An Australian Visits the Outback Steakhouse

Everyone always asks my Australian husband if he's been to the Outback Steakhouse. Now he has.

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• Outback
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• Mike
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• yuck

[stangsaleens7]

outback is just a themed restraunt to give you the sense you are eating at a australian restraunt. No they arent going to feed you kangeroo, and of course they are going to say "shrimp on the barbie" because the word prawn is not used in america. a prawn is reffered to as jumbo shrimp. There are other great restraunts like this have you ever been to the rainforest cafe? it has nothing on the menu from the rainforest but the theme gives it, its vibe.

[PocketPet]

@stangsaleens7 Except there is absolutely no sense that one is eating in an Australian restaurant, and the menu presents the food as if it IS a selection of Australian faves. Rainforest Cafe, per your example, does NOT try to convince people that they are eating Amazonian cuisine. They just play with the theme. The only "theme" at the Outback is found in the dish names. I don't mind silly or stylized takes on cultures (after all, I live in Las Vegas), but the OS is just insulting (and greasy).

[PocketPet]

@Ian8505 That's like saying that McDonald's is awesome for low-cost hamburgers, or a haggard prostitute is awesome for low-commitment sex. True, but that doesn't make it a good idea. ;)

[MilesB1975]

Why the fark do they call it the Outback Steakhouse?

You'd be hard pressed to find food that boring looking anywhere round here in Australia. Where are the meat pies and sauce? Chiko Rolls? What about Damper and Lamingtons? Pavlova? Barramundi?

[GTVAlfaMan]

The Outback restaurant is as Australian as Taco Bell is Mexican. Not at all. The blooming onion is a disgusting, greasy, deep fried, expensive onion. They serve Fosters beer which nobody drinks in Australia. In fact, if you tried to order a Fosters beer in a pub in Australia you would be laughed out of the place.

[XeroChoice600]

US troops in Vietnam traded a Huey helicopter for three slabs of VB. 'nuff said

[Ian8505]

Outback is awesome for a low cost steakhouse.

[ihaveairlockers]

@MilesB1975

And VB

[MsFlaps]

@sulkoma yes they do!

[savedbyjesusblood]

Oh I remember the blooming onion. I got to take home a menu and a free desert because I was the second Australian the waitress had served in over four years. The steaks are really nice too.