Food - Eating habits
Oh yes, Kiwis do eat a lot. Especially a lot of junk food, that's for sure! Their national dish is fish 'n' chips: rather tasteless deep-fried lemonfish (a type of shark) with fries (Kiwis say chips). You'll get the whole thing wrapped up in several layers of newspaper which is usually drenched with grease, yummy...Okay, once in a while fish 'n' chips are quite nice, but certainly not every week! Unfortunately, in my host family every Thursday was fish 'n' chips - day. So you can imagine that I did put on some weight... ;) But it's not uncommon for Kiwis to have fish 'n' chips and other fast food like McDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut more than once a week. As a result there are a lot of overweight poeple in NZ. Other than fast food, a typical meal consists of so
me kind of meat, potatoes (mashed, fried, cooked etc...) and pumpkin. It's pretty basic and they don't use a lot of spices (maybe that's why they put tomato sauce on everything...). The thing I missed most about Austria was definitely 'real' bread. In NZ you'll only get sandwich bread or something that might look like real bread (and might even be called 'Vienna loaf' - no, I'm not kidding) but is so squashy and soft that you can squeeze like chewing gum. Now you might think that they don't have any nice food at all over there, but that's of course not true. They have loads of yummy ice cream, cookies, pavlova (traditional NZ dessert), cakes and slices. And apart from all the nice sweet stuff you'll find a huge variety of different fruits and vegetables which look as if they were genetically manipulated but surely are not.
Oh yes, Kiwis do eat a lot. Especially a lot of junk food, that's for sure! Their national dish is fish 'n' chips: rather tasteless deep-fried lemonfish (a type of shark) with fries (Kiwis say chips). You'll get the whole thing wrapped up in several layers of newspaper which is usually drenched with grease, yummy...Okay, once in a while fish 'n' chips are quite nice, but certainly not every week! Unfortunately, in my host family every Thursday was fish 'n' chips - day. So you can imagine that I did put on some weight... ;) But it's not uncommon for Kiwis to have fish 'n' chips and other fast food like McDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut more than once a week. As a result there are a lot of overweight poeple in NZ. Other than fast food, a typical meal consists of so
me kind of meat, potatoes (mashed, fried, cooked etc...) and pumpkin. It's pretty basic and they don't use a lot of spices (maybe that's why they put tomato sauce on everything...). The thing I missed most about Austria was definitely 'real' bread. In NZ you'll only get sandwich bread or something that might look like real bread (and might even be called 'Vienna loaf' - no, I'm not kidding) but is so squashy and soft that you can squeeze like chewing gum. Now you might think that they don't have any nice food at all over there, but that's of course not true. They have loads of yummy ice cream, cookies, pavlova (traditional NZ dessert), cakes and slices. And apart from all the nice sweet stuff you'll find a huge variety of different fruits and vegetables which look as if they were genetically manipulated but surely are not. Like I said before, Kiwis love to eat. They even invented three addtional meal times so that they can 'officially' have some food. First they have normal breakfast, which consists of toast, cerials, weet-bix or porridge. A few hours later there's something called 'morning tea' which is usually some cookies, fruits or a small bag of chippies. Around 12 o'clock is lunch time: usually something like a sandwich. Then they have 'afternoon tea', which is about the same as morning tea, usually some cookies and a hot drink. At about six o'clock is 'tea time' - dinner. This is a decent hot meal, often followed by dessert. And since they have dinner so early, they become hungry again later in the evening. So what can we do? Let's have 'supper'!! Again you can have a little snack so you don't go to bed with a grumbling stomach.
Sports
As much as Kiwis love to eat they love sports. In NZ almost everyone is into sports and is part of one or the other team. Kiwis are very competitive, constantly taking part in all sorts of competitions. In NZ you can do any kind of sports, there's really nothing you can't do: Rugby, cricket, netball, water polo, rafting, kayaking, bungy jumping, caving and and and...
- That's a picture of the All Blacks, New Zealand's national rugby union team. If there's a big game on TV, you'll hardly find anyone not watching...It's even bigger than soccer in Austria. On this picture you can see the All Blacks doing the haka, a Maori dance that is perfomed before each international match. To get an idea of what it looks and sounds like check out my video bar!
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