quicko: dips

Last weekend my flatmate was organizing (look! I used "organizing" the Australian way without even meaning to -- she wasn't the leader getting everything together, she was just getting stuff together -- organizing it, they say) food for a picnic with friends and was chatting about what sort of dips they needed. Now, I am not a dip person myself (don't really do gunky foods), but I'm relatively sure that the selection she mentioned would have sounded strange to most American ears: "rocket, 'baa-zil' or one of those exotic Thai dips."

Rocket is a kind of leafy green, "baa-zil" is their pronunciation of "bay-zil" and exotic Thai dips are quite easily accessible at grocery stores here.