Buy Australian!

[Jacks Fur Coat]

On the theme of support/promote Australian a book has hit the shelves simply called. Australia: A History. It's written by Tony Abbott and (fear not) it's an apolitical, warts and all version of what's made and shaped our unique island home across the centuries. It fills a void in encapsulating everything about this country. Would love to see it studied in our curriculums. Appropriately its received bipartisan acknowledgement as you can see from the attached reviews. Would make a great Chrissie present for someone.

[horrie hastings]

You've just taken me way back in time. I want to cry and am not sure why. There is a lovely childhood memory for me tucked away somewhere in my mind. I also remember a fizzy apple soft drink in a can called Apla. I have a strong memory of being taken around the Campsie shops when I was around 3 or 4 by my auntie's lovely English naval husband as he tried everywhere to buy it for me. His name was Peter and the Arabic version of the name is Boutros. Every time we went through St Peters on the train, he'd say we are at St Boutros..I was only in grade 2 when he died but I will never forget him. I have lots of photos of us together and a silver locket he gave me. He was the first person I knew who had a tattoo. It was of an anchor on his arm.

I found the Apla cans on ebay

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/33524502...W5lOQKyBK_Ohfh

It is funny how a mention of something can bring back certain memories, when the Weis bar was mentioned i had a flash back to the corner shop in Paddington where we bought them when i was a child, we actually had three corner shops in the block back then, the lady who ran the corner store where we would buy the Weis bars was called Peggy. I often walk past where the shop was after a game at Allianz when walking up to catch the 352 towards home.
I remember Apla also but remember that more after we had moved to Kingsford.

[mightyrooster]

On the theme of support/promote Australian a book has hit the shelves simply called. Australia: A History. It's written by Tony Abbott and (fear not) it's an apolitical, warts and all version of what's made and shaped our unique island home across the centuries. It fills a void in encapsulating everything about this country. Would love to see it studied in our curriculums. Appropriately its received bipartisan acknowledgement as you can see from the attached reviews. Would make a great Chrissie present for someone.

Looks really interesting. I will have to watch the documentary on Sky News too. Break my ban lol.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Looks really interesting. I will have to watch the documentary on Sky News too. Break my ban lol.

It is a good watch Mighty One. Even for those who don't like Tony Abbott, it's worthwhile just to engage with the content.

[Random Rooster]

You've just taken me way back in time. I want to cry and am not sure why. There is a lovely childhood memory for me tucked away somewhere in my mind. I also remember a fizzy apple soft drink in a can called Apla. I have a strong memory of being taken around the Campsie shops when I was around 3 or 4 by my auntie's lovely English naval husband as he tried everywhere to buy it for me. His name was Peter and the Arabic version of the name is Boutros. Every time we went through St Peters on the train, he'd say we are at St Boutros..I was only in grade 2 when he died but I will never forget him. I have lots of photos of us together and a silver locket he gave me. He was the first person I knew who had a tattoo. It was of an anchor on his arm.

I found the Apla cans on ebay

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/33524502...W5lOQKyBK_Ohfh

Nice memories! They were great days

I can remember buying Apla from the Bankstown Hospital canteen-im pretty sure they were the pop top version in the early 80s.

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It is funny how a mention of something can bring back certain memories, when the Weis bar was mentioned i had a flash back to the corner shop in Paddington where we bought them when i was a child, we actually had three corner shops in the block back then, the lady who ran the corner store where we would buy the Weis bars was called Peggy. I often walk past where the shop was after a game at Allianz when walking up to catch the 352 towards home.
I remember Apla also but remember that more after we had moved to Kingsford.

Do you remember butterscotch brickle ice-cream? It was a definite memory for me as well. My schoolfriends all remember the milk bar next door to our fruit shop as my family used to run that also, but by the time I was born, my grandfather leased the business to another family to run. The sons found me on Facebook and they still talk about my grandmother's cooking as my grandparents lived above the shop, along with my 2 bachelor uncles. I found a photo of the koala ice-cream cake Dad had ordered for my 4th birthday. Everything was made fresh as we used to have the cheese & butter factory in Warwick and they supplied Woolies. The packaging had roses on it as the town is known as the Rose City. There was also KR Darling Downs bacon and quite a few of my school friends all had jobs there. Lots of local food products came from where I grew up. Down the road at Hurricanes, they have a $65 Darling Downs fillet..LOL

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Nice memories! They were great days

I can remember buying Apla from the Bankstown Hospital canteen-im pretty sure they were the pop top version in the early 80s.

My memories of Apla were early 1970's. . Our families could have quite possibly been in Bankstown Square at any given time during that era.

[horrie hastings]

Do you remember butterscotch brickle ice-cream? It was a definite memory for me as well. My schoolfriends all remember the milk bar next door to our fruit shop as my family used to run that also, but by the time I was born, my grandfather leased the business to another family to run. The sons found me on Facebook and they still talk about my grandmother's cooking as my grandparents lived above the shop, along with my 2 bachelor uncles. I found a photo of the koala ice-cream cake Dad had ordered for my 4th birthday. Everything was made fresh as we used to have the cheese & butter factory in Warwick and they supplied Woolies. The packaging had roses on it as the town is known as the Rose City. There was also KR Darling Downs bacon and quite a few of my school friends all had jobs there. Lots of local food products came from where I grew up. Down the road at Hurricanes, they have a $65 Darling Downs fillet..LOL

I remember butterscotch brickle ice cream but i don't ever really remember having it.What i remember from Paddington and it was one of the other corner shops which was owned by the Curtains, it was an ice cream bar, either vanilla or neapolitan and you unwrapped it and slipped it into a cone which was shaped for the ice cream bar to fit into it, the shop always seemed to run out of the neapolitan ones so more often or not i would end up with vanilla. I also remember when going to the supermarket which was at five ways, the Devondale metal tubs of ice cream with the cat logo on them.

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I remember butterscotch brickle ice cream but i don't ever really remember having it.What i remember from Paddington and it was one of the other corner shops which was owned by the Curtains, it was an ice cream bar, either vanilla or neapolitan and you unwrapped it and slipped it into a cone which was shaped for the ice cream bar to fit into it, the shop always seemed to run out of the neapolitan ones so more often or not i would end up with vanilla. I also remember when going to the supermarket which was at five ways, the Devondale metal tubs of ice cream with the cat logo on them.

That sounded like fun back then. I'm glad Connoisseur is still a fully Australian owned company as that's a family favourite. As soon as Norco got up and running again, I rang my uncle to tell him and the last time I went up for a week, I bought a tub of the vanilla with the blue and white stripes. They make a great affogotto too on sticks. Even the Coles sorbet is delicious for a really hot day and there is another brand called Golden North.

[mightyrooster]

My memories of icecream in the 70’s was the town milk bar down the main street - where 90% of the shops are. We didn’t have many amenities or great shops where I grew up. The Milk Bar also sold the footy cards with the bubblegum inside. When we visited the relatives in Sydney an uncle used to give us little tubs of vanilla icecream with a wooden spoon. I thought that was very special. I have no idea what the brand was but assume it was Australian made.

[Mickie Lane]

On the theme of support/promote Australian a book has hit the shelves simply called. Australia: A History. It's written by Tony Abbott and (fear not) it's an apolitical, warts and all version of what's made and shaped our unique island home across the centuries. It fills a void in encapsulating everything about this country. Would love to see it studied in our curriculums. Appropriately its received bipartisan acknowledgement as you can see from the attached reviews. Would make a great Chrissie present for someone.

He's a good man & did a good job as the Prime Minister but in my opinion Jack anyone who steps into that position is a good person & a good Prime Minister.
No matter which party is in power & no matter which person is the PM my life remains the same.
Australia is still the lucky country & no political party or PM will fark up Australia in our life time or our kids life time or our grand kids lives
Australia will be going strong over the next 100 years

[mightyrooster]

It is a good watch Mighty One. Even for those who don't like Tony Abbott, it's worthwhile just to engage with the content.

I love watching anything to do with Australian social and political history, so will definitely have a look. And yeah Tony’s not one of my favourites as you know lol. But only as a pollie.

[horrie hastings]

That sounded like fun back then. I'm glad Connoisseur is still a fully Australian owned company as that's a family favourite. As soon as Norco got up and running again, I rang my uncle to tell him and the last time I went up for a week, I bought a tub of the vanilla with the blue and white stripes. They make a great affogotto too on sticks. Even the Coles sorbet is delicious for a really hot day and there is another brand called Golden North.

I wish Coles would sell the plain Norco vanilla ice cream, they stock a lot of their range but not the vanilla ice cream, i would buy that even over the Bulla one. The Coles choc coated ice creams which are similar to the magnums are made by Norco and i often buy them, i alternate between them and the Bulla ice creams. The Coles brand spiced rum and fig is wicked, i saved some from last Christmas to have for Christmas in July, glad they released again for this Christmas.

[horrie hastings]

My memories of icecream in the 70’s was the town milk bar down the main street - where 90% of the shops are. We didn’t have many amenities or great shops where I grew up. The Milk Bar also sold the footy cards with the bubblegum inside. When we visited the relatives in Sydney an uncle used to give us little tubs of vanilla icecream with a wooden spoon. I thought that was very special. I have no idea what the brand was but assume it was Australian made.

The little tubs are still very popular, they were often referred to dixie cups, i still will buy one when i don't want any flavours when i am out. I just remembered another one you used to get in a plastic cup with a spoon, it was usually vanilla with a raspberry swirl, cannot remember the brand, think it may have been Alpino. That also reminds of going to Italian restaurant where they had the Alpino deserts, often a stuffed orange or grape fruit which was stuffed with gelato, they had other things but they stick out to me, think there was a chocolate one shaped in an apple and also a cassata slice, think a few of the old fashion Italian restaurants still stock them.

[Mickie Lane]

I remember butterscotch brickle ice cream but i don't ever really remember having it.What i remember from Paddington and it was one of the other corner shops which was owned by the Curtains, it was an ice cream bar, either vanilla or neapolitan and you unwrapped it and slipped it into a cone which was shaped for the ice cream bar to fit into it, the shop always seemed to run out of the neapolitan ones so more often or not i would end up with vanilla. I also remember when going to the supermarket which was at five ways, the Devondale metal tubs of ice cream with the cat logo on them.

Memories.
I remember going to the Golden Fleece service station that used to be on Punchbowl Rd in Lakemba & being treated to that ice cream Im talking 53 years ago
For the first 7 years of my life my family lived in Lakemba then we moved to Russell Lea but whilst living in Lakemba I thought it was great, it certainly isnt the suburb now that it was when I lived my first 7 years.
I wish I was into Golden Fleece memorabilia back then because Id be making a good living now if I had of been.