Billy Tea is named after the billy tins used in the outback to make tea. The billy was filled with hot water, tea and eucalyptus leaves and swung around several times to infuse the water. Quantity: A blend of mostly Australian Daintree tea with some added chinese black tea and a sprinkling of eucalyptus leaves.
The billy is an Australian term for a metal container used for boiling water, making tea or cooking over a fire. By the end of the 19th century the billy had become as natural, widespread and symbolic of bush life as the gum tree, the kangaroo and the wattle.
Our True Blue Australian Billy Tea is a hearty blend of Australian grown black tea, native Peppermint Gum and Lemon Scented Gum with just a hint of smoky Lapsang Souchong for that authentic campfire flavour & aroma.
billy (plural billies) (Australia, New Zealand) A tin with a swing handle used to boil tea over an open fire; a billycan; a billypot. Let's get the billy and cook some beans. (Australia, slang) A bong for smoking marijuana.
To boil the billy most often means to make tea. This expression dates from the Australian gold rushes and probably earlier. "Billy Tea" was the name of a popular brand of tea long sold by Australian grocers and supermarkets. Billies feature in many of Henry Lawson's stories and poems.
Billy Tea is named after the billy tins used in the outback to make tea. The billy was filled with hot water, tea and eucalyptus leaves and swung around several times to infuse the water. Quantity: A blend of mostly Australian Daintree tea with some added chinese black tea and a sprinkling of eucalyptus leaves.
Billy Tea, with its iconic retro packaging, is closely associated with Australia and its tea-drinking history, but sadly, just like Bushells, it contains no Australian grown tea, as most of it is sourced, blended and packed in India.
For those trivia buffs amongst you - here's a piece of toilet trivia - The flusihng toilet was invented by Sir Thomas Crapper (Aussie's also call the toilet the crapper).
Bludger. (Noun) A lazy person. “I'm running around like a headless chook organising this bloody barbie, and Johnno's just sitting there like a bludger!”
There is now however a tea branded as Billy Tea that is blended in Australia and makes a pretty decent cuppa either over the fire or with the kettle. While it's not grown here it's an Indian tea blend that is most likely very similar to the original.
Strictly speaking, bushfood tea isn't a tea but a tisane, also known as herbal tea. This is a general, catch-all term for drinks made by infusing plant material in hot water. This plant material can include the leaves, flower, fruit, and even the roots of native plants.
For example, while black teas like Earl Grey are the best selling teas in Australia, green tea like matcha is more favoured in Japan. Similarly, yerba mate is one of the most popular teas in South America.
Cuppa - a cup of tea or coffer 'Drop by this arvo for a cuppa' means please come and visit this afternoon for a cup of tea or coffee. Loo or dunny - Thesea are slang term for toilet.
High tea is a light meal typically eaten between 3 to 5 p.m., served with desserts, cakes, and light tea sandwiches. Also called afternoon tea, its origin is attributed to Anna Maria, 7th Duchess of Bedford.
Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and 1960) drink the most tea and coffee of all the generations — at around 61% per week but the figures drop off for younger Generation Z Aussies, who are more likely to drink hot chocolate.
Bum nut's origin does not need much explanation—it's a humorous re-imagining of an egg as a roundish (nutlike) product of a hen's rear end. Australians use a couple of other colloquial words for a hen's egg. The Australian English word googie or goog is an informal term that dates from the 1880s.
It's probably big across a lot of Australia. Contributor's comments: The term sparrow fart is used in Nth S. A. to describe getting up early. If you had to get up very early it was described as getting up before sparrows fart.
If you make wine, import wine into Australia or sell it by wholesale, you'll generally have to account for wine equalisation tax (WET).
Let's start with the most common, most well-known, and most quintessentially Australian slang term for girls: Sheila. While everywhere else in the English-speaking world, Sheila is a specific person's name, in Australia it can be used to refer to any woman or girl.
Flip-flops are also called thongs (sometimes pluggers) in Australia, jandals (originally a trademarked name derived from "Japanese sandals") in New Zealand, and slops or plakkies in South Africa and Zimbabwe. In the Philippines, they are called tsinelas.
The name “John” was later derived from “Jake” and “Jack.” Secondly but most notable amongst historians, John was the name of the first man credited with inventing the first flushing toilet. John Harington was born during the time in which Queen Elizabeth reigned. His mother was a member of the queen's chamber.
The black billy can brews bush tea stands out in stark contrast to the vibrant colours of the campfire with its red, pink, orange and yellow hues. Damper (a kind of bread) is cooking in the coals nearby as we prepare for a wonderful family time around the campfire.
It was also fortuitous that the Australian dairy industry expanded at this time, making fresh milk available, so black tea with milk and sugar became the national beverage.
shows that 50 per cent of Australians drink at least one cup of tea per week, with those in the over 65 age range drinking around 11 cups per week.