For Aussies only. Why are Queenslanders called banana benders and victorians called Mexicans?

Question

Is it true in the aussie dialect there are over 90 words for "vomit"?

Answer 1

New South Wales people call Victorians "mexicans" as they are south of the border. Queenslanders often use the same term for New South Wales people. Bananas are a major crop in Queensland.

There are many different expressions meaning "vomit', most of them coined by Barry Humphries for his "Adventures of Barry McKenzie". I doubt, however, there are 90 different words or expressions.

I was down by Manly Pier, drinkin' tubes of ice cold beer,
With a bucket full of prawns upon my knee,
When I swallowed the last prawn,
I had a technicolor yawn and I chundered in the old Pacific Sea.

Drink it up, drink it up, crack another dozen tubes and prawns with me,
If you want to throw your voice, mate you won't have any choice,
But to chunder in the Old Pacific Sea.

I was sittin in the surf, when a mate of mine called Murph,
Asked if he can crack a tube or two with me.
The bastard barely swallowed it,
When he went for the big split, and he chundered in the Old Pacific Sea.

Drink it up, drink it up, crack another dozen tubes and prawns with me,
If you want to throw your voice, mate you won't have any choice,
But to chunder in the Old Pacific Sea.

I've had liquid laughs in bars, and I've hurled from moving cars,
And I've chuckled when and where it suited me.
But if I could choose the spot,
To regurgitate me lot, then I'd chunder in the Old Pacific Sea.

Drink it up, drink it up, crack another dozen tubes and prawns with me,
If you want to throw your voice, mate you won't have any choice,
But to chunder in the Old Pacific Sea.

- Barry Humphries

Answer 2

Queensland was supposed to be banana land, but in fact more bananas are grown in New South Wales. New South Wales residents have also been called "corn stalks", don't ask me why.

South Australians were called crow eaters because in the 19th century farming was unwisely extended into a zone which was temporarily having "a run of good seasons". When the climate went back to normal, farmers in the zone became so poor that they were said to live by eating crows.

Western Australia is mostly sand. No further explanation is needed for "sand gropers" I think.

Words for vomit, most common are chunder, chuck or hurl, best is probably technicolor yawn. Mostly invented by B. Humphries in the 1960s, as already noted, who also favoured us with "pointing Percy at the porcelain", I believe.

Answer 3

Banana Bender

Answer 4

We call Australians from Queensland banana benders because they grow bananas up there. It isn't a term that applies to all Aussies though - it's too cold where I live for bananas!

Answer 5

firstly yes there are many many words for vomit- exactly how many i am not sure. although 90 does sounds about right

mexicans - south of the border (normally used by new south wales people who reside in the state above victoria

Banana benders again used by new south wales people refering to queenslanders from my understand it is due to the both the fact they think we as queenslanders are bent and also yellow. However we dont take it that way at all... lol

Nsw are also refered to as cocroaches or blues when it comes to sport each state is fiercely competitive hence the friendly rivalries

Answer 6

Nicknames:
Queensland either -
Banana Benders, because they're the ones that put the bend in bananas.
Cane Toads, because Qld is where this pest was first introduced to Australia.

West Australian -
Sandgropers

South Australian -
Crow Eaters

Northern Territory -
Territorians

New South Wales -
Cockroaches

Victoria -
Mexicans, because they're south of the border (down Mexico way), as the song goes.

Tasmania, either -
Taswegians
Apple Eaters, because they're from the Apple Isle. It's an island and they grow a lot of apples there.

Answer 7

Victorians live "south of the border", and Queenslanders are a little bent, like a banana!
I live in Nth Queensland, raised in Melbourne!

Answer 8

Don't forget the fact that Victorians are also called Mexicans because they're all trying to escape to a better life north over the border! lol

Answer 9

LOL! omg i neva knew that each state had a nickname. thats so funny!
he he im a mexican