# The most iconic Australian foods

The foods Australians claim as their own, from the footy meat pie to Vegemite on toast, picked from the ABC's Australia Day list and Aussie food guides.

- 2161 votes · 16 items
- Mar 24, 2026 · Zoe T.
- https://even.best/en/l/141/the-most-iconic-australian-foods

## Top 15

1. **Meat pie** (252 · ▲268 ▼16) — Hand-sized pie of minced beef and gravy, eaten with tomato sauce at the footy; Australians eat about 12 a year each.
2. **Vegemite on toast** (203 · ▲210 ▼7) — Yeast extract spread invented in Melbourne in 1922, spread thinly on buttered toast.
3. **Lamington** (146 · ▲159 ▼13) — Square sponge dipped in chocolate and rolled in desiccated coconut; National Lamington Day is 21 July.
4. **Pavlova** (138 · ▲154 ▼16) — Meringue with a crisp shell and marshmallowy centre topped with cream and fruit, fought over with New Zealand.
5. **Tim Tams** (104 · ▲124 ▼20) — Arnott's chocolate biscuits since 1964, used for the 'Tim Tam slam'.
6. **Barramundi** (98 · ▲110 ▼12) — Native Australian fish, grilled or as fish and chips.
7. **Barbecued snags** (85 · ▲119 ▼34) — Sausages on the barbie, especially the Bunnings sausage sizzle in a slice of bread with onions.
8. **Anzac biscuits** (80 · ▲97 ▼17) — Oat, golden syrup and coconut biscuits linked to Anzac Day.
9. **Chicken parmigiana** (79 · ▲98 ▼19) — The 'parma' or 'parmy': breaded chicken with tomato sauce and cheese, a pub classic.
10. **Smashed avocado on toast** (74 · ▲95 ▼21) — Melbourne café brunch staple that went global.
11. **Kangaroo steak** (71 · ▲81 ▼10) — Lean native red meat, grilled rare.
12. **Sausage roll** (67 · ▲85 ▼18) — Flaky pastry around sausage meat, from every bakery.
13. **Flat white** (61 · ▲76 ▼15) — Espresso with velvety microfoam, claimed by both Australia and New Zealand.
14. **Chiko Roll** (50 · ▲67 ▼17) — Deep-fried roll of cabbage, barley and beef created in Bendigo in 1951.
15. **Fairy bread** (46 · ▲71 ▼25) — Buttered white bread with hundreds and thousands, at every kids' party.
16. **Pie floater** (41 · ▲64 ▼23) — South Australian meat pie served upside down in pea soup.

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