Kiwi as......

The New Zealanders seem proud of their country and when describing something as Kiwi don't only mean that it comes from New Zealand but that it echoes the sentiment that everything should be the best it could possibly be. Even listening to the radio, the message came clearly, "whatever you do, do it to the best of your ability and take pride in being a Kiwi".

Of course New Zealanders have a lot to be proud of. Not only do they have an incredibly beautiful country, but they also have fantastic food. When we walked through the supermarket, the produce was all marked New Zealand apples, New Zealand pears, New Zealand mandarins, in fact New Zealand almost everything. We did a lot of driving, and passed many farms. Most of these had small stores where you could take the local produce and put a few dollars in an honesty box. This way we stocked up on fruit and enjoyed the local plums, peaches, strawberries, boysenberries and whatever else happened to be in season. The New Zealanders have a lot to be proud of, and great fruit is certainly one of them, or as they would say themselves it's "Kiwi as, bro".

Kiwi fruits on a tree in New Zealand.