A Shocking Discovery

Yesterday I headed to the grocery store to get Graham Cracker crumbs to make a pie crust. I went down the baking aisle. They were nowhere to be found. I thought to myself, perhaps they don't sell the ready made crumbs in Australia. I went to the cookie/cracker aisle. I walked up and down several times checking every package. There was nothing that even looked like a Graham Cracker disguised with a weird Aussie name. I ended up leaving with something I thought were going to be like Teddy Grahams but were not.

When I got home I did a Google search and made a shocking discovery...Graham Crackers do not exist in Australia. Now I wonder, what do they make cheesecake crusts out of?

Oz Vocabu-slang #1

ice block (noun):

1. Flavoured ice on a small wooden stick; in Canada is called a popsicle.
2. Flavoured ice in a long, narrow, clear, plastic bag; in Canada is called a freezie.

In these hot summer months this word has come to frustrate me. There doesn't seem to be separate terms for these two items. If we have both of these things in the freezer and Gavin asks if I would like an ice block there always has to be a clarification of what I actually want. This clarification is always followed by a tirade (by me) about the need for two different terms for these fairly different things. Now we just keep one or the other item in the freezer.