Late 1970s Peter Russell-Clarke sells eggs
As question marks were raised about eggs as high-cholesterol food, The Victorian Egg Board enlisted the services of artist, author… Read More
As question marks were raised about eggs as high-cholesterol food, The Victorian Egg Board enlisted the services of artist, author… Read More
The first supermarket to adopt barcode scanning in Australia was SIMS supermarket in Melbourne’s western suburbs. It's not recorded which… Read More
Chicken salt is as Australian as Vegemite, although with a shorter history. It was invented by Peter Brinkworth in the… Read More
The first Ali Baba kebab restaurant opened in 1979 outside the Woden Plaza in Canberra’s inner south. It was founded… Read More
What's a product invented in England and sold as an import in Australia for most of its recorded history doing… Read More
Sourdough bread, say the purists, is made simply from flour, water and salt. The rising agent, or "leaven" is natural… Read More
American nutritionist Nathan Pritikin’s book, The Pritikin Program For Diet And Exercise, spent a year on the New York Times’… Read More
Home-delivered pizza was pioneered in Australia by Silvio's Dial-a-Pizza in the Brisbane suburb of Red Hill in 1978. The business,… Read More
In 1978, Australia's first McDonald's Drive-Thru opened in Warrawong, New South Wales. This was just three years after their first… Read More
Late-night and even 24-hour dining is just part of city life these days. But when Fast Eddy's opened in Perth… Read More
Big M flavoured milk was launched in Victoria with overtly sexy imagery of milk running down the cleavage of girls… Read More
REV low-fat milk was launched in Victoria and aimed at young adults. It was lower in fat and higher in… Read More
The Décor Insulated Wine Carrier with wine chiller was the essential accoutrement for visits to BYO restaurants. It was designed… Read More
The Champagne Diet, published in Australian Vogue, made much of the fact that champagne was the least fattening of all… Read More
Sarah Stegley and Marieke Brugman owned and operated the Howqua Dale Gourmet Retreat, at Mansfield in central Victoria for 30… Read More
Chef Iain Hewitson and food critic Sigmund Jorgenson started the influential Clichy restaurant in unfashionable Collingwood. The restaurant menu experimented… Read More
Farmers Union Iced Coffee is a flavoured milk manufactured in South Australia, where it has iconic status along with other… Read More
The first 7-Eleven convenience store opened in the Melbourne suburb of Oakleigh on 24 August 1977 and within a year… Read More
There had been community gardens in the past, during times of war and depression, but the first Australian community garden… Read More
The Breville Kitchen Wizz food processor was an affordable Australian version of the European MagiMix. It was one of the… Read More
Ho-Lo milk was the first low-fat specialty milk to be launched on the New South Wales market and a few… Read More
There were earlier recipes called Apricot Chicken, but the first I can find for the 1970s classic with the standard… Read More
Australia's first muesli bar was the Uncle Tobys Toasted Muesli Crunchola Bar, launched in 1976. It was a jolly good… Read More
The best thing since sliced bread was sliced cheese. Kraft Singles, individually wrapped slices of processed cheddar were launched in… Read More
By 1976, a million people were leaving Australia annually to travel overseas. They now travelled by air, not by sea,… Read More
The first Thai restaurant in Australia was the Bahn Thai, which was opened in Melbourne's St Kilda Road in June… Read More
One of the few politicians to publish a cookbook , the Premier of South Australia favoured an eclectic and informal… Read More
Gilbert Lau was part-owner of the Empress of China restaurant in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne, one of the first upmarket… Read More
The famous “you oughta be congratulated” advertising campaign was designed to assure mums that Meadow Lea Margarine would not only… Read More
With a campaign featuring Gina Lollobrigida, Leggo’s changed its heritage from Cornish (Leggo is a Cornish name) to Italian. Abandoning… Read More
Back in the days when we hadn't heard of the degustation menu, partners Alistair Herbert and Camillo Haffar opened Baxter… Read More
The savoury slice is a truly regional dish, apparently found only in a tiny pocket of South Australia around the… Read More
On 1 March 1975 Australian television stations officially moved to colour. Colour TV had been around for a while overseas… Read More
A replacement for the old-fashioned jaffle iron, the Breville Snack'n'Sandwich Toaster sold 400,000 and was snapped up by 10 per cent… Read More
After a long dry(ish) spell during the depression years of the 1930s, beer consumption grew rapidly during the wartime years.… Read More
On June 26, at 8:01 a.m, Sharon Buchanan, a check-out operator at Marsh's supermarket in Troy, Ohio scanned the first… Read More
Pink Lady is a promotional name for an apple variety known as Cripps Pink. The apple was developed by horticulturalist… Read More
The Bankcard brand was shared by Australian financial institutions and was Australia's first generally available credit card. At launch, banks… Read More
By the early '70s supermarkets had a 50% share of the grocery market, a substantial increase since 1968-69, when a… Read More
Crock-Pot is a brand name for a bench-top electric slow cooker. The idea dates back to 1940 in the USA… Read More
Kernewek Lowender in the Cornish language means "Cornish Happiness". It's the name of a festival held every two years on… Read More
Free school milk continued long beyond my primary school days, until a report to the government in 1973 deemed it… Read More
The United Kingdom acceded to the European Economic Community in 1973 beginning a new focus for Australian exporters. The formation… Read More
This 1973 menu from The Living Room theatre restaurant in Brisbane is such a great example of how Australians used… Read More
The ceiling upstairs at Shakahari was silver insulation foil. There was brown rice a-plenty. The food was wholemeal, unrefined and… Read More
Gough Whitlam’s Labor government was elected after 23 years of Liberal Party rule. In 1973, the government legislated to eliminate… Read More
The marron (Cherax cainii) is a large fresh water crayfish native to the south western areas of Western Australia and… Read More
Introduced in the book Dr Atkins Diet Revolution, the Atkins diet promised people they could lose weight while eating as… Read More
The National Library of Australia has this publication dated at 1972, although other sources are less certain of the date.… Read More
Charmaine Solomon is credited with introducing Australia to Asian food. She was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, but moved to… Read More
The Aussie-owned fast food chain began in Western Australia. Originally a family business, Red Rooster was acquired, and the chain… Read More
Possibly inspired by the Big Banana, which opened in 1964, the Big Pineapple opened in 1971 at Woombye in Queensland’s… Read More
Catherine Hill Bay was a coal mining town near Newcastle, New South Wales, and was named after a ship that… Read More
It's not the most historic, the most glamorous or even the quirkiest pub in Australia's Northern Territory. Unlike the Mataranka… Read More
The US chain Burger King couldn’t use their own brand in Australia, as the name had been trademarked by a… Read More
Space Food Sticks were developed by Pillsbury in the USA. The company worked in conjunction with NASA to develop a… Read More
Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs were launched in 1971. They were based on a similar American product called Cracker Jack, which… Read More
The first Australian McDonald's opened in the Sydney suburb of Yagoona 16 years after the company was founded in the USA.… Read More
The first Australian Pizza Hut opened in Belfield, Sydney in April 1970. The building (shown here) was most recently a Korean… Read More
Wynn's perfected the wine cask (bag-in-a-box) in 1970, with a tap that was exposed by tearing away a panel on… Read More
The earliest emu farm in Australia appears to have been operating in the 1930s at Dromana, Victoria. It was pictured… Read More
1971 was the year when smoked oysters became socially unacceptable. Playing Stork in the eponymous movie, actor Bruce Spence single-handedly… Read More
The permaculture philosophy of farming and sustainable living was developed by Bill Mollison and David Holgrem in Tasmania. It grew out… Read More
Who invented the stubby holder? The answer is, nobody knows. Although most sources seem to agree that the stubby holder… Read More
In the late ‘60s and early ’70s, the counterculture revolt railed against everything that symbolised the industrial state. It included a… Read More
The first edition of the classic Australian Women’s Weekly Cookbook was published in 1970, heralding a new era of international cookery… Read More
This website uses cookies but doesn't share them.