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Skriven 2008-03-13 17:56:24 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Joan Macdiarmid
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 -=> Quoting Joan Macdiarmid to Glen Jamieson <=-

Hello Joan,

 GJ> These days in Adelaide most hotels provide excellent quality meals at
 GJ> reasonable prices to encourage customers to stay and spend money on
 GJ> the poker machines.  It is customary to order and pre-pay for meals and
 GJ> drinks at the bar, then to wait for them to be served at the table
 GJ> when ready.  As this pre-pay arrangement makes it easy and natural not
 GJ> to tip, the wait staff have to make do with the standard $13 or so per
 GJ> hour wages.

 JM> Here it would be good to clarify the meaning of "hotels"
 JM> in Oz-speak. As I understand, a "hotel" is often just a
 JM> pub of some sort, though there might be a requirement that
 JM> a few rooms be available for hire? Chuckle! There might
 JM> be some sense in requiring American bars to include a
 JM> few rooms for hire overnight for patrons too drunk to
 JM> drive home safely!

I think that every place known as a "hotel" is also an "inn", and
legally required to provide accommodation and meals to travellers.
An establishment which only provides alcoholic drinks is a "tavern".
Here the term, "pub" (public house) covers both the above.
A "bar" provides drinks of any kind - milk-, coffee-, juice-, booze.

Many years ago I was with friends, driving around a pleasant country
area of South Australia, and we stopped for drinks at a small hotel.
It was so pleasant that we decided to spend the night there.  This was
a place which normally only served drink to passers-by and locals, but
because it was required to have rooms, they had them, and so opened up
both of them for us.  We needed dinner, of course, so that weekend's
roast cooked for the proprietor's family had to be shared with us.  The
pigeons which were nesting on the windowsills of the guest rooms were
highly insulted to be disturbed by the occupants.

I particularly remember the tasty breakfast eggs, from chooks which
were fed the slops from the bar, and the local farm bacon.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Country Style Beef Rissoles
 Categories: Newsgroups, Mains, Beef, Minced
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
    500 g  Minced beef
      1 sm Onion grated
      1    Garlic cloves crushed
      1 tb Barbecue sauce
      1 tb Tomato sauce
      1 tb Sauce- Worcestershire
      1 c  Stale breadcrumbs
      1    Egg beaten lightly
      1 ts Herb- chopped fresh thyme
      2 tb Herb- chopped fresh parsley
      1 sm Tomato chopped

MMMMM---------------------------GLAZE--------------------------------
    1/4 c  Barbecue sauce
      2 ts Sauce- Worcestershire
 
  Using hand, combine all ingredients in large bowl; shape into 8
  patties, about 7cm wide. Place patties around edge of large oiled
  shallow microwave safe dish. Brush patties with Glaze; cook,
  uncovered on HIGH about 7 minutes or until cooked through. Serve
  sprinkled with extra chopped parsley if desired. Glaze; Combine
  sauces in small bowl.
  
  Source: The Australian Womens Weekly Make it Tonight Microwave
  Miniature Cookbook Australian Issue  Per Serving (excluding unknown
  items): 40 Calories; trace Fat (8.2% calories from fat); 1g Protein;
  8g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol; 469mg Sodium.
  Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 1/2 Vegetable; 1/2 Other Carbohydrates.
  NOTES : On the table in 25 minutes. :by Karen Jason & Jessica
  From: "Ilyce" <ilyce@tpg.Com.Au>
 
MMMMM
 

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