Odd food in OZ/NZ

Rabies

Not that odd, but people in NZ love pies.

Pie pie pie pie.
They can't live with out pie.
Crazy!

Ok, the pies are good. But it doesn't beat a breakdat roll

I have yet to have a Hangi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C4%81ngi

But I will at some stage. Sounds really tasty.

hussey

Vegimite
:eek:

Xavi6

+1 to Vegemite. Absolutely manky stuff.

I'm nominating pumpkin. Wtf is the obsession with it?! Pumpkin soup, pumpkin bread....it's in everything! And it's also horrible.

JæKæ

Xavi6 wrote: »

I'm nominating pumpkin. Wtf is the obsession with it?! Pumpkin soup, pumpkin bread....it's in everything! And it's also horrible.

I think they got the whole pumpkin thing from the yanks. They love their butternut squash and pumpkins.

What about the Aussie burger though, basically a burger with a fried egg on it

hussey

Beetroot on burgers are the way of teh future!!!!!
Aussie burgers are awesome, beef, bacon, beetroot, egg & cheese = Heaven

BraziliaNZ

Xavi come on we're not going to listen to your opinions on vegetables!! Roasted pumpkin, roasted butternut squash, kumara etc. are all DELICIOUS and a welcome addition to the boring sunday roasts we have with 17 variations of potato.

NZ was all about the pies. I never met anyone who actually had a hungi though, even the maori cuzzy bros I knew. My maori mate makes "boil-ups" sometimes, which is basically a load of cheap lamb bones with bits of meat on it thrown in a big pot with cress and other crap and "dough-boys". It's very poor food really, like something you'd eat during the famine, but he reckons it's "man food".

Other maoris I worked with, fat bastards of course, would make pie sandwiches at lunchtime, i.e. a meat pie between 2 slices of bread with maybe some sauce and butter in there too. Talk about a heart attack sandwich, cuz.

Coileach dearg

Pumkin soup is quite nice and good for you too!

They're mad into Lamingtons and any AFL games I've been to I see them eating these weird deep fried sausage things that have some sort of cheese wrapped around it, I'm not sure the name for them but they look rank.

watna

The whole NZ "morning tea" thing is weird but great. If anone leaves work or anything is to be celebrated we get a morning tea. Which involves getting loads of sweet and savoury nibbles (as rabies said mini pies always feature heavily!) in at 10.30am. What's awesomer is I'm the one that orders all the food so I just get what I like best!

My father-in-law has been to a lot of hangis. He teaches in a Maori school and on all trips away they have these. He said he's bring me to one which it'd be great. He said it makes the meat so tasty it falls off the bone.

Lambingtons are horrible. As is lolly cake. Can't understand the obsession with them.

What's yummy in NZ is L & P, pineapple lumps, grainwaves and Hell Pizza.

BraziliaNZ

hell pizza is quite good. Not a fan of L&P. There's a town up north in the Bay of Plenty where it comes from, and it has a giant L&P bottle ooooooh, that's it's claim to fame, it's not even that big anyway, I think it's in kati kati on the way to the corromandel.

Crumble Froo

watna is suffering severe diet coke withdrawal symptoms... L&P happened to be there when she needed it most

spent my afternoon makeing pikelets with the kids today, god those things are good.
love my morning and afternoon kai, excellent mealtime ideas :P
Hell Pizza is expensive but worth every penny. excellent veggie section too, and the vegan one is delicious.
pineapple lumps are awesome.. ihave no idea why everyone was telling me about perky nanas when i got here, when what they really should have been doing was talking about pineapple lumps. i love how they put marshmallow in so much stuff too. mmmmmmmm....... marshmallow...

and hey... is it just my ignorance, or are those little red sausages... 'cheerios'... a kiwi thing?

BraziliaNZ

they call those sausages "little boys" too, how f*cked up is that?!?!

Crumble Froo

im trying to remember what they call the ones with purple 'skin' instead of red... twas something odd...

tallaght01

and WHAT is their obsession with avocado????

BraziliaNZ

i LOVE avocado, never ate it till I went to NZ, now I put it in all my sandwiches and on burgers etc., it's a wonder fruit

Crumble Froo

i admit, i'd never heard of it til i got here, then all of a sudden, it was in season, and everywhere.

hussey

Ditto! I thought I was just ignorant when it came to some veg that are really popular over here ..

Chicken and avocado rocks.
Roast pumpkin & sweet potato rocks - esp in winter
Oh and eggplant too!

Xavi6

I feel sick reading this.

/goes off to get a Mrs. Mac's meat pie

watna

Has anyone else had a feijoa? They're quite strange green fruit.

Crumble Froo

nearly forgot...

fush n chups! it's all burgers and that back home, but they're big into their fish here.\
and the way they wrap them! a brown paper bag? not for kiwis. you either just open it all up in the middle of the floor, or poke a hole in the top, and nibble through there

Crumble Froo

watna wrote: »

Has anyone else had a feijoa? They're quite strange green fruit.

oh, oh, wait. that's what i was thinking about when i was talking about avocado

BraziliaNZ

feijoas are nice yeah. You can get feijoa vodka there too. They don't know what feijoas are in Australia.
Yeah fush 'n' chups are really good over there, I thought the fish in NZ was fantastic, much better than at home and you can get a nice piece of fish for dirt cheap. Up around the BOP has the best f&c shops i've ever been in.

spurious

Hangi is v yum - if you get a chance, try it.

What about those honey kiwis that are yellow on the inside - very nice.

Mahatma coat

Mmmmm Pie, I love Mrs Mac's Beef Cheese and bacon, well basicly anything that comes out of the smoko van in the morning. pie floaters, thats a pie, with peas and sauce filled into the gap at the top, Delicious.

also I like Lift.

Xavi6

Lift is good but I'm more of a Solo man myself.

And Mountain Dew. God I love Mountain Dew during the summer.

Rabies

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

feijoas are nice yeah. You can get feijoa vodka there too.

42 Below do the Feijoa vodka, along with manuka honey, kiwi fruit and passion fruit flavours.

Great vodka

I like Golden Kiwis over the normal ones we usualy get in Ireland. Nice and sweet.

Ronan|Raven

What's yummy in NZ is L & P, and Hell Pizza.

Oh god yes! I am going back to New Zealand in February for a few months. Have some time left on my WHV from two years ago. Staying with my old flatmates in Welly, first port of call is Hells Pizza, a large mordor and a bottle of l&p well worth the 5000 mile flight

watna

Ronan|Raven wrote: »

Oh god yes! I am going back to New Zealand in February for a few months. Have some time left on my WHV from two years ago. Staying with my old flatmates in Welly, first port of call is Hells Pizza, a large mordor and a bottle of l&p well worth the 5000 mile flight

We're out of l & P and now I really want some. I don't want it enough to go to the shops though!

My hell pizza of choice is the Grimm. Chicken, cream cheese, apricot sauce, spring onions and pinenuts. You certainly wouldn't get that anywhere at home! It puts Dominoes to shame.

p.s. it's about 11,000 miles from Dublin to Wellington. Still worth it for l & p though!

Rabies

L&P *blugh*

I'm a fan of Chi' Herbal Water. MMMMmmmmm
And 42 Below Feijoa Vodka when out in the pub

watna

Rabies wrote: »

L&P *blugh*

I'm a fan of Chi' Herbal Water. MMMMmmmmm
And 42 Below Feijoa Vodka when out in the pub

I'm going to try some of this feijoa vodka. I'm presuming you can get it in Wellywood.

Rabies

Feijoas have a strong flavour, the vodka has a flavourable taste to it.

Ask for it in a bar the next time you're out.
A lot of people drink it with apple juice.

I find it tastes great with a couple of mint leaves muddled on 3 lime ledges and served with lemonade. Great summer drink.

http://www.42below.com/

gabigeist

hussey wrote: »

Ditto! I thought I was just ignorant when it came to some veg that are really popular over here ..

Chicken and avocado rocks.
Roast pumpkin & sweet potato rocks - esp in winter
Oh and eggplant too!

Wait till it gets to Christmas. They seem to all eat fish on christmas day... its sick really.

Jumpy

tallaght01 wrote: »

and WHAT is their obsession with avocado????

Because we can actually grow them

Theres one thing I really miss from Aus though.

Party Pies. Tiny square pies filled with delicious meat. Mmmmm.

Also a recommendation for any who have no done so.

Get a load of calamari and seafood sticks from a chicken shop (or "chipper" as ye call it)

Ronan|Raven

watna wrote: »

p.s. it's about 11,000 miles from Dublin to Wellington. Still worth it for l & p though!

Aye forgot that bit two 5000 mile odd hops for me the last time, London - Los Angeles - Auckland all in one go

Crumble Froo

closer to 13,000 miles if you go by the east... 11,000 as the crow flies... but low budget airlines dont tend to take the crow's route :P

WhiteWashMan

chicken parma.

im sorry. what?

a fried breaded chicken breast, with what amounts to tomato, cheese and ham pizza topping on top.

and yet, quite tasty


and ice coffee.
oh yes on the ice coffee.

thumbs up on the ice coffee.

yes. indeed.

Crumble Froo

a friend (also not from here, but living here longer than me) mentioned deep fried icecream, or at least fried icecream to me the other night. i will let ye know how awesome it is after i've tried it, but it sounds awesome.

also, memphis meltdown.

awesome.

Procasinator

Have to chime in to say: Vegemite is awesome!

Crumble Froo

*reclaims procasinator's irish passport*

you wont be needing htat anymore.

The Sweeper

Vegemite is lovely, but you have to have very, VERY small amounts. For instance, the current advert where the bloke is dispensing it like a swirly from an ice-cream tap, with his open mouth underneath, makes me retch.

The snot block. Charming name for a custard slice I think - about 1.5 inches of gelatinous, set custard between two slices of puff pastry sprinkled with icing sugar. Then cut into 2" serving squares. Haven't been able to eat it since I heard it called a snot block tbh.

Procasinator

Crumble Froo wrote: »

*reclaims procasinator's irish passport*

you wont be needing htat anymore.

Haha

Disclaimer: I'm a native of Australian that moved to Ireland, which probably explains my lack of taste. I do have an Irish passport too though, and I'll be needing that back *yoink*.

Jumpy

Has anyone had a Kranski yet?

I miss their bright red sausagy goodness.

sheepshagger

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

hell pizza is quite good. Not a fan of L&P. There's a town up north in the Bay of Plenty where it comes from, and it has a giant L&P bottle ooooooh, that's it's claim to fame, it's not even that big anyway, I think it's in kati kati on the way to the corromandel.

The place your thinking of his Paeroa, L&P stands for 'Lemon and Paeroa'. . as its from there and it has a lemon flavour.

I miss the stuff. . pity you can't buy it in Dublin

The Sweeper

The kranski... only thing worse: the CHEESE kransky...

b3t4

- Feijoa vodka and apple juice is yummy.
- L&P is yummy too.
- Pies are good. It didn't quite match a breakfast roll when really, really hungover.
- I don't get the pumpkin thing either. I like the soup but I don't like it roasted.
- Kumara is another thing I haven't gotten used to. I don't like that it's so sweet. Uck comes to mind.
- I've become a fan of pineapple lumps. The first time I tasted them I thought they were bleurgh but now it's all smiles when I get offered them.
- Morning teas are great. I'm off sick from work today and am missing one. boooo
- Vegemite is the span of satan haha The OH loves the stuff and every morning he has penut butter and vegemite toast. Typing that made me vomit in my mouth a little.
- I love how the fruit is so fresh and seasonal. I couldn't believe how juicy and fresh the apples were when I first came over here. It sounds daft but it was the first time I've eaten an apple and gone 'so apples can taste like apple juice' haha
- Strawberries and chocolate at Christmas is delicious.
- Kiwi wine has got to be the best wine in the world. I can't wait for the summer when I'll be getting back into the Pinot Noir. It's very much been merlot and shiraz/syrah the last few months.
- I LOVE that you can order bubbles (sparkling wine) by the glass!!!
- I'm not a huge fan of Hell pizza. I much prefer the pizzas from pizza pomodoro in Welly.
- I do miss chocolate though. It just doesn't taste quite the same here.

I love Kiwiland
A.

Larianne

Ferg burger in Queenstown! Omg the biggest burger I've ever tried to eat and I got the smallest one! Boyfriend made the mistake of ordering a side onion rings- I made him eat it all for being so greedy!! heheheh

Roasted pumpkin, oh yeah!! Soup, oh no!!

Chicken and Avocado is the best thing ever, could live on that forever and be happy.

Dark chocoalte and cherries? Cherry Ripes - me hates them but anyone I brought them back for loves them.

Pies, pies and more pies. Pizza pie anyone? Yes in Williams bakery, Chapel Street in Melbourne!

Ice Coffee ftw!!!!

hussey

Vodka lemon lime and bitters - never heard of biter before Oz

Xavi6

Not so much different food, but something we don't have at home and I love - Red feckin Rooster!!!

My usual consists of two double cheeseburgers, large chips and a bottle of Coke. Goin grab me some of that shizzle on lunch!

BraziliaNZ

you can get really good swordfish and tuna steaks here in melbourne, just in a safeway. There's a fish called Kingfish which is the best fish I've ever tasted, caught a rake of it when charter fishing in NZ, I think it might be around these waters too. Anyone tried kingi??

Jumpy

Xavi6 wrote: »

Not so much different food, but something we don't have at home and I love - Red feckin Rooster!!!

My usual consists of two double cheeseburgers, large chips and a bottle of Coke. Goin grab me some of that shizzle on lunch!

Hawaiian meal! = Chicken + Chips with chicken salt + Pineapple Fritter + Banana Fritter.

I HATE YOU ALL FOR STARTING THIS THREAD.

*cries with homesickness*

Jumpy

Minesajackdaniels wrote: »

The kranski... only thing worse: the CHEESE kransky...

:eek:

It is something of wonder... Something I have never encountered.


Although it does sound a bit rank.

Larianne

hussey wrote: »

Vodka lemon lime and bitters - never heard of biter before Oz

ya can get bitters in Sainsburys up the North. I love that drink, even without the vodka!