The humble dim sim has been crowned the best Aussie snack of all time in a recent survey.
Don’t get me wrong: I love a dimmy, but the best snack of all time? That’s a big call.
My friend Deb cuts the little suckers in half and cooks them on top of the barbecue. How very Aussie!
I would wager the dimmy makes the top 10 but does it sit ahead of the lamington as the best snack?
Do I hear a vote for Tim Tams or the humble sausage on bread?
Thanks to the hardware industry, the snag on bread does more for charity than any wealthy philanthropist.
What about the party pie, Caramello Koalas or Twisties?
My husband’s guilty pleasure is Barbecue Shapes.
After 15 years of marriage, I am pretty sure he has no idea I am a Chicken Crimpy girl. When he bangs on to the kids about how good the Barbecue Shape is, I bite my tongue to keep the peace. Sometimes, I imagine us at marriage counselling because of his biscuit naivety.
My Friday night treat is a Jatz cracker with a cube of cheese sitting atop a round slice of kabana. Throw on a pickled onion and you have heaven on a biscuit. It is very daggy and for me, very 1995, but hey – don’t we all miss 1995?
How good was Zombie by the Cranberries? The best of times!
I was fresh out of university and spent most of my meagre journalist’s wage buying red power suits from Cue so I could chase criminals as they left Maroochydore Court House.
I digress.
So, cheese is my weakness on a Friday night but the way the cost of living is going, I may have to give up cheese, grapes and eggs and start something less expensive: like cocaine!
And as for the best Aussie snack of all time, it is Vegemite on toast.
When I had my first child after a two-day labour when I truly thought I was going to die, my sister made me Vegemite on toast in hospital and it was the best meal of my life. No contest.
A dim sim is a fling, but Vegemite is marriage material.
I’ll sign off now because I’m hungry, but I’ll leave you with this: another study found that 28 per cent of Australians eat seven or more snacks in a week.
The other 72 per cent are lying.
Sami Muirhead is a radio announcer, blogger and commentator. For more from Sami, tune into Mix FM.
