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Bicentennial Minutes: Circle meat
Title:
Bicentennial Minutes: Circle meat
NFSA ID
43495
Year
1988
The Americans call it ‘cold cuts’, the British call it ‘luncheon meat’ – but what do we call processed meat in Australia? It depends which state you come from.
In a quirky episode of the 1988 TV series Bicentennial Minutes: A Time to Remember, presenter Peter Luck talked about the lack of regional variation in Australian English before centring on a fascinating exception: a low-budget '80s lunchbox staple that goes by many names.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.