Weird food Aussies eat that leave the rest of the world dumbfounded - Australia has managed to develop its very own unique set of oddities when it comes to the fine delicacies of weird and unusual food. Trying to explain the intricacies of fairy bread or why a burger simply isn't a burger without a healthy dose of beetroot can be difficult.

Click to see why our true blue Aussie food is quite frankly, so weird.

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Vegemite for life - There is nothing more confusing to non-Aussies than our obsession with Vegemite.

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Vegemite - Made from leftover brewers' yeast extract, this black tar spread often leaves people scratching their heads and questioning our tastebuds.

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Beetroot mate - No Aussie true blue burger is complete without beetroot, but some visitors may find this very confusing.

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Healthy - It's our way of keeping relatively healthy, while still enjoying a burger! Beetroot is a good source of iron and folate. It also contains nitrates, betaine, magnesium, and other antioxidants (notably betacyanin).

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Full to burst - It's also worth noting that an Australian burger is not an Australian burger unless it full to the brim and spilling out all over the place.

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Kangaroos - Visitors may come to Australia to meet a cute kangaroo.

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Delicious - They also taste as cute as they look!

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Emu burger - Australians are notorious for eating the official insignia that appear on the coat of arms. This may shock non-Aussies, but we don't care.

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Meet the locals - When we say meet the locals, we may mean 'meat the locals' too.

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Crocodile tears - If a croc gets too big for its boots, we put it on a skewer and chuck it on the BBQ.

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Aussie pies - Visitors are always shocked at our obsession with delicious meat pies.

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Competitions - They might be even further alarmed if they learned we have annual competitions on who can make the best pie.

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Sausage sizzle - No weekend visit to the local hardware store would be complete without a sausage in the car park.

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The basics - White bread, onions, tomato sauce, sausage equals Saturday arvo bliss.

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Voting sausage - Try explaining that our award for exercising our democratic duties is a sausage in a piece of white bread.

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Fairy bread - Confusing the world over, the invention of fairy bread is a sugary treat that everyone should experience at least once in their life.

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Sprinkles - Who knew that bread, butter, and sprinkles could taste so right?

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Passion for the parmy - Visitors are often perplexed at our near-total worship of the perfect chicken parmigiana.

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Lamingtons - There is nothing more Australian than lamington cakes.

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Jatz - Any unlikely visitor to a family get-together will always be privy to the cubed cheese and cabanossi combo.

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Tim Tam - Tim Tams are a national institution in Australia with entire aisles in supermarkets dedicated to the confectionary.

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Slam - Try explaining the 'Tim Tam Slam' to any non-Australian and see their faces light up.

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The pav - Somehow Australians have claimed the pavlova as uniquely Australian. Even if visitors have eaten pavlova in the past, they've never eaten an Aussie pav!

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Cherry Ripe - Cherry Ripe was born in Australia and there is nothing more delicious than a sweet cherry and coconut combo to brighten up your day.

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Milo - Chocolate malty goodness in a powder.

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Shapes - Trying to explain the Aussie obsession with Shapes is hard.

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Change - When Arnotts changed the flavour of the savoury biscuits the nation went bananas. How can we explain this to non-Aussies? It's not possible.

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Chicken salt - Hot chips are incomplete without a good dose of chicken salt, which probably doesn't actually have any chicken in it at all.

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Servo roll - Who knows how long that servo sausage roll has been sitting there? We'll take it anyway. Because that's just what we do.

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