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Cahill’s caramel sauce and Sizzler’s cheese toast : food that made us – Sydney Morning Herald
“I had so much cheese toast I threw up in the carpark”. Sound familiar? How Black Stump, Cahills and Sizzler introduced a greedy Sydney to eating out.
By the late 1960s, Cahills had grown to 25 restaurants, all but one of them in the city, and each with its own ethnic decor.
If Sydney in the 1960s can be accused of being a monotone place constrained by the White Australia Policy and limited international travel Cahills offered a gaudy simulacrum of that missing world.
Particularly popular was The Dutch Village, with dummies of Dutch girls wearing clogs, a giant windmill and a display of plastic tulips. There was also a Mexican Inn in the Imperial…
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