But a new favourite from the land where the 'barbie' rules supreme seems to have found its way onto the menu in English rugby league.
I'm talking about the 'chicken wing', which, contrary to its appetising nickname, is a particularly unsavoury tackling technique which has been making the headlines in the NRL over the last few weeks.
It involves the tackler forcing his victim's non-ball carrying arm behind his back, basically using it as a lever, a practice which carries an obvious threat of serious shoulder injury.
Finger licking good it ain't.
And this week we had the first case in this country, when Hull KR's Australian forward Clint Newton, one of the best imports in the competition this year, was found guilty of "conduct contrary to the spirit of the game" and fined £300 by the Rugby Football League's disciplinary committee.
The controversy has been added to by the fact that all the 'chicken wing' incidents we have seen so far have a common denominator: Melbourne Storm.
Storm prop Adam Blair sparked the controversy, making Brisbane's Michael Ennis scream in pain during a televised game by using the tactic.
Melbourne boss Craig Bellamy has consistently denied coaching players to perform the technique, despite employing a specialist wrestling coach.
Even so, it seems to be stretching the boundaries of coincidence that Newton, a Grand Final winner with the Storm in 2007, was the man to import it to these shores.
Bellamy is undoubtedly the best coach in the business at the moment, one who is genuinely pushing back existing boundaries on a range of fronts as he aims to keep the Storm at the top of the sport.
But he is winning few friends on either side of the world with his latest innovation.
Wayne Bennett, a coach who genuinely cares for the game as a whole, was furious after the Ennis incident, immediately calling for a clampdown to prevent a spate of copycat crimes.
And Bradford's Steve McNamara has already said it is a play we "don't need" in this country.
That much is obvious.
Newton may have got off lightly this time, but he surely shouldn't count on such leniency if he gets caught doing the same thing again.

YOU can imagine my surprise.
That well known athlete I avoided mentioning by name last week could complete his month-long stay at Castleford without actually playing a game of rugby league.
Really? Surely some mistake?
Apparently though, his dalliance with our great game was absolutely not - I repeat, not - a publicity stunt.
Yeah right.
The Tigers have undoubtedly amassed a mountain of newspaper cuttings over the last month.
But that's not a good thing when it makes our sport look like a cheap circus, which this has.
Can you imagine our muscly little friend turning up 'on trial' at Man Utd or Arsenal?
Quite.