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Here are a couple of food related social customs we would like to mention to you. 1. Turkey is NOT a traditional Christmas food for Native of Ordinary Australians. Traditionally, (before KFC) roast chicken with baked veg followed by plum pudding and custard was more usual. These days its likely to be a Barbie of course. The proof that we don't traditionally eat turkey at Christmas is obvious. Look around. Where is the industry that grew all the turkeys? There isn't one. Never was. Turkey might have been served in England or America, but not here. 2. On the subject of serving chicken, up until the Colonel lead the Yankee Take-away invasion, it was generally considered undesirable to serve chicken to guests. Up until the late 1960's many if not most Australian households had a chicken coupe down in the back yard for the egg production. If you had to kill one of you own chooks to serve to your guests it suggested that you were too poor to buy meat from the butcher. A social negative. 3. Never serve rabbit to a Native Australian. It is considered an insult because it triggers the worst possible tribal memories of the hardship and starvation of earlier times such a the Great Depression. |