Everything you have ever wanted to know about kiwis and trying to understand why we do what we do is on this blog Kiwianarama. It works similar to Diggnation in the fact you can rate articles you like. It is wikipedia for all things ‘kiwi’.Here is one of my personal favorites…the kiwi sausage sizzle. This is a typical scene you will find any given weekend in New Zealand. Here are the loosely abided by rules:

  • A Sausage Sizzle must be positioned between 10 & 20 feet from, and upwind of, the store front door of either a Warehouse, a Bunnings or a Mitre10 Mega.
  • Any tomato sauce provided must contain black bits, taste of candy & be served in unmarked, 4L plastic bottles.
  • Bread must be at least a day old, white, and cost less than 10c loaf. Each slice should also be manually stressed the night before, so that it breaks apart evenly as soon as it’s wrapped around it’s designated sausage.
  • Entertainment may only be provided in the form of either a) an 80s ghetto blaster playing dub/reggae, or b) an old man blowing a harmonica.
  • Child labour is compulsory.
  • Signs and banners should be designed in Microsoft Word, with ample Clip Art, then printed at home and sellotaped together.
  • Sausages must contain no more than 5% meat or (preferably) meat by-products, from inorganic, factory-farmed pigs only.

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