In our exploration of South Australian icons, the team was given a rundown of South Australian culinary delicacies. None of us were in a position to try a pea floater, and who of us knew that Nippy’s iced coffee was from here?

We later purchased fruchocs for dessert – a dried apricot with chocolate coat developed to use up excess fruit from the orchards. This was a win. With most sweets nowadays cosmopolitan, regional specialties endure for pride and memory. Our predilection for them stems more from love of time and place than inherent flavour. Cross the border into South Australia and this unheard of lolly starts to appear in every petrol station and supermarket. Their popularity speaks of the people's fondness for this land and community, grown up amongst red trees and red earth in these borderlands between Australia’s Eastern metropolitan outgrowth, and the deep vast land hiding behind our civilisation.