Australia's vanilla slice, a cherished local creation central to bakery culture in Victoria and popular at school tuckshops and rural eateries across the nation, is also known as a "snot block".
Slang terms abound in our vocabulary and food has not been spared the kind of humour whereby some of us call a vanilla slice a “snot block” and a pie a “rat coffin” or “maggot bag”.
A mille-feuille (French pronunciation: [mil fœj], "thousand-sheets"), also known by the names Napoleon in North America, vanilla slice in the United Kingdom, and custard slice, is a French dessert made of puff pastry layered with pastry cream.
Often also called Vanilla Slice in Australia, Custard square is two layers of puff pastry, surrounding a creamy, smooth custard. The whole thing is then topped off with a vanilla bean icing.
Chocolate and vanilla napoleon
The mille-feuille, or vanilla slice, or custard slice, is known as the Napoleon. It is a French pastry whose exact origin, despite its noble name, is unknown. It's also quite delicious.
Not to be confused with a Custard Slice either!
A vanilla slice is usually a very thick slab of custard sandwiched between two thin puff sheets. A mille feuille is more decorative, could have multiple custard (or diplomat cream) layers and looks very sophisticated.
Crème anglaise (French for "English cream"), custard sauce, pouring custard, or simply custard is a light, sweetened pouring custard used as a dessert cream or sauce. It is a mix of sugar, egg yolks, and hot milk usually flavoured with vanilla.
The term “slice” in Australia may refer to just about any sweet treat that is cut into squares or square-like shapes. A Bakewell Slice is a multilayered pastry that's a variation of the round Bakewell Tart.
The term "esky" is also commonly used in Australia to generically refer to portable coolers or ice boxes and is part of the Australian vernacular, in place of words like "cooler" or "cooler box" and the New Zealand "chilly bin".
In the case of Australian slang, words are clipped, and then a diminutive suffix is added to the clipped word. In this case, bikkie (the colloquial Australian word for a cookie), is clipped slang for biscuit (the British English word for a type of cookie), and it uses the -ie diminutive suffix.
Light crispy pastry sandwiching a velvety smooth vanilla custard (only in Australia could we take such a delicate treat and call it 'Snot Block').
slice' . (b) an act of sexual intercourse, thus the female partner.
THIN SLICE (6) SLIVER.
Pash (pash) / Kiss
An indelicate description of kissing passionately, hence the name. Pashing typically leads to two things: pash rash (red marks around the lips caused by excessive kissing), and/or rooting (the crass Australian term for the birds and the bees).
Australian, British and New Zealand English uses "chips" for what North Americans call french fries. When confusion would occur between the two meanings, "hot chips" and "cold chips" are used.
Meaning: hitting on someone, flirting
Couldn't tell if he was cracking onto me or if he was just friendly.
Dinger. The term 'dinger' may have originated from popular culture, such as television shows, movies, and music; however, it's unknown exactly when the term was first coined. It's commonplace to refer to a condom as a 'dinger' in Australia.
sanger. A sandwich. Sanger is an alteration of the word sandwich. Sango appeared as a term for sandwich in the 1940s, but by the 1960s, sanger took over to describe this staple of Australian cuisine.
Queenslanders like their 'by jingos' - a brand name for the sweet, frozen treats, which has stuck - Victorians have icy poles, and in NSW they enjoy an ice block.
A vanilla slice, also known as a custard square, is a type of pastry. It consists of a thick custard, which is traditionally flavoured with vanilla or chocolate, and which is sandwiched between flaky puff pastry or filo pastry and iced with either vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, raspberry or passion fruit icing.
Contributor's comments: Reference in Melbourne in the 1960's 1970's to a Vanilla slice available at the school canteen. The refrence to 'snot' came from the custard and the square shape of the pastry gave the 'block' : "Fancy a bite of my snot block?" "For lunch I'll have a slad sandwich and a snotblock."
Pavlova is a popular and a national dessert in Australia. It is a meringue-base cake that has a light and crisp crust with a soft marshmallow center. It is usually served with whipped cream topped with fruit.
Pudding is translated in French by...
Le pudding (m) Pudding.
The French call this dough "pâte feuilletée," which means "pastry made leaf-like." Each "leaf" in this pastry consists of a layer of flour separated by a layer of butter. The expansion (puff) occurs because the butter layers create steam when exposed to the heat of an oven.
noun. (pouring) crema (pasticcera)