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Ok, we’re definitely stealing some of these. In this video, listen to the latest episode of Tin Foil Swans with Australian food icon Donna Hay as we go through and learn authentic Australian food terms. From fairy floss, sangers, and more, which of these food terms have you heard before?
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00:00What's fairy floss?
00:02Fairy floss is magical, it's cotton candy.
00:05What are hot chips?
00:05Fried potatoes in sticks.
00:08Fries, dude.
00:09Fries, but they're not French fries because potato chips can be thick.
00:14French fries are thin.
00:15What is goon?
00:16Goon is wine in a cardboard box with some sort of plastic container inside with a dispenser.
00:27That's a goon bag, but yes.
00:28Goon is wine, a goon bag is a wine bag.
00:31Sanger, a sandwich, a snag.
00:35A snag is a sausage and a snag sizzle is a sausage on a barbecue.
00:40What's a barbie?
00:41A barbie is clearly a barbecue which could have anything on it as long as you're outside and there's some
00:48sort of flame.
00:49What's a chook?
00:50A chook is so great.
00:51A chook is a chicken, also a term that we call our girlfriends when meeting them somewhere.
00:56Hey chook, hey chicken.
00:59Love your chookers.
01:00Yeah, love your chookers.
01:01What about an icy pole?
01:03An icy pole is an ice cream on a stick.
01:05Yeah, I think Americans call them ice lollies.
01:07Ice lollies, okay.
01:08Yeah.
01:09What is a milk bar?
01:10A milk bar sells everything from milk to ice creams, icy poles, chips.
01:18It's like a bodega.
01:19The milk bar is a corner bodega.
01:21It's a place of wonder.
01:22A milk bar says.
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