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Originally Posted by Krazykiwi
Re the shrimp on the barbie thing, I always thought the point was sort of a "things are big in Aussie" thing that was going on back around the Crocodile Dundee days. Playing off "That's not a knife, THIS is a knife" and he hauls out a huge one. Shrimps are tiny, if you threw one on a barbecue grill, it'd fall right through... unless it was a huge Australian one.
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We don't actually call them "shrimp", they're prawns. And rarely are they barbecued. We BBQ snaggers, steak, roo. Maybe the occasional field mushroom if there's a vegetarian about.