 Hey, welcome back to my YouTube channel guys. Today we are going to talk about food. Who doesn't like to talk about food, right? So today we're going to talk about the differences in food between New Zealand and the US, specifically foods that are supposed to be essentially the same. So like if you order pancakes in New Zealand or you order cheeseburger in New Zealand, are you getting the same thing as you are in America? Well, you're going to want to stay tuned and find out. So make sure that you click the subscribe below button and here we go. Stay to the end because we're going to go through 10 exciting food types and you're not going to want to miss it. This video is sponsored by Skillshare. Skillshare.com is a wonderful online community where creatives can get together and learn from each other. So check it out. Skillshare.com. Okay, the first food type is pancakes. When you are in New Zealand as an American and you order pancakes, what are you going to get? They are not going to be the big fluffy pancakes that maybe you're used to in the States. They are either going to be small, well they call them pikelets if they're small, but sometimes I've even gotten that when I've ordered pancakes. Sometimes you do get the big fluffy pancakes, but also sometimes you get crepes. It's also called pancakes. So this is a good thing to know. If you're in New Zealand and you're ordering pancakes, it might look a little bit different. Okay, number two, coffee. Now I know if you watch my channel, I talk a lot about coffee. I love coffee, but we're talking about it because we have to talk about this because if you're American and you're in New Zealand and you order coffee, it's not what you expect. All of the coffee in New Zealand is espresso-type coffee. They do not have drip drip coffee here like the filtered coffee like they do in the US in general. You can get it, but it's going to be like the good kind of drip coffee with the fancy, I don't know, like they, I don't know, it looks like a chemistry experiment when you walk in, but I mean they do have like a French press type, which is still quite a bit stronger than a drip drip coffee. And they have like, yeah, so I'm sorry, they call it a plunger, not, you know, and then they also have instant coffee. So you'd be familiar with that as an American, but if you go to any coffee shop and you're ordering coffee, you're going to get espresso. And so you can't just say, can I get a black coffee? Because they'll be like, would you want a long black or a short black? And so you kind of need to know that. And that just means, you know, I guess how much hot water you have in it. And then like the most typical coffee that you will that is ordered here in New Zealand is a flat white, which a lot of Americans aren't familiar with unless you go to Starbucks. Starbucks has a lot of, has flat white and they've had for quite a few years now. So people will be familiar with it, but it's not like the typical drink. And you could always get a latte or cappuccino or americano or whatever kind of coffee that you like in any of these coffee shops. But just so you know, you can't just go in and say, Hey, can I have a large black coffee? They won't know what you mean. And it certainly won't be in those big cups that you would get in the US when you order a large black coffee that's going to be. Okay, the third food difference. Now I'm going to talk about a bunch of food in this category. Let's talk about snack foods. The typical American snack foods. We have Cheetos, we have Oreos, we have Doritos, we have Pringles, okay? These are all here in New Zealand, but they are not the same. For example, the regular Oreos or the double stuffed Oreos. The cookie doesn't taste the same and it doesn't have as much cream as you get in the US. So it is different. So if you come here like it says Oreo, it looks like an Oreo yet it doesn't taste exactly like an Oreo or like, okay, don't even get me started. Like I was so excited about the Flaming Hot Cheetos that was coming to New Zealand because that is my favorite American snack food. Of course, I don't eat it that much because it's not good for you. But sometimes you just want a little Flaming Hot Cheeto and very disappointing. So all of these products are actually produced in Australia, a lot of them. And so they have food regulations over this part of the world that don't allow for a lot of the fake stuff that Americans put in their snack foods. And so the snack foods don't actually taste the same. You try Pringles, not the same Doritos, not the same, but actually probably the best of all of them. And but they don't have all of the flavors like they do not have cool ranch Doritos. So if you're coming here, I know a lot of you keep messaging me. If you're coming to the New Zealand, bring some cool ranch with you. They don't have those. But yeah, really we can live without it. Let's be honest. But yeah, all the regular Cheetos, the Flaming Hot Cheetos, the Oreos, the Doritos all taste a little bit different down in this part of the world. And number four, cookies or biscuits. So if you want, okay, so if you're American, a cookie is a biscuit here. Okay, but in New Zealand, if it's a chocolate chip cookie, it's actually called a chocolate chip cookie. It's the only one. I don't get it. Maybe comment below if you understand that. But they don't only call the only cookie that they call cookie is a chocolate chip cookie and they call it a chocolate chippy cookie here. Okay, but just know that the cookies are different. They don't really like they do have soft cookies, but they that's not common. Like it's very common to have a very hard cookie here in New Zealand. It would not be common to have a hard cookie in the US. The vast majority are soft there and the vast majority are hard here. And that's because they always have them with a hot drink here, whether tea or coffee. And so, you know, when you have a hard cookie with a hot drink, it makes it soft. So I guess that doesn't matter then. But yeah, they have a lot of cookie varieties that are very new and different to me. I still have not got through all of them. I think a lot of them come from the UK or Australia and they're just like very different types of things. Their chocolate chip cookies are I would definitely check out my new American recipe book if you want a good chocolate chip cookie recipe because it's amazing in there and a really good cheeseburger recipe. So the link will be in my bio if you want to check that out in the description below. And so yeah, cookies hard in New Zealand, soft in the US. Skillshare is exactly how it sounds. It is a platform where creatives come together and just in community can share skills with each other. 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Everything's sweet flavored more than a savory flavor for the morning treat. And number six, let's talk about burgers, right? I love a good American burger. But in New Zealand, the burgers always have beetroot on it. Sometimes even have eggs on the cheeseburger. And they tend to like to cook the cheeseburger all the way through. Whereas in American real American cheeseburger, we'll have American cheese and it will have, you know, a little bit of pink in the middle because that's what's good. And so it's very different. So when the taste of the burger is quite different. And also it's the meat here in New Zealand is so much better, you know, every every, you know, it's all grass fed and very more organic. And it's just so much better. And so like the meat already tastes different because of what the animal is eating, right? And so yeah, but beetroot eggs very different. And they also have their own tomato sauce, which is like the famous Wadi's tomato sauce is what they eat here. And so it's it's good. It's different. So like ketchup in the U.S. is much more salty, whereas tomato sauce is going to be sweeter in nature, but more like a real tomato taste, right? So it's good, but not for a cheeseburger. And they don't put generally like pickles on it. They'll put the lettuce, tomato, onion, mayo, I would say is common where they'll have their own, you know, sauce that they put instead of mayo. But yeah, so burgers are different. Another thing to note about burgers is that when someone says chicken burger, they mean like chicken, like what American would think chicken sandwich. So like, okay, so chicken is it when they say burger, so it's can either be like meat, it can either be beef is what I should say, or chicken on a burger type bun is always going to be called burger. Okay, whereas a chicken on a burger bun in the U.S. would be called the chicken sandwich. So just know that if you're ordering a chicken burger, that's that's the difference. I'm just here to help you. Yeah, so just so you know, because like sometimes we're talking about burgers a certain way and we think it's a certain this is what we're getting, you're not you're getting an actual burger bun with chicken on it when you order a chicken burger. But yeah, so they do put different things on it. You know, you can still get bacon, you know, some places you could still get avocado, which is really good on a burger. But yeah, but again, check out my American recipe book if you want a good cheeseburger recipe. Now if you're in New Zealand, and somebody asks you to go get a pie, they are talking about savory. They are not talking about sweet. So in America, when you talk about pie, it's sweet. It's not savory. So just know that the the savory pies in New Zealand are like a staple here. Everybody eats on very common for a quick easy lunch. You can kind of grab them anywhere. Whereas in the US, you also have sweet pies readily available in a lot of places. So just know when you're talking about pies and you're coming to New Zealand, it's going to be savory. Now, wondering what they put in the pies? Well, the most the most common to our mince and cheese or just mince, which is ground beef, sorry, just trying to translate, or steak and cheese is the other popular one. They also have chicken. They'll have ones with like an Indian flavoring to it. They'll have veggie ones. So there is a variety that you can get. And it's kind of like the American chicken pie, is how I would explain it. So it's just like a pastry with meat inside. And it's so good. So like if you don't want to probably like love another food that's probably not good for you, maybe don't fall in love with the pies. But they are really, really good here in New Zealand. But yeah, savory in New Zealand, sweet in the US. Okay, number eight, let's talk a little bit about sausages. It's good to know if you're American and someone says, Hey, let's go get a sausage. Just so you know, the sausage is coming on a plain white bread piece with some butter on it and the sausage and you can just put your tomato sauce on that as well. So just so in America though, when you're serving a broad sausage, a hot dog, it's always on a bun. It's never on white bread unless you're like, you know, just eating it at home and you run out of buns, then you'll put it on white bread. But here it's normal to eat it on white bread. And like if you go to a, what they call a sausage sizzle, which they'll have at schools or like outside hardware stores, you are getting it on white bread and that's normal. It isn't that they've run out of butts. That's how they eat the sausage sizzles here in New Zealand. There's your hot tip about sausages. And number nine, I think it's important that we talk about spreads, spreads that we put on toast, on bread, on sandwiches. In the US, the most popular sandwich is going to be peanut butter and jelly and jelly being like a grape jam to translate to all my Kiwis out there. And so grape isn't like a very popular flavor even for jam here in New Zealand. And while, but I do think that peanut butter is becoming a lot more popular in New Zealand than it has been even like when I first moved here. But also note that in New Zealand, they use marmite or vegemite, which is like a yeast based spread. It's like black color on their toast, very common on their toast, or on a sandwich. So just know that when we're talking about different types of spreads that you're going to hear about that. So just know that jam and jelly are kind of the same thing. Marmite and vegemite exist and you should definitely try it. And that peanut butter is probably like the most common spread that you would find in the US. And number 10 I've saved the best for last is Mexican food. Yes, the US borders Mexico and so it has amazing Mexican food. Not sure what happened in the translation over to New Zealand. So just be warned. When you go to a Mexican restaurant here in New Zealand, you may not recognize what the heck is on this menu. How is this even Mexican food? Or they've taken like common Mexican things and they switched it and put weird stuff in it. And you're like, what is this? So like for example, yeah, like they'll have tacos on the menu, but the tacos will have things like squid inside, cauliflower, pork belly. These are not things that you're going to see in a taco in a Mexican restaurant in the US. I don't know if they're just trying to be fancy here or what, but man, sometimes you just want like a really good taco and what is this? You will also not find similar common things that you'll find in the US Mexican restaurants like enchiladas, kind of like the most common thing that you order outside of a taco. Enchiladas. So good. Chumichangas. I have not seen that on a menu. I have seen it on a menu. Not sure what they gave us. Not a chumichanga. So anyway, I remember us looking at it like, what is that? What is this? Like wrapped in something. It wasn't deep fried. It wasn't like a chumichanga, right? And they do have margaritas, so have no fear. And they are really strong here is what I've noticed. They're small, but they're strong. And they come up with crazy flavors for the margaritas, which is kind of fun. So they do have tacos, but then they also have like odd things on the menu that you would never see on a menu in the US. Like in the US, you always get rice and beans. You get free chips and salsa at like every Mexican restaurant. Not going to get that here. And it's going to be really expensive. You're going to get like, in the US, you can get like 59 cent tacos, right? Whereas in New Zealand, they're going to be like $7 for one. And you're like, huh. And they're good. And they're fresh. And it's unique. So it's fun to try it. But yeah, the Mexican food is quite different. And I even find like cooking Mexican at home is different. So like people don't know chicken fajitas. Like I, it's called chicken wraps here, which is essentially the same thing, but not the word fajita. And so I've had a lot of like people said chicken wraps and like, what are you talking about? You know, like I'm picturing like a burrito type, you know, it's the same, but yeah, it's called the chicken fajita in the US and the chicken wrap here in New Zealand. So yeah, so if you like have a passion for cooking Mexican food and love doing like a food truck or love the restaurant industry, come over here. We'd love to have you and your real authentic Mexican food. Well, thank you for watching my video today. I hope you enjoyed it. Hope I didn't make you too hungry talking about all of this food. Thank you for Skillshare for sponsoring this video. 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