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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Rebecca Shaw

The deliciously delusional popularity of Toowoomba pasta – a viral seafood dish inexplicably named for my home town

Toowoomba pasta
‘When I spotted Toowoomba pasta, I was intrigued to discover that prawns are the hero ingredient,’ Rebecca Shaw writes. Photograph: Andrea Love/Eatnik

One of the things that happens when you grow up somewhere that isn’t a big city, and then you move to a big city (much like Babe, pig in the city), is that you inevitably carry your home town with you.

Regardless of your feelings towards it, whether the memories are sweet or traumatic, your eye will always be drawn to any news story, event, achievement – basically any mention of your previous home or people from there.

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