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Shrimp or prawn cocktail is a seafood dish consisting of cooked prawns served in a glass with cocktail sauce. The dish was invented by a 19th-century miner from California who first used oysters in a glass with a sauce, but the Golden Gate Hotel in Las Vegas was the first to offer a 50-cent shrimp cocktail in 1959. This iconic dish was especially popular from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Vanilla slice is the Australian answer to mille-feuille - this dessert consists of a thick custard the vanilla slice is sometimes also called a snot block. This dessert is so popular that there is an annual competition for the best vanilla slice baker, called the Great Australian Vanilla Slice Triumph.

Short for spaghetti bolognese, spag bol is one of Australia’s national dishes. The dish is a uniquely Australian version of the classic Italian tagliatelle al ragù alla bolognese. It is recommended to serve the pasta first, then top it with the flavorful meaty sauce.

Vegemite is a notoriously ye**ty spread that can be found in nine out of ten pantries in Australia. It all began in 1922 when the Fred Walker Company (known today as Kraft Food Company) employed a chemist to invent a new spread from one particular ingredient that is rich in Vitamin B.

Anzac biscuits are sweet cookies other similar recipes were found in the cookbooks of the early 1900s. The cookies are linked to Anzac Day, a day of remembrance of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) landing at Gallipoli, because some believe that the biscuits were sent to Anzac soldiers during the war.

Dim sims are deep-fried or steamed dumplings filled with pork or other meat, cabbage, and flavorings. The dish was invented in Melbourne around 1945 by a Chinese chef named William Wing Young, who created the dumplings for his restaurant, called Wing Lee. Dim sims, affectionately called dimmies.