It’s been a while since we had a Theme Week celebration, and to celebrate we are in fact saluting something that is also making its return to the world of Australian Fast Food. It could also be a tribute to the end of MKR (Joint Winner of April Jerk of the Month) as Fast Food will be the ceiling for most if not all of the contestants.
Onto this week’s celebration, Hungry Jacks have brought back the Quad Stacker (4 slabs O Meat and Cheese) and so we bring back the Theme Week with Celebrate Great Moments in Australian Fast Food Week.
The Quad Stacker is a magnificent extravagance that one can only imagine the size of the hangover that could justify it, and shows a real can do attitude of the Australian Fast Food Industry.
Sure there will many a naysayers who says something like the Quad Stacker is ridiculous, but they just have no imagination or respect for Australian Fast Food, some of the best in the world.
So sit back, loosen the belt, as we Celebrate Great Moments in Australian Fast Food Week with our Top 6 of all time.
Celebrate Top 6 Great Moments in Australian Fast Food
THE QUAD STACKER
What could be better than a burger from Hungry Jacks? A burger with 4 bits of meat and bits of cheese, some bacon in case the heart attack is too far away, and with a token bun either side to ensure it could be classed as a burger.
Life is short, and so it will be if you have too many of these, but why not enjoy enjoy/spoil yourself.
TOWER BURGER
The predecessor of Australian Fast Food extravagance was KFC’s Tower Burger, which had the audacity to combine breakfast and lunch with a hash brown right in the middle of a regular Chicken burger with everything. Outrageous for the time, and brought back when it didn’t seem that bad at all.
CHIKO ROLL
The Chiko Roll is an Australian Institution, what better way to eat all the cabbage, barley, as well as carrot, green beans, beef, beef tallow, wheat cereal, celery and onion that you need. (Thanks to Wikipedia)
Proving anything can be good if deep fried in a batter, the Chiko Roll succeeds in spite of its ingredients, and nothing accompanies a day at the races or local football game than a Chiko Roll.
Best can be found at Dolphin Oval.
MEAT PIE / PIE FLOATER
Possibly the most Australian Fast Food item there is, it is available widely from local bakeries to football games to the local 7-11 Servo at 3am.
Note: we only nominate the Meat Pie, with a normal 15% meat, 45% gristle, and the remainder is some kind of gravy which serves only to stop the proper working of the roof of your mouth for the next three days. If served in the traditional way. No fancy, modern day trendy infused re-working is allowed to be put forward as a Great Moment in Australian Fast Food.
The Pie Floater takes is the only exception in taking it to the next level, but it is somewhere we’re not sure we want to be.
PIZZA WITH MEAT PIES IN CRUST
A pizza is a great fast food, and in our opinion only Pizza Haven and Silvio’s did it the best. But is not really Australian, until you add the humble meat pie.
And why wouldn’t you bake some meat pies in the crust, in a complete disregard to the origins of the pizza as a salute to Australian Fast Food Can-Do.
Funnily, we actually predicted the adding of Meat Pies into a Pizza Crust with our suggested Pizza Crust ideas a few years back.
BUNNINGS SAUSAGE SIZZLE
The staple diet of hard working Australians busy at work on the weekends, and Jerk politicians on the election trail.
Nothing simpler than a sausage on bread with the possible addition of onions and sauce.
For all the plate fulls of wank served up on cooking reality shows, do any of them really beat a Bunnings Sausage Sizzle.
No.
