What are you eating?

So here's a question; if you had to choose one picture with which to represent a stereotypical Aussie meal, what would it be? I am facing this issue today. Yes, these are the kind of mind-bending dilemmas encountered by a foreign language teacher. Having spoken to various representatives of my current country of residence it would appear that the Japanese would generally say Aussies eat a lot of bread, meat and, when bread is in short supply, potatoes. That's why we are all so large. And despite my best efforts to change these opinions by pointing out that Australia has quite a large population of people without British ancestory, for whom eating rice-based meals everyday is not completely foreign - they simply refuse to budge from their original impression. I begin to wonder why I even bother trying to explain the apparent intricacies of multiculturalism and just let them keep thinking that Australia is a homogenous society of Brits with funny accents. But for some reason, everytime someone makes some erroneous statement about my country I feel compelled to correct them. But it does annoy me just as much, I should add, when Aussies tell me that the Japanese all live in paper houses and are shorter than your average 10 year old. Let's just clear up now that while the Japanese average height is still a few centimetres shorter than the Western one, the Japs are getting taller! I have seen men taller than me - they are harder to come across than at home, but they do exist, particularly in the younger generation. And I would be considered tall at home too, let's not forget. There are plenty of short men in Australia too, when viewed from my height!