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Eating on the road is full of drama.
MT reader and no-nonsense foodie
Geoff Ross serves up some solutions
e’ve very much become a café if you were in a pub, whichever poison took
culture in Australia in recent your fancy. If you wanted water, you were
years. Back in the day, when often directed to the tap out the back.
you stopped for mid-ride What a difference several decades
Wvictuals, you had a choice of have made. You can now buy food at
café or pub. No matter which you picked, your local greasy spoon the likes of
the menu was always roughly the same. which you only ever see if you watched
You had a choice of a pie (plain, steak films on SBS.
and kidney or cottage), a sausage roll, a This begs two questions. What should I
burger (ham, steak, or works) and chips. eat? Where should I eat it?
A salad sandwich was usually also We’ll attack the last question first. For
available if you were on a health kick. Drinks- the purpose of simplicity, café will be used as
wise it was tea, plain coffee, soft drink or, a catchall for any dining venue.
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