AB (food)

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An AB as prepared by the Blue and White Cafe in North Adelaide

The AB is a type of fast food from Adelaide which has been popular with university students since its creation. It is made up of chips and yiros meat, covered with tomato, barbecue, garlic sauce and tzatziki. Its somewhat grotesque appearance is the source of the name "AB", for "abortion", or "after-birth"^{[citation needed]}. It is also known to be sold as an Atomic Bomb or Dog's Breakfast at other Adelaide eateries. It is commonly eaten after or during a night of drinking, or as a hangover food. While $9 is the normal price for an AB, it is merely the minimum possible size: ABs in excess of $350 have reportedly been consumed.

[edit] Rivalry

Only two North Adelaide take-out cafés currently serve the AB; the North Adelaide Burger Bar (commonly called the Red and White) and the Blue and White, which are both on O'Connell Street within three storefronts of each other. Both claim to be the inventor of the AB, and both claim to make a superior AB to the other. The main difference is that the Red and White includes tzatziki sauce whilst the Blue and White does not.

Due to an inter-college rivalry between St. Mark's, who usually patronise the Red and White, and the other major North Adelaide residential colleges (St. Ann's, Lincoln and Aquinas), residents of those colleges tend to favour the Blue and White.

[edit] Trivia

In 2005 the band 'Fix My Chariot' (from St Mark's College) won a $200 AB from the Blue and White Cafe in the inaugural Inter-College Battle of the Bands held by Lincoln College. This AB was consumed with gusto by St Mark's Collegians, notwithstanding their loyalty to the Red and White.