Today's Saturday potpourri gives you a taste of some
Kiwi icons (not including some I've wittered on about before):
The Buzzy Bee
is a favourite – made originally in the 1930's.
It's a little wooden bee with rotating wings that makes a clicking noise
when it is pulled along.
The
All Blacks, or as we call them the AB's are New Zealand's rugby
team. Not only is rugby our most
important sport, the team has done us proud over the years. They've won the World Cup 3 times and also
now pretty much have a mortgage on the Bledisloe Cup (which is fought for by
Australia).
Footrot
Flats was a long running comic strip by Murray Ball. The main character is a sheep dog, called in
a typically laconic NZ way 'Dog'. His
owner is a farmer called Wal Footrot.
L&P
(not Lea & Perrins) but Lemon & Paeroa is a soda which originated in a
little NZ town Paeroa which used the local mineral water and lemon – hence the
very imaginative name. The company came
up with the sloga 'World Famous in New Zealand'. This large bottle can be found – you guessed
it – in Paeroa.
Marmite
is
the New Zealand incarnation of what the Australians call Vegemite. There is a Marmite in the UK but it is not
the same – according to Kiwis, anyway.
One of the impacts of the Christchurch earthquake some years ago was a
national shortage of Marmite which caused a lot of angst. It was termed Marmageddon. It's a yeast extract, a byproduct of beer
brewing.
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