Just watched The Big Steal an hour or so ago.
Certainly made me think how much more fun it was.
Even the Aussie humour better back then.
What was daily life like in the 80s/90s/00s?
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Certainly made me think how much more fun it was.
Even the Aussie humour better back then.
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I hope there was lots of diversity and inclusion and no jokes about minorities
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They're all the boxes I need ticked if I’m going to crack a smileI hope there was lots of diversity and inclusion and no jokes about minorities
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I probably didn’t start going into cafe’s regularly until maybe 2013 or 14.
I am interested in how/if the cafe experience has changed since the 90s/00s? How was the average cafe different to the average cafe today?
I am interested in how/if the cafe experience has changed since the 90s/00s? How was the average cafe different to the average cafe today?
Recon there were many more low budget cafes with cheaper, simpler options.
Nice enough food like sandwiches and so forth but not too fancy.
With wages and especially rents as they are now you probably can't justify a simple cafe like that anymore. A bit sad really
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There was a divide between the Greek Caffe and Italian ones and then the deli style where a pot of tea , flat white and a cappuccino were your drink options with a spider for the kids
Sandwiches and a pie/pasty with sauce were your meal options
Depends a lot on where in the country you are
In NSW in the 1990s the industry was pretty commodified - there weren’t a ton of cafes, and the coffee wasn’t really the thing that brought people through the door. Everyone served the same beans (usually Vittoria). My mum is an expat Victorian coffee snob, but I remember at that time it mostly just involved her avoiding the cafes that made dishwater and going to anywhere there was an old Italian guy running the espresso machine. Can’t count the number of times she moaned about missing Melbourne coffee.
In the 2000s coffee became more third wave - we started to see local roasters pop up and a small number of cafes started selling themselves primarily on making really, really good coffee with locally roasted beans. Last 10-15 years has been about good coffee becoming gradually more ubiquitous and specialised.
Other cities will be different. My benchmark for a good coffee culture is being able to walk into a random cafe and expect to get a good cup of coffee. Melbourne I could do that 20 years ago. Sydney, probably only in the last 5 years. Brisbane, I still can’t.
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Mum was a nurse at St Vincent’s in the 70s, she always talks about getting off shift and making the trek up to Pellegrini’s
I get the impression it was very much a Melbourne thing though
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It existed we just didn't notice it I suppose. My folks are coffee people too, we never had instant it was always filtered coffee, one of my old mates still says he'd never had a cup of non instant until he stayed at our place on a boarders exeat.
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I wonder if the decline in smoking has lead to a rise in people caring more about how their coffee tastes. You probably aren’t too fussed if your morning brew is overpowered by the taste of marlboro reds.
In my local shops I think the first cafe opened 30 years ago, it didn't last long. Now there are 5 and all seem to be going great guns. There's also a wine bar for those show offs who won't drink at the RSL.
there is this theory that any consumer good naturally moves through waves of adoption
the first wave is where it moves from novelty to a readily-available commodity
the second wave is where use of the commodified good is fully embedded and widespread in the market
the third wave is where consumer knowledge of the good increases to the point that it is no longer a commodity, and the market can be segmented
it's happened with coffee but also beer, wine, clothes, cars, consumer electronics - so maybe specialty coffee was just a natural consequence of coffee becoming ubiquitous
people are now talking about fourth wave coffee being socially conscious coffee but that just seems like a marketing gimmick to me - I would class that as just another aspect of the third wave
in the 80s/90s you could still go to Holly's Cafe in KMart
Crinkle cut chips with brown gravy was the bomb!
Crinkle cut chips with brown gravy was the bomb!
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I didn't drink coffee in the 90s and even when I did in the noughties I don't recall cafes being much of a thing, they've only exploded in the last decade.
Disappointing not to see Frank Burnside, Tosh Lines or Bob Cryer involved in that, I can only recognise a couple of people from the show there.
Disappointing not to see Frank Burnside, Tosh Lines or Bob Cryer involved in that, I can only recognise a couple of people from the show there.
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My grandma was a middle-aged divorcee and during my childhood she had a cafe or eatery she’d hang in for a bit each day. I remember having a lot of spiders. That was how she made friends and kept social. Holidays with her you’d spend a chunk of time in there.
In small towns cafes and eateries were less common. They’d pop up for a bit with some milkshakes and cool food and friendly owners, but it was the chip (/chicken) shops, the pizza shop, bowlo bistro and the Chinese that survived generally. I recall my town did have a Swagman, that sort of RSL/antiques/church town culture for older folk morning tea and meetings n such. This town didn’t have a proper big supermarket until after I left home, you had to travel 20km into town for that, so you didn’t have that day-trip weekly shop and library culture going which cafes would feast on. The more regional center, closer to city and more year-round tourism, then you get the cafe and more diverse eatery culture
I’m not a cafe/restaurant person myself (eat to live, instant coffee, like my own company, thrifty), it’s nice to have a regular place like that but easily cut from my life.
In small towns cafes and eateries were less common. They’d pop up for a bit with some milkshakes and cool food and friendly owners, but it was the chip (/chicken) shops, the pizza shop, bowlo bistro and the Chinese that survived generally. I recall my town did have a Swagman, that sort of RSL/antiques/church town culture for older folk morning tea and meetings n such. This town didn’t have a proper big supermarket until after I left home, you had to travel 20km into town for that, so you didn’t have that day-trip weekly shop and library culture going which cafes would feast on. The more regional center, closer to city and more year-round tourism, then you get the cafe and more diverse eatery culture
I’m not a cafe/restaurant person myself (eat to live, instant coffee, like my own company, thrifty), it’s nice to have a regular place like that but easily cut from my life.
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i think Big W had one aswell
Yes but they all went with the conventional shoestring cut fries which are inferior on terms of dipping your fries into the gravy.
The curves of the crinkle cut giving a much superior chip to gravy ratio.
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Department Store.
Pretty sure smoking in Supermarkets wasn't allowed due to open food in the Meat Department back then.
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Kmart was a variety store or a hypermarket back then. About 15 years ago the stores were revamped (to their detriment I would argue) and I remember when our local one reopened after an extended period of being renovated and the lady at the door proudly saying, “We’re a department store now!”
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