Saturday 4 August 2012

Going birko

Quick note on an old bit of aussie slang.

Basically this is a brand of water boiling electric jug. So without any thermostat to shut it off, when it boils it gets rather excited and agitated.

So it goes birko

2 comments:

Colin MacKellar said...

So, nothing to do with going berserk - but gave me the flovour of it anyway.

Andrew said...

Oh, the memories. We always associated the phrase 'going birko ' with these open top kettles. Heating milk drinks was an adventure.