male-bonding in Australian fiction?

[Henry M]

Buying bread from a man in Brussels.
He was six-foot-four and full of muscles.
I said, "Do you speak my language?"
He just smiled, and gave me a vegamite sandwich.
...
I said to the man, "are you trying to tempt me
because I come from the land of plenty?"

And he said:
"Do you come from a land down under?"

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6130NX20100204

AsB4,

Henry Mu
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