I Tried New Zealand's BEST Sweet Treats

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  • @kwerk2011
    @kwerk2011 Год назад +108

    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
      @hafwit4995 Год назад +11

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

    • @itscurlsbaby
      @itscurlsbaby  Год назад +11

      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
      @NA-gw2oc Год назад +4

      @@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
      @major751 Год назад +3

      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
      @robadobdob Год назад +2

      @@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.
      ruclips.net/video/pT0Y6xlLI1s/видео.html

  • @shireetaylor6540
    @shireetaylor6540 Год назад +50

    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
      @lisacrandall409 Год назад +7

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

    • @anniemac8672
      @anniemac8672 Месяц назад

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

  • @hellsbells1409
    @hellsbells1409 Год назад +52

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

    • @itscurlsbaby
      @itscurlsbaby  Год назад +13

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

    • @margueritaharris-p2p
      @margueritaharris-p2p Год назад +1

      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
      @benblakemore4195 Год назад

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

    • @MarkMcLT
      @MarkMcLT Год назад +4

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

    • @mrussell1052
      @mrussell1052 Год назад +1

      And add marshmallows to the mix 👍

  • @greigclement9081
    @greigclement9081 Год назад +47

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

    • @obi4842
      @obi4842 Год назад

      Nuts with skin still on

    • @cruiznnz
      @cruiznnz Год назад +3

      Peanut slab came before the chocolate bar

    • @rachaelk7866
      @rachaelk7866 Год назад +1

      The icecream version is amazing too

    • @kristinreign8026
      @kristinreign8026 Год назад +3

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

    • @twitafftwitaff7029
      @twitafftwitaff7029 Год назад +5

      Once upon a time, the slabs were literally slabs

  • @KylieMackLA
    @KylieMackLA Год назад +9

    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
    @backslash971 Год назад +25

    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

  • @seshthecat
    @seshthecat Год назад +16

    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
      @itscurlsbaby  Год назад

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

    • @judylloyd7901
      @judylloyd7901 6 месяцев назад

      Yeah, some people absolutely hate feijoas.

  • @rogerb4436
    @rogerb4436 Год назад +93

    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.
      @TheShadowMan. Год назад +18

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

    • @MarkMcLT
      @MarkMcLT Год назад +7

      (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
      @rogerb4436 Год назад +1

      @@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
      @rachaelk7866 Год назад +1

      @@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
      @analydiate1102 Год назад

      @@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!

  • @noradinneen1
    @noradinneen1 Месяц назад +2

    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.

  • @TheNessapie
    @TheNessapie Год назад +13

    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 😂

  • @seangray4512
    @seangray4512 Год назад +10

    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
    @miamcknight9138 Год назад +36

    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
      @stephendickson9000 Год назад

      Roasted or sliced length wise and pan fry.

    • @Backwardseel
      @Backwardseel Год назад +2

      Explorers... I think you mean Eskimos

    • @miamcknight9138
      @miamcknight9138 Год назад +1

      @@Backwardseel Eskimos have been renamed Explorers

  • @BeachcomberNZ
    @BeachcomberNZ Год назад +35

    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
      @izzygrooves2514 Год назад +1

      looooooove toasties omg

    • @TheShadowMan.
      @TheShadowMan. Год назад +1

      toasted coconut

    • @aicapitan3279
      @aicapitan3279 Год назад +4

      33 and never heard of toasties

    • @ezzy-fn6xk
      @ezzy-fn6xk Год назад +1

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

    • @georgetteparsons4474
      @georgetteparsons4474 Год назад

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

  • @tasselhoff3888
    @tasselhoff3888 Год назад +46

    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
      @Mcfreddo Год назад +1

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

    • @dabadllama
      @dabadllama Год назад

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

    • @rambolambo93
      @rambolambo93 Год назад +1

      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
      @pandaa7619 Год назад

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

  • @vinnievuitton3045
    @vinnievuitton3045 Год назад +7

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

  • @johanmeischke9189
    @johanmeischke9189 Год назад +12

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

  • @ericwolff6059
    @ericwolff6059 Год назад +8

    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.

  • @rambolambo93
    @rambolambo93 Год назад +9

    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.

  • @kejotwo
    @kejotwo Год назад +9

    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

  • @elchinofatman1
    @elchinofatman1 Год назад +17

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

    • @itscurlsbaby
      @itscurlsbaby  Год назад +1

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

  • @cruiznnz
    @cruiznnz Год назад +8

    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
      @nzlemming Год назад +4

      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)

  • @jondnz
    @jondnz Год назад +18

    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
      @rachaelk7866 Год назад

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

    • @joannebaker7875
      @joannebaker7875 5 месяцев назад

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

  • @rossclarkzilchlight6433
    @rossclarkzilchlight6433 Год назад +9

    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 :)

  • @margaretvanson3601
    @margaretvanson3601 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @victoriapearson4645
    @victoriapearson4645 Год назад +4

    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.

  • @g.iantamongtitans
    @g.iantamongtitans Год назад +8

    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.

  • @megahyperdeathAIDS
    @megahyperdeathAIDS Год назад +7

    Bro I utterly love your overwhelmingly wholesome reactions to our country and our snack foods; appreciate the videos heaps 🤙🏽

  • @gracemcmillan-caires4887
    @gracemcmillan-caires4887 Год назад +1

    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!

  • @BBeeeeeee
    @BBeeeeeee Год назад +3

    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
      @rachaelk7866 Год назад +1

      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
      @BBeeeeeee Год назад

      @@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!

  • @RaccoonCityPD
    @RaccoonCityPD Год назад +22

    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
      @donaldduck2139 Год назад

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

    • @itscurlsbaby
      @itscurlsbaby  Год назад +3

      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
      @RaccoonCityPD Год назад +1

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

    • @nzlemming
      @nzlemming Год назад +1

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

  • @ataimd
    @ataimd Год назад +6

    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.

  • @adp124
    @adp124 Год назад +2

    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.

  • @shenlun
    @shenlun Год назад +5

    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
      @rachaelk7866 Год назад

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

  • @leandrorobertosacht
    @leandrorobertosacht Год назад +1

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

  • @derekwright1735
    @derekwright1735 Месяц назад +2

    Feijoa also called pinmeapple guava in the US

  • @hannahmclaren9672
    @hannahmclaren9672 7 дней назад

    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.

  • @carolcuming2152
    @carolcuming2152 Год назад

    Lolly cake is made with crushed biscuit crumbs (milk arrowroot) with melted butter poured over chopped up sweets are added and left to harden in the fridge. ,

  • @310ingyou2
    @310ingyou2 Год назад +6

    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!

  • @ngahuiroimatanutira-langda4153

    Lollycake is crushed malt biscuits with lolly explorers or fruit puffs and butter with condensed milk. Shape into log roll in coconut. Easy

  • @izzygrooves2514
    @izzygrooves2514 Год назад +2

    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

  • @craigneumann7814
    @craigneumann7814 Год назад +1

    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
      @LTLT900 5 месяцев назад

      I'm going to Coles today.

  • @craigsteele8912
    @craigsteele8912 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @terricraig616
    @terricraig616 Год назад +2

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

  • @nuikoputai8534
    @nuikoputai8534 Год назад +1

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

  • @JessicaClark-lq4gw
    @JessicaClark-lq4gw Год назад +1

    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.

  • @exmachinz
    @exmachinz Год назад +1

    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.

  • @tracyclements3053
    @tracyclements3053 Год назад +3

    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

  • @windycityassasin5236
    @windycityassasin5236 Год назад +2

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

  • @matthewherd9470
    @matthewherd9470 Год назад +2

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

  • @alicetango6725
    @alicetango6725 Год назад +1

    history about whitterkers ..... they started making toffee bars called k bars , then started selling peanut slabs that lead them to become a chocolate factory

  • @dabotboi1160
    @dabotboi1160 Год назад +1

    If you are near a “couplands” bakery, recommend almost everything there
    Also fejoas are kinda bitter in their taste, but you gotta try the straight up fruit, yet the fruit too is a bit bitter-

  • @staceyryan834
    @staceyryan834 Год назад

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

  • @boneperfection
    @boneperfection Год назад +1

    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.

  • @izzygrooves2514
    @izzygrooves2514 Год назад +1

    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

  • @Jadasaki
    @Jadasaki Год назад +2

    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
      @gretchenboyd69 Год назад

      Eskimos lollies?

    • @Jadasaki
      @Jadasaki Год назад +1

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

  • @botchedeyesurgery420
    @botchedeyesurgery420 Год назад +7

    if you ever get a chance to try hangi do not hesitate !

    • @itscurlsbaby
      @itscurlsbaby  Год назад +3

      Absolutely will do, have been working on something special for this, watch this space!

    • @botchedeyesurgery420
      @botchedeyesurgery420 Год назад +1

      @@itscurlsbaby also don't forget cream Paua and fry bread 😎 most good fish n chip shops will do this otherwise Saturday/Sunday markets are the best places to find good NZ food

  • @pandaa7619
    @pandaa7619 Год назад +10

    I would honestly say the Puhoi valley White chocolate and caramel is better than the belgian chocolate

    • @itscurlsbaby
      @itscurlsbaby  Год назад +2

      Don't tell me that, I'm not sure my taste buds can handle that much excitement!!

    • @harrisongreen3972
      @harrisongreen3972 Год назад

      its the besttt u have to go down to countdown right now and try it and post a shorts video of it please

    • @mieguy9679
      @mieguy9679 Год назад

      Those are nice, just a shame they stopped doing the Xmas time flavour of chai white chocolate milk, honestly such a treat

  • @BBeeeeeee
    @BBeeeeeee Год назад +4

    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
      @jumpingjohnflash Год назад +1

      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".

  • @NerveriosNZ
    @NerveriosNZ 10 месяцев назад

    Feijoa is easy to grow here and was a popular garden fruit choice in nz! Generations grew up eating them right off the tree with nothing but their teeth and mouth. Its zesty and sweet love it! Try one fresh of the bush .. bite it open with your teeth and suck out the flesh

  • @indridcold1206
    @indridcold1206 9 месяцев назад

    The best flavoured milk is Puhoi Valleys caramel and white chocolate. It's amazing.

  • @modfus
    @modfus Год назад +12

    There is no doubt the Lamington is Australian - they are named after the former Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901, Charles Cochrane-Baillie (2nd Baron Lamington). The story is his French Chef needed to make some tea cakes quickly, he improvised with some leftover sponge cake and came up with the Lamington cakes.

    • @AverageSouthernMan
      @AverageSouthernMan Год назад +14

      I can understand the reason why lamington is Aussie, you can have that but the Pavlova belongs here

    • @TheMarathonomahos
      @TheMarathonomahos Год назад

      Correct

    • @rachaelk7866
      @rachaelk7866 Год назад +4

      @@AverageSouthernMan yup pav is def kiwi not Aussie ... Though the Aussies contest this

    • @paulg3336
      @paulg3336 Год назад

      @@AverageSouthernMan Research conducted by New Zealander Andrew Paul Wood and Australian Annabelle Utrecht found that the origins of the modern pavlova can be traced back to the Austro-Hungarian Spanische windtorte. It was later brought to the United States where German-speaking immigrants introduced meringue, whipped cream, and fruit desserts called schaum torte ("foam cake") and baiser torte. American corn starch packages which included recipes for meringue were exported to New Zealand in the 1890s.
      Michael Symons, an Australian then researching in New Zealand, has declared that pavlova has no singular birthplace. Rather, published recipes reveal the complex process of "social invention" with practical experience circulating, under a variety of names, across both countries. For example, Australians beat New Zealanders to create an accepted pavlova recipe as the 'Meringue Cake'. The illusion of some singular invention can be explained by distinguishing a second, associated level of "social construction", in which cooks, eaters and writers attach a name and myths to produce a widely-held concept that appears so deceptively distinct that it must have had a definite moment of creation.
      Matthew Evans, a restaurant critic for The Sydney Morning Herald, said that it was unlikely that a definitive answer about the dessert's origins would ever be found. "People have been doing meringue with cream for a long time, I don't think Australia or New Zealand were the first to think of doing that."

    • @AverageSouthernMan
      @AverageSouthernMan Год назад +1

      @@paulg3336 but we are talking Pavlova not "Foam Cake"

  • @Zephaeria
    @Zephaeria Месяц назад

    Feijoa is one of those "love it or hate it" fruits. If you don't like it raw then try it stewed as the flavour changes a lot.

  • @tylajackason
    @tylajackason Год назад +2

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

  • @angeladawn805
    @angeladawn805 Год назад +1

    10:25 feijoa - not my thing, we had a feijoa bush which produced epic amounts of fruit (when I lived in Whangarei) - that fruit was left to rot under the bush. there's something weird about the texture... so I never aquired the taste for them. 😔

  • @alisonthomas47
    @alisonthomas47 Год назад +1

    Oh Curls you crack me up. Love your videos

  • @oceanofsandwiches7784
    @oceanofsandwiches7784 Год назад

    Couplands has good lolly cake and other baked goods like the custard slice and lamingtons are usually cut in half with abit of whipped cream on top and fejoas taste much better if you get them from the tree because shops pick them and then let them ripen off the tree so they dont taste as sweet

  • @darylt00pi
    @darylt00pi Год назад +1

    If you havent yet, the Puhoi Valley Collumbian espresso is the "Lord" of iced coffee

  • @GingerKidCustoms
    @GingerKidCustoms Год назад +4

    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).

  • @Andy_M986
    @Andy_M986 Год назад +2

    Try the Coconut slab from Whittaker's.

  • @shenlun
    @shenlun Год назад +5

    Lamingtons are in fact 1000% Australian named after Lord Lamington of Queensland as we also have Lamington National Park. Lamingtons are traditional a sponge cake and NOT a chocolate or mud cake, ergo less stoggy. I have been a bakers apprentice and made 1000s of them

    • @Sharon-777
      @Sharon-777 Год назад +1

      Ok you can keep them and Russell Crowe as well😂😂

    • @flowdancefitnessmotuekawit6757
      @flowdancefitnessmotuekawit6757 2 месяца назад

      We have Pavlova. Keep yer lamingtons😂

    • @shenlun
      @shenlun 2 месяца назад

      @@flowdancefitnessmotuekawit6757 pavola is australian too, at least in its current form. yes the name was first used by kiwis but was a jelly like dessert , not the meringue based one created in western australia 6 months before anna reached new zealand shores

    • @flowdancefitnessmotuekawit6757
      @flowdancefitnessmotuekawit6757 2 месяца назад

      @@shenlun Nup your not stealing our pavlova like you did crowded house😂

    • @shenlun
      @shenlun 2 месяца назад

      @@flowdancefitnessmotuekawit6757 You can keep crowded house.

  • @Kiwigrunt
    @Kiwigrunt 6 месяцев назад

    There's a small company in Fairlie, New Zealand that makes traditional Kiwi confectionery.... original recipes, milk bottle, air planes, wine gums, smokers, etc.

  • @kevinwarburton2938
    @kevinwarburton2938 Год назад

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

  • @augustinewong-pown5814
    @augustinewong-pown5814 Год назад

    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 😮😊

  • @mysteryquilter
    @mysteryquilter Год назад +1

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

    • @itscurlsbaby
      @itscurlsbaby  Год назад

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

  • @deborah1812
    @deborah1812 Месяц назад

    The way he described the feijoa smoothie. Hahahahah 😂

  • @billydoyle6919
    @billydoyle6919 Год назад

    Feijo's make great hedges or fence line bushes and grow like weeds, nearly every old school 1/4 acre property or bach has at least a few bushes!

  • @hellsbells1409
    @hellsbells1409 Год назад +3

    K bars if you can find them!

    • @itscurlsbaby
      @itscurlsbaby  Год назад

      Have been told this a few times so will definitely get onto this! Cheers

  • @yeanahnahyeahnahh7148
    @yeanahnahyeahnahh7148 Год назад

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

  • @emikiwi
    @emikiwi Год назад

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

  • @adbarrnz
    @adbarrnz Год назад +3

    Feijoas taste like you took a bottle of gran's old perfume, strained it through granddad's old tweed jacket, then mixed in a pinch of talcum powder.

  • @MouseDestruction
    @MouseDestruction Год назад

    Think lamington was invented in WW2 in London when they add coconut to cakes to make them last a few days longer, and use less sugar. Got adapted to official recipe later.

  • @kerr9724
    @kerr9724 Год назад

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

  • @hannahmclaren9672
    @hannahmclaren9672 7 дней назад

    Someone needs to make him corn fritters with fresh tomatoes in the summer. Can you be nostalgic for your own home 😂

  • @Sam-lk6eo
    @Sam-lk6eo Год назад

    I'd like to see your take on Ginger Nut biscuits, Vegemite on Huntly Cream Crackers with butter, Baked Beans on toast or a Toffee Apples, Peanut Crisp Toffee, Fry Bread with strawberry jam and whipped cream ,
    Or Boil Up ! ❤❤❤❤

  • @janinekaretai4306
    @janinekaretai4306 Год назад

    I think Lamingtons began in Toowoomba Queensland Australia. I've been to the grand old house where they are believed began.....it is believed to have been covered in Choccie icing and coconut to cover up a failed sponge

  • @Ngarascrafts
    @Ngarascrafts Год назад

    Eskimo lolloes are in lolly cake with malt biscuits as a base .and butter to combine

  • @Kiwinan1701
    @Kiwinan1701 Год назад +1

    Lamingtons should have fresh cream inside them! Try the pink one as well!
    Feijoas are an acquired taste. They are very healthy. There was a time when every house had at least one feijoa tree. Add vanilla ice cream to the microwaved cookie!

  • @v8valiant68
    @v8valiant68 Год назад

    Zap chocolate milk, old school, Mintys lollies, K bar, Sparkles, Scroggin, Shrewsbury cookies, Cameo biscuits, anything made by Griffin's, girl guide biscuits, Chocolate pebbles, the list is endless.

  • @JesseStLouis
    @JesseStLouis Год назад

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

  • @it-really-hurts2092
    @it-really-hurts2092 Год назад +4

    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. 🤷‍♂️

  • @NZTanzya
    @NZTanzya Год назад +3

    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!

  • @m3mph155
    @m3mph155 Год назад +3

    Bruh that toffee pop kissed his taste buds

  • @Theincredibledrummer
    @Theincredibledrummer Год назад

    Feijoas just grow really well in our climate. The trees are also super low maintenance and are very generous fruiters which i think contributes to their popularity

  • @liambradley3037
    @liambradley3037 Год назад

    Lolly cake is made from malt biscuits sweetened condensed milk, butter and pascal explorer lollies 3:49

  • @arriettysbags
    @arriettysbags Год назад

    Lolly cake is easy to make. I've only ever eaten homemade lolly cake. Traditionally, crushed malt biscuits, melted butter, dessicated coconut, fruit puffs. Mix press into a roll, then roll in dessicated coconut, wrap in baking paper into the fridge for a couple of hours. Bobs your uncle! Jaffas used to fall out the box and roll down the wooden floors at the cinema when we were young.
    Lammingtons usually have light vanilla Spong cake dipped in chocolate or raspberry syrup then rolled in coconut. That's the first time I've ever seen a solid chocolate lammington.
    Fejoias are an acquired taste. Pear combined with banana, we always thought.
    Peanut slab = classic
    Love watching you enjoy the yummy snacks.
    Sugar overload 😆

    • @jumpingjohnflash
      @jumpingjohnflash Год назад

      I've made lollycake with chocolate flavoured biscuits before, and also with Arrowroot biscuits, bt malt biscuits are the best.

  • @denisegore1884
    @denisegore1884 Год назад

    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.

  • @maiacameron-jones4637
    @maiacameron-jones4637 Год назад +1

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

  • @muliparu
    @muliparu Год назад

    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..

  • @margaret-annfoster5848
    @margaret-annfoster5848 Год назад +1

    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. 🙏🧡

  • @abbyew08
    @abbyew08 Год назад +4

    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
      @Sharon-777 Год назад

      He did do alot of those earlier check it out

    • @abbyew08
      @abbyew08 Год назад

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