound to be the best food experience ever…Surely?
We do, we call them a chip butty - often sold in a roll in the chip shops. The video is for fun, certainly not meant as a bad thing, we love Australia and embrace all of the quirks - we rather enjoy most of them 🥰🥰
I never thought of a chip butty with chicken salt...genius!! Someone else in the comments recommended Nutella instead of butter on fairy bread. Even though it's a kids thing, I'm gonna try that as well.
As an Australian, it's funny seeing someone who calls the ground "the floor". In Australia, we only use "floor" to refer to inside a building. If it's outside, it's "the ground", not "the floor". 🙃
I hear that all the time from my British husband and his family, after 20 years it still sounds wrong to me however I now wonder if it’s an Aussie thing because I’ve heard people from other counties use the British version. The same goes for roof and ceiling.
Aussie from Sydney here. I call it the ground unless it is laid as a floor. In a building it is a floor, whether tiled, boards or polished concrete. Outside on soil or on pathways there is no floor, so it is the ground. I’m not sure, but I think this is how historically the British referred to the Ground Floor, where the animals were kept in cold weather on the lowest level on a ground of dirt with straw, while the people lived on the first built floor above that, which had a floor and a ceiling. And became known as the First Floor.
😂yes, I watch an English dude that films the horse guards, and he says, "such or such fell on the floor", when it dropped/fell on the ground, it makes me giggle everytime 😅.
The magpies actually recognise you by your eyes. We had magpies that would come and eat out of my hand and were very tame. One day when I went out on the deck the female who I was very close with would not come near me. I realised that I had sunglasses on, so I took them off and looked at her and she came straight to me. Magpies look you directly in the eye intently and this actually used to unnerve my wife somewhat.
We didn’t realise that, thank you for sharing 😊 We had a lovely magpie that lived at our farm, she seemed to quite like Ben as he spent a lot of time out in the paddocks 🥰
@@TheBAMFamalamthat’s because most places won’t sell them, it’s something people do at home, in private, in secret, but in all seriousness, you generally have to buy your chips, then go & buy fresh bread or rolls & take them home
The first time I walked into an English Fish and Chip shop, I was amazed at how basic it was. I could buy Haddock, Chips and Curry Sauce. That was it. I would have thought an Aussie Fish and Chip shop would have been a culture shop with its range of fish, hamburgers, steak sandwiches, dim sims and souvlakis. And chicken salt!
When we moved here in 1986, we were totally surprised that we had to order our fish n chips. In the uk it was all cooked and you just queued up for it😜
@@kountatalk It's one of those things you have to ask for in a chippy. I know of six stores around me here where I live in Sydney CBD Fringes that have them on their menus.
Just had to comment on Poms calling the ground the "floor"? Australians only usually call it a floor in a building. Anywhere outside is the ground/ lawn / road etc.
Wine casks were invented in Australia basically to export cheap bulk wines to places like the UK and Asia - you can get both reds or whites. Before wine casks they used to sell cheap wine like claret, port, brown muscat in large glass containers called flagons which we just shortened ro goon. Inside the cardboard carton is a bag that holds the wine hence the name goon bag. Australia also came up with putting screw caps on wine bottles which seems to have spread to other parts of the world as well.. Chicken salt is not chicken flavouring it was invented by a guy in Adelaide who owned a roast chicken shop it is a mix of different seasonings he used to put on his chickens people liked it and started putting it on other things. I have been putting chips on sangas both the hot and cold variety since I was a kid growing up in the 60s and it was probably being done well before that. I also like putting potato scallops (which is what we call them in NSW) on bread rolls or sangas as well. Things we like or do in Australia may seem weird to foreigners but seriously who gives a rats no body is forcing people to come here or forcing them to adopt our customs. Its not polite to be welcomed into someone elses home and then publically disrespecting them.
There is certainly no disrespecting going on in this video, we love Australia and have lived here for a long time - and aside from not liking chicken salt (each to their own!), we actually said positive things throughout our video, and even called ourselves weird! It is lighthearted and affectionate. Thank you for all the great info you have shared with us.
Fairy bread. Our rule at our house is you can’t say you don’t like it if you haven’t tasted it. I’m Aussie, my husband arrived here from Scotland, where he had not much variety in what he ate, when he was 15. We had been together about three years when I discovered some of the foods he said he didn’t like he had never actually tasted. We made the rule you had to taste something before you decided if you liked it or not. Which is how he ended up eating garlic bread and I ended up eating black pudding!
@@TheBAMFamalamNot just magpies either. I have been swooped by butcherbirds and plovers. We even have some swooping crows in our neighbourhood. Crows are big birds. It's not fun when one of them swoops you!
@@elizabethroberts6215 flagons was the way cheaper wine was sold before casks were invented. Hence when cask wine became popular the bag had the same volume as a flagon therefore people began calling it a goon bag. I guess you had to be alive in early seventies to remember.
@@elizabethroberts6215 A goon or goonie was very definitely a flagon of wine long before casks of wine were invented. As a young man I always took one fishing. I lived near a winery that did cheap refills if you brought an empty goon. Never seen that done with a goon bag
Goon Bag....Goon is short for Flagon, the older big glass bottle of cheap wine. Then when cheap cask wine came about, the nickname came about shortly after.....
I think many of these are exclusive to Queensland. The barefoot thing is as well as ‘yeah, nah’. Chip and crisp sandwiches were more a part of my childhood than Fairy bread.
……was in a queue for local election couple of weeks’ ago. The man in front of me started talking to me, on a topical subject, & we’d a great convo for about ten minutes’. Neither of us known to each other, total strangers’, but that’s what you do here……it was lovely 🇦🇺
You’re correct. I have conversations in supermarkets, cafes etc all the time. It’s really lovely, When l was visiting England l remember talking to a young woman at the bus stop about her new baby girl. She was quite sullen at first but by the time we got off the bus, she was smiling as l waved goodbye.❤
I wouldn't recommend walking around shoeless in Victoria, like the roads our footpaths are pretty ordinary and the closer you get to the big smoke the filthier the the ground gets.
Maz good on ya. Aussie here and I LUV bin chickens too.. They only look grotty cos theyve got got their heads in garbage and their white necks get so dirty. Out of that environment theyre clean and white and beautiful. Goon bag because before the box packaging the same wine was in a 2litre glass flagon. Kinda got replaced when the box package came in but the name stayed and of course we couldnt just leave it at that so its morphed into goon. Goon of fortune came from spinning the wheel on wheel of fortune except you peg the inner bag to the Hills hoist and spin the cl9thes line back around to you when you need a drink. Box wine is also called Chateau Collapso and Chateau Carte Borde. Much classier. And when the bag is empty you can blow it up to use as a pillow when you need to collapso after a big afternoon playing goon of fortune.
We love how much history there is to The Goon Of Fortune 😆 We have a beautiful painting of a bin chicken in our house, I couldn’t resist it when I saw it 😁xx
I'm Australian. I hated fairy bread as a kid, it made me feel sick. As an adult, someone made me a pancake with cheese. That also made me feel sick. I realised I don't like savoury and sweet together. However, you both should try it if you're going to critique it, you only need one bite.
I’m Australian and I’ve always wondered why people go around in bare feet- maybe in Queensland? But it’s definitely not a normal thing. The pavement is hot, there’s pointy things to step on- and then they get into bed with those feet? Disgusting!
In the 90s i was barefoot most of the time - even on the hot road in QLD summers. I'd go bushwalking barefoot too. We evolved this way and our feet can handle very rough conditions when conditioned.
“Goon” is a contraction of “Flagoon”, an Australian pronunciation of “flagon”. Cheap fortified wine was sold in flagons (about 1.5 litres) and the wine cask replaced them.
We do chip sangas here too 😂, chicken salt is delicious, and never ever knock fairy bread😂 beetroot egg bacon and pineapple are a must on a good burger😂
@@TheBAMFamalamyou have to make it yourself. Get your chips (with chicken salt) and a loaf of fresh white bread. Look closely and you’ll see heaps of people doing it when you get your fish and chips.
'Goon': When I was a student cheap wine came in 2 litre glass bottles. These were called 'flagons' - colloquially as 'flagoons' shortened to 'goons'. Along came the great Australian invention the 'bag in a box' (rather pretentiously marketed as 'casks'), which gradually took over the cheap wine market from flagons - and also took over the name.
Omg beetroot makes a burger and fairy bread, my kids still love it as adults. Try crushed chicken chips on a well buttered roll. Grew up with that too. Yum yum
Christmas in July. A hot roast Christmas Dinner with roast spuds and Yorkshire Pud, a Hot Toddy with Plum Pud and custard, and all the warm and cosy treats.
Also, depending where you are, Christmas in July is often a fundraiser to provide items like blankets, warm clothing, food and other necessities for those less-well-off who would otherwise face a very cold winter.
@@anthonyj7989we’ve always had a roast on Christmas Day. I’d be very disappointed if there was no roast on Christmas. The cold foods are sometimes an entree, but are usually served on Boxing Day as leftovers.
Hahaha, talking about bare feet and some random walks in the background in bare feet!! We're pretty casual people here in Au. Also, glad you appreciate the bush turkeys 😀
I agree, pickled beetroot in burgers is naf. but love fresh beetroot in salad or roast beetroot or even Borscht yum. BTW I'm a pom. One thing I love, if you ever want to know the easy way of doing something, ask an Aussie. They love a shortcut.
I preferred chocolate crackles over Fairy Bread when I was a kid. As my mum was a pom, I was introduced to chip butty from an early age, though I liked tomato sauce on mine, and mum liked HP sauce on hers.
I went to England in 1999. I had heard the stories of warm beer, and I approached a bar for the first time with trepidation. Selecting one of the brews on offer, I watched the barman pull it up from the cellar below, filling a PINT - which was a PINT, not some metric measure that, over the years, has been eroded back to - in the worst cases - LESS THAN A PINT. (Sorry. Rant mode disengaged...) I picked up the glass, noted that looked like something deserving the description PINT, and dived in. To my surprise, I found it very pleasant. Sure, it was not as cold as the stuff the doctor puts on warts and such, but it was not "warm". I heard it described as "cellar conditioned".
Its not chicken flavour its a mix of spices that was invented to season chicken - by the way you should learn how to spell Aussie "Ozzie" was a pink ostrich,
Goon bag the name is from the word flagon (a large wine bottle) but we shorten every word hence goon. chip Sandwiches be they hot chips or crisps out of a bag are popular down here you guys must not be hanging out with the right people. But its good to see you like Aussie keep on putting out good stuff.
Back in the 60s before casked wines came into existence you used to buy bulk cheap wine in glass flagons which we used to shorten to goons. I guess the term just migrated over to the wine cask.
The bin chicken is the sacred ibis, when you see them in the natural habit there is a stark difference, the urban ones have a greasy greyish look to them as opposed to a beautiful clean white colour. The other thing with them is they are such a graceful and beautiful bird when in flight. If you think it’s strange seeing a brush turkey using a crossing just wait until you see an echidna use one.
I am really glad you are back. I'm one of the people who would be called a "Freddy Have-a-chat" I love to have a random talk lol.I love chip sangers or better still on a roll. Goon comes from the older bulk plonk container the flagon bottle, fast forward to goon bag.
fairy bread was originally spread with condense milk with the hundreds and thousands sprinkled on top! So if you want to try fairy bread as it was meant to be then try the condense milk version, much better than the butter! 🙃
@@TheBAMFamalam No not like a bread pudding, you just spread a thin layer over the bread (just like you would the butter) then sprinkle with the hundreds and thousands!
Barefoot in shops is only a Gold and Sunshine coasts thing as far as I've seen. Chicken salt is a relatively new thing. Quite nice. Beetroot us awesome in a hurger.
In the Blue Mountains to the west of Sydney, hotels hold “Christmas in July” weekends to take advantage of chilly weather. Many families are away on vacation around December and January but are more likely to be around between June and July. You can eat your turkey, baked ham, roasted vegetables, and Christmas puddings without feeling overheated. Best of both worlds, especially for Northern Hemisphere expats. Probably not the same in Qld as in NSW, Vic or Tassie.
@@elizabethroberts6215 Yes, but the Winter temperature in the Blue Mountains is colder and more like Northern Hemisphere Christmas season. Down south from Sydney is even colder. The Snowy Mountains would be great for those who want a white Christmas in July, if a booking is available in the snow season.
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I would "NEVER" have a Sandwich or a Hamburger without Beetroot. Subway used to have it, but there are not many who have it today, Adelaide subways do have it.
Before the introduccction of the wine cask (Chateau Cardboard) cheap bulk wine generally came in half gallon, later 2 litre glass flagons, hence 'goon' and when the bag is removed from the cardboard box it becomes a goonbag.
7:38 Chip sandwiches are absolutely delicious, we put everything on sangas here. Some of the very best are the good ol’ meat pie sandwich, sausage roll sandwich, battered sav sandwich or a potato scallop sandwich.
We got taught last month that you’re supposed to eat pies with your hands… we’re learning something new every week 😆 We had never heard of those sandwiches until today xx
@@TheBAMFamalam Another favourite if your game is a variant of Fairy bread. Instead of butter use Nutella and put the hundreds and thousands on top. And I’ll say it in advance…you’re welcome! ✌🏻
I bought a HILLS rotary line in the UK had it for a few years now... much better than any UK of the same product...but I've never felt the need to hang goon bags from it!!
Christmas in July isn't a wide celebratiion, as you say, it's generally the coldest part of our year here, and lets you enjoy a roast dinner and so on. It isn't meant to be serious.
Owyasgarn👋👋😁 Chook salt is a 👍+ Beetroot is a 👍+.. though it's bloody hard to get at the moment, at least the decent Golden Circle stuff. I don't like beetroot unless it's pickled in the can. Barefoot is a 👍++ I rarely wear shoes. Thongs when goin to shops maybe. Yeah I lived in the UK for 3 years & they thought I was strange for goin barefoot & for wearing my Surfer Joe thongs lol ...such is life 😁 ✌️🇦🇺
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G'Day Bam Family,, Magpies only duck you when you are close to their nest, the trouble is you don't know where their nest is?..other wise they won't duck you..
Chicken salt? nah yeah ❤🇦🇺 I’ve got 7 Maggie’s I feed they come in whenever I go outside for their feed. And chip sandwiches are a big favourite in our Aussie house.
Never heard of fairy bread!!!! Make sure you don't give it to the kids until they're about to leave. It's sugar, sugar and still more sugar. Who knows what goes into the colouring
Since when is chicken salt loved by Australians? Its a thing but any artificial dry chicken flavouring is disgusting, it started by being pushed by fish and chip shops so they can charge you for salt thats normally free. Magpies arent crazy like other Australian birds they are not only highly intelligent but are facial recognition experts. True they dont like motorbikes or bikes or hats and helmets in breeding season, but all you have to do is look at magpies and say hello to them and they will remember forever you and not swoop you. Im 72 and have never ben swooped. If you talk nicely to them they will bring their family to you house and want to make friends with you. Its that reason they were voted Australias favourite bird a couple of years ago. Chip sandwiches are good, fairy bread is for little kids you arent supposed to try it. never heard of goon merrygoround or whatever, never seen christmas songs in july youmust live in a bunch of weirdos. a burger without beetroot is a sandwich
The magpie hopping around on the grass in this video is our lovely Maggie, who lived on our farm with us. She was super friendly, and spent a lot of time out in the paddocks with Ben 🥰 We agree, they are incredibly intelligent 😊
Chicken salt is not a dried chicken flavouring it is a mixture of different spices that a shop owner in Adelaide invented as a seasoning for his roast chickens. So your disgust is misplaced I personally know lots of people who like using chicken salt including myself . Xmas in July is a thing that touristy places do in colder areas like in the Blue Mountains or maybe in the ski resorts to give people the feeling of a cold xmas if they are lucky it may even be a white xmas - why would you want to do that in places that are warm it would be no different than having xmas in summer ? The goon of fortune is a drinking game that young people play at things like parties if you are 72 then I m not surprsed that you have never heard of it,
What’s weird (even though I’m Aussie born!) - the fact that we don’t have scanners in the supermarkets. Instead of packing the trolley, unloading the trolley, scanning the items of the very full trolley in self service because no registers are open, then bagging yourself. Would save me so much time if I could just scan as I go and would give people more idea of what they are spending.
I moved from unfriendly Melbourne, where people look through you, when they are looking at their phones, to friendly Queensland. I absolutely love the friendly people (where we live) and feel so blessed to have escaped Victoria to live here.
The Bam Famalam have been here for quite some time now and I'm really surprised that you continue to find so many things to be so weird. Do you intend to blend in or hopefully be tagged with the epithet "Whinging Pom?" Some condensed milk on fairy bread is even better. And you don't want to know the origin of "goon bag."
A goon sack is named after a Flagon (mispronounced flagoon). A flagon was a large 2lt or 1.5lt glass wine bottle which has been mostly replaced replaced by the Wine Cask - which is a box containing the chrome bag filled with wine. It's cheap, bulk, awful wine.
When I was growing up in Australia in the 1970's/1980's/ 1990's chicken salt was never an option in QLD at the local fish and chip shops.! Not sure when it was introduced? Most likely an American import I would imagine!
At KFC they do use chicken salt as standard on their chips. But at a fish and chip or hamburger shop type of scenario you would generally always be asked if you want chicken salt on your chips
Magpies are the absolute true terror of Australia. Snakes leave you alone if you give them some respect. Magpie season is the true terror!!!!😂😂 Aussies eat chip butties too, you’ve just got to be 50 plus 👍
OK. Your from the UK. I see this and no mention of your surroundings. The start was a nice BEACH, do you get them all around the UK. What I experienced was 'rock/pebble' coastline. p.s : Floor is INSIDE. Ground is OUTSIDE...thats what I was taught 50 years ago, Chaps. 🇦🇺
I rode a bike through a park in Victoria, a grown man cycling, wearing a helmet, and a magpie swooped down from a tree and hit my helmet with so much force that it drove my head towards the handlebars and the damn thing would have knocked me out if it hadn’t been for the helmet. I had no plastic ties or rubber spikes attached to my helmet. Other cyclists with cable ties and fake spikes rode through ok. Luckily I stayed on the bike path. People and kids have died when being startled by Magpies and driving their bikes off roads or into cars. Better to look a fool with a helmet of cable ties sticking up or rubber spikes to stop any Magpies smashing into your head while cycling. I can attest to the fact that any protection, whether you look stupid or not is irrelevant if it saves your life.
Thanks for the explanation why the name goon, i have never used the name goon, as it is sold in a box i allways referred to it as a cask. Fairy bread and chip sandwiches are good, but prefer the crisps. Like my beetroot, but stop at putting pineapple on burgers and barby que sauce on anything.
Why is the disposable silver bag of wine called a “Goon Bag”? Interestingly, some believe that the term "goon" might have originated from the Queensland Aboriginal word "gun," meaning water, which later morphed into "goom," an Australian English term for water or booze.
Goon comes from flagon. Before wine casks (the ones you see spinning on the Hill''s hoist) wine sold in a glass flagon was called a "goonie''. The name goonie continued on to the cask and it became a goon bag.
When it comes to fairy bread and chick salt, each to there own.. you sound a bit prudish hearing them talk about bedroom stuff, kids have to learn somehow. 🙃
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Don’t forget you are in Queensland which is different to other States. If you visited the other States in Australia you would find it quite different in many aspects.
And other weird things.
Yeah I live in another state..... I think the no shoes thing is kinda feral... but do what you want....
Chip sandwiches aren’t weird in Australia, but your video has given me an idea. Chip sandwich with chicken salt. This is bound to be the best food experience ever…Surely?
I love chip sangas. Don’t the Brits have a similar thing.
Just wish they’d say, “different or unusual” instead of weird”.
Oh no 🙈 😆
We do, we call them a chip butty - often sold in a roll in the chip shops.
The video is for fun, certainly not meant as a bad thing, we love Australia and embrace all of the quirks - we rather enjoy most of them 🥰🥰
Who you calling Shirley?
I never thought of a chip butty with chicken salt...genius!!
Someone else in the comments recommended Nutella instead of butter on fairy bread. Even though it's a kids thing, I'm gonna try that as well.
As an Australian, it's funny seeing someone who calls the ground "the floor". In Australia, we only use "floor" to refer to inside a building. If it's outside, it's "the ground", not "the floor". 🙃
We learn something new every day 😁
I hear that all the time from my British husband and his family, after 20 years it still sounds wrong to me however I now wonder if it’s an Aussie thing because I’ve heard people from other counties use the British version. The same goes for roof and ceiling.
Aussie from Sydney here.
I call it the ground unless it is laid as a floor. In a building it is a floor, whether tiled, boards or polished concrete.
Outside on soil or on pathways there is no floor, so it is the ground.
I’m not sure, but I think this is how historically the British referred to the Ground Floor, where the animals were kept in cold weather on the lowest level on a ground of dirt with straw, while the people lived on the first built floor above that, which had a floor and a ceiling. And became known as the First Floor.
😂yes, I watch an English dude that films the horse guards, and he says, "such or such fell on the floor", when it dropped/fell on the ground, it makes me giggle everytime 😅.
I can’t stand when poms say the floor instead of the ground but in Australia we do say “ the floor of the valley “
I'm Australian. I love beetroot, and it makes the burger more juicy. A ring of pineapple added aswell is even better, very fresh.
Yes, we forgot to mention the pineapple. Personally, we love beetroot in a brownie! Xx
Nah, keep your pineapple away from my burgers!
Yummy.
Totally agree!
The magpies actually recognise you by your eyes. We had magpies that would come and eat out of my hand and were very tame. One day when I went out on the deck the female who I was very close with would not come near me. I realised that I had sunglasses on, so I took them off and looked at her and she came straight to me. Magpies look you directly in the eye intently and this actually used to unnerve my wife somewhat.
We didn’t realise that, thank you for sharing 😊 We had a lovely magpie that lived at our farm, she seemed to quite like Ben as he spent a lot of time out in the paddocks 🥰
I'm Australian and I've had chip (crisp) sandwiches and chip butty's all my life.
We have never seen anyone eating it here, it’s certainly a treat 😁
@@TheBAMFamalamthat’s because most places won’t sell them, it’s something people do at home, in private, in secret, but in all seriousness, you generally have to buy your chips, then go & buy fresh bread or rolls & take them home
The first time I walked into an English Fish and Chip shop, I was amazed at how basic it was. I could buy Haddock, Chips and Curry Sauce. That was it. I would have thought an Aussie Fish and Chip shop would have been a culture shop with its range of fish, hamburgers, steak sandwiches, dim sims and souvlakis. And chicken salt!
When we moved here in 1986, we were totally surprised that we had to order our fish n chips. In the uk it was all cooked and you just queued up for it😜
Aussies have been doing chip sandwiches for like 100 years mate
We’ve learned something new today, we’ve never seen them here before 😊
I don't think any shops sell them? Well I haven't seen anywhere sell anyways?? We all just buy bread and the chips separate and make them ourselves 👍
@@kountatalk It's one of those things you have to ask for in a chippy. I know of six stores around me here where I live in Sydney CBD Fringes that have them on their menus.
Was literally about to subscribe and then you "in-salted" our national condiment! 😮
😂😂😂👌
If it’s any consolation, we love Vegemite 😉
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I'm an Aussie & I don't like Chicken salt at all.
I'm a rare aussie that hates Vegemite. But you better not forget the golden, glorious, scrumptious Chicken Salt on my chips!! 😂
Just had to comment on Poms calling the ground the "floor"? Australians only usually call it a floor in a building. Anywhere outside is the ground/ lawn / road etc.
Wine casks were invented in Australia basically to export cheap bulk wines to places like the UK and Asia - you can get both reds or whites. Before wine casks they used to sell cheap wine like claret, port, brown muscat in large glass containers called flagons which we just shortened ro goon. Inside the cardboard carton is a bag that holds the wine hence the name goon bag. Australia also came up with putting screw caps on wine bottles which seems to have spread to other parts of the world as well.. Chicken salt is not chicken flavouring it was invented by a guy in Adelaide who owned a roast chicken shop it is a mix of different seasonings he used to put on his chickens people liked it and started putting it on other things. I have been putting chips on sangas both the hot and cold variety since I was a kid growing up in the 60s and it was probably being done well before that. I also like putting potato scallops (which is what we call them in NSW) on bread rolls or sangas as well. Things we like or do in Australia may seem weird to foreigners but seriously who gives a rats no body is forcing people to come here or forcing them to adopt our customs. Its not polite to be welcomed into someone elses home and then publically disrespecting them.
There is certainly no disrespecting going on in this video, we love Australia and have lived here for a long time - and aside from not liking chicken salt (each to their own!), we actually said positive things throughout our video, and even called ourselves weird! It is lighthearted and affectionate. Thank you for all the great info you have shared with us.
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I walk my dog down the sea foreshore every day and I have atleast one 20 minute talk with someone haha.
It is such luck to live somewhere that it’s not considered unusual xx
Fairy bread. Our rule at our house is you can’t say you don’t like it if you haven’t tasted it.
I’m Aussie, my husband arrived here from Scotland, where he had not much variety in what he ate, when he was 15. We had been together about three years when I discovered some of the foods he said he didn’t like he had never actually tasted. We made the rule you had to taste something before you decided if you liked it or not. Which is how he ended up eating garlic bread and I ended up eating black pudding!
You cut the crusts off the fairy bread. Just party food along with chocolate crackles and honey joys.
I’ve been attacked by aggressive magpies while riding my bike. It’s pretty scary.
Oh gosh, thankfully we haven’t yet. It sounds petrifying, and although we jest, we know it can be very serious xx
@@TheBAMFamalamNot just magpies either. I have been swooped by butcherbirds and plovers. We even have some swooping crows in our neighbourhood. Crows are big birds. It's not fun when one of them swoops you!
The Magpie gets protective of their range during breeding season only.
A goon bag is a Aussie abbreviation for wine that used to be packaged in flagon bottles.
…… goon is a cask not a flagon………
@@elizabethroberts6215 idiot
@@elizabethroberts6215 flagons was the way cheaper wine was sold before casks were invented. Hence when cask wine became popular the bag had the same volume as a flagon therefore people began calling it a goon bag. I guess you had to be alive in early seventies to remember.
@@elizabethroberts6215 A goon or goonie was very definitely a flagon of wine long before casks of wine were invented.
As a young man I always took one fishing. I lived near a winery that did cheap refills if you brought an empty goon.
Never seen that done with a goon bag
@@nedkelly1232 ……casks weren’t designed to be refilled. Never heard a flagon called a ‘goon’. It was always ‘flagon’, when I was growing up………
Sorry you’re weird! Chicken salt rules! 😂
Haha I think we’re in the minority on this one! I did say it would be controversial 😆😆
@@TheBAMFamalam it doesn’t make you bad people, just weird 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 just messing with you. Each to their own 👍🏻
@@bigoz1977haha we concur 😆😊
Chicken salt sux.
@@lynncaldwell8345 blasphemy 😳🤣🤣🤣
Lived in OZ all my life, been having chip sangers for 60 years nothing new there. Enjoy your blogs.
Thank you for watching xx
Goon Bag....Goon is short for Flagon, the older big glass bottle of cheap wine. Then when cheap cask wine came about, the nickname came about shortly after.....
I think many of these are exclusive to Queensland. The barefoot thing is as well as ‘yeah, nah’. Chip and crisp sandwiches were more a part of my childhood than Fairy bread.
……was in a queue for local election couple of weeks’ ago. The man in front of me started talking to me, on a topical subject, & we’d a great convo for about ten minutes’. Neither of us known to each other, total strangers’, but that’s what you do here……it was lovely 🇦🇺
It’s the way it should be ❤️
You’re correct. I have conversations in supermarkets, cafes etc all the time. It’s really lovely, When l was visiting England l remember talking to a young woman at the bus stop about her new baby girl. She was quite sullen at first but by the time we got off the bus, she was smiling as l waved goodbye.❤
@@beverleyferguson8942 ……you may’ve just made her day, by having a friendly conversation with her. Well done!
The brush turkeys had babies a couple of months ago and it’s really sweet seeing them all running in and out of the bushes.
I wouldn't recommend walking around shoeless in Victoria, like the roads our footpaths are pretty ordinary and the closer you get to the big smoke the filthier the the ground gets.
You are joking, yeah? Go for a walk in the park or on the beach. Be brave! 😆
@@rob1119 Im from Ballarat mate, broken glass, rugged footpaths and the cold
Both crisp and hot chip sandwiches have always been popular in Aus. I’m in my 50s and grew up on them both! Num num num
We concur, they are good! Xx
Maz good on ya. Aussie here and I LUV bin chickens too.. They only look grotty cos theyve got got their heads in garbage and their white necks get so dirty. Out of that environment theyre clean and white and beautiful. Goon bag because before the box packaging the same wine was in a 2litre glass flagon. Kinda got replaced when the box package came in but the name stayed and of course we couldnt just leave it at that so its morphed into goon. Goon of fortune came from spinning the wheel on wheel of fortune except you peg the inner bag to the Hills hoist and spin the cl9thes line back around to you when you need a drink. Box wine is also called Chateau Collapso and Chateau Carte Borde. Much classier. And when the bag is empty you can blow it up to use as a pillow when you need to collapso after a big afternoon playing goon of fortune.
We love how much history there is to The Goon Of Fortune 😆
We have a beautiful painting of a bin chicken in our house, I couldn’t resist it when I saw it 😁xx
I'm Australian. I hated fairy bread as a kid, it made me feel sick. As an adult, someone made me a pancake with cheese. That also made me feel sick. I realised I don't like savoury and sweet together. However, you both should try it if you're going to critique it, you only need one bite.
Yes, that was always the rule at our house, you can’t say you don’t like it unless you have actually tasted it.
You should try a cheese pancake made without sugar and add a small sprinkle of curry powder. Yumm!
I’m Australian and I’ve always wondered why people go around in bare feet- maybe in Queensland? But it’s definitely not a normal thing. The pavement is hot, there’s pointy things to step on- and then they get into bed with those feet? Disgusting!
……if in Qld, you’d have a shower before getting ito bed…………
I am Australian and nobody l know has bare feet.
In the 90s i was barefoot most of the time - even on the hot road in QLD summers. I'd go bushwalking barefoot too. We evolved this way and our feet can handle very rough conditions when conditioned.
@@elizabethroberts6215 yes, we are civilized in queensland and always wash at least our feet sometimes our bum before bedtime.
@@michaeljoncour4903 ……I know…………
“Goon” is a contraction of “Flagoon”, an Australian pronunciation of “flagon”. Cheap fortified wine was sold in flagons (about 1.5 litres) and the wine cask replaced them.
We do chip sangas here too 😂, chicken salt is delicious, and never ever knock fairy bread😂 beetroot egg bacon and pineapple are a must on a good burger😂
We have not seen a single chip sanga since we’ve been here… we’re incredibly happy to hear that 😁🦘
@@TheBAMFamalam 🤣🤣🤣
@@TheBAMFamalamyou have to make it yourself. Get your chips (with chicken salt) and a loaf of fresh white bread. Look closely and you’ll see heaps of people doing it when you get your fish and chips.
Goon bags is derived from the way cheap wine was originally sold in flagons
'Goon': When I was a student cheap wine came in 2 litre glass bottles. These were called 'flagons' - colloquially as 'flagoons' shortened to 'goons'. Along came the great Australian invention the 'bag in a box' (rather pretentiously marketed as 'casks'), which gradually took over the cheap wine market from flagons - and also took over the name.
This is a great explanation, thank you 🥰🥰
Omg beetroot makes a burger and fairy bread, my kids still love it as adults. Try crushed chicken chips on a well buttered roll. Grew up with that too. Yum yum
Christmas in July. A hot roast Christmas Dinner with roast spuds and Yorkshire Pud, a Hot Toddy with Plum Pud and custard, and all the warm and cosy treats.
We do love a Yorkshire! Ben makes amazing ones 🥰
Also, depending where you are, Christmas in July is often a fundraiser to provide items like blankets, warm clothing, food and other necessities for those less-well-off who would otherwise face a very cold winter.
@@ronwoods7778that’s really lovely to know 🥰
@@anthonyj7989we’ve always had a roast on Christmas Day. I’d be very disappointed if there was no roast on Christmas.
The cold foods are sometimes an entree, but are usually served on Boxing Day as leftovers.
Hahaha, talking about bare feet and some random walks in the background in bare feet!! We're pretty casual people here in Au.
Also, glad you appreciate the bush turkeys 😀
Yeah nah is fairly new in the last 5 years. I like Ibis and Bush Turkeys too.
I agree, pickled beetroot in burgers is naf. but love fresh beetroot in salad or roast beetroot or even Borscht yum. BTW I'm a pom. One thing I love, if you ever want to know the easy way of doing something, ask an Aussie. They love a shortcut.
beetroot - i love it
I preferred chocolate crackles over Fairy Bread when I was a kid. As my mum was a pom, I was introduced to chip butty from an early age, though I liked tomato sauce on mine, and mum liked HP sauce on hers.
OMG, I forgot about chocolate crackles. They were the bomb when I was a kid. I hated fairy bread.
Yes to the chocolate crackles, you can’t not love those! Xx
@@JustJokes-bw4fs……& the recipe for them is STILL on the packet of Kellogg’s Rice Bubbles………
I'll tell you what's weird, drinking warm beer!!!!! icy cold is the go Cobber.
I went to England in 1999. I had heard the stories of warm beer, and I approached a bar for the first time with trepidation. Selecting one of the brews on offer, I watched the barman pull it up from the cellar below, filling a PINT - which was a PINT, not some metric measure that, over the years, has been eroded back to - in the worst cases - LESS THAN A PINT.
(Sorry. Rant mode disengaged...)
I picked up the glass, noted that looked like something deserving the description PINT, and dived in. To my surprise, I found it very pleasant. Sure, it was not as cold as the stuff the doctor puts on warts and such, but it was not "warm". I heard it described as "cellar conditioned".
Fun fact. Australia has very good wine and 80% of all boxed wine (the goon bag or goony) is premium wine. You can buy red or white wine in a box.
Perfect for an upmarket game of Goon Of Fortune 😁 I remember my Mum always buying her wine in boxes back in the 80’s/90’s 🥰
@TheBAMFamalam Goon of Premium Fortune haha
@@JustJokes-bw4fs😂😂😂
as an Ozzie, I feel you on chicken salt, too sweet for me, plus the "chicken" flavour isn't my thing either
the fairy bread is like eating a sweet bun, with icing. We also do chip (both crisps and hot) sangas
goon is short for flagon, Aboriginal lingo is where it originated
Your citizenship is evoked
It leaves a weird taste in the mouth too 😬 Love that info, thank you for sharing 🥰🥰
Its not chicken flavour its a mix of spices that was invented to season chicken - by the way you should learn how to spell Aussie "Ozzie" was a pink ostrich,
Chips, chicken salt & bbq sauce on fresh white bread. Delicacy! Yum! 👍👍
Goon bag the name is from the word flagon (a large wine bottle) but we shorten every word hence goon. chip Sandwiches be they hot chips or crisps out of a bag are popular down here you guys must not be hanging out with the right people. But its good to see you like Aussie keep on putting out good stuff.
Back in the 60s before casked wines came into existence you used to buy bulk cheap wine in glass flagons which we used to shorten to goons. I guess the term just migrated over to the wine cask.
This is why we love our community, we learn so much. Thank you 🥰🥰
The bin chicken is the sacred ibis, when you see them in the natural habit there is a stark difference, the urban ones have a greasy greyish look to them as opposed to a beautiful clean white colour. The other thing with them is they are such a graceful and beautiful bird when in flight. If you think it’s strange seeing a brush turkey using a crossing just wait until you see an echidna use one.
I am really glad you are back. I'm one of the people who would be called a "Freddy Have-a-chat" I love to have a random talk lol.I love chip sangers or better still on a roll. Goon comes from the older bulk plonk container the flagon bottle, fast forward to goon bag.
Chatting when out and about is the best!
We’re loving hearing how the ‘Goon Bag’ came about 😁xx
You're in Queensland FFS, they're not normal.
The word Goon, is derived from the word, Flagon as in a Flagon of sherry!
fairy bread was originally spread with condense milk with the hundreds and thousands sprinkled on top! So if you want to try fairy bread as it was meant to be then try the condense milk version, much better than the butter! 🙃
Oh that’s different, almost like a bread pudding? Or not that soaked? 😊
@@TheBAMFamalam No not like a bread pudding, you just spread a thin layer over the bread (just like you would the butter) then sprinkle with the hundreds and thousands!
Barefoot in shops is only a Gold and Sunshine coasts thing as far as I've seen.
Chicken salt is a relatively new thing. Quite nice.
Beetroot us awesome in a hurger.
In the Blue Mountains to the west of Sydney, hotels hold “Christmas in July” weekends to take advantage of chilly weather.
Many families are away on vacation around December and January but are more likely to be around between June and July. You can eat your turkey, baked ham, roasted vegetables, and Christmas puddings without feeling overheated. Best of both worlds, especially for Northern Hemisphere expats.
Probably not the same in Qld as in NSW, Vic or Tassie.
It’s true, that stodgy food is better in colder months. It certainly feels cold during winter, even here in QLD 😊
……Qld does have Xmas in July………
@@elizabethroberts6215
Yes, but the Winter temperature in the Blue Mountains is colder and more like Northern Hemisphere Christmas season.
Down south from Sydney is even colder. The Snowy Mountains would be great for those who want a white Christmas in July, if a booking is available in the snow season.
I would "NEVER" have a Sandwich or a Hamburger without Beetroot. Subway used to have it, but there are not many who have it today, Adelaide subways do have it.
We’ve seen it a fair bit up this way, it seems pretty popular 😊
Before the introduccction of the wine cask (Chateau Cardboard) cheap bulk wine generally came in half gallon, later 2 litre glass flagons, hence 'goon' and when the bag is removed from the cardboard box it becomes a goonbag.
7:38 Chip sandwiches are absolutely delicious, we put everything on sangas here. Some of the very best are the good ol’ meat pie sandwich, sausage roll sandwich, battered sav sandwich or a potato scallop sandwich.
We got taught last month that you’re supposed to eat pies with your hands… we’re learning something new every week 😆 We had never heard of those sandwiches until today xx
Yeah mate, I'm with you most of the way, pie Sangas, scallop sangas, you ripper.
@@TheBAMFamalam Another favourite if your game is a variant of Fairy bread. Instead of butter use Nutella and put the hundreds and thousands on top. And I’ll say it in advance…you’re welcome! ✌🏻
It a chip butty I think and have not had one for yoinks but I did love them
@@The_Last_Ninjathat variant sounds a lot more appealing! 😊
I'm Australian and I'm with you on chicken salt. Goon is derived from Flagon, a 2Lt glass bottle that preceded Goon Bag/Wine Cask.
Beetroot on burgers is one of my favourite things :D
Nice to see you back.
"Comment allez vous" is French for "how are you going".
Good point.
Never thought of that.
I bought a HILLS rotary line in the UK had it for a few years now... much better than any UK of the same product...but I've never felt the need to hang goon bags from it!!
I can’t say that we felt the need when we had one either 🤣🤣🍷
Can't beet a root 😂
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Christmas in July isn't a wide celebratiion, as you say, it's generally the coldest part of our year here, and lets you enjoy a roast dinner and so on. It isn't meant to be serious.
Owyasgarn👋👋😁
Chook salt is a 👍+
Beetroot is a 👍+.. though it's bloody hard to get at the moment, at least the decent Golden Circle stuff.
I don't like beetroot unless it's pickled in the can.
Barefoot is a 👍++ I rarely wear shoes. Thongs when goin to shops maybe.
Yeah I lived in the UK for 3 years & they thought I was strange for goin barefoot & for wearing my Surfer Joe thongs lol ...such is life 😁
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G'Day Bam Family,, Magpies only duck you when you are close to their nest, the trouble is you don't know where their nest is?..other wise they won't duck you..
Yes and luckily it’s not all year round 😊
Christmas in July is BS any hoo guys keep up the good work
It’s certainly not for us 😁🎅🏼
Looking forward to the beetroot😊
Chicken salt? nah yeah ❤🇦🇺 I’ve got 7 Maggie’s I feed they come in whenever I go outside for their feed. And chip sandwiches are a big favourite in our Aussie house.
Goon comes from Flagon - Flagoon - Goon!
Never heard of fairy bread!!!! Make sure you don't give it to the kids until they're about to leave. It's sugar, sugar and still more sugar. Who knows what goes into the colouring
Please tell me your not an Australian
@@dianacasey6002 How much would you pay me to say that?
@@dianacasey6002 Born and bred
We didn’t think our kids had ever tried it, but we just found out this evening that they have and loved it 😳😆
@@dianacasey6002 Sorry no, I shan't
Hills Hoist is the name you're looking for.
I like Fairy bread and I’m 50 years old! But I avoid it because of the dentist
Since when is chicken salt loved by Australians? Its a thing but any artificial dry chicken flavouring is disgusting, it started by being pushed by fish and chip shops so they can charge you for salt thats normally free. Magpies arent crazy like other Australian birds they are not only highly intelligent but are facial recognition experts. True they dont like motorbikes or bikes or hats and helmets in breeding season, but all you have to do is look at magpies and say hello to them and they will remember forever you and not swoop you. Im 72 and have never ben swooped. If you talk nicely to them they will bring their family to you house and want to make friends with you. Its that reason they were voted Australias favourite bird a couple of years ago. Chip sandwiches are good, fairy bread is for little kids you arent supposed to try it. never heard of goon merrygoround or whatever, never seen christmas songs in july youmust live in a bunch of weirdos. a burger without beetroot is a sandwich
The magpie hopping around on the grass in this video is our lovely Maggie, who lived on our farm with us. She was super friendly, and spent a lot of time out in the paddocks with Ben 🥰 We agree, they are incredibly intelligent 😊
Chicken salt is not a dried chicken flavouring it is a mixture of different spices that a shop owner in Adelaide invented as a seasoning for his roast chickens. So your disgust is misplaced I personally know lots of people who like using chicken salt including myself . Xmas in July is a thing that touristy places do in colder areas like in the Blue Mountains or maybe in the ski resorts to give people the feeling of a cold xmas if they are lucky it may even be a white xmas - why would you want to do that in places that are warm it would be no different than having xmas in summer ? The goon of fortune is a drinking game that young people play at things like parties if you are 72 then I m not surprsed that you have never heard of it,
What’s weird (even though I’m Aussie born!) - the fact that we don’t have scanners in the supermarkets. Instead of packing the trolley, unloading the trolley, scanning the items of the very full trolley in self service because no registers are open, then bagging yourself. Would save me so much time if I could just scan as I go and would give people more idea of what they are spending.
Yes, and they came out a long time ago in the UK - I think nearly 30 years ago, so it’s certainly not new tech!
Weird fact - magpies in Tasmania are not aggressive and do not swoop... weird but true.
Only because the magpies aren't sure which head to swoop😂😂😂😂
They are called kookaburas on the mainland.
@@aussiebornandbred hahah ouch 🤣
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Goon... Short for flagon (of wine)
I moved from unfriendly Melbourne, where people look through you, when they are looking at their phones, to friendly Queensland. I absolutely love the friendly people (where we live) and feel so blessed to have escaped Victoria to live here.
Goon is the name of the wine
How can anyone not like chicken salt?
Classic and essential. Fish & chips without it is incomplete.
The Bam Famalam have been here for quite some time now and I'm really surprised that you continue to find so many things to be so weird. Do you intend to blend in or hopefully be tagged with the epithet "Whinging Pom?" Some condensed milk on fairy bread is even better. And you don't want to know the origin of "goon bag."
You can beat an egg but you can’t beetaroot.
A goon sack is named after a Flagon (mispronounced flagoon). A flagon was a large 2lt or 1.5lt glass wine bottle which has been mostly replaced replaced by the Wine Cask - which is a box containing the chrome bag filled with wine. It's cheap, bulk, awful wine.
Fairy bread is for little children.
When I was growing up in Australia in the 1970's/1980's/ 1990's chicken salt was never an option in QLD at the local fish and chip shops.! Not sure when it was introduced? Most likely an American import I would imagine!
From what I’ve read in the comments, it looks like it was created in Adelaide 😊
@@TheBAMFamalam From memory it turned up in the early 90's
Adelaide thing originally as far as I'm aware. There's also a version from WA that's not the same but it's similar and intended for the same purpose.
At KFC they do use chicken salt as standard on their chips. But at a fish and chip or hamburger shop type of scenario you would generally always be asked if you want chicken salt on your chips
Goon bag,a drink and a pillow.
Magpies are the absolute true terror of Australia. Snakes leave you alone if you give them some respect. Magpie season is the true terror!!!!😂😂
Aussies eat chip butties too, you’ve just got to be 50 plus 👍
OK. Your from the UK.
I see this and no mention of your surroundings.
The start was a nice BEACH, do you get them all around the UK.
What I experienced was 'rock/pebble' coastline.
p.s : Floor is INSIDE. Ground is OUTSIDE...thats what I was taught 50 years ago, Chaps. 🇦🇺
I rode a bike through a park in Victoria, a grown man cycling, wearing a helmet, and a magpie swooped down from a tree and hit my helmet with so much force that it drove my head towards the handlebars and the damn thing would have knocked me out if it hadn’t been for the helmet. I had no plastic ties or rubber spikes attached to my helmet. Other cyclists with cable ties and fake spikes rode through ok. Luckily I stayed on the bike path.
People and kids have died when being startled by Magpies and driving their bikes off roads or into cars.
Better to look a fool with a helmet of cable ties sticking up or rubber spikes to stop any Magpies smashing into your head while cycling.
I can attest to the fact that any protection, whether you look stupid or not is irrelevant if it saves your life.
We totally agree, if we were cycling we would do the same.
Christmas in July was something imported by immigrants who can’t get their head around it being Christmas in mid summer.
Haha I’m from NZ and live in Aussie. I hate chicken salt also.
I think it’s called a goon bag because it’s wine in a bag and it makes you into a goon 😮?
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I hate chicken salt but our kids love it. Maybe it's generational.
Thanks for the explanation why the name goon, i have never used the name goon, as it is sold in a box i allways referred to it as a cask. Fairy bread and chip sandwiches are good, but prefer the crisps. Like my beetroot, but stop at putting pineapple on burgers and barby que sauce on anything.
We’ve always known it as cask wine too. My Mum used to buy it for all family events in the 80’s/90’s 😊
Why is the disposable silver bag of wine called a “Goon Bag”?
Interestingly, some believe that the term "goon" might have originated from the Queensland Aboriginal word "gun," meaning water, which later morphed into "goom," an Australian English term for water or booze.
It’s called a goon bag bcoz it’s cheap, nasty & when it’s empty & you’re off your tts stumbling you can blow it up & use it as a pillow 😜
Goon comes from flagon. Before wine casks (the ones you see spinning on the Hill''s hoist) wine sold in a glass flagon was called a "goonie''. The name goonie continued on to the cask and it became a goon bag.
Which beach carpark are you at?
That was Peregian Doggy Beach - it was a bit too windy to film much by the ocean that day xx
When it comes to fairy bread and chick salt, each to there own.. you sound a bit prudish hearing them talk about bedroom stuff, kids have to learn somehow. 🙃
It’s just not something that we’re used to hearing during the day - it takes you by surprise 😊
The word "goon" refers to the indigenous people.
No it doesn’t. I think you are getting confused with a similar word that started with a C
mmmmm chicken salt on chips, mmmmmm fairy bread ( 100's of 1000's ) mmmmmmm hot chip sandwich's with chicken salt mmmmmmm.
I think the chicken salt in chip sandwiches is going to be rather popular from the comments 😁