Are You More New Zealand or Australia When It Comes to Your Taste in Food?

By: Mark Lichtenstein

5 Min Quiz

About This Quiz

If popular culture is to be believed, everyone from New Zealand has a thing for their sheep (that is to be made fun of) and every Australian is as dumb as a post (also meant to be made fun of). Of course, it's more complicated than that, and no area better shows off the differences between these two island nations more than their food preferences.

Who invented the pavlova?

Bert Sachse

An Aussie
A Kiwi

A Kiwi chef in a hotel

Should you steam pudding?

Only if it's meant to be steamed.

If it's supposed to be served hot, I suppose.
Does it have fruit in it?

Only if you're going to drench it in ice cream.

Where does the best beer come from?

Australia

Britain
Germany

New Zealand

Do you ever have to worry about whether food is sacred or not?

Not unless I'm in church.

Food isn't holy unless it's Swiss cheese.
Only on holidays.

Sometimes!

Is it cookie time?

Do I look like a bloody child to you?

I'd prefer ice cream.
It might be if I'm in the mood.

It's always cookie time!

Will you be serving lamingtons for dinner?

Dessert, surely

Maybe
For dinner? Isn't that a bit late?

Tea, surely

What does Friday mean?

It means tonight I'm going to go drinking!

It means the weekend is nearly here!
It might mean some meat for lunch.

It means it's time for a sausage sizzle!

What are your feelings on Afghans?

They're warm in the winter.

They're perfectly nice people who have to deal with the Taliban.
They're a culture that's been in the cross hairs of empires since the dawn of man.

They're delicious!

What does Marmite belong on?

If you like it, toast.

Toast, usually
Potato chips (in the American sense)

Salt and vinegar chip sandwiches, on white bread

Marmite or Vegemite?

Vegemite, obviously

Vegemite, usually
Marmite, if I have the choice

Marmite, obviously

What is a tuatua?

Is it when you make out with two other people, twice?

Is it when you win two cricket matches in a row?
Is it some kind of meat?

Is it a shellfish?

What do you call it when you dig a grave for your food?

A bloody waste, mate

Performance art
Strange, but who am I to judge?

Hāngi

What do you need to make fairy bread?

Fairies

Bread
Butter

Sprinkles

You've failed at fishing. What do you do?

Go shoot something instead

Drink
Drown my sorrows in a fancy quiche

Cook my bait into a fritter

What dip is original?

Brown sauce

Mayo
Maggi Onion Soup packets mixed with cream

Kiwi!

What kind of fish is best?

Shark

Salmon
Whitebait

Chocolate

Do you have anything to fear of witchetty grubs?

They only look awful

They look and taste awful
They eat human flesh, right?

This is a joke, right?

What's the best use for an emu?

Steak!

Burger
Zoo livestock

Security

In what circumstances would you eat pea and ham soup?

Winter

Cold weather
If I was starving

If I were in Australia

What food should come in yesterday's newspaper?

Fish and chips

Chips
Meat from the butcher

Nothing

What is vovo?

It's iced

It's yummy
It's made up

It's how a child pronounces "Volvo"

TimTams are what?

Wonderful

Pretty good
Okay

Not as good as chocolate fish

What was the Salvation Army's biggest contribution to the world?

A child's food that's good to play with

A tasty chocolate treat
Santa with a bell

Charity, obviously

Crocodile meat is what?

A delicacy

Okay every now and then
A made up food no one really eats

Gross

Cheese goes best with what?

Bacon and rolls

Bacon
Mince meat

Mince pie

What does a crab stick contain?

Fish, and no crab

Definitely not crab
Some crab meat, some fish meat

Crab, obviously

What goes best on a burger?

Beet root

Beet root and tomato
Bluff Oysters

Feijoas

What is the best chocolate?

Fantales

Tim Tam
Chocolate Fish

Peanut Slab

What beer do you drink with breakfast?

Tui

Speight’s
St Arnou

Mountain Goat

What wine are you going to have with your cheap fish and chips?

Margaret River

McLaren Vale
Ponder Estate

Linduer

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