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

By: Mark Lichtenstein
Estimated Completion Time
3 min
Are You More New Zealand or Australia When It Comes to Your Taste in Food?
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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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

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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"

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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

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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

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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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