Bushtucker

Macademia nuts - bushtucker

In Aussie slang “tucker” means food. And “bush” is the term Australians use for natural territory or wilderness.

Plants that grow locally and animals the Aborigines ate became known as bush tucker (or bushfoods, and tucker is another name for food).

The well-known Macademia nut is Aboriginal bushtucker. But there’s much more to learn about what Aborigines eat.

Bushfoods—native and wild foods—became an industry in Australia in the early 1980s.

There were bushfood restaurants, growers, and packagers of the popular native Australian foods. This industry expanded well beyond the early bushfood industry—macadamia plantations—of the late 1800s.