The shops stay open longer on Thursday because Thursday used to be pay day, so the shops were open longer so people could go shopping for food and other stuff. Shops were open until 9pm on a Thursday midday on Saturday. Every shop would shut at5pm except Thursday
the snag in the breadis called a sausage sizzle it is usually run by charity to raise money it's done in bread because a lot can be made from a loaf giving many slices and is quick
Hot dogs is used in Australia too ! It is a bun with a Frankfurt . Snag is a sausage and on a bun . We have on our transit buses in Sydney have electronic signs telling you the next stop . Queensland must be behind . Our trains tells you the next stop . Restaurants are opened until 11 pm and cafe’s close between 5 and 6 pm . Sydney and Melbourne most people wear shoes . You seem like a lovely young lady . Enjoy your stay in OZ .
For elderly people riding buses that dont know their stop, I've seen them ask the driver when they get on and the driver will stop the bus at that stop and tell them it's time to get off.
Most Melbourne buses have a digital sign which tells you what stop is coming up. The driver and/ or other people on the bus will ensure elderly people and tourists get off at the right stop.
What's so bad about that!?? I mean really. Just wait to YOU get to that age and you will be B---Itching how so many young ppl who have no sympathy. You just wait. Time comes up to bite you in the butt. Trust me.
Snag means sausage. Buses make numerous stops in any suburb, in Sydney there’s a bus stop every 200m. When you pay out money use the coins don’t save them.
We really shouldn't laugh at Canadians & Americans. They don't have as good an education system as Australia. They automatically assume/nay insist they are automatically right ( and all other countries are wrong) because .. Uh.. well .. They can't bear to ponder the fact that they really are that backward after all in comparison to the rest of the world.
Yeah its a sausage and you can buy hot dogs and buns at any grocery store, the picture you showed was a bbq sausage like what bunnings serve at there sausage sizzles on weekends
Hotdogs and Snags are two totally different things. Hotdogs are in buns where as a snag is Aussie slang for sausage. We love sausage sizzles, with grilled sausage in bread with onion and sauce 🇦🇺🇦🇺👍👍
Capsicum/pepper: the food is from America, mainly around what's now Mexico. When Anglos encountered them they called them after the only other spicy food they knew. However, capsicum came to Australia by way of Italian food, so we use the Latin name.
Capsicum is the botanical genus name which comes directly from latin and Greek. This includes all the capsicum nightshades. Depending on the amount of Capsaicin a given capsicum will be hot or not. Of course when Europeans first had hot capsicums (now referred to as chillies; an Aztec name), they called them peppers because they were hot like the common black pepper. So really most of the world uses capsicum to describe the basic capsicum (they should be more specific), and others incorrectly call them peppers despite the fact there is zero to no Capsaicin in them; the pepper tasting chemical for which it is called. On this I am afraid the North Americans and modern British have the word etymology all wrong and potentially the Australians (and the rest of the world) are more correct.
Wherever you are in the world, when stepping into a bus that doesn't announce stops, you can kindly ask the driver as you get in to indicate when we reach your destination. I have been doing this for 15+ years and only once did a driver forget me, and I never got a refusal!
I'm from Melbourne and I think a number of these "oddities" I think are only found in Queensland or the Gold Coast. Here in Melbourne the bus will stop for you without waving at them as long as you are standing at or very near the bus top sign. Hotdogs as "hotdogs" do exist. Snags aren't in toast but in just plain soft white bread with either mustand or tomato sauce (ketchup) on it. "Drug stores" are know as the Chemist or Pharmacy (sometimes they may use both terms). Shops in Melbourne, and I'm guessing Sydney, close later that 5pm, usually 6pm Supermarkets will often close at 10 pm and a few (not !any) at midnight. In Melbourne the "late night" shopping night is Friday night. Most shops will then close at 9pm. Pubs, bars and certainly nightclubs etc will routinely close much much later than that, early morning or later. "Capsicum" is the scientific name for red or green peppers. Look it up in Wikipedia. For some reason we Australians tend to use that name, but green and red peppers are usually understood. Usually. That's enough from me except to say that different cities or regions will have somewhat different terms or words for things and different customs and laws etc. Although Australia is fairly uniform in many things, maybe more so than most other countries, it's definately not 100% uniform in words, slang etc
Yes. There are a few terms that can vary around Australia: cozzies versus togs versus trunks, etc; potato "scallops"; "Devon" (sliced processed luncheon meat). As a Sydney-sider I say "cozzies", "scallops", "Devon". I can't remember the names other states call them.
It always freaks me out when _anyone_ (not specific to this young lady) says something like "in Australia they do this" or "Australians do that". Travelled the whole country, have you? I haven't, and I'm over 50 - but I have seen quite a bit of it. Sure, there are nation-wide traits, behaviours, and properties, but there's a helluva lot of completely regional stuff too - and a lot of that makes it into videos like this one. In the last two days alone I've heard assertions that nobody wears shoes and that of course we wear shoes; that everyone uses cash for everything and that everything is Paywave. I'm not expecting anyone to know how everything about how stuff is done everywhere, but a little awareness would be refreshing. Aus is about the same size as the contiguous US (the "Lower 48", I believe) - of _course_ things are going to vary a bit. You don't expect things in Mississippi to be just like they are in New York city.
Everything you mentioned is easy to explain and once explained you would quickly come to realize it is all about ease, convenience, and the Australian lifestyle that over many generations have through trial and error come up with a balance between work and family time. That is why you see stores closed early but if they want to stay open they can but must pay a price for depriving a person of their family time same applies for Weekends (Saturday and Sundays), and public Holidays. Fun fact Canadian polymer banknotes are manufactured in Australia.
some CAT buses, which are free buses in most of the cities in CBDs (Central Business Districts) have LEDs and automated systems but so do trains as well
i'm yankee but i lived in wollongong, nsw with an australian gf fer 2 1/2 years. i've always imagined canadians and australians would have a field day comparing notes on all the ways their country is superior to the states. fer those are the two nationalities (along with the english) most likely to do so. not everybody and not all the time of course but often enough to be noticeable.
A sausage is a snag it is not a hotdog ( wiener) and snags come with tomato sauce and bread. Where on earth did you have them with toast ? You want to know why things are different here from what you are used to. Because you are living in a totally different country. That is the fun of travel. No way do malls close at 4pm. No shirt, no shoes, no service!
As you noticed the wheelchair bays in the bus for "elderly & less mobile passengers"..... Well, all the elderly & blind do is they tell the bus driver where they need to go to & the bus driver will ensure they get to their destination. If they need to change buses, they'll radio the connecting bus, seen that happen a few times. Many older bus drivers know their way around, younger bus drivers just follow the GPS & nod their head. I'm in Newcastle, so heaps of elderly people here & they get helped out. Also, wheelchair passengers need to inform the bus driver so they're able to apply the ramp to exit the bus before the wheelchair passenger moves from their secured bay to exit. In Sydney, bus drivers are used to helping tourists, they hear the accent & they help them find their way around. When I was in Toronto, the staff at Union Station helped me get around, gave me maps & told me of all the good places the moment they heard my Aussie accent.
The logic is, Australians recognise the landscape. We look out the window of the bus and recognise the area we live in and the scenery of the stop. Same with the trains and taxis/cabs. A sausage is a snag and hotdog is usually a long red frankfurter (Werner) on a long skinny, bread roll/bun with tomato sauce and mustard (maybe cheese). What I have heard one American call a hotdog was to Aussies a “dagwood dog.” It is a battered frankfurter on a stick dipped in tomato sauce.
In Canada Canadians apparently need instruction as to where they live 🤣🤣 seriously though this lady has no Idea.. Stop announcements are new in Canada too.. 20 years ago most drivers refused to do it or were not required... Its only the last 12 or 15 years its gotten common in North America.. Before that it was pretty hit a miss some cities required both stop announcement And the driver to stop at every stop even if there is nobody waiting.. This begN in the 60s but unions basically hamstrung it.. Was less successful in Canada but a couple of us cities are famous for it.. Just stopping at empty stops and shouting out the stop name 😂😂
We put snags on white bread, not toast. We use both names, chemist and pharmacy. We don't call them malls, we call them shopping centres. It's pronounced queen's land, not queenslnd. Our toilets are the norm for most of the world, I think North America is the only place to have that much water in them. The wage thing is more complicated than that, there's different minimum wages for different industries. We call them trolleys, not shopping carts.
Nice one, always interesting hearing what others think. The no shoes thing is more to do with the climate than anything especially in the subtropics where you are. The toilet water is to do with the fact that water is scarce over much of Australia. A low level of water in the bowl means you there is just enough water to do the job. Incidentally, we invented the half-flush here as a water saver. When I first went to Canada, I was amazed how much water was in the toilet bowl. There was a partial blockage once and I was getting ready to run out as I thought it might overflow, haha!
AS an Australian you generally have your stops memorised so you can kinda of just get off on autopilot. And it’s called sausage sizzle mainly (sorry if I come off as rude)
Setrenlover shoo oh wow that's amazing what if you're bussing to someplace new though? If I didn't have Google maps I would be getting off at all the wrong stops 😂
@@peytongomer2305 or ask some one on the buss ususly theres ppl who know the area on the bus or say to the driver hey i need to get off at sutch and sutch st ( dont allways rely on them tho best to ask fellow passengers )
I work with Australian bus manufacturers. That bus without the stop notification is a weird one. I’ve never seen a bus in australia that doesn’t have a stop notification sign system inside. Then again, qld and the Gold Coast are backwaters so it shouldn’t be a surprise. Here in WA if you don’t wear shoes you’ll get third degree burns in 2 minutes, so we definitely wear shoes. The weather on the east coast is pretty mild so they can get away with it there.
Not the 'stop the bus' notification system(red button, pull cord etc) . She means it doesn't show you which stop your coming up too. WA doesn't have it everywhere either. I've only seen it on the car park buses at Perth airport. It's hard to see out the front windows of the bus, so if you don't know the route or where you are it is difficult to know where to get off the bus. Generally, I think Aussies just ask the bus driver.
The reason why the coin sizes are like that, is because we used to have $1 and $2 notes. In those days, the silver coins were all that we had and they got larger as you went up in value from 1c up to 50c. The. In the 80’s, we switched to coins for the $1 and $2 values and so they decided to make them smaller.
you need to go to the bus terminals to get bus or train timetables, which list the stops within them, or you can use the transit apps which have the stops on the app
Hotdogs are the same as your hotdogs. What you showed was a standard beef sausage in bread NOT toast probably bought from a fund raising "sausage sizzle". I also daresay that if youre a regular bus user you'll be familiar with the bus route and where you need to get off. Pretyy sure the bus company would have bus route maps.
The reason why the $1 & $2 is smaller and gold in colour is because we use to have $1 & $2 notes but they got removed as it was expensive to print, coins are cheaper to mass produce. Buses and trains in Sydney have banner type screen that tell you the next stop unlike QLD. Snags are short fat sausages (throw a snag on the bar-be) sausage sizzles are snags with onion, bbq sauce on buttered white bread, normally u can get this at Bunnings on the weekends & yes we have hot dogs here too. As for light switches yes that is the standard one but u can install big ones if you like or L.E.D touch type ones. Most people will wear bare feet if you live or holiday near a beach. Our toilets are more environmentally friendly as they use less water and we have a half flush for number 1’s, if you get splash back from atomic number 2’s try adding toilet paper after you wipe the seat before seating
Coins actually have certain amounts of nickel, silver etc in them usually to the value of the coin. So a small coin contains less whereas a larger coin contains more. Therefore higher value. The dollar and two dollar replaced notes and are designed so as blind people can tell the difference by feel. Aside from weight and thickness they have different ridges around the edge. Our old notes used to have a silver strip running through them of the value of the note.
Yep, queenslanders don't really care about shoes. It's not seen as a liability for stores as it is in north America. If you go further north, shirts can be optional also ( for the guys at least) down the street.
Light switches in Canada and the US use to be small buttons and modeled after fixtures from the UK.Much of Aussie infrastructure has been adopted from the UK
We have 'hot dogs' same as American's/Canadians but our preferred choice is the sausage or 'snag' as you said. Most big supermarkets like Woolworths are open until 12:00am and we have a 'late night' day which is thursday where most shops will stay open until 9pm. Some big supermarkets like K-mart and Target have 24 hour stores. Other than that the majority of stores will close around 4-6pm.
Is it just me who thought just how rude she is. You don't just leave the trolleys to the side. There are trolley bays for you to return the trolley to in the carpark. The trolley collectors should only have to collect the trolleys from there but because people are rude and ignorant they have to collect it from all over the parking lot.
Australia is one of the driest countries on Earth. We do our best to conserve the water we have. We also pay for every drop we use, so minimising its use is important.
Let’s talk about shopping carts! (Or trollies, as an Australian) This is definitely something that is normal to do, but I would recommend not just leaving them on the footpath. There are dedicated places to go and put the trolly back. Yes, there are people who go and collect the trollies that are left in random places, but it makes their job a lot easier if you put it back where it’s supposed to go.
What astounds me is that lazy arses won't walk a few metres to place the trolley in allocated bays, often leaving them where they unload them right by their car, then go home with their shopping, to later go to their swanky Gym. To workout. You know. To do exercise. These are the same persons whose legs automatically cease to move FROM the moment they step on a 'Travellator/Escalator. Magical powers those things. You watch and see!
Hotdogs and snags are two different things. Here in Australia, snags are lamb or beef sausages. Hotdogs, we call Saveloys. Both hotdogs and snags are made completely differently. A dagwood dog is a saveloy dipped in batter and deep fried and served dipped halfway into a large container of tomato sauce.
I thoroughly enjoyed your video. I've watched many from people all over the world who come here and it can be a real culture shock for them. We are unique as a mixed culture, but we are genuinely, generally friendly and helpful and wish you all the best as you travel our great brown land. Cheers
Been watching all your vids of Australia to help plan my trip! Will be coming from Vancouver too! You should make a video on living expenses in Gold Coast vs Van.
@4:00 This in going to make me sound old, but: elderly people know where to get of the bus by not having their noses jammed in their phones the entire time.
As an elderly Australian with too much time on his hands I've taken to commenting on all the wierd fact videos put out by visitors to my wonderful country let me clarify a few of your misguided or incorrect facts 1,capsicum is the correct name for what you north Americans call peppers and i believe the English call them Bell peppers 2 a Hod dog in Australia is the same as in your country (best hot dog I ever had was in Canada) a snag is slang for sausage and what you described is a snag sandwich or commonly called a snag sanger, and I want one now . 3 its not required for you to flag down buses despite what the signs say . 4 peoplecwho use the bus system regularly know when to get off .those that don't should merelyask the driver when boarding. 5 chemist or pharmacy are the correctname according to the Oxford dictionary and as the English wrote the dictionary andcwe both come from english speaking countries that therefore is the corret term because as you said Drug store is a little misleading 6 supermarkets actually frown apon customers using their trolleys to shop all over shopping centres but don't really the problem because the customers wouldn't take any notice 7 shops do not close at 4 pm shops in shopping strips might close at 5 or 5-30 but shopping centres are open over 56hrs a week and supermarkets are open up to 90hrs a week as ive said before to people who have perpetuated this myth if you can't buy what you neebd in the offered hrs then you didn't need it bad enough 8 Howyagoin is short for , how are you going. No sillier than asking Whatsup,or whatshappnen 9 a sneeky drink and a boogy is just another way to say , yeah I'm up for a bit of fun 10 people have been going barefoot in Australia forever,not as prevalent nowadays especially since the introduction of flip flops or as we Aussies correctly call them Thongs I was chastised for going barefoot by my granddaughter for embarrassing her in front of her classmates when I picked her up from school ,she went quiet when I told her next time I'd front up barearsed . 11 we have a water shortage here in Australia incase you haven't noticed hence the use of a dual flushing system and less water ,ive never understood the fascination of Americans and Canadians who by their comments indicate that they must stand there staring at what they just evacuated disappear down the gurgeler, do you slap yourselves on the back saying that was a good one or I did that or goodby poowith pride and a hint of nostalgia 12 light switches Really? the switches everywhere ive been in Canada or the United States were some form similar to ours i grant that our wall sockets are different to yours, ours are so much safer with on off switches ,so that they are not continuously live and therefore dangerous 13 coin sizes I noticed on your coin comparison photo Canadian coins are very similar in size so I don't see the problem , but if it is a problem I am ready to commit right now into excepting all coins free of charge with the genuine intention of recycling them into Aussie beer and Prawns, I know I know it's a sacrifice on my part but I'm an Aussie and we Aussies are renown for, not only being exceptionally good looking and modest but also our selfless acts of kindness 14 you've noted that we pay a decent minimum wage here in Australia this is true hence what some people say are high prices , which if you take into account that there's no addon sales taxes to the posted price and that there's a conversion rate between the Australian dollar and the Canadian dollar at the time of writing your dollar is worth $1 10 to our dollar and 67c American to our dollar . So the pices should be looked at in this context . 15 as for holiday surcharges, the people who work outside the normal hrs deserve to be compensated for their labour and inconvenience and therefore it's only fitting that the cost of this is passed on, after I retired and unfortunately lost my wife to an early death I returned to work this time as a casual salesman it was a big comedown from my professional management career but I could earnjust as much in 20 hrs of stress free work as opposed to my previous 40+hrs of fulltime tension and need to perform positively all the time, I was able to volunteer for all the shifts that my fellow workers wanted off to enjoy their families it was awin win for everyone Anyway I didn't do it for the money I was well taken carevof in that regard , i did it for the company and friendship . Bonus observation. We all have differences , embrace them, adapt to them don't worry about things you have no contol over and enjoy to the fullest those things that you do and youll be a happier person for it
Every Australian has a list of 15 weird things Queenslanders do. You'll go troppo yourself if you stay there long enough. No. Snags are sausages in general. A hotdog is what you know it as, a particular type of sausage we call a savaloy, in a long bun with the usual additions.
The pink "sausage" on a hot dog is called a "frankfurt" in Sydney, not a "saveloy" to the best of my knowledge. So maybe this is a term that varies around Australia, along with cozzies and "Devon".
@@himbo754 You are right a Frankfurt and Saveloy are two completely different things, however, Frankfurts and Wieners are similar and are interchangeable to use for the making of Hotdogs.
