Carpetbag steak
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Carpetbag steak is a uniquely Australian dish that was first popularised in Sydney around 1950.
It consists of a scotch fillet steak stuffed with Sydney rock oysters, a small but exceptionally rich and creamy species.
Most steak and oyster lovers have one of two reactions to this dish, either delight or disgust. In a scene from Richard Condon's novel The Manchurian Candidate, the villainous Eleanor Shaw Iselin eagerly consumes a carpetbag steak, while her son Raymond Shaw remarks on the vulgarity of both the dish and the diner.