the canberra gravy train

ok so despite my usual joy in paying out those well paid under worked public servants, this post is about something even more essential to the "culture" of canberra.

For those that dont know there is usually nothing in canberra open past 8pm and thus the lat night snack after church.. or a gig is hard to find... in fact you have only a few choices, all of them are able to be towed away on the back of a 84 commodore with a towball... that’s right the infamous canberra food carts. Let me do the review of these fine establishments.

The Doghouse - Sadly no longer with us this was the best of the bunch, it had an item called "The Drovers Dog" this burger was 2 beef patties, 2 steaks, double bacon, a kransky sausage and a slice of cheese between each slab of meat! It was so big it wiped out some of the biggest eaters i have known... even i had problems getting through it...

Checkers - located near the belconnen community centre this was a fav after a movie or Young Life.. the house specialty was a double bacon and egg burger.

The G Spot. ok have you finished giggling yet... this had the most creative menu with the bastard, the bloody bastard (both burgers with or without different toppings) and the great "cone" of chips.

the one thing that linked each of these places together was one ingredient, one thing that no matter where you went was the same.... the Gravy...

Whenever you ordered chips and gravy a thick drenching of salty goodness smothered the chips so that the only way to eat it was with the plastic fork provided. I always wondered... "how did that gravy come to be? what strange process produced this artery clogging goodness"

I now know, for on a trip to find gravy at the local supermarket emma picked up the cheapest most bogan looking gravy and i sware from MUCH experience that this is it... the holy grail... the canberra gravy train...

so now the secret revealed with "Sooo! Gravy"