I Tried New Zealand's BEST Sweet Treats

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[@kwerk2011]

The peanut slab is decades older than Whittakers chocolate blocks. For the longest time, Whittakers was a small company producing snack size but broadly uninteresting confectionery, mainly Peanut Slabs, Sante bars (just a stick of milk chocolate), Toffee Milks and K-Bars (both of which you should try, though I hope you don't value your fillings). When Cadbury started messing around with their recipes, Whittakers saw an opportunity to upstage/replace them and took it, now becoming wildly popular and massively increasing their range and exposure. Also, feijoas are much like bananas in that feijoa flavouring is never as good as the real thing.

[@hafwit4995]

Would be so good to get toffee milks again I hope they return

[@itscurlsbaby]

Two brilliant pieces of insight there thank you so much. Interesting to know a bit more around Whittaker’s, I’m a huge fan as you can tell! Also interesting about feijoa flavouring, looking forward to trying the real thing. Cheers mate

[@NA-gw2oc]

@@itscurlsbaby Regarding feijoas, best to try them BEFORE you embark on a chocolate feast. Anything with a tart or sour flavour will naturally seem more sour or bitter after you've eaten a lot of sweet food. But I did like your amusing description of the juice, and you're right, they do have a faintly perfumey fragrance that I love. When you try a fresh one, it needs to be a bit like an avocado in that it's best when still firm but has a tiny bit of give to it. Same with Kiwi Fruit. Happy feasting from a Kiwi.

[@major751]

I used to love getting toffee milks and peanut slabs from the dairy, no wrapping, just straight from the box. So so so good. Definitely needs to try a K bar, the purple one is the best lol.

[@robadobdob]

@@itscurlsbaby The factory is out in Porirua and I often ride past when they're roasting the beans - smells amazing. The Peanut Slab also featured heavily in sponsorhips during the Nissan Mobil 500 street race years. There was even a Rover Vanden Plas painted like a Peanut Slab. kzbin.info/www/bejne/poWTimmuobF8Z9U

[@shireetaylor6540]

Traditionally lamingtons are made from a light white sponge with a chocolate or raspberry coating, with coconut on the outside. They are usually cut down the middle with whipped cream between the two halves. You have to try them ... Sooooo good.

[@lisacrandall409]

I agree, that lamington looked strange to me. It should be a light and fluffy, cream-coloured sponge on the inside.

[@anniemac8672]

Try a chocolate eclair with real whipped cream & maybe pineapple chunks

[@greigclement9081]

The Peanut Slab is an icon in NZ confectionery. The amount of nuts in every slab makes it quite unique.

[@obi4842]

Nuts with skin still on

[@cruiznnz]

Peanut slab came before the chocolate bar

[@rachaelk7866]

The icecream version is amazing too

[@kristinreign8026]

Almond Gold & Peanut Slab is literally life 😍❤️❤️❤️

[@twitafftwitaff7029]

Once upon a time, the slabs were literally slabs

[@hellsbells1409]

Homemade Lollie cake is much better really easy to make to.

[@itscurlsbaby]

Will have to make a video on this, my first attempt!

[@margueritaharris-p2p]

Pies from Olde Beach Waikanae Beach in Kapiti are exceptionally good. Try a mini mushroom or a mince + cheese. The pastry is the winner here. More expensive but worth it. They are often sold out.

[@benblakemore4195]

Ive left you the recipe in the comments my bro!!

[@MarkMcLT]

Or even just bought from a neighborhood bakery rather than the supermarket.

[@marso1052]

And add marshmallows to the mix 👍

[@KylieMackLA]

Get an Edmond's cook book (the country's kitchen bible), and make your own lollycake, lamingtons etc. You could rope in a local Nana to help - you've never baked in NZ until you've had a kiwi Nana repeatedly reprimand you for "fiddling with the mix"! (it prevents a good cake/pavlova/meringue/scone rise, and turns fudge sugary). If your lucky, she'll let you lick the beater!🙂 Kiwis LOVE to bake! 🥮🎂🍰🧁

[@backslash971]

You need to do biscuits but not store bought. Home baking is massive here. but they all use the Edmonds cookbook (pretty much) so you need to try the chocolate chip, peanut brownie, anzac biscuit, shortbread and find a home bake afghan biscuit. Speaks to every kiwis childhood

[@TheNessapie]

The way you didn’t take the raspberry log out and eat it individually makes me think you also don’t break off individual Kit Kat fingers 😂

[@rogerb4436]

The Leamington you got looks different from the usual ones as they are usually light fluffyvanilla sponge not chocolate sponge with a raspberry or chocolate outting with coconut and yes they can have cream on them with a split down the top. They are suppose to be fluffy enough you can eat with a fork bit think you got a different one than usual. You also have to try Pavlova which Australia also claims as there own. Try Cowels Pavlova from local supermarket with cream and fruit, kiwifruit or cream etc. It's usually a big Xmas plate.

[@TheShadowMan.]

I don't know what skullduggery was performed.. but that was NOT a lamington

[@MarkMcLT]

(a) cream with the lamington is a must - buy from your neigborhood bakery. (b) Do not buy pavlova. I've never had a bought one that was anything like homemade.

[@rogerb4436]

@@MarkMcLT true but my daughter, wife, myself and a few friends have found it hard to make like not raising, not gooey in the middle and apparently there can't be any oil or contaminates in the bowl or something so we buy....lol

[@rachaelk7866]

@@MarkMcLT you never tried Cowells pav then taste better than homemade not everyone can make pavs there's a trick to getting it right so it doesn't collapse or end up hard it's not an easy thing to bake .. had a few homemade ones from other ppls one lady bless her .. was really chewy not fluffy at all was more like tough meringue

[@analydiate1102]

@@MarkMcLT I was also about to say - don't buy store bought! Make your own! Roger B, I used to think that Pavs must be difficult to make till I started making them. People stress to much about them. Preheat your oven to 200 Celsius and then turn it off. Beat your pav ingredients for 10 minutes so that the crust is thick and crunchy. Put your pav in the oven. The heat seals it in maybe about 10 minutes so all that stuff about not making loud noises or not jumping up and down or opening the oven door is not true. But I think what you're talking about in regards to "contaminants" is about egg yolk - if an yolk gets in your egg whites you'll have a flat pav 😢Having said that I have had a a smidge of yolk get into my whites but still managed to save it by scooping that little bit out. Just have to be quick!

[@seangray4512]

The Peanut slab was around way before Whittakers chocolate block stuff. The Peanut slab didn't come in a wrapper, the shop owner would use some tongs to grab a piece and put it into a small bag for ya. I think very late 80s the peanut slab came in a wrapper along with a new Almond flavour

[@miamcknight9138]

Lolly cake is usually made in a log shape, then cut into slices. You end up getting a better proportion of lolly to biscuit mix. (They now used chopped Explorers, instead of the deleted Fruit Puffs). A lot of cafes do lolly cake. Or how about one of your next episodes is you making lolly cake, then trying it? You also need to try NZ yams (those orange maggoty-looking veg - don't let my description put you off!) at the supermarkets have in winter. Roast them in a bit of oil, then try them. They were introduced to NZ from South America, just like Feijoas, that you love. Lamingtons need cream in the middle, even better with jam and cream. Hope you recover from the food binge!

[@stephendickson9000]

Roasted or sliced length wise and pan fry.

[@Backwardseel]

Explorers... I think you mean Eskimos

[@miamcknight9138]

@@Backwardseel Eskimos have been renamed Explorers

[@seshthecat]

It's because it's raspberry licorice instead of aniseed. Jaffas aren't the same anymore. Feijoa grow really really well here that's why they are popular. Half of us like them, half don't so don't worry.

[@itscurlsbaby]

Great knowledge, didn't know that! Makes sense as to why I liked it...! (Plus the chocolate)

[@judylloyd7901]

Yeah, some people absolutely hate feijoas.

[@noradinneen1]

Dont know if anyone else made this comment but in the 50s & 60s we'd go to the movies. The cinema had a sloping wooden floor so everyone wld drop jaffas & you wld hear them rolling all the way to the front! It was hilarious! No fun now-everyghing is carpeted. Love your videos.

[@vinnievuitton3045]

I like this guy man. Good energy👌🏾 No doubt seeing him with big ratings on yt in years to come 🫰🏾

[@BeachcomberNZ]

Other Kiwi icons are chocolate fish (fish-shaped, choc-coated, strawberry marshmallow) and Toasties. Toasties are chocolate with shredded coconut in it, surrounding a vanilla marshmallow centre.

[@izzygrooves2514]

looooooove toasties omg

[@TheShadowMan.]

toasted coconut

[@aicapitan3279]

33 and never heard of toasties

[@ezzy-fn6xk]

@@aicapitan3279 same, might be a north island thing im from south idk abt u

[@georgetteparsons4474]

@@ezzy-fn6xk South Island, used to get them in Blenheim.

[@johanmeischke9189]

Watching people from elsewhere eating NZ icons, never ceases to amuse. By the way the look on your face when sampling is priceless

[@ericwolff6059]

Feijoa's are a "you either love 'em or hate 'em" affair. Like Marmite. We have eight trees and get about 80 kilo's off them, with many fruit the size of two fists. Both the flavour and texture varies, some being extraordinarily sweet, while others are quite tangy, some are smooth while others can be gritty. I'd suggest if you get some, to let them age a bit in order for the sweetness to mature, but not too long as they are not nice once they've gone off.

[@elchinofatman1]

Some of your reactions bought tears to my eyes bro. Well done. Keep up the good work.

[@itscurlsbaby]

Cheers Matt! Appreciate the comment mate. Just need to work on my waistline now haha

[@tasselhoff3888]

I have an absolute love / hate relationship with Mayceys Sour Feijoa Lollies, they are sour yet somehow addictive. I think the taste of Feijoa is an acquired taste. Whittikers make the peanut slab in a full size block. Lollie Cake is traditionally made with condensed milk and Fruit Puff lollies. I have never seen a Lammington made with chocolate sponge, go for a version thats just made with normal sponge cake with the chocolate on the outside and cream filled, or try the raspberry one, thats great too!

[@Mcfreddo]

Never heard of sour feijoas-would love those. Hate all the gooey sweet stuff. In Oz, you can get sour apple sweets- yummo!

[@dabadllama]

Those are my favourite lollies of all time! Sooooo good.

[@rambolambo93]

I'm a weird, on the fence kind of guy. I'm addicted to those sour feijoas, but I don't really enjoy eating actual feijoas. I find the actual fruit is a bit too watery for my taste, and the sour lollies capture the flavor almost perfectly without the wateriness of the fruit.

[@pandaa7619]

yeah, for me some days I love or hate the sour fejoas

[@g.iantamongtitans]

With Summer coming up, looking forward to catching your opinion on the local iceblocks. Or, perhaps more familiar to you, "ice lollies." Iceblocks weirdly covers everything from the icecream-with-chocolate-coating Magnum to the powerfully coloured and flavored Fruju.

[@victoriapearson4645]

Also, when it comes to sweeties, particularly cakes and slices, you need to get yourself an Edmonds cook book. So many of us were raised on the afghans, the ginger crunch, louise cake, coffee cake, etc. Classics.

[@jondnz]

As fellow non lover of liquorice I would say the RJs raspberry liquorice rods (without the chocolate) are also pretty good. They're more like a wine gum than a traditional liquorice

[@rachaelk7866]

Or the red liquorice choc logs are yummy doesn't have that strong black aniseed licorice taste

[@joannebaker7875]

Yep just plain red liquoice is more popular than any other in NZ

[@rossclarkzilchlight6433]

Nice.. Lolly cake is made from malt biscuits as a base, that's the unique taste, then mixed with sugarfoan lollies. Feijoa texture is grainy, you either like them or you don't, there's no middle ground. I love the fact that you do enjoy the amazing foods we have here :)

[@RaccoonCityPD]

It's OK Curls, feijoas are divisive like coriander or blue cheese. Love your vids bro, keep em coming! Also don't forget to go to Calum's bakery in Papakura when you're up in Auckland and try all their Pies, they're the best Pies. No lies

[@donaldduck2139]

I think I used to go there in the early 70s, is it a large bakery

[@itscurlsbaby]

I hear you on that mate and thanks for the kind words! I'll definitely hit that bakery next time I'm up in Auckland, need to do something of a pie tour! Hope you had a nice weekend

[@RaccoonCityPD]

@@donaldduck2139 Yeah, it's out the back of Papakura on the road to Clevedon

[@nzlemming]

Hmmm, feijoa dessert pies with coriander and blue cheese...

[@cruiznnz]

FYI if you live south of the Bombays JAFA has the meaning you alluded to. But here in Aucks I like to believe it stands for Just Another Fantastically Fabulous Aucklander. Also it was common back in the day whilst at the local movie theater (floors weren't carpeted) for people to spill their Jaffa's on the floor and the whole theater would crack up laughing.

[@nzlemming]

Yep, in some of the cheaper theatres, they didn't build levels, just a sloping floor with rows of chairs screwed into it. Let them jaffas roll (and snifters)

[@rambolambo93]

You'll be hard pressed to find brand made lolly cake in New Zealand, it's very much a homemade treat before anything else. At best you'll find it in supermarket bakery sections, or your local cafe or bakery will likely make it from scratch.

[@gracemcmillan-caires4887]

Far Bro you just totally made me emotional about the heated cookie time cookie 🥹 those were such a staple morning tea snack for high-school. Also never seen someone who loves chocolate as much as I do!

[@kejotwo]

Oh man, you can't just mention Lewis Road Chocolate Milk without mentioning all the fights, the scalpers, the long lines and security guards specifically hired to guard the milk and enforce one bottle per customer

[@ataimd]

I've never had lolly cake from the shop, it's much better homemade and you're right lamingtons are much better with cream from a proper bakery and you can get mini size ones too which are more manageable. Also you should try almond gold, very similar to peanuts slabs but personally I like the almond gold better.

[@JesseStLouis]

"It tastes like a chair that you'd find at your grandma's house" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I agree 👍 💯

[@tracyclements3053]

Yes! You tried the Belgium chocolate milk. It's in a league of its own. Feijoa is definitely "perfumey" and not to everyone's taste, but if you make an Apple and Feijoa Crumble you'll be made up. Its delicious. Oh and making your own lolly cake is superior to store bought. 4 ingrediants, 1 bowl 🙂 Loving your channel. Keep it up

[@margaretvanson3601]

I am in awe that you can eat all that sweet stuff without feeling sick. Its my opinion that peanut slabs are the size they are because you can only eat one. Oh this programme took me right back to the 70s.

[@margaret-annfoster5848]

I wish they still had the football shaped snifters. When I was a kid way back when, I would save up for a packet of Jaffas and a packet of snifters to have at the movies. I think the snifters were my favourite but only just😋😋😋🤣😂 Ooohhh and try an oddfellow that you suck front to back until a hole appears. Delicious... Or put one in a hot chocolate for a delicious mint hot chocolate. Ooohhh I haven't lived in NZ for over 30 years but the lollies of the 60"s 70's and 80's bring back such amazing memories. P.S Curls never apologise for what you do or don't like. 🙏🧡

[@alisonthomas47]

Oh Curls you crack me up. Love your videos

[@windycityassasin5236]

Felt like a proud dad seeing you smash that puhoi back. Squiggles and toffee pops are both top tier nz biscuits lol

[@310ingyou2]

Never in my life have i seen a lamington like that. Raspberry lamington is the only one worth mentioning.deliscious. also idk if you guys get custard squares in the uk but they are pretty good wherever you go too!

[@shenlun]

Jaffa, the lollies, are also produced in Australia as well under Allen's Lollies. Jaffas were created in 1931 under the brand Sweet Acres, in Australia. It is made under license via Cabury in NZ

[@rachaelk7866]

Rjs also make jaffas they are also NZ based in Levin .. they make awesome lollies

[@BBeeeeeee]

Gingernut biscuits (griffins brand) dipped in Milo! Gingernuts tend to be very hard when first opened, so you may need to do more than a quick dip. If you don't know how to make milo yet, you need 1-2 HEAPED teaspoons. If it tastes icky, try adding more milo. Mrs Higgins cookies! You live in Wellington, right? There should be several Mrs Higgins stores where freshly baked goods are sold. Delicious~ If you can find it, Foxton Fizz is another good Kiwi drink. You might need to go to a dairy or specialty store (I know of a green grocer and Mad Butchers that stock it). If you've got the opportunity, go to an event that has a proper Hangi. Best chicken and potatoes you'll ever have. The Apple Press juice, specifically their Pink Lady apple and the Jazz apple ones. Based in the Hawkes Bay. Golden Kiwifruit! Imo much better than the green. Close in harvest time to feijoas, both being around autumn.

[@rachaelk7866]

In tea here I still dip my gingernuts in a cuppa 💕 amazing Milo was more of a Tim Tam bitten both ends and sucked through like a straw 🤤🤤

[@BBeeeeeee]

@@rachaelk7866 Suppose it would be a hot drink of your choice. I used to love dipping gingernuts in my milo as a kid! The TimTams would melt and sometimes fall in, which made me sad...But I have heard of that method too!

[@leandrorobertosacht]

Everytime you pick up a Whittaker's bar, we know we're going to be witnessing a man about to step into chocolate heaven.

[@emikiwi]

Haha loved the reaction to toffee pops and chocolate milk together! 😂

[@yeanahnahyeahnahh7148]

Lmao this video had me dying. Definitely my favorite new channel

[@MareeJohnsonNewZealand]

Congrats on 4,000 Subscribers!!

[@JessicaClark-lq4gw]

Lolly cake is essentially crushed malt biscuits with butter and chopped up lollies. Used to use eskimos or fruit puffs but any of the little fondant type marshmallow lollies will do really. My suggestion for the next vid is pav. Pavlova with whipped cream, kiwi fruit and strawberries. Classic Kiwi dessert especially at Christmas time. In my family it is a traditional boxing day breakfast.

[@staceyryan834]

"It tastes like a chair you'd find at your Grandma's house." I swear that's the best description I've ever heard.

[@craigneumann7814]

Not sure if you can readily get it in NZ but a supermarket Chain in Australia (Coles) sells an exclusive Whittakers/Bundaberg Ginger beer chocolate block to die for. It's basically Whittakers chocolate with a soft strong ginger caramel filling. Seriously, my favorite chocolate block on the planet. Thanks NZ.

[@LTLT900]

I'm going to Coles today.

[@craigsteele8912]

Whittackers peanut slabs were being made in Campbell Street, Palmerston North in 1957 when I was a little child. Depending on wind direction you could smell chocolate over half the town.

[@izzygrooves2514]

fejoas are lovely, so easy to grow at home, loved getting bags of them from neighbors back when i lived out of the city, closer to kapiti

[@taiashaopai3032]

Your reactions are hilarious! Its nice to see someone enjoying our staples 😁 agree Puhoi is by far the superior chocolate milk! Definitely try the Sour Feijoa lollies, you can pick them up from almost any dairy, they're little jube like lollies, green and purple and kinda shaped like a feijoa. I love the actual fruit but I think it's one of those things you either love it or you don't.

[@adp124]

The best way to eat Jaffas is to stuck it making the thin crisp coating to sort of disdolve in your mouth then eat the chocolate. Again the chocolate is also nice stucked.

[@Rollin23s]

This is a review!! This how you properly review our snacks !! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@GingerKidCustoms]

You'll find lollie cake mostly in bakery's and supermarkets and some cafe's. But depending on who it is, homemade's often better. Also, Nippy's chocolate milk is pretty bloody awesome but it's made in aussie. I always thought lamingtons originated from England? You should try the Confectionery Company range of lollies. They're so flavourful (though i haven't tried the sugar free ones).

[@samtraynor3997]

Curls mate I can't believe you're in Wellington and I haven't met you. Hope you've heard of Crate Day! Would love to have you around with the boys to experience one of the peak events of the New Zealand calendar and get you onto a crate on (hopefully) a gorgeous sunny December Saturday!

[@kerr9724]

Glad I had a Puhoi Valley chocolate milk in the fridge, had to drink it along with you. Liquid chocolate, yum!!!

[@abbyew08]

I have a couple of suggestions if you were to do a video on NZ chocolates (if you haven't already done one, this is the first video I've watched from this channel)- L&P chocolate, pinky bar, pineapple lumps, basically anything made by Whittakers, pixie caramel, perky nana (a giant pineapple lump but banana flavoured), crunchie bar, and 'marvellous creations' chocolate bar.

[@Sharon-777]

He did do alot of those earlier check it out

[@abbyew08]

@@Sharon-777 Oh ok, I will check it out! 😀

[@matthewherd9470]

The best thing about my high school experience were the cookie time cookies they kept on top of the pie warmer at the canteen

[@NZTanzya]

The next thing to try is Griffins Chocolate Finger biscuits - you bite the ends off and use them as a straw with chocolate milk! It is a pity Cadbury chocolate is not as good as it used to be, the finger biscuits and toffee pops were so much better years ago. Better quality lolly cake and lamingtons will make a big difference, as will freshness, a good cream filled lamington is delicious and there are raspberry lamingtons too!

[@korinturner2404]

Have you tried black knight liquorice, I’m not sure if it’s very different from ordinary liquorice but I really like it.

[@exmachinz]

One of the reasons feijoa are so popular is that the tree can be easily trained into a hedge. My families bach had 5 or 6 feijoa trees facing the road. When they were fruiting you could eat until you were sick. Great times.

[@boneperfection]

My mum told me that when she was a kid she and her friends used to race jaffas down the isles at the movie theatre and I think I remember my dad saying kids also used to do that on the bus! They're still one of my mum's favorite lollies.

[@MUSTANG5O]

Again love your videos and specially your taste comparisons, lol😂 keep them coming.

[@joskubl6017]

Have you tried the TimTam Slam? You need to try it if you haven't Ttry a crunchie bar or/and buzz bar RJs does other flavours in their liqish too. You'll find the factory in Levin

[@JEB2024]

This guy is hilarious! I’m enjoying watching his videos more n more 😊

[@itsmyremoteviewingjourney6656]

Mate just found you, you are my favorite eater on KZbin lol. You like all my favorite lollies!

[@izzygrooves2514]

lolly cake is soooo good, i appreciate salt in sweets delish. it's made with crushed malt biscuits, and the lollies in it are chopped up eskimo/explorer lollies - basically a dense sugary marshmallow-adjacent lolly

[@muliparu]

at the tuck shop at primary school, theyd always give us the option to heat up the cookie times, was popular amongst the school lol awesome video bro..

[@Nfamus_Kiwi]

Hey dude, liking your New Zealand snack reactions. I highly recommend a Tim Tam (your choice of flavour) and milo buttttttt........what you do is bite the ends off each end of the Tim Tam and use it as a straw. Possibly do it with the Puhoi Valley flavored milk (try with both flavours).

[@deborah1812]

The way he described the feijoa smoothie. Hahahahah 😂

[@denisegore1884]

That was one of the funniest videos I've seen in a while. you must do an ice cream video. Tip Top, Kapiti, Rush Munroes, Much Moore. We do great ice cream. Some ice blocks are pretty special too. A pineapple Fru Ju is a Summertime go to.

[@Honza-001]

😋😋😋😋😋 peanut slab is the best!!! The only thing I’m missing from home

[@augustinewong-pown5814]

I worked at a many bakeries in my lifetime and the trimmings off the trays when slicing to package are collected with other different flavours and mixed together then turned into a slab and covered with shaved coconut 😮😊

[@BBeeeeeee]

The comment about how a feijoa tastes made me laugh, it's not entirely wrong! For feijoa trees, they need certain conditions to grow and can be quite picky. The fruits themselves don't transport well, so you tend to need a groove nearby to where you want to sell it. Because almost everything grows so well in NZ, the Feijoa is no exception and thus it is plentiful. When you are looking for a feijoa to eat I 100% recommend finding someone with a tree looking to offload some fruit. They can produce so much of it that usually a large family struggle to get through it all. Supermarket if you have no other option though, not as tasty as home-grown. I think they pick the fruit too early, to give it time to ripen on the journey rather than let it get plump and ripe on the tree. A feijoa is ripe for eating when the fruit has some give if you press it. You don't want it mushy, but if it is firm then it is not ripe. I can quite often tear the fruit open by piercing it with a nail. The "proper" way to eat a feijoa is to dig the insides out with a spoon. Much like an orange, the skin isn't very palatable. I think for the feijoa smoothie they put the entire fruit into the blender rather than separating the nice bits, hence the slightly "woody" taste. In saying that, I did know an American who liked to eat them whole, much like one would an apple....

[@jumpingjohnflash]

My Chinese friends in Hamilton told me that the recent Chinese immigrants in NZ had not ever heard of feijoas before so they gave them the Chinese name 满地果 mandi guo - or "the everywhere fruit".

[@terricraig616]

You need to try New Zealand icecream / ice blocks now!!

[@nuikoputai8534]

You should be given automatic citizenship for the move at 14:35.....brilliant.

[@eseta4458]

I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL SMMMMM!!!! SEEING YOU EAT AND RATE ALL THESE FOODS AND SNACKS IS SO INTERESTING BECAUSE IM A KIWI AND SEEING ALL YOUR POSITIVE FEEDBACK ON EVERYTHINGS IS SO COOL, KA PAI !!

[@Jadasaki]

Homemade Lolly cake is the best and it's traditionally in a log shape rolled in coconut, its made with crushed malt biscuits, filled with lots of marshmallows mmmmm Plus that chocolate Leamington was usual too as they are normally vanilla sponge covered in chocolate or raspberry icing/glaze and rolled in coconut

[@gretchenboyd69]

Eskimos lollies?

[@Jadasaki]

@@gretchenboyd69 Eskimos and marshmallows are both great, even better together too

[@melaniestapp4627]

Lolly cake your better off going to a local bakery, or better yet asking a kiwi mum to make you some ..... yummy! Something that you could try is Sweet As Popcorn ... any of them

[@MwNz66]

Bro your videos are awesome and bloody crack up my partner is from the UK and she doesn't like the jaffa 's my favorite is the peanut slab loved your kiwi slang video 🤙🏽🤙🏽

[@dpr6354]

Just found your channel. As a kiwi, absolutely wowed with your annunciation of our cultural society. But also how willing you are to try our cultural delicacies. Although brought up on the Kapiti Coast.. I miss Wellington. I’m gonna give you some incredible content soon.. just wait to be more mind blown as I lived through the rebuild and redevelopment of Wellington in the eighties 😏

[@t-rexngatokorua8733]

C'mon bro! You gotta have toffeepops with the choco- sees you pull out chocolate milk - ahh yes...YES!!! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

[@madpete6438]

I have Puhoi Valley Greek Yoghurt every morning with breakfast. STUNNING products. Anything own brand from supermarkets is usually bottom shelf - some cafes in Wellington make it and it is well worth grabbing a slice if you see it. Jaffas used to be rolled down the wooden floors in theatres by naughty children... Nada Bakery in Johnsonville and Tawa - Award winning sweet stuff and maggot packs (Pies). When fejoa's are in season (Autumn), get some, peel them and put them in vodka with a drip of vanilla essence. Great for the afternoon in the sun. That feeling of great food coming in via mouth is called a foodgasm....

[@pippamartin2181]

Squiggles biscuits is a must try, I have even convinced my kids it's Santa's nz fav so he always gets them when he stops in at our house each year lol

[@it-really-hurts2092]

Do you have a local favorite bakery? A nice oniony Sausage Roll will always hit the spot. Oh and for some reason back in the day Jaffas were always rolled down the aisles at the cinemas. 🤷‍♂️

[@maiacameron-jones4637]

the lollies inside lollie cake used to be called Eskimos but the name was changed to snow explorers and they are DELICIOUS!

[@Andy_M986]

Try the Coconut slab from Whittaker's.

[@jumpingjohnflash]

I found some imported 42 Below Feijoa Vodka when I was living in Taiwan and took a bottle to friend's birthday party - myself and another Kiwi ended finishing it all ourselves cos no-one else there liked it.

[@coisworld1312]

I'll try that microwaved cookie one day :). Cooked fejoas (whole fruit halved each side scooped out of its skin with a spoon, halves boiled in a pot with sugar - can be preserved in jars) lovely as a cold dessert with cream (runny cream). Texture is something to get used to.

[@janburn007]

That lamington that you tried looked rather unusual, as it appeared to be made using chocolate cake. A traditional lamington is made with plain (white) light cake, which is cut into smaller "lamington-sized" blocks, then briefly dunked in a liquid chocolate "icing" (which is absorbed by the outer layer of the plain white cake) before being rolled in dessicated coconut (while the chocolate "icing" on the outside of the cake is still "wet"). A slightly more recent variation to the traditional lamington, is to slice the original plain cake in half & spread a thin layer of plain (white) sweet mock cream on top of the bottom half, before placing the top half back on - so that the cream in the centre holds the 2 halves together. That cake is then cut into the smaller "lamington-sized" blocks, which are then dunked into the liquid chocolate "icing" & rolled in the dessicated coconut - just like a normal lamington. So the lamingtons then end up with a thin layer of slightly sweet cream running through the middle of them. Or if you prefer, you can just take a "traditional" lamington & add some fresh whipped cream on top of it - or slice a traditional lamington part way down the centre & spread some fresh whipped cream along that "slice". Another variation to the lamington - sometimes called "peaches" - is instead of baking the cake in a large block cake tin & then cutting it into smaller "lamington-sized" blocks - bake the cake in individual "patty cake" tins/trays. Then, instead of dunking the individual cakes in liquid chocolate icing - dunk them in liquid red/strawberry/raspberry jelly, before then rolling them in the dessicated coconut.

[@MahiMangaru]

Brotherrrrrrr try the heated cookie time with vanilla ice cream👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽💯💯💯

[@itscurlsbaby]

Great shout mate!! I will give that a go next time for sure

[@joannelong8056]

YES! The Rob Roy Dairy in Dunedin city does a cookie time base on a sundae (with toppiings of your choice). Absolute heaven as a great treat.

[@BeePee66]

I prefer Whittakers Coconut Slab mor than the peanut one. Also you should try a traditional NZ Pavlova

[@SonyaM7]

😂😂😂 tastes like a chair!!! Love it!! 😂😂😂 I’m not a fan of them either but my kids love them lol

[@mysteryquilter]

My favourite Kiwi snacks are bought from cafes, the same goes for pies. Try lemon slice, ginger slice , caramel slice ……

[@itscurlsbaby]

Lemon slice!! One of my absolute favourites. Totally delicious

[@larissarobinson9990]

Me and my 8 year old daughter love watching your videos about food haha she agrees with everything you love and hate, so cute. Hello from Hamilton in NZ 😊

[@itscurlsbaby]

That’s amazing, you’ve clearly raised her to have brilliant taste!! Big shout out to you both, thank you for watching! ❤️

[@cathyarcher5961]

Hi there hey you haven’t done a video of the best kiwi biscuits that are popular, would you consider doing one. Here’s my favourites as must to try them. Shrewsbury biscuits, omg I can eat a packet in one go. Afghan biscuits, Krispies ooh great dunkers in your cuppa, cameo creams, so many more. Been away too long, ask some kiwis what’s their favourites. Chocolate thins Jaffa flavour as good too. Enjoy

[@princesshydec]

Love watching this and was wondering what you were doing for 3 years lol. I would try lamington as i should be a light fluffy sponge inside. that didnt look like a good lamington. Lolly cake is made from malt biscuits, chopped Explorers, condensed milk, butter and coconut. always best homemade or from a cafe. I would try Cherios (little red sausages), squiggles biscuts, hundred and thousands biscuits ( Whittakers made a chocolate with these biscuits but sadly they stopped making it), Chocolate fish, mellow puff biscuits, pavlova, and we have lots of kiwi ice creams like hokey pokey, jelly tip, choc bar and goody goody gumdrops (have to get this at a dairy now), kapiti ice cream, deep south ice cream, ben and jerrys ice cream, duck island and even lewis road have an ice cream.

[@sarahhayden5885]

I live for Puhoi chocolate milk! Absolutely love it!

[@nashking817]

Your such a likable dude ay, I love you... I actually love you!

[@itscurlsbaby]

Wow mate what a nice thing to say. Guess what, I love you too!!! Have a great day my friend

[@hannahmclaren9672]

Lamingtons where I'm from are called leamingtons and they have cream and raspberry in the middle ❤ okay my favourite kiwi food is the Woolworths brand chicken chips and you get nestle reduced cream onion soup powder and rich tomato soup powder from Maggi and you make it exactly the same. It's great with carrots chips crackers and even fresh beans.

[@tylajackason]

You could step up the cookie time game to another level with the cookie time chocolate fix cookie. They are the best by far

[@tonyfreejazz20]

Wow...I haven't had those chocolate liqourice logs in ages!! Used to eat them when I was a little wee lad. Loved them!! Awesome video mate. Keep it up.

[@kevinwarburton2938]

Feijoa Smoothie is my fave of the range lol. Add some vanilla icecream to smoothie it up and undercut the 'woody'/'tang' .

[@kenbearsley8322]

The lamingtons are normally sponge cake with either chocolate or raspberry flavour and coconut. Try the licorice alsorts. They heve a little licorice and sweetness. The Whittaker peanut slab, they've been made for a long time here in nz. It's one of their biggest sellers. The chocolate milk. Everyone has their own preference. There is no right or wrong answer to taste preferences. The lolly cake. Some local bakeries sells slices of it. Look in ya local supermarket, see if they sell the pre mix packets where ya can make it at home (ask a few friends about that). The fejoa. Definitely try that when in season. Have a few of them.