Checking the Boundary Fence

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Rate Your Plate

Curious about what we'll be eating on the trip? So are we! We decided to start up "Rate Your Plate."

You'll find our plate raitings of various meals during the trip. We will be rating the following (or anything else that we feel like rating!):


Pies: Value for money, taste, amount of "meat," serving tempurature etc
Lamb cuttlets: Finding lamb cuttlets these days is hard enough!
T-bone: How it's cooked, sides included, size etc
Bacon and eggs: Amount of bacon, ability to actually cook eggs, sides included (without specifically ordering them)
Camp meal: We are predicting some ordinary camp meals, but rest assured they will be rated!


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Bowen
Pie
$4.00
Mince
Square, on the small side
Warm
Pastry too thick, no meat chunks in the chunky meat pie. Shop clean, friendly staff, awesome cream buns!
6/10
   
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Cairns
Bacon and Egg Burger
$6.95
fat only, no meat
Large
Luke warm
Crap bun, eggs not cooked, crap bacon (might not have been bacon)
1/10
   
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Bramwell Junction
Bacon and Egg Sandwich
$8.00
Yummy bacon (everybody loves bacon)
Sandwich
Just right
Nice and fresh, lots of bbq sauce
7/10
   
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Bramwell Junction
Steak Sandwich
$11.00
minute steak, plus lettuce, bettroot, tomato and carrot
Sandwich
Just right
It must have been good, it is the first time KC has eaten salad on anything!
8/10
   
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Musgrave Station
Barramundi and Chips
$24.00
Massive lump of locally caught Barra with huge salad and chips
BIG
Just right
Awesome feed so far from anywhere! Would probably cost $40 in Brisbane
9/10
   
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Barron Valley Pub, Atherton
Rump (daily special)
$18.00
Massive lump of rump - most certainally roadkill!
BIG
average
Dodgee meal, meat was rough as and mash potato was ordinary
2/10
   
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Undara
Aussie native animals
$38.00
emu, kangaroo and crocodile
average
perfect
All very interesting flaavours, although we all thought the emu was the best
7/10
   
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Mt Surprise
Pie (home made)
$4.00
Chunky, fresh meat (could have been roadkill)
BIG
Little bit cold
Great pie, only problem was it was micorwaved as they couldn't keep them fresh
7/10
   
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Normanton Bakery
Pie
$4.00
Meet content good
Average
Hell would be cooler! Volcanic!
Way to hot, we let them cool for 30mins and still burnt our tongues. Temp was the killer for their rating
5.5/10
   
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Normanton Cvan park
T-Bone from local butcher
$18.00/kilo
100% local grown moo cow
Massive, 30cm across!
Perfect, because we cooked it
Probably a little too much beer was consumed before we ate the steak, struggling to remember details
7/10 (we think!)
   
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Adel's Grove
Bacdon and Egg Burger
$8.00
Bacon
na
Bit cold
Crap burger, bacon was burnt, chips on the side tasted more like fish. Not very nice
3/10
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Hell's Gate Roadhouse
Mrs Macs Pie
$4.00
Mrs Macs Lips and Tongues
Always the same
Could have cooked a steak on it!
Mrs Macs Pies, what can we say... Surprisingly good, way too hot. Roadhouse had to start up their generator just to microwave them for us!
5/10
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Booroolola BP
Bacon and Egg Sanger
$5.00
Bacon
Sandwich
Good, nice and fresh
Good bacon and egg sanger, especially for a BP servo in the middle of nowhere!
6.5/10
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Roper Bar Servo
Bacon and Egg Sanger
$5.00
Bacon
Sandwich
Perfect, freshly made
Great sanger, another top meal from a servo/shop/eatery
7/10
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Bucking Bull at Katherine
Roast pork, vegies, mashed potato, rice, gravy
$11.00
Roast Pork
HUGE plate of food
Bit cold
Great value for money, huge plate full of food. We only got there at 3:30pm so it was a bit cold.
6/10 (plus 1 for the entertainment provided by the locals!)
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Mae's Eatery in Pine Creek
Bacon and Egg Burger with salad
$5.00
Bacon
Average
Perfect
Great value for money, we only ordered a bacon and egg burger and got the full salad treatment as well!
7.5/10, recommended if you're up this way!
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Jabiru Bakery
Steak and Mushroom
$5.00
Steak
Average
Average
Dodgee pie, mushrooms not cut up, no steak, tasted like a shoe.
3.5/10
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Ben's Bakery in Darwin
Pie
$5.00
Steak
Average
Perfect
Top pie, top shop serving all sorts of home made goodies. Definite recommendation!
6.5/10
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Kitty O'Sheas in Darwin
Rib on the bone
$21.00
Steak
Huge!
Perfect
Great meal, nice staff, huge steak with lots of sides. Definite recommendation!
8/10
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Outback Jacks in Darwin
Wagyu
$38.00
Wagyu Rump Steak
Pathetic
Cold
Pathetic excuse for a rump steak, let alone Wagyu. First meal Jason has ever sent back. Wouldn't feed it to a dog
-3/10 (that's a MINUS 3!)
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Katherine Golf Club
Rissoles (lunch special)
$15.00
Rissole meat
Average size
Average
Not a bad meal at all for the daily special. Nice gravy, cold beer
6.5/10
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Camp cookin at Kununarra
Lamb Chops, Rump, Pasta and Vegies
$26.00
Lamb and Rump
Average
Perfect, we cooked it!
Best camp meal to date, cooked on the caravan park BBQ with steak and lamb from the local butcher
8/10
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Barra at ElQuestro
Barra and chips
$32.00
Barramundi
Good (considering where we were eating it)
Perfect
Brilliant meal, worth the money considering where we were! Still doesn't beat the Musgrave station Barra (but very close!). Recommended!
8.5/10
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Scones at Elenbrae
Scone
$4.00 for 1
none (hopefully!)
Average, but expected more then 1 scone!
Perfect
Great scone, should have been great sconeS (ie more then 1!!).
7/10
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Robbo's at Lennard River
Mrs Macs Pie
$4.00
Mrs Macs lips and tongue
Standard
Perfect
Cooked lovingly by Robbo himself in microwave. Made sure we didn't eat it straight away!
5.5/10 (for caring)
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Fitzroy Crossing Lodge
Barra and Chiicken Snitz
Way too expesive!
Good
Not big enough for price
good
Way too expensive but still good. Not value for money
6/10
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Home cookin at Pandanus Apartments
Roast lamb and vegies
Great, bought on special from Coles
Lots!
Perfect
Perfect
Great meal, might not beat the Musgrave barra (but close!) tho. Lots of love poored in, great meal thanks Greggy!
8.9/10