[Haggie]

They are only blanched in boiling estuary water, makes the 'guts' easier to clean out, and also separates meat from inner membrane shell.

Full cook is done after cleaning and breaking up.

Found it works much better when doing Singapore chilli or Louisiana garlic crabs (which is the only way to eat whole crabs IMO )

Singapore chilli crab is the best IMHO.

 

[Haggie]

Hope anthony is having a nice day..

Probably having a lie down somewhere.

 

[Haggie]

Work, work, work, work. It never ends.

Tell me about it.........my wife had to work as well.

I did not really celebrate. Was invited to a gathering but did not go. Listened to a lot of oz music though.

We should IMHO think about a date change. The invasion day protestors can have it all to themselves then.

We have only had a unified Australia wide celebration regardless of what day of the week it is since 1994.

"A more meaningful day is October 24, when in 1889 Sir Henry Parkes, the "Father of Federation", gave his pivotal speech at Tenterfield in NSW, which set the course for federation"

 

[Haggie]

See now this is where I have to disagree…

I think there was a stat a few years ago that something like more than half the AUS population had at least one parent that was NOT born in AUS. I’ve been here 10 years which some would consider still fresh off the boat. I know the significance of the date but to me personally, that’s not what AUS day is about.

To me it’s about celebrating being Australian and everything this great country has given me and has to offer. I don’t care what the date is, as long as you give me a day to celebrate that. And I think a big part of the recently immigrated population, which is a very large chunk of the total AUS population, would agree with me on this.

If the date is so divisive (which from the poles, it’s clearly not) just pick another friggin’ date and let’s move on! Just don’t take my public holiday away.

To me it’s fairly simple… Ole Albo wants to give indigenous Australians a voice in parliament (no idea what that means really), so start by asking them what day they would like to choose TO CELEBRATE EVERYTHING THAT IS GOOD ABOUT THIS LAND. Let them choose a date and just go with that.

I am a 24 hour a day, seven day a week, 365 day a year Australian.

My mother was born OS. My wife and my brothers partner also.

Australia day has only become a public holiday in every state and territory since 1994.

Most other countries celebrate a national day on the date they become independent. Interesting that Thailand to my knowledge was never colonised.

The above is my point of view, made possible as it is one of the freedoms that being Australian allows and should be celebrated.