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By chance I happened to be listening to the radio yesterday and overhead somebody reading out a recipe that contained cream cheese.
Now your probably all wondering, why did I emphasize cream cheese? Cream cheese isn't anything special, it is just normal food really, well so you would think....
A caller rang after this recipe was read with a complaint of cream cheese being a 'foreign, yuppy food'. Furthermore it wasn't 'good old traditional Aussie tucker'. I was already laughing and the best is yet to come.
And before you ask, yes she was an old Australian woman.
When asked what her idea of 'good old traditional Aussie tucker' was she listed the following steps in preparing such a traditional meal:
- Purchase some frozen meat pies.
- Microwave them.
- Remove all the "meat" from the pies and place it into a bowl.
- Mix tomato sauce into this.
- Serve as is with crackers.
I nearly drove into a light pole due to my head exploding from such stupidity when I heard this.
Now I can't really see how cream cheese is 'foreign, yuppy food', but for microwave meat pies in their original form to be considered food let alone being considered 'good old traditional Aussie tucker' after being bastardized into some kind of dip blows me away. I can imagine the situation just before dinner:
Wife: Love what would you like for dinner?
Husband: Oh, a steak would be great darling.
Wife: That isn't traditional Aussie tucker Norm.
Husband: Sorry Shirl, make what you want.
Wife: OK, cow offal with tomato sauce dip.
Husband: Sounds great, thanks darl.
Just one the side, I found this really funny. I wonder if honesty was the best policy in this case?

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