Wellington
19 months ago
It will be small but particularly sweet, considering the likely participants:)
We need to work out dates. Queen’s Birthday is out for me. I’m thinking late June/early July. Shall we email?
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LunacyBleeding is finding happiness.
Thank you
for setting this in motion :-)
In the heart of Winter you say? Sounds cold!! I say you’re the boss though. It just seems ages away!
I know!
I have things on every weekend in May and early June. Sometimes not even fun things. But I’m not the boss by any means. This is a three-way deal so we’re all the boss!!
Hey!I met up with someone from New Zealand today
My company does work over there. In Hamilton. I keep hoping one day they’ll ask me if I want to work over there for them! Anyway, I learned some things about your country and culture today, and I got to try pineapple lumps! Yummy! I loved them! Though I was a little afraid they were going to pull the fillings out of my teeth. I did not, however, try the Vegemite our partner brought us. It was good for a laugh though. She was very disparaging of Marmite but said the Vegemite was tasty if you use it sparingly. The operative word being sparingly, apparently. My co-worker smeared it on her bread too liberally and found it repulsive.
Ira wishes he had more time for 43things
Marmite is EVIL.
I’m just saying. :D
Send me some?
I could serve it for dinner next time Celena tells me she wants me to blow away in the wind.
Twiglets
I don’t get why someone decided to invent these. Put marmite into a crisp-type thing. Why????
Ira wishes he had more time for 43things
Who knows
why anyone would want to eat Evil? Let alone put it into a crisp-type thing? Maybe it’s easier to digest Evil, when it’s in a crisp-type thing. I tell everyone who’s recently eaten evil, or holding an evil sandwich, to stay well away from me. If I even smell it for a moment, it stays with me for the rest of the day. Urrggh.
Hamilton
is the bogan capital of New Zealand! Pineapple Lumps are a cultural icon so I’m glad you got to try them. Mmmmmmm:) What facts did you learn about New Zealand? I don’t eat much vegemite myself but when I do – yes, the key word is sparingly although there are some hardy salt-loving souls that trowel it on.
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Ah
we call that the pineapple fritter. You cook it in batter. You have it with fish and chips.
A pineapple lump is a chocolate coated pineapple flavoured sweet/candy. It’s chewy. No idea why we have them since we’re not exactly a pineapple growing nation! But they are soooo good:)
Fresh pineapple can be quite acidic. Is that the problem?
Let's be clear
Pineapple lumps don’t actually have pineapple in them (or if they do, it’s less than the percentage of blackcurrants in Ribena).
ha, I know
I read the ingredients! Sugar and some other form of sugar were the first two.
LL is EXCITED! Matty got his visa!!
Yummier than they sound.
I was so sceptical about the idea of pineapple lumps (I thought it would be real pineapple)... but those things are yummy.
I'm going to have
... try me some pineapple lumps when I come over on holidays in June!!!
I’m sure I’m missing out on a national icon??
ha
my four year old loves a good spoonful of vegemite. She’s been taught by the master…er I mean her mother :~)
I can't believe I missed an opportunity to ask about bogans
I could have looked so knowledgeable about New Zealand. :D We do hiring and management consulting, so I learned that you have very low unemployment, and that 96% of New Zealand businesses have fewer than 20 people working for them. She called it a nation of DIYers, talking about the high number of small businesses. :) That sounds nice, different from here! I learned that the government is the biggest employer (especially where you live?) And I think she said people were friendlier in the south? And I learned that you don’t tip there. She had a little panic moment when she was trying to figure out who to tip and what. :)
oh and how is it possible
that you don’t have snakes?
I'm sorry
you missed out on learning about bogan culture:( All those facts are very true. Yes, Wellington is the capital so the government is the biggest employer here. It makes the place a village.
Tipping is bizarre! I don’t get it. When I lived in Hawaii for a month I was quite perplexed by the whole tipping system. Here, service workers get paid rubbish salaries and still don’t get tipped (although sometimes people do if the service is exceptional).
PS
here’s the ad for pineapple lumps. It’s pretty good I reckon except for the stupid bit at the end when God says Sweet as. Sweet as is a really weird and grammatically flawed NZ saying. Don’t ask me to explain it. I can’t.
Sweet as - Dude?
Weirdness abounds.
God is really Ted Theodore Logan?
Surely ‘big guy’ should say it with a kiwi accent? And maybe ‘bro’ should have been substituted for dude.
Dude… sheesh!
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