Welcome to Year 5 of my Christmas vigil to commemorate Footscray Market’s inability to publish their Christmas/New Year’s opening hours online. Consider my annual dose of community service done. Here are the trading hours: Monday 23 December: 7:00am-4:00pm Tuesday 24 December (Christmas eve): 7:00am-4:00pm 25-26 December: Closed Friday 27 December: 7:00am – 7:00pm Saturday 28… Continue reading Footscray Market – Christmas Opening Hours 2013
Category: Australia
The first Somali-Australian food blog?
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Your funds buy my food security.
The Jonas family grows pork that makes most other pork taste like that foamy pizza topping ham-substitute. If you’ve ever planned to cut down on how much meat you eat and then reward yourself with the best, this is it. You’ll remember where you were the first time that you ate it. Tammi Jonas is… Continue reading Your funds buy my food security.
A trending history of Australian home-baked goods
The relative Google search volumes for various popular Australian cake recipes.
Footscray Market – Opening Hours, Christmas 2012
In what is fast becoming a tradition, my local market, Footscray Market, has failed to post opening hours anywhere online. Opening hours for the market over the Christmas/New Year’s period 2012 are: Monday 24 December (Christmas Eve): 7:00am-4:00pm 25-26 December: Closed Thursday 27 December: 7:00am – 6:00pm Friday 28 December: 7:00am – 7:00pm Saturday 29… Continue reading Footscray Market – Opening Hours, Christmas 2012
Australian food blogging list updated; no longer tracking freebies
I’ve updated my Australian Food Blog list: it will forever be incomplete but the best that I can do. I’ve decided to stop tracking bloggers who receive free meals, cash or other incentives in exchange for writing posts because I can’t keep up with them and for the most part don’t ever read them. It’s… Continue reading Australian food blogging list updated; no longer tracking freebies
#WEFO T-Shirt
A while back there was a discussion amongst West Footscray locals about the etymology of the suburb’s abbreviation “wefo”, a discussion started by its commodification by this $65 cushion from design gallery Post Industrial Design. I’d first seen the suburb referred to as WeFo in an email from November 2008 so the abbreviation’s history predates… Continue reading #WEFO T-Shirt
Warning to Coles shoppers: ROBOTS TOUCH YOUR FOOD.
You know what the average shopper at Coles Supermarket fears? Robots. Giant robots who touch their food. This secret informs their latest sleight of hand that boasts that their home delivered food is “Hand picked, hand packed and hand delivered”. Screenshot from http://www.coles.com.au/Shop-Online.aspx/ (full page, 28 June 2012) This was originally spotted in the wild… Continue reading Warning to Coles shoppers: ROBOTS TOUCH YOUR FOOD.