The Evolution of the Classic Aussie Burger (CAB)

    30 July 2024

    July 2024

    Order a hamburger with the lot at a café in Australia and you can expect to get a round white bread roll, halved to contain a beef pattie, a fried egg, a slice of cheese, a slice of pineapple, a strip of bacon, sauteed onions, slices of tomato, slices of beetroot, lettuce, mustard if you ask for it and a sauce of your choice (tomato or barbecue usually). How did all this get into the Classic Aussie Burger (CAB)?

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    Paul van Reyk
    My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My focus is on Anglo-Saxon settler culinary ways in Australia, roughly from the first days of colonisation to the 1960s - 1970s. I particularly write about stuff that has not been written about before but is very much a part of the Anglo-Saxon Australian table. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.