 Hey welcome back to my YouTube channel guys. Today I am with Chantel again and we have a great topic to talk about with you today. We are going to talk about some of the odd things that Kiwis do. And there are many. There are many. We have a lot to get through today. So stay tuned and here we go. Okay so the first thing I'd like to talk about is let's talk about some of the words that they use and some of the things that they have here that are just a little bit different. It takes a little bit of an adjustment. So if you are visiting here or you are moving here or you are just traveling through then you're going to want to know these things. So these are some odd things that you have to get used to when living or traveling through New Zealand. So the first one is let's talk about like some of the words. So TOGS is the word for bathing suit swimsuit. So when someone says bring your TOGS I just remember when I first moved here like I just didn't know what they're talking about. I had no idea. And I was like what and like where does the word come from? I've like asked around and I haven't really got a solid answer. So if you know what TOGS is referring to or what the history is with that word comment below and let us know. Also gum boots are like a big thing which are actually just rubber boots that they wear you know in the mud or like farmers will wear it and it's just called gum boots. And people actually wear them to grocery stores like they actually will wear it as a shoe. Yes but I also was just wearing gum boots recently and it's not okay to wear them in some restaurants. So like you have to take them off and go inside which makes me feel a little bit uncomfortable to just be wearing my socks in a in a restaurant like to even just like pick up your takeaway. And so I was like are we just gonna really take them off? Yeah because I don't want the mud or whatever. I didn't have mud on mine but I you know it's just not apparently that was a new thing that I learned this week. So gum boots are a thing and like they'll wear them with really short shorts which is kind of a thing and it's like kind of the joke here is short shorts and like a singlet or like a tank top if you're not from New Zealand with the gum boots and it's just kind of a really kind of a funny look. It's a fashion statement. It doesn't look good. Let's be honest. Okay and then another thing is is just be aware of there's a lot of slang and I'm not going to go into a lot of the details on the slang in this video. But um they like to put the word as a s not as s after everything and that's good to know because they'll say sweet as or nice as or full as full as right and like you know for like anybody else coming into this country you think sweet as what full as like they're not finishing their sentence and they use it all the time. So you can be like grocery store and they're like oh yeah sweet as like just like you have changed oh yeah sweet as you know like all the time that's just what they say all the time. It's kind of makes it all relaxing though. It makes it you just feel like it's just relaxed just because of the word sweet as and now I find I I never used it a lot but now I say it all the time and so I just wonder you know we started saying the word reckon I reckon I know you did it we say it all the time and I'm like if I say that to my friends back home or my family they're like what are you talking about and why was that the grocery store? Wilds? Like they use that word. Yes. Wilds I was like that's to us that's like old English. No it is or um what do they say for every two weeks here? Oh yeah that's a fortnight. A fortnight. What? I get paid every fortnight or or we'll do that every fortnight or whatever like that's like every other week. Right you're like bi-weekly is a fortnight. Right bi-weekly or yeah it's it's not used at least where I'm from. I've never heard of it. Okay you have it? Okay because I was like people were talking like should I know what that means? No. You've been like reckoned I'm like I felt like. I can't believe you say I reckon. I have so many people that say that and I'm like I have not gotten on board with the I reckon because I just found like I reckon. No. Oh it's in my head it just doesn't. It doesn't come out. It doesn't come out. So that's good. So like even when I first used a quick story when I first moved here and I literally I'm on a flight with four kids all by myself. I get off of the flight. I haven't slept in like 26 hours and I'm like I am just focused on getting a coffee. So I go into I'm a knock on an airport. I go into the coffee and this is like really tall like 20 year old and I'm like could I have a coffee and he goes what would you like? I'm like and then he said flat white and I'm like sure I don't know what that means. I don't know what that means you know and so um and he was like sweet ass like that and I was like what did you just say to me? It's true. Like I thought he said you know with two s's and because I haven't slept and I'm like where did I just and I was like and he was like and then he was like I go what did you just say and he goes sweet ass I'm like you should have like he should have said oh thanks so much. Normally I would but I was not in the mood. I had not had my coffee yet so anyway so be aware of the slang. There is a lot and we could talk about we should probably just do a whole video on that but be aware of the slang. That's our first point. Pretty funny. Okay so it's other odd things that Kiwis do. Okay when you are going to the bathroom in New Zealand on a toilet they'll give you options to flush and I remember like there's normally there's two buttons. Sometimes there's more than two buttons so it's one button if you're gonna go number one. Yeah and then another button if you're gonna go number two. I think you all know what I'm talking about. So you just you know so it's it doesn't waste water if you don't go number two. It's like more water goes down. More energy. Is that what's really happening because. Yeah I mean and a lot of I've seen that in a lot of countries but I know we don't have that back home. Okay so you've seen in other countries. Like in Europe that's the norm as well. Oh yeah there it is. So I think we're just like more energy efficient in this country because of that. Oh so so notice of all being in New Zealand how they just make that a priority recycling. Something that's odd though is somebody once like for me I would always flush but someone's like oh you don't really need to if it's just like number one you know and I'm like you need to flush. It's true yeah you just need to flush right. Yes and yeah so and a lot of people always ask me you know like does the water spin in a different direction in the toilet and I'm like no I don't there's not that much water. Well it comes differently like it kind of like flushes this way. It doesn't a lot less. But wait it depends some some toilets are like positioned where it'll like flush this way. I just think it's a weird question and I have barely thought about it. You know why though because depending on where you are yeah it does go differently. Yeah it probably does so yes we should do it. We should do a test. Gosh so many video ideas for one video. Awesome okay another odd thing and this is odd because it's like actually true like like you don't really understand it until you come here how friendly everybody is like everyone's friendly everyone's helpful they go out of their way to help you. At a different level I could tell you story after story where people just offered things through me helped me out didn't charge me any money were uncomfortable like and they don't they don't want or their their intention is not to get something in return it's just purely opening their homes or opening their hearts basically. Yes like actually nice like I don't know how to describe it to you you have to come here and experience it it's so nice but then you will everyone's in a while get those odd ducks. They do get like a little bit upset with you about really weird things that don't matter at all like they're so nice about important things like you know like you can come stay with me or you can come have dinner with me and like so nice but then like one time I have so many stories of people just like getting really one time I was picking up my kids from school and it's like there's there's traffic is horrendous trying to get your kids from school and I had a situation where one of my kids was you know handicapped or like injured and so like there's this part where you're not supposed to park but that day I did okay I never ever do but I like I pulled in because my son was right there and it was like one second and let me tell you this guy saw me pull in he opens the car door to where my other son is sitting and starts yelling at me how dare you park here and then I was like and were you on like lines like across yeah I was on I was on lines but I wasn't even close it was just like you know how they're so good about health and safety but they're also just a little over the top on some you know like I'm really far from any there's nothing that's going to happen and it was just one of those moments where it just it just had to happen that day I don't know what to tell you but he just screamed at me like across my son and I was like can you please just close the door of my car please this guy is so inappropriate that you just opened my car and you're touching my car and this is personal property and like do you want to go there and he was a large man and so I wasn't you know and I'm just like oh my son's like because he's like totally yelling at me but it's like so random like you guys are so nice about everything and then just like randomly there's somebody that gets upset or like if you just read the local paper and what people complain about here is like oh someone didn't pick up their poop on the crosswalk when they walked at 8 20 on Sunday you know or like we just get hyper about weird things small things it's really fun to read like I would really encourage you if you to read some of the local papers because it's really really interesting compared to like the really horrible things that are happening daily in the states for example which is kind of nice you know it's really nice it's really nice but it's funny they think it's a big deal okay anyway so everybody's really nice I mean like everybody okay let's talk about potatoes is it potato or potato it's okay it's a whole different story it's potatoes it's potatoes oh okay so you just need to know that when you order french fries here it's actually chips and they actually don't know the word french fries like I don't know the word they look like yeah I said can I have some french fries and this is after being here for maybe like nine months and I just realized I never ordered they were like excuse me and I was like yeah french fries can I have french fries and she didn't understand me and I was like how did she not understand what I'm asking her for no right and then Tyler's like it's chips and I'm like chips it's chips or it's hot chips like I don't know it's like hot chips but then don't ask for ketchup either because they look at you weird it's tomato sauce oh and it doesn't taste the same and it's not good it's yeah guys bring your ketchup with you pack your Heinz in your bag do they not sell a real they do sell it but it's really expensive ah so I just never bought it just use mayo put mayo on your fries like they do in like the Netherlands and stuff bring your Heinz I have to have ketchup I have to have Heinz anyway hot chips also so if you you can call potato chips chips as well so that's what's confusing they call them crisps but they also call them crisps yeah also works but they also call them just chips do you have chips and that means potato chips so it's a little confusing so good to know it's a little bit odd okay another tip that I have for you is when you go to a restaurant don't sit at your table and wait because they don't really have wait staff per se like they do in the u.s because there's no tipping and so they're not really totally paying attention to you and they don't bring the bill to your table you go and you pay up at the bar or you go and you pay up at the counter when you're done and in the u.s you never do that no I guess you don't you always kind of bring it to the table but you always bring it to the table and then you go up and you pay right and so I just always notice travelers they're just sitting there forever yeah because you're just you're waiting for the bill yeah and people will stay at restaurants for a long time so people that are working at the restaurant don't really notice that you've been there a long time because they don't really like in some restaurants they'll say okay we do have a limit of two hours oh that's true that's true wellington and that's because it's their busy high you know time of day maybe right but really for most price to the limit no no and you just sit there and you just go up and you pay but what's really nice is like if you're with a group you can just say hey you know I had this and this and this and you just pay for yours yeah and everybody behind you can just pay which you know normally in a stage you have to have to get a request deal about it and then we split the check right and then there's like the trust issues that you're actually going to pay for what you ordered and they trust you here it's great it's so easy even when Tyler and I went out the other night they were like are you paying together and I thought of course you know but they were so used to that I guess yeah they're so used to just you just go up and you tell them what you ordered and you could like you could literally just like I only had one beer when you really had three and then like whoever's last gets stuck with it what about the pay it forward that's not cool but I would never do that I would never do that but you know as an American you think about that that you could okay so go up to the counter and pay also when you're at a restaurant they aren't necessarily just going to give you water you know again the US they always give you water ask for water but also if you're at a cafe or like a a more casual restaurant they always have water available on the side that you could just get yourself whenever filtered water yes it's everywhere it's everywhere and it's self-serve yeah and so a lot of people that aren't used to that are used to being served because tipping and you know weight staff is an actual real big important job in the US and so just know that you can get your own water which I really like because I like to just get my water and it's kind of a lot of self-serve like a lot of sometimes you just get your own silverware your own napkins yeah it isn't just given to you with your food yeah um and so yeah so just be aware of that when you go into restaurants I guess it depends on which one I and people don't mind if you let's say go to a cafe and you need to just quickly fill up your water bottle they're totally they don't get offended by it they're just like yeah sure just go to fill it up and I know a lot of countries if you were to ask for that they would get you like to be like forget about it you know no right exactly so that's nice and just know that you're not going to get refills well like if you order soda there's no free refills like anywhere no no uh except for some burger pings you don't go and fill up your soda but that's not a real restaurant that's not a real restaurant but I'm just saying this is literally like the only place oh wow um so yeah also since we're on the topic of food let's talk about cafes now most of the food that you can order off the menu in most cafes but most of the food that sold in cafes are sold behind the glass cabinet okay and I think I was here for two years before I could order something did you not think it was gonna be because I saw that no no I didn't think it was gonna be good because like what like in the US they don't have that and it would be probably really gross it would be really old food or be plastic and not real oh yeah and so that's all I'm thinking but because when I see people order in front of me they're actually cutting a piece off of there and giving it to them so I'm like I don't know when that was made I don't know that's odd but that's not actually what they do in the cafes here they have will heat it up they will add a salad they'll add a nice sauce or a side that goes with it so it's not just that you're getting that and so I've learned so you can trust the cabinet food when you come to New Zealand it's okay you can order from behind don't be shocked don't be shocked it's just a little bit different another thing that's a little bit odd and I got to speak to this be as an American who loves hamburgers is they put beetroot on hamburgers here and fried eggs which is you know I've seen that other countries but beetroot on a hamburger and why do you think that is is it because I think they're just trying to eat it up they have so many other there's so many other garden maybe I don't know do you really like it I have tried to like it I don't like it I love it do you love it I love it you love it on a hamburger I hadn't eaten it anytime hmm yep interesting it's really healthy for you it is it's healthy but they're already eating a cheeseburger so just be okay with that but I haven't encountered it on a hamburger I must say I don't think what they even have it at McDonald's what okay I'll look into it because okay look into it it is kind of bizarre it is a little bit especially an egg too I've never really yeah they have the egg and the beetroot on hamburger like that's the normal one and I'm like do they put it on pizzas no uh probably they put a lot of odd things on pizzas okay be aware of that be aware of the pizza so a very common sauce instead of marinara sauce is barbecue sauce yeah I know my husband loves it I don't like it no pizza's not so good um anyway so yeah so be aware of beetroot and odd things on pizza um okay another thing that I want to talk about is this a little bit odd here is they have good donuts like real donuts but a lot of times when you buy a donut at the grocery store or at a bakery it's really just like a hot dog bun or a bun that's like cut open with cream and jam inside so do they have real donuts so I'm trying to think they do have real donuts but they they call these donuts as well and it's just kind of funny it's odd I've never tasted anything because it's not a donut it's a bun it's literally a bun it's like to me it's almost like a day-old buck it's like the buns from yesterday what we're going to do with them we're going to slice them up put cream and jam here to try in front of the camera because we'll do one where we try kiwi food and show you oh that's a great idea because they're you know but yeah we can put a picture up anyway and say this is what it is it's really a hot dog bun so just be aware of that it's a little bit odd okay and another thing is people will sell things out in front of their house yeah like fruits and vegetables or even some jams that they made or eggs or yeah manure you know and it's a trust system it's a trust system it's honesty box where you just pay they put it like a price and you just pay and they just people just drive by and do it I know I've stopped at so many of these like I love eggs and like their fruits and it's just like people from their gardens just pick it put it outside and they're like it's this price put in your money like that's amazing it's amazing yeah I love it it's so cool you can't do that in the us they're running around with your box no more box and no more fruit or no more they were just taking over nothing how long do you think it'll last maybe an hour it's hilarious yeah so there's it's so cool when you're driving down around the rural areas it's just very nice I definitely stop and get it so cute there's so many places that I've seen to they have these little boxes outside their houses and it's like a share box for their library of books yes the library and then isn't that cool it's so cool and odd they're sharing libraries all over the country yes I love it it's so cool because they don't have to man it because you can trust people here no and then I've seen everybody's nice I've seen this in a place called Toronga at the side of the road they just had like a whole shelf and it's just like people just put their stuff to donate and in the community and other people take it and it's like I know it's beautiful yeah yeah yeah it's so cool anyway you have to check it out there is New Zealand is really really great but there are some odd things just to know when you're coming here yes okay so if you want to hear the rest of the odd things that Kiwis do please join us on her channel growing up without borders yes and you can see the rest because we have a another laundry list of odd things that Kiwis do but we thought we would split them up on both channels so you can join us both have a great day see you next time