American Reacts to Top 8 Culture Shocks of Australia.. 

When I came home to Australia after living in Europe for two years, I noticed how big and blue our sky is.

One thing I think that’s uniquely Australian is the finger wave to complete strangers driving a car in the other direction.

Tomato sauce and ketchup are completely different. And yes you can buy both here in Australia. Ketchup is sweeter and tomato sauce is more salty!

Most service stations are open 24/7 in aus. Very convenient when stumbling home from the pub at 3am and in need of a meat pie

One thing I noticed about the US is that nearly all “fast food” is chain store food. In Australia you’ll find a LOT more small individual businesses such as fish and chips shops, bakeries selling pies and sausage rolls and hamburger/take away shops. These are where you’ll pay 15c for a tomato sauce and fair enough, supporting local businesses is not such a bad thing! McDonald’s etc don’t charge you for them.

As an Aussie (Sydney), one very nice thing here that began happening in recent years is acknowledging bus drivers. Many people will at least nod to the driver when boarding and, when disembarking, nearly everyone will say "Thank You" or wish the driver a good day. No idea how or why it started, but I approve. :)

I never realised it was an Aussie thing to say hello or have a chat to strangers because it’s just so ingrained to say G’day while you’re out and about (even for my antisocial self). My wife is from overseas and she loves that we do it. At first she just assumed I knew a lot of people. 😂

The whole "Australians are friendly" thing caught me by surprise (I'm an Aussie lass) When I went to my last American convention, I may have gotten a little drunk (they made my drink waaaay too strong for some reason) and I cheerfully said "hi" to a lot of folk who passed by on the way back. My American and English friends thought that was just the alcohol, but honestly I do that sober, so hearing that made sense to me now XD Also, I don't like wearing shoes, but even I cringe seeing people going barefoot in stores. Broken glass, bindieyes, sharp stones, no thanks. I wear shoes when I go out, but at home, they leaving my feet quick

I was born and raised in South Africa, when I came to Australia, I never really got into wearing shoes except to school/work. [EDIT:] We do have guns here, but the are limited to Calibre and Fire rates/types, and in order to get one, you have to prove the police/government you're not an absolute knob.

I'm 60. Never been barefoot in public, but plenty of people do in the warmer areas. I think it's from the beach culture.

Coffee shops are mostly open for breakfast and lunch some start as early as 6 am. By 3 pm we’re all coffeed out.

Baseball has been played in Australia since Spalding's Baseball World Tour of 1888/1889. They had the largest attendances of the tour in Australia.

There are places where they shut the shops later. Depends where you are.

Most supermarkets and even Kmart and Bunnings are open until 9 or 10pm. What closes are local small cafes chasing work break related business.

Yes Australia invented those little sauce packets. In fact we invented heaps of things . You should do some of the innovative inventions we have come up with , it would blow your mind. Like wireless internet, Cochlear implant, refrigerated trucks, duel flush toilet , wine in a box.

Let's be honest an Aussie Christmas usually involves lunch time beers

When I was going to school in the far north of Queensland most kids never wore shoes to school. It wasn't till high school that we had to wear shoes, we all wore sandals, but we had to wear covered shoes for cooking class, science, or shop. It was actually very sensible because during the Wet Season (November - April) it's better to go bare foot than walk around in wet shoes!

here in NZ i'm more likely to wear shoes on the beach than the shop. our local beach is iron sand and can cause burns

As an Aussie I've picked up many hitch hiker, towed plenty of cars out of ditches/bogs, given water to many overheating cars, ran fuel back to people and helped many old ladies load groceries plus much more and all of that is just normal behaviour for rural/country Aussies, I think because life can be hard in the heat here and how far things are you just know you have to help because there might not be someone else come by for hours. We are the sort of people to give our fishing rod to the father and son fisherman who can only afford one, gotta love my countrymen. If you want to come to Australia please do, we have heaps of room just please realise there's a reason people come here and we very rarely leave, respect the dirt you walk on and give a wave and hello in town and you'll get along great :)

The one thing I will say is: In the country (of Australia & not the cities) we catch people out all the time by waving to total strangers! I've seen people in total shock by me just waving to them (like it's never happened to them before?) just driving down the street! That's just what we do! Those who embrace it, tend to fit in very well, but those who don't, end up just being outcasts & moving on. I've watched so many of your videos & your love for Oz, I feel that you "GET" what we are about & though I have suggested it before, you just need to get your arse down here & experience it for yourself (& PLEASE, don't got to the tourist spots, while they are nice) us "REAL" Aussies are just out & about doing our thing & would welcome you at anytime. No invites required, come see the real Australia !! Come Say G'Day !! 😉

Thanks, loved this reaction, had a couple of giggles. I grew up as a barefoot kid and still like to go barefoot as an adult though not as much. It really is an individual thing as I remember when I was living with girlfriends in my 20's and I would go to the shop barefoot they would tell me to put on shoes and I'd be "nah, she'll be right". I only wore shoes when going to the pub or restaurants. I also love the friendly vibe of waving, smiling or saying hello to strangers. I remember doing it overseas and either getting strange looks or really happy responses. It's just an everyday habit that I don't think about. I live in a hotel and still say hello to strangers everyday in the lift and wish them well. To go with that is the courtesy wave when driving, especially on country roads. My Dad taught me this as soon as I got my license and told me it breaks up the monotony of long road trips and can help keep you alert. I remember doing a road trip with a friend and when I told her she was so excited I'm sure other drivers thought she was crazy with her over exaggerated waving rather than the finger raise in most cases. Keep up the great work and love to the family.

The pay for sauce thing is kinda new , shop's always used to have free squeeze bottles if you wanted tommy sauce in regular or BBQ flavor and even free salt ( chicken flavor and regular) and pepper if you wanted it , even a bottle of vinegar was on offer . I like the old days better.

I'm a Kiwi- I often go to the Supermarket after being on the farm, so gumboots come off & I do the shopping in my socks as it's common courtesy not to track mud or dirt into buildings that others will then have to clean up. When it comes to children & young adults, it is pretty common to go barefoot as spitting & littering are strongly against the social norms here & most of NZ is close to beaches & lakes where people swim etc. so the lack of shoes in stores makes sense- it we a larger, more land locked country I imagine it'd be different.

I'm not friendly. I keep to myself, and never talk to my neighbours. However, when this one neighbour was burning some dry vegetation in his backyard, I did check on him to make sure everything's ok. I get the impression in certain parts of the world, walking into someone's backyard to check on them might get you in trouble.

this dude is great - he actually seems to understand that a lot of things vary from state to state and it's nice that he clarifies how he's generalising - a lot of it is also weather dependent, like the no shoes thing, which obviously only happens in the warmer states

You might have been surprised about Australia's car culture, but think about this- the first Mad Max movie (The Road Warrior) was massively influenced by our deep and passionate car culture. Mad Max did not come out of nowhere!

Love the "how ya goin" with the aussie accent! Lol pmsl..

Places shutting at 4pm are normally in regional areas. Not the case normally in Sydney or Melbourne.

I love going bare foot. I used to loose my shoes a lot growing up because I hated wearing them. It was fairly normal in the little town I grew up in. Our school had less than 60 kids. You can't be one with country if you can't feel it threw your feed. Unfortunately I have to wear boots for work, which definitely soften the feet up. Congratulations with baby Sydney 😊

I've been waiting for you to see the sauce packet's 😁 Also on the barefoot thing, when the road is hot as we will often walk on the white lines/painted road markings because it's heaps cooler than the road. Especially at the beach, in the car parks. One you would find unusual I think. Would people waving at you as you drive pass in opposition direction's, however I live in the country and it mostly only happens on the back roads. On the highway if there is a speed camera or an accident ahead you flash your lights twice to warn people (it's illegal to do but I happens a lot). 🙂👍🇦🇺

When someone says " Oh its just a mile or 2 ( or a couple of Ks ) up the road. Thats REALLY about 10km plus 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I had a bit of comic relief when I badly needed it on Sunday. We'd just taken our cat to vet because he was struggling to stay alive after a fight with a possum. Our possums may look cute, but they have some seriously sharp claws. He lost quite a bit of blood, and couldn't drink so dehydration had definitely set in. It took 24 hours to find him and it took time to find an after hours vet. The vet picked him up by the scruff of his neck and said "That's definitely a cat who's in a bad way." Our cat is usually quite a fighter and he doesn't like being picked up. Normally he'd probably have scratched the vet, but he was too weak. It turned out that possum had put a bad gash in his tongue, any deeper and he might have lost it. He's back home, not quite out of the woods yet, angry about taking his medicine and so far so good. He has to go back on Monday for a final check up, if things go well. My comic relief will be in a second comment.

That Johnson’s life is a great channel. Been subbed since they got out of quarantine lol 👍🏻

I wear pluggers/thongs/flip flops everywhere but no shoes are pretty common in the hotter parts of the country. Our work culture basically boils down to "work just enough to support the lifestyle you want to live".

I have always got in trouble for wereing no shoe's. I also work for a major supermarket and shoe's are the least of the problems. No shirts in 2 piece swim suit. In dressing gowns and pj. I still to this day have to think about putting shoes on. And I am nilly 50. Lol love your videos . Keep it up

at the height of it's popularity in australia there was once 83 spectators at a baseball game .

One thing I've noticed from watching USA reactors is how many things they seem to find "scary". I once started to make a personal list of all the things reactors had labelled "scary". I stopped doing it as the vision of the world that gives IS dangerous. But the weirdest, funniest one of all is...bare feet!! You win, mate! I hate wearing shoes. It makes me feel sorta trapped and restrained! As a kid one of the schools I went to would punish you if you wore school-shoes to and from school on rainy days! The idea was that our parents worked hard to put food on the table and to provide us with school uniforms: so wearing shoes in the wet or mud would ruin our shoes!! Yeah, the soles of your feet become like asbestos...they have to, so we can walk on the foot-paths in summer. Our feet are always on display so they are part of being 'beach-ready'. I've noticed that many, many people outside of Oz and other tropical countries have terrible feet! I guess this is because they're one part of the body which is never on display so they just ignore them: horrid yellow, gnarly, long toe-nails, covered in bumps and bunions, bluey-white skin with blue veins...and smelly! Ugh!! So as much as I tried (and I really did) to imagine what was 'scary' about brown, bare feet with nicely painted and manicured nails; I couldn't. In fact, recalling some of the feet I've seen since leaving tropical climes, those are - if not scary - then at the very least unsavoury. With the worst part being that when people wrap their feet in nylon socks and insert them into rubber/plastic shoes tied up tightly to keep all the air out, they become sweaty & stinky.(This is an observed fact - not one directed personally at anyone.) So hey, remember if you ever do get to go to Oz, you should start exposing your feet to the elements a couple of weeks before: they're going to be on display either at beaches or when you wear slops.😂😂 (Oh yeah - re shop closing times: it varies - many large supermarkets stay open 24/7 - at least on the East coast.)

I think the biggest change for someone coming from the US would be walking on the left and checking right before crossing a road. The driving on the left is a given, but I don't know if people extend that thought to walking. That out light switches go the other way. And just how big some of our spiders can be. 😂

Barefoot is Beautiful!! 👍 I do it often! Funny to hear comments when out shopping - "Mummy, that man's wearing no shoes!" Ya missin' out kid.. 😆

Not only do we have baseball, but we have ice hockey too. One of the teams plays in the same suburb that I work in.

Yeah I've walked into Coles a few times in bare feet. Gets a bit chilly in the cold sections because the dairy and deli sections are open shelves and no doors to keep the cold air in. They instead use air curtain systems to basically keep the outside air from the shelving. Other than that not a major issue with walking bare foot in the shops.😎👍😋🇦🇺

From an Aussie, I think you have developed your understanding enough that you have to come and sample it for yourself. You already know everything that can be posted on RU-vid videos. I think it is different to actually live it. There's only one way to find out.

In New Zealand it's normally 40 to 50cents for sauce and if u get say mc donalds u have to ask for sauce it's free but it's like they don't want to give it but then other times u ask for it and they give you like 15 packets lol

Bare foot is very common in beach suburb shops in Oz, or dropping into a shop on the way home from the beach. Hardly ever seen in large malls away from the beach

Sydney City rarely closes down, and larger suburbs too! There's Menulog delivery if you forgot to defrost the meat, lots of takeaways can be purchased at lunchtime and chilled, if you go to the shop as it's closing you can get great discounts! Fresh food is always cheaper and better! Seven Eleven are open 24/7 and sell sandwiches, meals, chips, coffee and sausage rolls - buy a bottle of sauce! Ross is great, he's a teacher and loves to share - he is happily living "his dream" in Australia! 💯👍 Barefoot is the only way to walk home after a big night, I was barefoot as a child except for school and events, I'm more wary now in crowded cities! Feel the earth, sand, etc! ☺️

I live near the centre of a capital city, so there’s always a shop open for most of my “needs”. That being said, specialty coffee shops tend to close at about 3pm because most people don’t want caffeine after that and the coffee shops don’t want to pay wages when there’s virtually no customers. Outside the big cities, there’s always going to be a servo or something open pretty much all the time if you desperately want an overpriced and very sad sausage roll. The bloke on that channel lives in the same city as me.

Most shops stay open till six pm and the supermarkets stay open till twelve pm

I'm in Perth and shoeless shopping is sooo common. I shopped today with no shoes on. It often happens when you're dressed nicely too, (like for work) in every other regard. The sauces thing is usually a couple of cents, but when it's free you're like "huh, nice!"

Mate you have to try walking bare foot into the cool room to get a case of beer in a bottle shop during summer. 🍺

I was always barefoot until I trod on a broken beer bottle on New year's morning, very rarely go barefoot in the street/shops anymore. I never thought about things closing early until a few weeks ago I was in a Woolworths supermarket in a small country town in Tassie at 9pm and a tourist was at the checkout asking where he could get a coffee, that got me thinking how good it would be if places opened later

being barefoot in Australia, is a super common thing everywhere especially like up north in the northern city and states like WA, NT, Queensland, especially in Cairns, and like down south a lot like SA

Aussies are mostly friendly and polite, you do get the rude a holes. One thing that we do which is very common is that when you try to merge in traffic or slow down to let a car through if only one can get through that street due to it being narrow we put our pointer finger up on the steering wheel to say thank you for letting me through or in, it's extremely common here.

I now live in Brisbane after growing up in a country town. A podiatrist told me that people who go barefoot a lot have far fewer foot and ankle problems. Queenslanders do tend to have wide feet. Maybe that's why so many world swimming champions come from here. Considering the relatively small population, we have a long list of world champions in a wide range of sports, but especially swimming, golf, tennis and motorcycle racing. Believe it or not , Australia's very successful elite aerial snow skiers train in sub-tropical Brisbane.

Hey Ian, love your channel. With the work life balance, I get five weeks paid leave per year plus all of our public holidays. I guess this is how a lot of us can travel for longer periods. 😊😉

"If you don't have aircon you will suffer" LOL, he's at Bald Hills on the northern outskirts of Brisbane. It gets warm but the average hot day is probably 32 to 34, the top is 38. That's a lot better than way up north where it's 41 and 90% humidity for weeks on end. If it's something where sauce is mandatory such as a hotdog or a burger you won't get charged for sauce, the little packets are for things like pies, sausage rolls or chips (fries) where not everyone has sauce and those that do apply their own. If you want a coffee after 4 (which is when most dedicated coffee shops close, yes) go to Maccas, the McCafe stuff is actually quite good. In industrial areas, the snack bars (usually called lunch bars or carveries in those areas) will open at 6am (or before) and close at 2pm. This is due to the fact that a lot of workers buy lunch every day and most Aussie businesses (even big ones) don't have in-house cafeterias for staff food. Thus, the main trade is breakfast, smoko and lunch in those areas. A carvery will serve roast meat rolls and sandwiches as well as the usual fast food and burgers, a roast pork and cheese sanga at lunch is always well received especially with a choccy milk or iced coffee to go with it.

i live in the Northern territory and i only wear shoes for like 4 things going to the pub, skatepark, fishing off sharp rocks and boots for work. outside of that i love me some barefoot living

Hey Ian, bare feet is a thing. Normally in the warmer weather. I’ve done it heaps of times. Especially if I have to duck into the shops and can’t be bothered putting on shoes, thongs etc… we’re a very laidback country, and we’re a bunch of comedians. So it can take a bit to get used to our quick wit and sarcasm . All the best from Melbourne Australia.

Places with a lot of beaches will do the shoeless thing a lot, because most people will either walk from the beach to the shops, or they will walk from their apartment, the 100m to the shops. Less common in the burbs, still happens occasionally, it safer to drive with no shoes than with thongs so... But places like the Gold Coast, or near bondi, you will see people go to the shops with no shoes, and sometimes, in their Togs/Bathers/Swimming Costume/Cozzie etc. including their bikini. That's a shock, even for aussies who aren't used to it, a group of girls shopping for dinner at Coles in a bikini and no shoes.

Restaurant sitting meals will normally have a selection of bottles on the table, or available on request. It is fastfood/takeaway where these little packets are an optional item, most have a low fee each, though also many are free, but not a large container or bowl full of packets where some fools pack their pockets full, or even worse shovel a big load into the hand/shopping bag. At request one or two free yes, you want to stock up home, buy some...

The 'no coffee" at night thing baffles me. Im from Perth and if I want I can go get a coffee right up until 10pm at a range of places. Not all places will be open until that time - a lot of places, especially in the CBD, are really aimed at office workers, so when the office workers go home these places shut. But if you cant get a coffee late at night here youre just not trying hard enough. I think the Johnson's are way out in the outer 'burbs or in a rural area near Brisbane, which is why they find it hard to find anything open. But thats regional life. But even out in the bush you can usually get a hot drink at a pub well into the night (just expect to cop some crap from your mates if theyre with you). If you go barefoot in Perth then most of the year you are going to get 3rd degree burns and end up in hospital - even just walking on beach sand. Some kids do it but its very very rare over here. Ive been stationed in Brisbane and Sydney and spent years in Sydney and I dont actually recall seeing it there either.

The whole no shoes thing is more common if you're somewhere near a beach. You see fewer shoe-less people the further from a beach you are. As for tomato sauce vs. Ketchup, a quick food history lesson is needed. Catsup is what they call fish sauce in Indonesia. Originally, ketchup was fish sauce and tomatoes (sometimes mushrooms) cooked down together. Sauce was a regular accompaniment with meat because refrigeration didn't exist, and sometimes you needed to hide the flavour of that steak that might have been a little ripe. Over time, the recipe for ketchup/tomato sauce changed and modified to what we know it as today. When Catsup (fish sauce) was no longer an ingredient, Australians stopped using the name, but Americans kept it. Today, the main difference between tomato sauce & ketchup is the sweetness, & thicknesses

Barefoot out in the shops etc is less common than it used to be. More common in the suburbs I'd say. There are some places where no shirt or walking around in swimwear at the shops isn't too uncommon, usually around beaches. This gets to be interestingin places like the Gold Coast where big events and formal things might be on, or say anime conventions. Paying for sauce really started in the 90s I think and people were pissed. I think it became fairly common in the 2000s.

I live in Perth , within walking distance of the city centre. In my area servos are open 24/7 same with the supermarket .

Weird isn't it.....bare feet in the street? wouldn't think twice about it but I was brought up 'old school' and wearing a male wearing a hat/cap inside the house is absolutely not on. Not something our Aussie kids are taught these days but something I insist on in my house :)

Queensland is always beautiful its tropical. I live in Victoria, Ballarat were get English weather here we get hot as well as cold. we have in summer 40 °C = 104 °F and in winter -4 °C = 24.8 °F i think i did it right.

Loved the "Hows it garn?" lol

Me and my mates used to on hot days see who could walk the furthest down the road barefoot doesn't sound bad but when it's hot enough that it's melting the tar it makes it a real challenge lol

G’day Ian, congrats to you and your beautiful wife on the birth of the latest edition to the Iwrocker clan. Make sure you check a few more episodes of Johnson and another mob called the BamFam. Proud new Aussies doing their best to get the best of the world over here. Looking forward to your next reaction. ( personal opinion, if you have to put sauce on your tucker then the tucker isn’t good enough.) love and respect.

I live in Australia's 2nd hottest city, Perth, and have rarely seen someone not wearing some sort of footwear.

The coffee shops that close early are for the workers. They open about 5am. Serve Breakfast and lunch and afternoon tea. Most are closed between 2 to 4pm. However our restaurants/specialised coffee shops are open till late, as their main trade is dinner. Loved going to work, getting home and going to the beach for a few hours. Bare feet is mainly in QLD.

I'm a hippy punk. I used to walk around the alternative areas of Sydney city barefoot. Never hurt myself. I also once went to a very fancy restaurant on darling harbour that had a sign that said "no shirt, no shoes, no problem". I took off my shirt and shoes as soon as I saw it just to test them. They said I was the first to do it, but they let me be. 😂

I’m in Melbourne & if it’s hot enough, I go shopping barefoot. I wear mocco’s in the house in winter but usually go barefoot in the house. Nothing odd about it. 🧐

Barefoot in the shops when on holidays. Man that is perfect 😆

In Australia there are 4 different football codes: Rugby Union, Rugby League, Aussie Rules, Soccer. Ian in the 1980's Adelaide City Soccer Club now is Adelaide City Football Club. Soccer Clubs changed to Football Clubs when Australian Soccer Federation changed its name to Football Federation of Australia. I think this may happened in early 2000's. I can call soccer that or football I use both names.

I'm sorry but the C word is not liked just the bogans use it.

After living overseas for some time the biggest surprise for me coming home was how clean Australia is.

Take away Sauce (the little packets) is free at most of your big places like 7/11 or Maccas. Servo’s , local bakeries and take away/ smoko shops is unusually where you have to pay. A lot of bakeries and takeaway shops solve this problem by just having big bottles you can squirt onto your food.

There are currently six Australian MLB players in the US. These include pitchers Liam Hendriks and Joe Kelly, as well as position players David Warner, Mitch Moreland, Luke Maile, and Peter Moylan. All six of these players have made significant contributions to their respective teams and have helped put Australia on the map as a baseball powerhouse. Peace out.

For Christmas lunch I normally have leg of lamb, potatoes, carrots,peas, gravy.

They probably stopped the " free refills " because young people like me used to go buy a basic meal ( i.e just the burger ) then wait for a mate to finish their drink and just go refill their cup and grab a new straw which was effectively ripping the restuarant off and other sneaky tactics like that. Hell I remember once I walked into HJs with a maccas cup and filled it up just to walk out with a new drink 😅🤦🏻‍♂️

Played baseball all my life in Aus. I started in 1982. It's had a great following for many years for local sport. Great family atmosphere, T-Ball for the little ones and we have a pretty good national team with many folks in MLB.

AFL is the OLDEST code of football in the world. Prior to 1859, Rugby Union and soccer were played by the rules of the venue (usually the university) the game was held in. So before any game of soccer, you’d have to find out what the “house rules” were, and prior to 1863 when the “laws of the game” were established you’d need to confirm what the rules were every time.

Refills: It's pretty much non-existent in Australia to get free refills. Pizza Hut restaurants might be the only exception, but nowhere else does it. You get your bottle of coke with your meal, and if you want another one, you need to buy another one. Shouldn't have more than one a day anyway. Sauces: Lots of places like McDonald's or KFC will give you a set number of sauces for your meal. Usually two for a large meal, one for a small or regular. If you want more than that, they will charge you around twenty cents each. Lots of other places follow a similar format. It will come with x number of sauces, but you have to pay to get more in most cases. Especially if it's a sealed little tub of sauce. Any place that has a big bulk sized bottle they squirt into a little dipping sauce cup for you will almost never charge for it.

You don't usually have to pay for the extra sauce in done in places, it's usually when you go to a bakery or fish and chips shop and you are getting take away

To my knowledge the only place in Australia that does free refills is Carl's Jr. They're pretty new and there's not many of them around and they're always out of orange juice... always.

Congrats on 120k subs Ian!

In my part of Australia you're guaranteed at least one Snowman made of sand on Xmas day. I didn't say Sandman as that is now a rare sight to see one of those beautiful beasts in the wild.

If they ask me if I want sauce, my reply is "if I have to have sauce to eat this pie (or anything else) I don't want the pie thanks". I usually get a look, then most of them laugh. As for the bare feet, well it's not as common as it used to be back in my young days. I used to go to school bare-footed and the majority of boys were the same. The soles of my feet were very hard. We rode out bikes (some fixed wheel with no brakes) and used to put our foot up against the front forks and the tyre for brakes, but this solution was only when you were riding slowly of course. Lots of shopping centres ban bae feet, bare chests etc now.

Yes, we do have Ketchup. Heinz Ketchup is widely available in most supermarkets, but they are rarely seen in fast food restaurants, convenience stores, and pie shops etc. I honestly prefer Heinz Ketchup to any other tomato sauce that we get here. I believe it tastes better.

G'day Mate! I live on the Central Coast of NSW and I will see two or more people barefoot in the supermarket and also browsing in a shopping Mall...perfectly normal up here! Cheers!

Ian, with regard to some of these issues, the tomato sauce is real tomato sauce and it's comes in a simple point and squeeze container, not these impossible sachets you can't ooen without your teeth or a knife. And shops don't shut quite as early as he suggests....... But he does live in QLD, not Melbourne, the cultural Capital of Australia.

The further north you go, the more common is bare foot in public. At the Port Douglas market for example, it's spot the Mexican (Queensland for Victorian). Southern tourists in brand new sandals. That's as close as they come to the joy of being bare footed.

I read somewhere that ketchup originated in China centuries ago and was a fermented sauce made fro fish, soy beans and other ingredients. The term was used in the US in the 19th century, but made as a tomato based sauce.

My dad didn't wear shoes to school (or anywhere) until he was in grade 3 😂 this was in the 70s; they became mandatory at school by the time I went in the 90s

coming from country south australia to country queensland i’ve always gone barefoot, my skin on my feet can manage hot gravel/ concrete longer then usual

The hound from game of thrones was an aussie at heart

6:58 I was working in a small town in Queensland. The pub shut at 3pm on a Sunday just after the Grand Final of the NRL was played. Was so sad to see heaps of blokes turfed out into the street at that time.

Cafes close early but....Most Restaurants and Bars have a proper coffee machine and a barista. They are usually open late.

I’m in my seventies from Queensland and I’ve never seen barefooted adults except in beach suburbs.

I live in Australia and there is a baseball diamond at the end of the street I live. It is used by the local baseball league here. On a side note, I once went to a sports presentation night for our local council (local government area - approximate population of 200,000) and we had nominations in every sport from Archery to Yachting. If there was a sport that started with Z, we'd be in that, too. I was proud that the Goalie from our local ice hockey team won sportsperson of the year that year. And yes, not only does Australia play ice hockey we have a national league with teams in every state except Tasmania and Northern Territory!