Potato Cake or Scallop

[The Yeti]

This was a topic of debate in our house tonight

http://www.smh.com.au/national/austr...19-gl31n2.html

What are your thoughts
See heres the thing, I'm from Sydney and until I was in my late 20's I'd never set foot in VIC

But for mine it's

Potato Scallop
Cossie's (my kids call them swimmers)
Bubbler
Sausage Sanga (Snag Sanga is an acceptable alternative)
Nose Bleed (My kids just call it a bleeding nose)
Canteen
Pants
General Store / Takeaway (my kids called it a local shop)
Ice Block

and not mentioned but I've come unstuck south of the boarder

Kabab (delicious spinning log of meat shaved in to leb bread with lettus tomato onion, etc)
A piece of fish (Beer battered fish from the takeaway shop)

Mostly NSW centric but theres a few odd ones

[superyob]

Definitely potato scallop...

[AJ09]

Victoria = Potato Cake

Queensland = Potato Scallop

Not sure about other states.

[Silver Ghia]

From Melbourne:

Potato cake
Togs
drinking fountain or tap
Sausage on bread
Blood nose
Canteen
Pants
Milk Bar
Icy pole

[Franco Cozzo]

From Vic:

Potato Cake (scollop is that horrible fish thing)
Bathers
Tap
Snag in bread
Blood nose
Canteen
Pants
The shop
Icy pole

[LG17]

Potato scallop
Togs
Bubbler or Tap depending what it is
Sausage Sanger
Blood nose
Tuckshop
Pants
Corner shop
Ice block


Qlder

[supershifty]

I'm fully with the Yeti on this, and I'm a dyed in the wool QLDer.

Cheers!

[nstg8a]

Originally Posted by Big Damo

From Vic:

Potato Cake (scollop is that horrible fish thing)

Horrible fish thing? Scallops are bloody awesome lol

[superyob]

Pants = strides???

[Syndrome]

Proud Victorian here.

Potato Cake

And we call it Safeway, not Woolworths.

[Beastie]

Originally Posted by The Yeti

This was a topic of debate in our house tonight

http://www.smh.com.au/national/austr...19-gl31n2.html

What are your thoughts
See heres the thing, I'm from Sydney and until I was in my late 20's I'd never set foot in VIC

But for mine it's

Potato Scallop
Cossie's (my kids call them swimmers)
Bubbler
Sausage Sanga (Snag Sanga is an acceptable alternative)
Nose Bleed (My kids just call it a bleeding nose)
Canteen
Pants
General Store / Takeaway (my kids called it a local shop)
Ice Block

and not mentioned but I've come unstuck south of the boarder

Kabab (delicious spinning log of meat shaved in to leb bread with lettus tomato onion, etc)
A piece of fish (Beer battered fish from the takeaway shop)

Mostly NSW centric but theres a few odd ones

As a fellow resident of NSW;

1. Just "Scallops" eg - can I have half a dozen Scallops please
2. Cossies: tick - eg pack your Cossies kids were are heading to the beach
3. Nothing can ever replace "Sausage Sanga"!
4. Nose Bleed?? Maybe I've got a "blood nose" or, bloody hell, I'm in the nose bleed section again (ANZ Stadium)
5. Canteen = School Canteen
6. Pants: tick
7. Depends what you want to buy: Groceries = General Store or Fish & Chips = Takeaway
8. Ice Block: tick

As for the humble Kebab - As described first & I could do with one right now!!

[Syndrome]

Originally Posted by The Beast

for the humble Kebab - As described first & I could do with one right now!!

Why don't they sell pork kebabs?

[Beastie]

I give up?

But I'd have one of them too

[Syndrome]

Originally Posted by The Beast

I give up?

But I'd have one of them too

Muslims are not allowed to eat pork but that does not mean they can't sell pork products to those of us who eat pork.

[Beastie]

Originally Posted by Syndrome

Muslims are not allowed to eat pork but that does not mean they can't sell pork products to those of us who eat pork.

Thanks mate, but I was being silly

[Kingsley]

Originally Posted by Syndrome

Why don't they sell pork kebabs?

It's because of the rabbits....too many rabbits in the middle east.

The other one that has different interpretations in other states is beer. Schooner, middies, stubby, pots, throw downs etc.

[TheSneakiness]

Potato scallop (my ex father in law said its the style of cut with the potato which is why its called that)
Togs
Bubbler
Sausage in bread
Blood nose
Tuckshop
Pants
Convenience Store
Icy Pole

I lived in VIC for 13 years and spent the last 18 in QLD.

[LyleXR8]

We moved from vic to WA 9 years ago, potato scallops here and when you ask for dim sims they throw them in batter then deep fry them, lots of different words here, a Pot of beer in vic is a middy or handle here, ask for a slab and people are dumbfounded, gotta ask for a carton of beer, strange critters these born and bred WA lot!

[ford71V8]

SA

Potato Scallop ..... potato fritter
Cossie's (my kids call them swimmers) ...... bathers
Bubbler ...... water fountain
Sausage Sanga (Snag Sanga is an acceptable alternative) ....snag on bread
Nose Bleed (My kids just call it a bleeding nose) ..... blood nose
Canteen ......canteen
Pants .....pants
General Store / Takeaway (my kids called it a local shop) .....the deli
Ice Block ...... ice block
Kabab .......yiros
A piece of fish ...... piece of fish

[QLD-Bluey]

Potato Cake (scollop is that horrible fish thing)

But isnt a cake something you put candles on for Birthdays and are sweet?

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by QLD-Bluey

Potato Cake (scollop is that horrible fish thing)

But isnt a cake something you put candles on for Birthdays and are sweet?

Not necessarily, because there are savory cakes too, or what about a cake of soap?

Originally Posted by nstg8a

Horrible fish thing? Scallops are bloody awesome lol

I rather dislike seafood, can stay in the ocean IMO

[TheSneakiness]

Originally Posted by Big Damo

Not necessarily, because there are savory cakes too, or what about a cake of soap?



I rather dislike seafood, can stay in the ocean IMO

I don't get how you call a slice of potato a cake...

[The Yeti]

OMG how good would a pork kebab be

[CoupeKing]

Originally Posted by Rapid_Axe

I don't get how you call a slice of potato a cake...

My guess is that it reminded them of a pancake...they kind of look similar pre-cooked or when flat....kind of.

[Grunter]

Originally Posted by The Yeti

OMG how good would a pork kebab be

With sweet chilli and apple sauce. Would be a interesting combo I'd like to try!

[FPV8U]

It's Potato cake you communist northern bastards

[JC]

Potato cake. And when I say dim sim, I mean steamed, but only Vics do it that way...

Jam balls at the Vic markets are the best, as are the steamed dim sims served in brown paper bag with soy sauce slowly disintegrating the bag.

And in Vic, a piece of fish usually means flake, which oddly is hardly served anywhere else.

[Revolver]

Potato Cake is for Victorians.

Potato Scallop is for QLD'rs.

I used to have a Victorian Lady work in the kitchen of the servo I worked at years ago, and someone asked for a Potato Cake, and guessed she was from Victoria as well.

My dad called it a "Brush and Shovel" and I just called it the same even though until then I had never stepped into Victoria in my life.

So when I asked for a "Brush and Shovel" my partner would shudder and look at me weird. I always wondered why.... Then one day My manager at work asked me if I had seen the "Brush and Shovel" I then asked why she called it that. She said it was because shes from Victoria. Thats when I realised thats the reason why my dad calls it "Brush and Shovel" And Not "Dustpan and Brush".

Ive noticed a few other terms in the same spirit as this as well.

Its like Victorians are simple, and "Dumb down" the description of an object to its simplest form. And that becomes the description of said object.

No offence to Victorians, but you rarely see an item with a complicated description in Victoria thats only said in Victoria do you?

[QLD-Bluey]

Originally Posted by Big Damo

Not necessarily, because there are savory cakes too, or what about a cake of soap?



I rather dislike seafood, can stay in the ocean IMO

My point exactly Big Damo. Those people who say "its only a fish thing" seem to forget there are multiple meanings to "Cake" as there is "scallop"!!

[JC]

Another here for brush and shovel - dustpan and brush sounds too English... not the language, but the snobby, turn your nose up at commoners type English, which is probably why Vics call it brush and shovel. Salt of the earth people, us Vics...