Au-ddly Australian

When you first get here they tell you about the psychology of an exchange student.  First you have up ad downs before you leave.  Then you get there and have your "honeymoon" period.  Then you get sad and home sick.  Then you level out for a while.  And then before you go home, you get the jitters again, then have a home "honeymoon" and then you miss Australia.  And then it all levels out again.
I'm not a psych major, so I don't know about all that.  But it does apply to finding odd things in Australia.  At first there are so many odd things.  And now they just seem more normal maybe.  So Au-ddly Australian must adapt.  So maybe they won't all be so odd.  And probably they aren't all Australian.  But we will persist!

First, I forgot something last week.  'Heaps.'  'Heaps of free stuff.'  'I miss you all heaps.'  'Heaps of cheap beer and barbie.'  Which just reminded me!  I do have a real Au-ddly Australian!  The Webb humanities essay writing word generator can now be turned off.

How could I forget.  So the big thing in Australia, which Outback Steakhouse got right is Barbies.  Ahh.  A good barbie.  Most of the ones I go to are free.  So barbies are doubly good.  Meat and beer and free.  So what is so odd about them?  First the barbie itself.  Most barbies are propane I think.  Fair enough.  Normal enough even.  The ones at the village are big.  4 burners each.  OK, fine.  But, unlike an American gas grill or Weber, there isn't generally a top.  So you can really cover your cooking and let it all heat nice and even.  But then, barbies are all flat.  And they are solid.  There aren't grates.  Its like a giant baking sheet on top of fire.  So you don't really get fat and sauces dripping through.  Which I suppose isn't as healthy.  But kangaroo is 98% lean so its OK for 'roo.

But now, for probably the most Auddly Australian thing that I come across on a regular basis.  Barbies are generally loaded up with sausages.  Not good bratwurst but some where below that and probably above Nathan's hotdogs.  And you eat your very cooked sausage in white bread.  Not hot dog rolls.  Never have I seen a hot dog roll at an Australian barbie.  Not once.  Always probably the cheapest white bread available.  I can't really imagine a hot dog roll is that much more expensive.  But that must be the reason they do it.  So here you are, probably a beer in one hand and a plate of slices of white bread in the other.  And who ever is manning the barbie or the plate where the person manning the barbie has put the sausages (it's probably sausies for short or something equally ridiculous) will place them on your bread.  But now what?  Do you fold in half normally, or along the diagonal?  The sausage really won't fit if you fold it just in half.  You will have bits sticking out the ends.  But diagonal you have heaps of extra bread sticking up right in the middle where the corners are.  I have been told you can tell a lot about a man by the way he folds his white bread around his sausage at the barbecue.