Part of the melon family, rockmelon is so called because of its rough skin — but there's nothing else rough about this superstar. It peaks in Summer but is generally available year 'round in Australia thanks to the warm climate, and there's a long list of reasons why you should be eating it.
➢ Cantaloupe is called rock melon in Australia. ➢ Tap on the cantaloupe and listen to the sound it makes. If the sound is dull and deep, it is an indication that the cantaloupe is ripe.
The cantaloupe, rockmelon (Australia and New Zealand, although cantaloupe is used in some states of Australia), sweet melon, or spanspek (Southern Africa) is a melon that is a variety of the muskmelon species (Cucumis melo) from the family Cucurbitaceae.
m. reticulatus is known as rockmelon in Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and New South Wales, and as either rockmelon or cantaloupe in Victoria.
Rockmelon = cantaloupe
Greeny-grey on the outside and orange in the middle, rockmelons are known as “cantaloupes” in the US.
A cantaloupe was the orange fleshed melon. Honeydew melon referred to the green fleshed fruit, but this was sometimes interchangeable with rockmelon. This still seems to be the case.
The name zucchini is used in American, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand English. It is loaned from Italian, where zucchini is the plural masculine diminutive of zucca, 'marrow' (Italian pronunciation: [ˈtsukka]).
As it turns out, cantaloupes have a variety of different names. Some countries refer to the fruit as “sweet melon” and “Crenshaw melon.” In South Africa, it's often called “spanspek.” However, Australians and New Zealanders tend to call it a rockmelon.
Melons are produced in every mainland Australian state with the majority of production in Queensland, New South Wales, Northern Territory and Western Australia. Fresh seedless watermelons, rockmelon, honeydew and Piel de Sapo melons are the major products and are produced all year round.
Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia and New South Wales are major producers, with Victoria and South Australia producing lower, but still significant volumes. Melons are available year-round in Australia, with August to April being the main production period for rockmelons.
Courgette & Zucchini – Basically, both are edible forms of the cucurbit plant. The word 'courgette' is used among British and New Zealand people, while that of 'zucchini' is used in North America and Australia.
watermelon; watermelon rind: "Let's have a wongie fight!" (nasty rough boys would thereupon spin chunks of watermelon rind at each other.) Also, wongi.
At Australian grocery stores, bell peppers become capsicums; arugula is rocket; cilantro transforms into coriander and cookies are biscuits—bikkies for short.
If you cast your minds back, you may remember calling the humble banana a nana as a child. Originally an Australian toddler's word, dating back to the 1890s, this is now a very common term. So common in fact, that Australian Bananas uses it as well.
The Kakadu plum, also known as the billygoat plum or green plum, is a small almond-size fruit that's native to the northern Australia outback. It takes less than five years for a tree to bear fruit from a seed in the Kimberly region, Arnhem Land and Kakadu National Park.
derogatory term for someone in the army. Contributor's comments: A ... derogatory term used in Townsville was "Mangoes" - green on the outside, yellow on the inside and too many give you the s***s.
It is FALSE. Watermelons are originally from West Africa.
Tropical Sunshine RZ is a sugar baby watermelon with dark skin, patterned with broad stripes. The fruit shape is round and very uniform, with an average weight of 5-6 kg. The vibrantly coloured yellow flesh is seedless and has a very high sugar level.
Pie melon is from the fruit family in particular the melon family. Pie melon is abundant in Australia at local markets in April. A pie melon is as large as a watermelon. It is believed that pie melon came out of the depression era. A pie melon itself does not have much taste, but makes for a great pie filling.
These melons are also sold at a high price because of the labor that the farmers put into them, especially considering the crown melons that are massaged daily. The price of these Japanese melons is a combination of labor costs, quality, and availability as they're grown in smaller batches.
Full of Vitamin A and plenty of beta-carotene, rockmelon helps with eyesight, reduces cancer risks and prevents the damage of cells! That's without mentioning the additional fiber, folate, niacin, potassium and C & B-6 vitamins! These little pods of goodness are a superfood for our dogs too!
melon: (usually in the plural, slang) Breasts.
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 derives from British dialect goggy, a child's word for an egg. A closer parallel to the jocular bum nut, however, is the word cackleberry.
The spread has a rich umami flavor and is often smeared on buttered toast in Australia, or stirred into recipes to deepen savory notes. How did Vegemite come to be? Vegemite's nearly identical twin, Marmite, used to be very popular in Australia, due to British immigrants bringing over their taste for the staple.
Why do Australians say capsicum? Australia, New Zealand, India and Pakistan all call the vegetable capsicum in reference to its scientific name, capsicum annum.