Re: Re: Favourite Fast Food
By: deon to Nightfox on Tue Mar 08 2022 10:50 am

So I've eaten a few times at the Outback - as a the token Aussie visiting the US, the locals thought I might feel at home.

I'd never heard of that restaurant prior to the first time in the US (the local's were surprised), and yes, the menu is nothing like an Aussie meal - at home or at a "pub". I had to ask "what is a bloomin onion?", to which there was surprise that I asked that question.

Yeah, the food at Outback Steakhouse seems like fairly common American food that can be found at other American restaurants here. I'm actually surprised your friends were surprised about the bloomin onion. I've seen a couple other American restaurants here sell their own versions of that same thing in the past. I never thought of that as an Australian thing, and I thought it was funny that Outback Steakhouse started making one. Chili's in the US had an onion appetizer like that around 2001 which they called an "awesome blossom", and I think Applebee's (another American restaurant) had one at one point too.

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Re: Outback Steakhouse
By: Nightfox to deon on Mon Mar 07 2022 05:03 pm

Yeah, the food at Outback Steakhouse seems like fairly common American food that can be found at other American restaurants here. I'm
actually surprised your friends were surprised about the bloomin onion. I've seen a couple other American restaurants here sell their
own
versions of that same thing in the past. I never thought of that as an Australian thing, and I thought it was funny that Outback
Steakhouse started making one. Chili's in the US had an onion appetizer like that around 2001 which they called an "awesome blossom",

This was the late '90s that I first went, and I vaguely remember somebody talking about another restaurant having something similiar. If I recall, I think they thought the whole onion thing was Australian, to which I commented that I hardly ate onion on its own. It's always "in" something (and you generally dont know), or its a part of a salad as raw onion.

It is popular though at the local hardware shop, that has a somebody from the community setup a BBQ sausage stall outside (as a way of earning money for the community venture), where BBQ onion would be on top of the sausage (although I generally opt out).


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Re: Re: Favourite Fast Food
By: deon to Nightfox on Tue Mar 08 2022 10:50 am

So I've eaten a few times at the Outback - as a the token Aussie visiting the US, the locals thought I might feel at home.

I'd never heard of that restaurant prior to the first time in the US (the local's were surprised), and yes, the menu is nothing like an Aussie meal - at home or at a "pub". I had to ask "what is a bloomin onion?", to which there was surprise that I asked that question.

Yeah, the food at Outback Steakhouse seems like fairly common
American food that can be found at other American restaurants
here. I'm actually surprised your friends were surprised about
the bloomin onion. I've seen a couple other American restaurants
here sell their own versions of that same thing in the past. I
never thought of that as an Australian thing, and I thought it
was funny that Outback Steakhouse started making one. Chili's in
the US had an onion appetizer like that around 2001 which they
called an "awesome blossom", and I think Applebee's (another
American restaurant) had one at one point too.

Yes, I think most/all of the American steakhouses have their own version
of the "bloomin onion" these days, as it's a pretty popular appetizer. My personal favorite is the Longhorn Steakhouse franchise, at least for the "chain" type restaurants. You can certainly get a better (and more
expensive) steak at specialty "high-brow" places, but the Longhorn is
pretty good. I actually don't care much for the Outback.



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