Today I learned that New Zealand "supper" seems to be more like what I'd imagine hobbits eat for meal number 6 (cheese, crackers, fruit, cookies) than Saskatchewan supper (the full meal you eat at the end of the day after a lot of hard farm labour)
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In the South of the US, we called the noontime main meal "dinner", and the main meal at 6pm was "supper". We drank a lot of tea, but did not have a customary time called "tea".
Outside the South, "lunch" is the noontime main meal, and "dinner" is the main meal at 6pm.
In Brazil, we once saw a small restaurant called "Lanches Makdonaldo", which I took to be "Lunches kinda like McDonald's", but I just learned "lanche" is kinda like NZ "tea".
Today I learned that New Zealand "supper" seems to be more like what I'd imagine hobbits eat for meal number 6 (cheese, crackers, fruit, cookies) than Saskatchewan supper (the full meal you eat at the end of the day after a lot of hard farm labour)
@sundogplanets Quick question - do you know if the lecture tomorrow night in New Plymouth needs an advanced booking? Very keen to attend
@Ali Sorry I have no idea how it works, it's organized by the local group.
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The best type of supper is the Scottish version when you go to the chippy and anything with chips is called a supper as in a fish supper, a sausage supper, a chicken supper etc.
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Sounds about as confusing as
the different French meal names
between Québec and France
@sundogplanets Sask supper sounds like 'tea' in NZ.
@sundogplanets If that is supper, what is a later night snack pre-bed called?
@sundogplanets can confirm we call the main evening meal dinner or maaaaybe "tea" but that's far less common.
"Kia ora!" Dying to share a clip here that convinced me Aerotera/NZ is paradise, esp for foodies. May I?
@TheEddieShow Saving to my "soothing food-making videos" stash!!
In-flight, fond memories of your new favorite place. :)
I wonder if they eat a full dinner at lunchtime? 🤔
@sundogplanets Oh no, I hope you have emergency rations to save you from getting hangry!
@sundogplanets dinner? Or tea? For the evening meal?
@sundogplanets I don't know if you know who Zorak is (from Space Ghost Coast to Coast) but his attempt to pronounce "Saskatchewan" lives rent-free in my head. ("Skas watch a wan or whatever.")
@sundogplanets Somehow I can't see a sign like that and not think of one particular scene in The Young Ones.
As another Canadian in NZ, while hiking the Routeburn track, our pretty young guide told us, when you get to the junction, take the lift.
@sundogplanets Drip coffee exists here!
I worked in a building, an old telecommunications building, which had signs posted warning about asbestos. There we had a drip coffee maker and a microwave.
OH! And you'll sometimes find them in small town motels (though I think most of them have switched to the same 2 brands of instant coffee. One of them doesn't smell like urine so that's the better of the two).
@sundogplanets I’m guessing Seeskeetcheeweeen 🎶
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I like that the important sign warning about the danger of the cliff is held up with tape.
Really weird that I believe the US invented Roundabouts then abandoned them.
In the UK they also work when people follow the signs and road markings. Which stupid people cannot do.
@sundogplanets Does Cliff have any relatives that can pick him up?
My favourite danger sign used in the UK:
@sundogplanets @at I’m impressed every time a European nails my ancestral “Massachusetts” on the first try.
@sundogplanets you should see our road safety ads!
@sundogplanets New Zealand Road Safety adverts are also in another league and do not play around either (see also Aussie ones too).
@sundogplanets New Zealand Road Safety adverts are also in another league and do not play around either (see also Aussie ones too).
@sundogplanets Here’s a little experiment (for science, you know?): can you sing “Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi” to them and tell me what their reaction is? Thank you. 😁
@sundogplanets With you on the drip coffee thing. Went through a whole expensive dilettante coffee thing. Found out I lack the early morning patience for pourovers and such. What I like is strong unadorned 10-oz cup of coffee I make for myself at home in a drip aka filter machine that heats the water to the right temperature. (Most machines do not and those that do have ridiculously inflated prices.)
@sundogplanets Sas-kwatch-wan? Is even a real word?
@sundogplanets I sincerely hope you are enjoying your time in our country. Welcome.
@sundogplanets No drip coffee... might be a problem.
@sundogplanets Roundabouts are useful, but you can have too many of them. NZ hasn't reached that stage yet.
https://youtu.be/eYuNAle69Ws?si=k1_fjrihJzxQkDWn
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Let me chip in as a fairly recently immigrated kiwi who lived in Milton Keynes, UK which is basically made of roundabouts held together with electrical tape: kiwis are crap at them.
(Ducks)
@Hedgewizard Hahaha well, they're WAY better at it than the flatlanders in Saskatchewan who only know how to navigate perfect right angles.
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But then how will they know the magic of Swindon?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)
@sundogplanets @Hedgewizard there's also an exit to a car park between the top two roundabouts just for more lols. (I panicked, missed it, and ended up somewhere else!)
@sundogplanets regarding the road signs - I still vividly remember the road signs saying " the faster you go, the bigger the mess" - are those still around?
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Guess what SIX means in NZ? 😲😳🤣😂🤣
@sundogplanets wellingtonians are incredibly proud of their coffee. I’d be careful with them there drip coffee words down there
@sundogplanets in Australia we change that sign to "party cliff" by adding bottles and a boombox
@sundogplanets To be fair, there is genuinely good specialty filter/drip coffee these days (keywords: "pourover", "V60"). But if you mean the cheap over-boiled and continuously reheated stuff, yeah no thanks.
@sundogplanets Why would you want drip (filter) coffee when you can have a Long Black?
@sundogplanets Wow, this could be a great advertisement for moving to NZ. No drip coffee and competent drivers? Sign me the hell up.
@sundogplanets wait, if you are in NZ... who il caring the goats?
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Fun observations! Look forward to some more. 😁
@sundogplanets OK, but why would you want drip coffee when you could have espresso? I don't understand.
@sundogplanets Fun to follow your progress through our country.
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Wait until you hit Australia.
@sundogplanets btw nice pic of Mr Ngauruhoe
Why would you want drip "coffee" when you could have coffee as intended?
@sundogplanets “I know the difference between margarine and butter,
I can say Saskatchewan without starting to stutter…”
TIL what drip coffee is! (Thank you Wikipedia.)
Not sure what we call it here in UK... percolated coffee?
Not sure why anyone does drip coffee or Nescafe.🤷
Please don't mention International Roast 🤢
@sundogplanets Federal Delicatessen in Auckland has good proper brewed coffee. Owned by Al Brown and uses coffee from a roaster in Wellington
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That Cliff guy really is a bastard, isn't he.
@sundogplanets there's a cafe in Newtown Wellington calked "Black Coffee" and they serve good drip coffee if you need a hit
@sundogplanets I thought New Zealand was a paradise until I heard about the coffee thing. Wow.
@sundogplanets I get that. I’ve done that myself, but not in a public forum.
Go well
You might like to rethink how it sounds, surprise at a person of colour being up with modern trends.
@sundogplanets when you said “hand gestures” I had a vivid image for a moment of kids doing a 6 7 haka at boomers and Gen Xers.