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Old fashioned Aussie dinners (m.youtube.com)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by melbaboutown@aussie.zone to c/foodaustralia@aussie.zone

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Interesting watch. I’m too young to have got the bread and dripping and didn’t have chokos but some of these are definitely familiar and weren’t bad.

Edit: They forgot the bread and butter pudding and the golden syrup dumplings.

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[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Ps. If you see a “choko” in the wild and are tempted to forage it to fill out your dinner, make sure that it’s not the similar looking but poisonous fruit of the moth vine.

I hear you can tell by the milky sap it oozes when damaged - but don’t touch the sap and wash it off if it gets on you. It’s dangerous to both people and pets. Other sources say the moth vine fruit looks matte while a choko fruit is shiny.

https://weeds.org.au/profiles/moth-plant-cape/

https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/food/dont-eat-it-mums-urgent-warning-over-common-aussie-garden-vegetable-c-2829999

I have not seen chokos but I have seen the moth vine.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

If anyone is wondering what chokos taste like, I can advise that they beautifully take on the delicate flavour of boiled water they are cooked in. It may be difficult to know where one starts, and the other ends!

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago

similar to zucchinis

[–] Tau@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Chokos also feel noticeably heavier, once you've seen and held both you can distinguish them easily.

They are pretty bland things to eat though, fine for filler amongst other things when cooking but I wouldn't buy one. They're one of these things you just find growing and proceed to end up with a surfeit of so you start trying to put them into your cooking to avoid wasting them.

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago

I briefly considered getting some choko plants when I have more energy.

Yeah, the video did say they were a bit gross but they seem like a really good filler veg to cheaply bulk things out, so people might still try to go for them. I figured to put a warning about its evil twin just in case