Foods that Originated in Australia

The Top Ten
1 Lamingtons

Made out of sponge or butter cake covered in Icing, sugar and coconut sprinkles

2 Vegemite

Kinda obvious, but vegemite competes with marmite, depending on what you like!

3 Fairy Bread

Fairy bread is a slice of bread with margarine or butter spread on it and covered in rainbow sprinkles

4 Macadamia Nuts

Macadamia is a genus of four species of trees indigenous to Australia and. They are native to north eastern New South Wales and central and south eastern Queensland.

I voted for this because it was the only thing on this list I've ever eaten. I liked it.

5 Tim Tams

Tim Tams aremade up of two layers of chocolate-malted biscuit, separated by a light chocolate filling and coated in melted chocolate.

6 ANZAC Biscuit

An Anzac biscuit is a sweet biscuit, popular in Australia and New Zealand, made using rolled oats, flour, sugar, butter (or margarine), golden syrup, baking soda, boiling water, and (optionally) desiccated coconut.
During WW1, The biscuits were sent by wives and women's groups to soldiers abroad because the ingredients do not spoil easily and the biscuits kept well during naval transportation.

7 Witchetty Grub

The witchetty grub is a term used in Australia for the large, white, wood-eating larvae of several moths and they are also popular for the indigenous people of australia

8 Kangaroo Meat The kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae. In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, especially those of the genus Macropus: the red kangaroo, antilopine kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo, and western grey kangaroo.
9 Weet-Bix

Weet-Bix is a high- fibre and low-sugar breakfast cereal biscuit invented in Australia during the mid 1920's

10 Emu Meat The emu is the second-largest living bird by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich. It is endemic to Australia where it is the largest native bird and the only extant member of the genus Dromaius.
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