AY Honors/Aboriginal Lore/Answer Key

"Bushfood" is a less colloquial form of the Australian word "bushtucker", which is a combination of the Australian slang word "bush", meaning wilderness, and "tucker", meaning food. Thus the word tends to refer to any Australian native food, although it sometimes is used with the specific connotation of "food found in the Outback while living on the land".

Bushtucker therefore includes both plant and animal foods. Examples of Australian native animal foods (meat) include Kangaroo, Emu and Crocodile. These meats are widely consumed in Australian restaurants. Other animals, for example the Goanna lizard, were eaten by Aboriginal Australians and thus qualify as bushtucker in every sense of the word.

Examples of Australian native plant foods include the Quandong (Santalum acuminatum), Bush Raisin (Solanum centrale), Warrigal Greens (Tetragonia tetragonioides, or New Zealand Spinach), and Tasmanian Mountain Pepper (Tasmannia lanceolata).

External links

• A Bushfood/Bushtucker resource site
• Australian Bushfood and Native Medicine Forum