Just yesterday I convinced my husband not to steal a(nother) witches hat. In his defence, it was the first electric blue one either of us have ever seen.
As an Australian, I love how everyone was cheering about Connor learning about how Scomo shit himself in a Maccas (Aussie for McDonald’s) and then immediately started to boo when he said that he can get behind that guy (as a joke of course)
All I could think of is "but wait there's more" because we also had the prime minister that went missing in the ocean (Harold Holt) ......And then we named a pool after him 😂
The Bunnings debate was about onions on top or bottom. One women slipped on some onion in the store, causing bunnings to make a rule that onion had to be on the bottom. Caused a huge backlash.
As a Kiwi, this is hilarious as the overlap between Aussie and Kiwi culture is massive (who'd have guessed), yet even then I still learn new things about Aussie all the damn time. New Zealand is like the world decided Australian was too much of a screw up and tried to start over only to end up in almost the exact same spot.
So like the second child in a failing marriage who was meant to bring the parents close together again but just ended up solidifying that it's probably best to call it over and done, leaving the two kids to look out for each other. There with you, mate. There with you.
@@simonfinnie2900 Yes and no. There has always been a particularly close connection between our two countries. There were established shipping routes and, in the early days of colonisation, as well a common ancestry, the settlers moved and traded freely between the two countries. I also imagine more of the goods Europeans sought were available from Australia than the smaller closer countries. Aotearoa/New Zealand was even briefly a part of Australia - New South Wales in fact (1840-1841) and was invited to join the Federation of Australia when it was formed (we refused). The Australian Constitution still contains a clause allowing New Zealand to merge with Australia. Then with the advent of WW1 the ANZAC bond was formed and the rest was history... When l first lived in Australia in the 70s, not only did you not need a visa, you didn't even need a passport to travel there. Infact, l had to come home to Aotearoa to get one when they changed the rules. And at the moment our two countries are discussing whether to ditch them again.
@@conradpankoff5616 As Richard Stubbs pointed out, you can travel the length and breadth of the US and you will be unable to find a JFK memorial rifle range, but catch a tram to Glen Iris...
I think the sausage sandwich (sanga) debate was about whether the onions go on top or below the sausage, because they’ve recently made it so they MUST be on the bottom so they can’t fall off and “become a slip hazard”.
@@epsi1259 Yeah nah, it was bunnings mandating that all the charity barbies had to comply with the onion on bottom to prevent slip hazards to continue to have their sunday sesh. But everyone (and a few pollies may have commented on it) agreed that onions belong on top and that it was a silly rule, but they never tried making it law
In the recent NSW election my local member did a shoey on TV when it when she found out she won. Never been so proud, voting for her was totally worth it
To clarify, the bunnings bbqs are usually put on not by bunnings, but by community groups like Rotary and Lions as fundraisers to support community projects and charities. Support your local community, buy a bunnings snag.
I love how much Joey embraced his Aussie side here, it was like he took Connor and Garnt over to his house and showed them all his toys but instead of toys it was just weird ass things us Aussies do.
For those who aren't aware: hills hoists are a kind of clothesline that are designed to dry clothes in a small area by allowing the wind to rotate it. Patented about 1895 and entered wide production and circulation in 1911 starting in Adelaide.
Also allows you to put your cloths up without moving, you just rotate the line as you go, maybe a step or two forward or backward at most depending on your wingspan
The spinning clothes line (American here) is so you can move clothes that aren't getting enough sun to dry into the sun. But goon of fortune sounds wayy better
Yeah and if you've got a big ass basket of laundry you just walk out, drop that shit on the ground and move the unused buts of the clothesline to you instead of walking around your yard hanging things up. Then you goon of fortune it. Also if the wind blows too hard the thing just spins a bit until the clothes aren't in danger of flying away, where if your line is stationary some of your stuff is going into your neighbours backyard. Also there's a crank where you can raise or lower the line so it gets more sun once stuff is on it and the fence doesn't block half the light, then lower it when you want to get your stuff down again
@@ViridianFlow And if you lower it all the way down it'll lock into place and not move (due to teeth-like grooves on both moving parts). Also does a great job at keeping the dog busy if you peg some of the ball-on-strings that came off the bat and ball game we used to have as kids.
I've never personally stolen a witch's hat, nor known anyone who has. However, I did inherit a (presumably stolen) witch's hat with my current house, so clearly the real estate agents never thought anything of it
The thing is sometimes they just abandon a lone witches hat on the side of the road somewhere, like they just forgot one, and you're in a silly mood and you can just drive by and pick it up so easy. I feel proud of my witches hat in the living room right now 😂 so I laughed so hard.
TIL that the spinning clothesline is not a normal thing. Every backyard of every house I've ever lived in and every house I've visited has had a spinning clothesline. I just thought thats how all clotheslines worked.
@@xyreniaofcthrayn1195 So does running and jumping and grabbing onto the end and swinging around with it.... especially when you get too heavy to do it as a kid.......
I’m pretty sure Cadbury made a limited edition Vegemite chocolate at some point and it was pretty good 😂 Also I swear for Australians, witches hats are like Pokémon, gotta catch ‘em all
You are half right. Cadbury did make a limited edition Vegemite chocolate however as someone who has tasted it I can say with confidence that no sane person (even by Australian standards of sanity) would call that good.
Joey has been gone too long to know about the sausage debate It's not about bread like the Japanese man says, it's onions on top of the sausage or below it. Onions on top: It drops everywhere and you lose a bunch of it for people to slip on and track all over Bunnings, but it keeps the bread dry Onions on the bottom: Doesn't spill everywhere, you taste the onions better but it soaks into the bread and makes it soggy Basically safety, and do you prefer the taste of the nicely grilled onions or a fresh piece of bread?
It's onions on top. Only fucking psychopaths put the onion underneath. What's next? Putting the sauce under the bread? You'll get saucy fingers.... clearly they haven't thought this through
@@nzlemming *sanga. if your going to bunnings your mate could ask you to get him one, and that could take a few minutes, assuming you don't eat it and tell him you never got him one
Hills Hoist clothes line, invented in South Australia. They spin to dry clothes in the wind. Goon bag, invented up the road from my house in South Australia. Near the place that invented "Chicken Salt"..
The crucial missing point about Goon of Fortune is that you have several different wines on the line, and since they're all in silver unmarked bags you don't know which one you're gonna get.
We got the spinning clothes line in Germany since forever (at least 50yrs), it even made it to the USA.But we don't hang any alcoholic beverages on it 🤣
I worked in tech with a guy who had an artificial lower leg that he would take off at parties and fill with beer. Ah, the 80's! (NZ BTW. We also have those washing lines, they're called Hill's Hoists, IIRC)
I’ve never heard anyone even suggest using 2 pieces of bread for a sausage sanger, but I do know that someone tripped on an onion so now they put the onion on the bottom. I helped for the Bunnings snag tent a few times and I’m not sure people actually know it’s volunteer work and for charity (at least where I was from).
Truthfully, putting coffee in an avocado skin is not practiced in Australia. But as an Australian, if it was, it would probably come from Melbourne, Perth, Sydney or another capital city, because the further you get from urban towards rural Australia, the less likely you are to find avos for sale in supermarkets. Avos and coffee are two signifiers of inner-city culture due to the rate of their consumption there compared to the rest of us. The cities have coffee shops everywhere, indicative of the "coffee culture" spreading throughout the Western world, whereas country towns are less exposed and more likely to both drink tea and to not have an oversupply of coffee shops. By the way, I'm a young person living somewhere between rural and urban, who generally prefers tea to coffee, and eats avocadoes, but only once or twice a week if that (due to recent price and supply, haven't been); some people try putting them in/on/with everything.
i think the spinning clothes line is so you can spin the clothes line while hanging them instead of carrying the heavy (wet) laundry basket to each clothes line...
So... Gotta be said here. We've got two of those really tall witches hats, the pillar ones. We keep it to hold gates open and to not hit towballs on our trailer.
I always assumed the sausage sandwich debate was one of the many geographical linguistic debates Australia has, since some people call it a sausage sandwich, or sanga, and others (correctly) call it a sausage sizzle. The amount of bread was never a factor because the whole point is it isn’t a sandwich in the traditional sense, it’s a hotdog without the fancy bun. It’s kind of like the parmi/parma debate.
Nah, the sizzle is the event, where you book the resident BBQ at a venue for the day in order to cook the sossie in question and slap it on a bit of buttered bread with onions. TBF, yes it is a poor man's hot dog.
While some people have debated about the bread it's never been a major point of contention. The big debate was actually about onions on top or bottom with regards to the sausage sizzles at Bunnings due to potential slipping hazards if placed on top and fall off, Bunnings decided to make a rule to have them on the bottom after an incident where a 65 year old man had slipped on some requiring Bunnings to compensate him. Honestly it was a stupid debate where safety should come first and it makes no lick of difference to the eating experience whether they're on top or bottom. Also calling it sausage sandwich is perfectly reasonable and the correct name as in its pure form it is a sandwich in the traditional sense being composed of filling between two slices of bread, rolls and single slices of bread get a bit more complicated. Here in Australia we generally don't call rolls sandwiches but technically rolls are just a kind of bread so putting something between two halves of a roll, whether horizontally like a sub/burger or vertically like a hot dog, it would constitute as a sandwich in the traditional meaning. For single slices there does exist the variation of "open face sandwiches" without a top piece of bread which it would fit under, though you could also argue since we typically fold one corner of the bread to the opposite side covering the sausage inside we've basically making a more traditional sandwich. Sausage sizzle on the other hand is mainly used as a colloquial name of a BBQ or events where sausage sandwiches are served as the primary thing, and while some may also use for the actual sandwiches too most people don't.
The Sausage Sizzle is the event where the snags are cooked. Not the actual thing itself. I also deny anything with only one slice of bread being called a sandwich. Sorry, mate, but that's a hard no from this Aussie. To be a sandwich you need two slices of bread with filling, not one slice. I've NEVER heard a snag being called a sausage sandwich and it's really freaking me out that there are fellow Aussies out there who don't know the basics of sandwiches. Boggling my mind over here! XDD
We invited casked wine itself, look it up. The hills hoist (the clothes line) spins so that you can stand in one spot while you hang the washing, it goes up and down so it's easy to reach while you hang, then it's above head height while the washing dries
One of the most famous Australians I know that have done a Shoey is Formula 1 race car driver Daniel Ricciardo. He has somewhat popularized it in the F1 community whenever he wins or gets a podium finish
Yeah, and the F1 douches decided to trademark shoey's, even tho it had been an Australian tradition for decades before Riccardo ever did one, so it fails the test to be trademarked, but they still somehow got it. It gets most Aussies hot under the collar just at the mention of the F1 Shoey trademark
I read that as underneath the bread and lemme tell you, the picture I had...! XDDD Of course, on top. Can't have anything between the snag and the bread (bar butter/marg).
my favorite piece of Australian mythos is former prime minister Harrold Holt just going for a swim and just disappearing. they never found the body, he just vanished off the face of the earth.
Tbh I was there and it was so hard to hear Joey spread broad generalisations and stuff that was straight up wrong. I get that we have this image of being crazy drunk larrikins but for real, I swear most people have never even played goon of fortune or done a shoey... or even bought cask wine - young kids have so many better and cheaper options nowadays. Also - the sausage debate is whether the onions go under or on the sausage, not the amount of bread, and the chocolate/vegemite thing is a reference to the vegemite edition Cadbury chcolate brought out like ten years ago. I like Joey, but I've found he's not a great spokesperson for Australia because he just feeds off of stereotypes since he has zero practical knowledge of actual life in the country from the past decade. The way he generalises is just wild too - Compare how Garnt and Joey talked about the traffic cones. In reality, what Garnt said largely applies to Australia, but Joey's affirmation sounded like stealing them was a national pasttime. C'mon mate just shhhh a little bit.
There are cheaper options than goon? I'm a backpacker and need this knowledge at once. What's it called, where do I get it, how come nobody else knows about this?
I think it depends on your friend groups to be honest, I’ve got many tradie mates that certainly fit that stereotype and do all of the above. I’ve also got more “corporate” friends that haven’t really done any of those things.
Canadian here, my mom had a spinning clothesline in the backyard when I was growing up. I've never heard of hanging bags of booze from it though, that must be 100% Aussie 😆
We also invented the Hills hoist. Rotating clothesline. And you want it to be able to rotate so you can stand in the same spot and bring the line to you.
That's exactly what I thought when he said it was a rural thing not like Melbourne. If anything I would also say it was a parody of hipster cafés which are also very common in Melbourne
The Vegemite and Chocolate thing was a commercial product. Someone made salted caramel using Vegemite as the salt. It wasn't as bad as it sounds. But it's also not great. The Sausage Sandwich debate was actually due to where the onions go, on top of, or under the snag. There was a HSSE debate that the onions on top was easier to fall out and become a slip hazard inside Bunnings. It makes no difference to the taste, but yeah... Debate.
A group of friends and I had a house event called the "Goon Olympics" where we had 30 drinking games and nothing but Goon to have with it... That was a shit night. I regret being teamed up with the person with no hand eye coordination... I could have died.
The rotating clothesline with the adjustable height is called a hills hoist. Every backyard in Australia had one. Also an Aussie invention. He couldn't name it. I'm sad.
I've heard many different debates when it comes to Bunnings sausage sizzles. Which Bunnings has the best sausage sandwiches, sauce, onion or no onion and the number of slices of bread.
the clothes line is called the hill's hoist, and it spins to take advantage of wind drying and to facilitate hanging out washing from one spot rather than walking around it... australia's parliament house is designed as an upside down hills hoist. genius!
Of course "Goon of fortune" is only in Australia because Aussies invented the hills hoist clothes line that makes "Goon of fortune" possible. It's just brilliance on top of brilliance.
I could see the potential benefits of spreading Vegemite over something like Hershey's chocolate, would make it taste less like a regurgitated chocolate flavoured thick shake. I honestly don't understand the appeal of Hershey's Chocolate. Maybe that's simply because I'm Australian and we have Cadbury's Chocolate and use actual cane sugar as a sweetener rather than high fructose corn syrup. Probably why our Coke tastes better too, seeing as locally sourced sweeteners and water are used with the Coke syrup mix to make it here. Given Pepsi does something similar; I am not sure why Pepsi tastes like off Coke made with petroleum polluted water. Side note about Vegemite & Cheese sandwiches: Add fresh lettuce, gives it a bit more variety in texture and a little bit of juiciness (for lack of a better word).
Why would it spin? So you can place clothes on it and spin it to get to free space without having to move yourself, and also you can move the clothes into the sunny part easier.
The rotary clothes line is a thing of genius, I'm a kiwi but, we have them here too. The improved version is called a Hill's Hoist. Imagine a permanently open huge umbrella without the cloth covering and with rows of wire between the arms of the "umbrella". Now imagine that it rotates of its own accord in the slightest breeze so that the clothes pegged to it dry in the shortest time possible. Now, for the updated version, imagine someone added a handle to raise and lower the height of the contraption to make it easier to peg clothes on but still be able to get the breeze. It's also a rite of passage for every kid to jump up, grab a "branch" and swing round as long as possible. Heaps of fun, at least, until your mum catches you. They used to be a fixture in every backyard, sadly, as sections become smaller, they're becoming a thing of the past. Also, PLEASE stop calling them Goon bags. It's a racist name for them and has no place in the world.
"When the goon sack stops closest to you you have to take a SIP" A SIP? we had to skoll a schooner. Waking up under the hills hoist with no memory was kinda common
There was a law introduced in Australia... Onions THEN sausage on the bread. It is against the law to puts sausage then onion. AS the onions can slide off the sausage and cause a slip hazard. This is true and the debate was about this. Not the fucking 2 slices....
@@aaronleverton4221 You can call just the patty of meat a burger though. It can be eaten with two pieces of bread and still be called a burger. Now a HAMburger, though. _That_ needs a bun.
I saw shoeys back in the 80's done by hash house harriers. They were recrrational runners and heavy drinkers, they would drink from their runninng shoes
