Hey Aussies

[Uncle Jesse]

What on earth is a “milk bar”?

[Bushman]

I am not Australian but believe it is a cafe or local store.

[NZChris]

A pub with no beer? I haven't seen one since the early seventies when I left to go back to NZ. My local served ice cream, milkshakes, fizzy drinks, fish & chips. Booth seating, juke box, pool table, arcade games.

[Yummyrum]

An Aussie Milk bar is what the Kiwi's call a Dairy
Yeah its like your small corner store .Like a mini supermarket that also sells Pies ,Hamburgers , fish n chips and if you are lucky ....milkshakes

[jb-texshine]

An Aussie Milk bar is what the Kiwi's call a Dairy
Yeah its like your small corner store .Like a mini supermarket that also sells Pies ,Hamburgers , fish n chips and if you are lucky ....milkshakes

Kinda like a bodega/deli?

[johnsparrow]

I think you americans call them a drug store....... that may be lost in translation although.

[johnsparrow]

An Aussie Milk bar is what the Kiwi's call a Dairy
Yeah its like your small corner store .Like a mini supermarket that also sells Pies ,Hamburgers , fish n chips and if you are lucky ....milkshakes

You people also call Jandels 'Thongs', and chilli bins 'eskys', so it comes as no surprise to read of this also strange naming convention

[jb-texshine]

I got a great idea for a new post to help us all get to know each other's language a bit better. Gonna call it "what do you call this"....
I'll start by posting a pic and yall tell me what it's called where you are from. Come play along!

[The Baker]

I think you americans call them a drug store....... that may be lost in translation although.

Sort of a drug store without the drugs.....

Geoff

[thecroweater]

When at the Marriott in DC the closest place to by smokes was at a near by drug store, for me that was truly ironic.

[thecroweater]

Thinking about it more and more milk bars are called cafés now, where I grew up as a kid they were called milk bars or even the dated malt shop. Delli's might double as a milk bar but often not, either way most are called cafés now guess it sounds more cosmopolitan even if ya sitting in ya stubbies tanktop and thongs.

[Uncle Jesse]

What's a "stubbie"? Sandals?

Here we have corner stores, usually called liquor stores. They have drinks and snacks and maybe some bare essentials if you are in a pinch - motor oil, bare essential cooking stuff, bathroom supplies. But mostly they exist to sell beer and liquor.

Drug stores are bigger. Have more stuff, probably a huge makeup department, toys, maybe film developing, lots of first aid/medical supplies and usually a pharmacy.

[NZChris]

What's a "stubbie"? Sandals?

A style of shorts that took off in NZ and Oz when they came out in 1972.
https://www.budgetworkwear.co.nz/collec ... rill-short

[Doctor Evil]

What on earth is a “milk bar”?

Times have changed, not so many around these days. Sort of a cross between a cafe and a 7-11. A place where you could buy a milkshake, smokes, sweets, a pie. Most had a few booths, a bit like Arnold's in Happy Days.

[cob]

I recall that a stubbie was a short brown bottle of beer

[Saltbush Bill]

What's a "stubbie"?

Examples below
https://www.google.com.au/search?dcr=0& ... ZudbFX9prQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
A normal stubby holds approximately 330 ml.....not to be confused with a Dawin Stubby which in most cases holds 2 Litres.
https://www.google.com.au/search?dcr=0& ... =653&dpr=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

[johnsparrow]

What's a "stubbie"?

Examples below
https://www.google.com.au/search?dcr=0& ... ZudbFX9prQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
A normal stubby holds approximately 330 ml.....not to be confused with a Dawin Stubby which in most cases holds 2 Litres.
https://www.google.com.au/search?dcr=0& ... =653&dpr=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Here I was thinking it was a bloke with a short willie.......

[jb-texshine]

What's a "stubbie"?

Examples below
https://www.google.com.au/search?dcr=0& ... ZudbFX9prQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
A normal stubby holds approximately 330 ml.....not to be confused with a Dawin Stubby which in most cases holds 2 Litres.
https://www.google.com.au/search?dcr=0& ... =653&dpr=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Here I was thinking it was a bloke with a short willie.......

I like your sense of humor mate!Reminds me of an acquaintance of mine

[kimbodious]

Stubbies is also the name of very short elastic-waisted shorts. You'd hope old mate was wearing undedaks otherwise you'd get a butchers at their knackers

[Saltbush Bill]

get a butchers at their knackers

Also know as "Jatz Crackers"

[thecroweater]

One of the old mans fishing trip videos they were out from Karumba qld and one of his older (as in WWII vet old) mates was sitting in front of the camera commentating on their catch, gawd hard to watch. Had the stubbies pulled up a bit high friggen swede hanging down each side like tennis balls in socks, fishing vid with a horror movie twist . Stubbies in the tropics makes for some scary shit.

[jb-texshine]

Is he good looking?

Right handsome fellow he is for a guy with a disfigured face

[RedwoodHillBilly]

What on earth is a “milk bar”?

Ever read the book or watched the movie "A Clockwork Orange" ?

[cob]

What on earth is a “milk bar”?

Ever read the book or watched the movie "A Clockwork Orange" ?

both, liked the book more than the movie, but don't remember "milk bar"

[RedwoodHillBilly]

What on earth is a “milk bar”?

Ever read the book or watched the movie "A Clockwork Orange" ?

both, liked the book more than the movie, but don't remember "milk bar"

"The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultraviolence."

Maybe you need to revisit the book again.

[cob]

"The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultraviolence."

Maybe you need to revisit the book again.

could be , but it's only been 45,6,7 years or so, you would think it would still be fresh horrorshow