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We do NOT usually barbecue "shrimp". Shrimp are called "prawns" here and are usually boiled. Almost anything you can buy in an American supermarket can be bought in an Australian supermarket but the brand and sometimes common names are different. The style of cutting meats may be different too. For instance "Oscar Meyer weiners" are not sold here that I know of but we have the same kind of sausage under a different name and different brand name. In Australia we probably call them Vienna sausage. Until recently Oreos were not available here but there has been a local brand of exactly the same thing for as long as I can remember under a different name. Because the climate is warmer than in the USA, we have more tropical fruit. Lychees and other Asian fruits. Bananas are locally grown and are available year round. Mangos are seasonal. Oranges, lemons, mandarins, limes all of the time. Tomatos are available year round and usually cheap. Most supermarkets have two kinds, sometimes more. All the usual vegetables, onions, potatoes, carrot, peas & beans dried and green, chickpeas, pumpkins of various kinds, chokos, squash, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, corn. . I have never eaten kangaroo and it is usually regarded as dog food though some restaurants do serve it. A very, very few places have crocodile. Turkey has never been a big thing in Australia but it has always been about. Chicken, duck and if you looked hard enough you could find goose I suppose. Pork as roast or chops or sausages, ham & bacon. Australians have a lot of beef, eaten as steaks or roasts, and as ground beef, we call it mince, and in beef sausages. Lamb or mutton as chops, roasts and diced as a component of curried lamb. Beef lamb and mutton are often corned or pickled (salted) and served boiled with white sauce or hot mustard. Fish. Some of the more expensive types are barramundi, coral trout and red emperor. Salmon, freshwater trout, tuna. Lots of other cheaper types as well. Cheapest is probably mackerel and "flake" or a variety of shark which is or was popular around Melbourne. Crab and lobsters and a lobster-like animal called the Moreton Bay bug. Also oysters and mussels. Dishes like curried beef, fish or lamb and rice have always been popular. I'm probably one of the very few people in the country that once had curried water buffalo! Curries range from very mild to quite strong. We have a lot of Italian influenced meals like pizza, lasagne, spaghetti bolognaise and with meatballs, ravioli and other pasta things. German, Greek, Turkish and Lebanese restaurants and fast food places. There is even an Ethiopian restaurant near here. Their coffee is from unroasted or very lightly roasted beans. Asian dishes range from cheap chop suey to Pekin duck, stir frys of all kinds, soups like laksa. I had green curry chicken soup with noodles and bean sprouts yesterday. Day before that I had fish and chips (french fries) with salad. Sushi, Korean too. Breakfast menu has things like oatmeal, muesli, the usual run of Kelloggs stuff made by them and other makers. Milk, butter, margarine, many kinds of bread, many kinds of cheese from cheap soapy stuff to aged vintage cheese with blue veins. Olive, sunflower, safflower etc and canola oil. Tea, cocoa, coffee, beer, imported but mostly local red, rose and white wines. Locally made rums, used to be a local whisky distiller too but have not heard of them for years. Local and imported brandy. Coca and Pepsi Colas, all of the other varieties of fizzy lolly water. The Australian meat pie is a small pie with ground beef and sometimes vegetables in it. The "pie floater" was a Melbourne speciality and was a meat pie floating in thick pea soup. Yummo (not). Favoured in Melbourne but not much elsewhere. Many Australians have partially abandoned the meat pie in favour of the Australian hamburger, which is a ground beef patty in a bread bun. But it's basic form includes tomato, lettuce, onion usually beetroot too. A better deal than the US form I say. Burger with the lot will have the beef patty, tomato, lettuce, onion, cheese, bacon, slice of pineapple, fried egg, beetroot, barbecue or tomato sauce. Sometimes served on a plate with a knife and fork.