Australian Food Hisotry

By LaylaTaleb

  • Lamingtons

    Lamingtons
    The lamington was invented by Armand Galland, governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901.

  • Australia Day

    Australia Day
    Austalia Day is the annually celebration, it marks the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales, and the raising of the Flag of Great Britain at Sydney Cove by Governor Arthur Phillip.

  • AFL Grand Final

    AFL Grand Final
    Essendon and Geelong were going to be the first teams to participate in a grand final, but never had one, so Fitzroy and Essendon became the first teams to be apart of grand final.

  • Australian Flag Day

    Australian Flag Day
    The flags original design (with a six-pinted Commonwealth Star) was chosen in 1901 from a competition held following Federation, and was first flown in Melbourne on September, 3rd 1901, the date was proclaimed as Australian National Flag Day.

  • Iced VoVo

    Iced VoVo
    The Iced VoVo is a sweet biscuit first made by the company Arnott’s around 1904.

  • ANZAC biscuits

    ANZAC biscuits
    Anzac biscuits have been claimed that they were sent by wives to soldiers abroad WW1 because the ingredients do not spoil easily and the biscuits kept well during naval transportation.

  • ANZAC Day

    ANZAC Day
    Australian and New Zealand soliders fought as part of the allied expedition that set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula.

  • Weet-Bix

    Weet-Bix
    Weet-Bix, the breakfast cereal, was developed by Bennison Osborne in Perth, Australia in the mid-1920s. it was originally marketed by the Sanitarium Health Food Company.

  • Vegemite

    Vegemite
    Vegemite was invented in 1922 by the Fred Walker company, after they hired a young chemist, Dr Cyril P Callister to develop a spread from brewer's yeast.

  • Cherry Ripe

    Cherry Ripe
    Cherry Ripe is a chocolate bar manufactured by Cadbury Australia. Introduced by the Australian confectioner MacRobertson's in 1924, it is now Australia's oldest chocolate bar and is one of the top chocolate bar brands sold in the country

  • Pavlova

    Pavlova
    Keith Money, a biographer of a ballerina Anna Pavlova, wrote that a hotel chef in Wellington New Zealand, created the dish when Anna visited there in 1926 on her world tour, thus naming the dish after her.

  • Damper Bread

    Damper Bread
    Damper is a traditional Australian soda bread, historically prepared by swagmen, drovers, stockmen and other travellers

  • Splice Ice-Cream

    Splice Ice-Cream
    Introduced by Streets Ice Cream. The unconventional ice-cream, coated in a layer of fruit flavoured ice was an big part of beach culture in summer, reaching peak popularity in the 1970-80s.

  • Chicko Roll

    Chicko Roll
    Frank McEnroe a boilermaker from Bendigo Australia's invented the Chiko roll in NSW where it debut at the Wagga Wagga Agricultural Show.

  • Tim Tam

    Tim Tam
    Tim Tams were invented by the firm’s director of food technology, Ian Norris, and named by Ross Arnott.

  • Cheezels

    Cheezels
    Cheezels are a type of ring-like, corn-based, cheese-flavoured snack food distributed by Snack Brands Australia which is owned by The Real McCoy Snackfood Company.