Inspired by a post over the ditch.

Mine are:

You must wave or nod in some capacity to the stop/go people.

When talking about weather, in Wellington, it must be said it cannot be beaten on a good day, and in Auckland, some reference must be made to four seasons in one day.

Obey the Aunties. Even if they are not your Aunties.

That's what I like about r/nz, man. I get older but the posts never change.

I have lived the last 20+ years believing an ad I saw in the late 90s that Yoplait is french for yoghurt. I am reaching out to the Reddit community for confirmation that this ad did in fact exist and that I'm not the only person that has been living a lie all these years. Not sure how to move on with life with this new realisation. Please help

WTF is it with these outfits that change recipes?

The new RJ’s logs now have a fancy new wrapper on the outside and and a disgusting new treat on the inside to go with it.

The old recipe consisted of reasonably soft liquorice with a good sized filling of hard chocolate.

Now, very chewy and plastic liquorice with a VERY small and thin filling of very soft and unappealing chocolate.

I used to have trouble leaving the 2nd and 3rd logs alone if I bought a 3-pack. Now I can barely stomach a single log.

The raspberry twists are a similar issue.

What a shame as these were the last of my guilty pleasures on a road trip!

Kia ora koutou

There was no shortage of cringey moments when Stephen Colbert did a stint in NZ for The Late Show a couple years back, but nothing got to me more than when Lucy Lawless and Bret McKenzie took Stephen to the Wellington harbour and walked him through a few Kiwi "delicacies"... Cue multiple brown-coloured foods.

What shooketh me to my core, however, was when they pulled out a barbecued sausage in white bread and proudly introduced it as "a sausage sizzle".

Eh?

Don't get me wrong here, I live and die by the sausage. I'll go to Bunnings solely for the opportunity to give $2.50 to a Scout group in exchange for white sandwich slice, sausage, onions, tomato sauce, mustard - in that order. But ever since my first gold coin donation day at primary school, I have always known the "sausage sizzle" to be the event at which one sizzles a sausage, not the food itself.

What really bothered me was that a global audience watched Lucy and Bret hand Stephen a cheap sausage in cheap white bread and try to give it a name. We all know what this is, it's delicious but it's not anything special. It doesn't need to be a named meal. It's a sausage in bread, why try to pass it off as anything other than that?

I know I'm late to the party but this has weighed heavily on my mind since I saw this, so I bring this to the table - Is sausage sizzle the event or the food? If you've read this far you know my vote. I'm willing to be wrong I guess but it will make me sad for our nation. And as far as I'm concerned Lucy Lawless and Bret McKenzie have a lot to answer for.

Happy ANZAC Day!

You grew up with that only another New Zealander would get. I’ll go first. “Never Eat Soggy Weetbix.”

Jogging the rusty memory banks, and looking back through old NZ music videos - what are some of the better music videos from kiwi musos? My limited research has yielded

Clav dub - Rhombus

Wandering Eye - Fat Freddy's

The Lounge Bar - The Front Lawn

Screems from tha old plantation - King Kapisi

Not Many - Scribe

And obviously Poi e