We do love barbies but I'm Australian and I dunno a single Aussie who even thinks about, much less cares about Paul Hogan. He's not part of our public consciousness at all, much less worshipped like a god. I think I speak for all Australians when I say we enjoyed him in Crocodile Dundee 30 something years ago but are still annoyed with him for coining the term "shrimp on the barbie" as some kind of Australian saying, when we don't even use the word shrimp in Australia. Over here they're called prawns and I've genuinely never seen them cooked on a barbie. It was an ad campaign targeted at Americans. Shrimp on the barbie and Paul Hogan's cultural relevance are in the same category as Fosters lager and Outback steakhouse (faux Aussie things that we don't have which were engineered for the US market). The whole deadly animals meme is total BS as well. The only animal an average Australian encounters day to day is a golden retriever. The bugs and muslims are legit issues, though.
We do love barbies but I'm Australian and I dunno a single Aussie who even thinks about, much less cares about Paul Hogan. He's not part of our public consciousness at all, much less worshipped like a god. I think I speak for all Australians when I say we enjoyed him in Crocodile Dundee 30 something years ago but are still annoyed with him for coining the term "shrimp on the barbie" as some kind of Australian saying, when we don't even use the word shrimp in Australia. Over here they're called prawns and I've genuinely never seen them cooked on a barbie. It was an ad campaign targeted at Americans. Shrimp on the barbie and Paul Hogan's cultural relevance are in the same category as Fosters lager and Outback steakhouse (faux Aussie things that we don't have which were engineered for the US market). The whole deadly animals meme is total BS as well. The only animal an average Australian encounters day to day is a golden retriever. The bugs and muslims are legit issues, though.