Boycott Outback Steakhouse

[Friedmann]

Outback Steakhouse is terrible. I could give a rats arse about the faux Australiana crap, the food though is awful.

[Konovalov]

It's rare times like that shocking Outback Crudhouse that I'm glad not to be back home in Sydney. What a shocker of an ad. And the food in that ad doesn't look that great. The whole Outback Crudhouse looks the same concept as others before it such as the Black Stump chain. Not even sre if they are still in business back in Sydney, Australia.

I don't know why anyone would go to a place like the Outback Steakhouse? You'd be better off inviting some friends over to your house for a simple bbq. That's what we would do with our Mum's property up at Colo Heights, 2 hrs NW outside of Sydney centre. Invite all our city friends up for a simple barbie and actually see Kangaroos, Wallabies, Kookaburras, Brown snakes and so forth in their natural habitat.

[TarJak]

The Black Stump died a death because of it's very naffness. However the corpse has been revived. http://www.blackstump.com/default.htm

Like most chains of "theme" restaurants, Sizzler, Lone Star, Hog's Breath, Black Stump, Outback whatever, they usually suffer from their very high standard of standardness. It's because they are all the same and because they are attempting to run on very low margins that the food tends towards rubbish rather than good and the service is non existent to poor.

There are a very few exceptions and if you want to find a true Aussie feed overseas, go down to the local bottlo (Off License for the Poms, Liqour store for the yanks, sorry euro's dunno what you call them over there, but you get the idea), procure a slab of whatever Australian beer you can find, (it won't matter by the time you've finished), get you local butcher to carve you a good sized steak or lamb chop, and while you are at it, grab some snags.

Go home, open one of the beers, go into your backyard and light a good sized fire, keep drinking beer until the fire dies down a bit then throw the meat on it and wait until it's cooked the way you like it. Ususally scorched black on the outside and raw on the inside. You can whack on some onions as well and it's not a bad idea to have a bread roll or a couple of slices of bread handy for holding your snag.

If there are sheilas in attendance then there is most likely going to be some form of salad available as well.

Whilst cooking, the beer should be steadily consumed to avoid having too much conversation. All the blokes should gather round the barbie and all the women will be in the kitchen or round the table and for gawds sake keep the two sexes separate.

Once the meat is looking like it's ready you should be well oiled with beer and about ready to eat. By the time you finish your meal, you should be close to running out of beer and ready for some backyard cricket if it is a daytime affair, or if it is night time, you might want to try to crack onto one of the sheilas. I'll leave it up to your own devices as to how the do will end, because it's about this time in the proceedings that I fall over and find I can't get up having lost the cooridination of me limbs.

Avagoodweegend maaaate!:rotfl:


If you feel the need to converse, here is a quick lesson in Strine, (The local dialect):


A lesson in how to do an Aussie BBQ:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=VxfVAUOXb6E

[Konovalov]

@ Tarjak :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Now I'm bloody homesick.

For those not Aussie, while Tarjak's description of an Aussie barbie experience might sound a little fictional I can assure you that it is not. 100% true unless you live in Double Bay, Mosman or in some other posh area.

Originally Posted by TarJak

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The secret to a great bbq is not to clean the bbq itself for months as shown by the example above from Tarjak. All the built up grease and grime adds to the flavour not to mention it can be a fire hazzard.

Originally Posted by Konovalov

@ Tarjak :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

The secret to a great bbq is not to clean the bbq itself for months as shown by the example above from Tarjak. All the built up grease and grime adds to the flavour not to mention it can be a fire hazzard.

The fat fire is what gives the BBQ it's taste , my brother in law is the master at that, last BBQ he cooked he had 3ft high flames :rotfl::rotfl:

[Friedmann]

Tarjack needs to be keelhauled for teasing expats like that

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Do not boycott Outback Steakhouse.

Outback Steakhouse funds John Madden's Cruiser