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Sydney Morning Herald
21-07-2025
- General
- Sydney Morning Herald
El Jannah's new store redraws Sydney's ‘Red Rooster Line'
Depending on where you live in Sydney, your local chicken shop might serve tabbouleh and chips, Portuguese tomato rice or green goddess salad. That's because Sydney isn't just divided by postcodes – it's also divided by poultry. In 2016, Twitter user Big Jez proposed an interesting theory – if you plot Red Rooster locations across Sydney, a near-perfect boundary emerges separating the city's north east from the south west. Big Jez called it the 'Red Rooster Line,' but it's also known in social policy circles as the Latte Line, the Colorbond Fence and the Quinoa Curtain. Running diagonally from Windsor to Carlton (later revised to include the airport store in Mascot), it carves the city in two, tracing inequalities – not just in Buffalo Crunch packs – but also in education, employment, property prices and even HSC results. The idea gained traction a year later when Honi Soit editors Natassia Chrysanthos and Ann Ding expanded on it in the University of Sydney's student newspaper. They argued it wasn't just Red Rooster defining Sydney's geography – other chains were also shaping the city's boundaries, reflecting divisions of class and culture.
The Age
21-07-2025
- General
- The Age
El Jannah's new store redraws Sydney's ‘Red Rooster Line'
Depending on where you live in Sydney, your local chicken shop might serve tabbouleh and chips, Portuguese tomato rice or green goddess salad. That's because Sydney isn't just divided by postcodes – it's also divided by poultry. In 2016, Twitter user Big Jez proposed an interesting theory – if you plot Red Rooster locations across Sydney, a near-perfect boundary emerges separating the city's north east from the south west. Big Jez called it the 'Red Rooster Line,' but it's also known in social policy circles as the Latte Line, the Colorbond Fence and the Quinoa Curtain. Running diagonally from Windsor to Carlton (later revised to include the airport store in Mascot), it carves the city in two, tracing inequalities – not just in Buffalo Crunch packs – but also in education, employment, property prices and even HSC results. The idea gained traction a year later when Honi Soit editors Natassia Chrysanthos and Ann Ding expanded on it in the University of Sydney's student newspaper. They argued it wasn't just Red Rooster defining Sydney's geography – other chains were also shaping the city's boundaries, reflecting divisions of class and culture.
