TVNZ take notes, is all I'll say.

It's probably not cheap as such — they're driving a whole production (in a bloody big truck) around the North Island — but I think you do see the budget on screen.

No, but I'm reasonably sure it's going to be cheaper, and more entertaining, than New Zealand's Got Talent. And not a penny of it going to under-write Simon Cowell's next personality by-pass. :)

We are SO good at kicking someone who is doing their best. Oh...and those who reach up above. Whack! Hah! Another poppy.

Rumour: Brent McKenzie uses ghost writers. He must have. Real Kiwi's can't do that.

Please don't encourage them Craig. Gaia know's how they will 'improve' the show...

Grinch. Try watching it. It's lovely.

It?s in the Bag was a radio version of ?Double Your Money? a British TV show fronted by the late Hughie Green,

Ah! That's what I was trying to find this morning. I knew it had a?

Yeah, Grinch. ;)

http://www.maoritelevision.com/default.aspx?tabid=535&pid=211

so simple, so real and so freaking cool

So, "The money, the Bag, or the mouthful of glutinous hag-fish?"
Sounds lovely.

Dear Steve B-
we call lamprey/hagfish/slime-eels "kanakana" (because they dance in water – they look like swirls of silk, coming into freshwater from the sea) and we esteem them as a great delicacy...you leave them to exude their slime,?

Ah, but... my reference was intended to refer to a live specimen.
The exuding of slime is a defence mechanism. When a predator tries to eat a hagfish it finds itself with a mouthful of choking slime. Not pleasant. The other interesting thing about these weird and?

Yup, Steve B – you tried kina roe fresh from the echinoderm? Paua stomach soup?Water-fermented bull-kelp stipes?

Yummy delicio!

And he proudly mentions this in his autobiography, "Out of the?

I also steer clear of "Rotten Corn". As with most gourmet/cultural foods, their origin is in poverty, as in "if you could afford not to eat it you wouldn't".
Examples;
Snails.
Frog's legs.
Haggis.
Tripe.
Escamoles. (ant's eggs)
Huhu grubs.
Durian fruit.
KFC.
McGonads.

But I guess we?

Or even Cannons Creek yearling.

I dont like kanga pirau either (or that other N.I delicacy, gorn-orf-shark.) And yes, there is an argument to be made that some culturally esteemed foods were originally for the poverty-stricken. However, huhu grubs, like kanakana (hagfish), were &*are* delicacies ( and importantly,especially in the?

In a lot of cases, it's not even really a matter for argument as just knowing your cultural/culinary history. Haggis might sound fucking revolting, but if you had to raise (or?

I am reminded of a (maybe Northern) Chinese quote that says the Cantonese eat anything on four legs that isn't a table, and anything that flies that isn't an airplane. And apparently it actually predates Prince Philip's?

great proverb

I tasted it once and thought it was awesome. Offal FTW!

She's our very own Bear Grylls. Except she doesn't sleep in hotels between shows.

My culinary m.o during our three days in Hong Kong next month will be "If it looks appetizing go for?

It might taste like liver (nummy, fried with onions and gravy) or kidneys (also nummy. especially with bacon) or tripe (bloody awful – I don't care what anyone says), or any number of internal organs and bits that don't qualify as "cuts of meat"(tm)?

Very apocryphal, and there are several variations, but I've tried it on my students, and even those from Guangdong agree.?

(I'm a big haggis fan & enjoy liver & kidneys but not keen on brains or tripe. Last time I tried tripe I chewed it for a while, swallowed it and a moment?

Braaaains

Any good?

I remember seeing in a fish seller's cart down near the waterfront of Trondheim a very ordinary-looking meat labelled 'hvalbiff', or something like that. I was kinda curious, but for some reason didn't check that it was in fact whale?

Oxhearts are all seed-descended from?

I seem to remember reading in the old National Geographics I collected in my early teens (oh how I wish I'd kept a hold of them – I had editions dating back to the late 19th century which were fascinating reads) that seal and whale blubber contains vitamins?

Think I've shared this with at least Islander before, but I've always loved slimy shell-fish.

At a wedding in Te Kaha in?

IIRC, isn?t it raw liver? (cooking de-natures Vitamin-C)

I?m a life-long vegetarian (raised that way, back when?

Moi aussi, although that actually extends to any seafood. Don't know if it's psychological (e.g. growing up catholic) or allergy but I do get physically sick if I ingest any. Which is a bit of a bugger in an island nation?

Maybe throw them out and get some fresh ones?
;-)
(sorry, couldn't resist!)

I also?

Stronger flavours and more nutrition? Seems to make sense.

I guess 'goes off faster' would be a huge bonus for vultures and others of?