• Mothra@mander.xyz
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    5 months ago

    Oh so this is cause of concern outside of Australia? Wait until you hear about budgie smugglers mate

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    5 months ago

    I always forget the rest of the world doesn’t seem to know about the insane number of parrots we have. Then a tourist sees a cocky or a flock of rosellas and loses their shit.

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      5 months ago

      tbh i would also lose my mind if a local told me to “look out for a cock-or-two”

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        5 months ago

        be aware that in certain suburbs they are most definitely not talking about birds

    • Baggie@lemmy.zip
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      5 months ago

      Hell yeah, I get swarms of king parrots turn up and they’re majestic.

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    5 months ago

    How are they even still alive? Australia seems like such a dangerous place, I wouldn’t expect something like parakeets to survive long. Do they just breed like rabbits and survive through quantity?

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      5 months ago

      What a bin chicken is, what sherbet is in Australia, there are more I can’t think of at the moment.

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          5 months ago

          After googling it:

          We do, we call them pixie sticks

          Sherbet is like a different ice cream (icy fruit basically) to everyone else in the world

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            5 months ago

            I looked that up and it seems similar, but sherbet is fizzy. From what I can find I don’t think pixie sticks are

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          5 months ago

          Sherbet and Smarties exist in the US but we call them different things and have other things we call Sherbet and Smarties.

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          5 months ago

          Like the other person said, in the states, sherbet is an ice cream that has juice in it. It’s fruit flavored, but not as fruity, and more artificial tasting (imo at least) than sorbet. When they were eating sherbet in Bluey, I was confused why it looked powdery and in stick form. Googled and realized sherbet there is basically what a pixie stick is here.

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            5 months ago

            Hmm, yeah pixie sticks seems similar. I don’t see anything mentioning pixie sticks being fizzy, though, so that’s probably the main difference