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Thread ID: 141628	2016-01-23 19:59:00	Watercress Sandwiches - Why not in NZ?	kahawai chaser (3545)	PC World Chat

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1415013	2016-01-24 04:59:00	In my single piss drinking days we all had a big pot at home to boil up pork bones and watercress for piss ups. We used to go to Woodhill forest and get it out of a stream there. Water cress growing in ditches alongside the road is no good to eat or watercress growing in stock paddock ditches. Dunno what they do now days but we made do with a crates of DB or Lion beer and some porkbones watercress also some pumpkin, spuds and puha in the mix. Instant party drink for effect. DRUNK! I will show you f***s drunk was our motto.	prefect (6291)
1415014	2016-01-24 07:23:00	In my single piss drinking days we all had a big pot at home to boil up pork bones and watercress for piss ups. We used to go to Woodhill forest and get it out of a stream there. Water cress growing in ditches alongside the road is no good to eat or watercress growing in stock paddock ditches. Dunno what they do now days but we made do with a crates of DB or Lion beer and some porkbones watercress also some pumpkin, spuds and puha in the mix. Instant party drink for effect. DRUNK! I will show you f***s drunk was our motto. Yeah had brisket boil ups after a few beers. Watercress often sw, sure many NZeet, puha a bit bitter. Nice with dumplings too. Use to get watercress and eels near Ness Valley around Clevedon - Brookby. But never contemplated eating it cold in sandwiches, and I don't think other NZ's did either. As noted earlier NZ lunch bars do serve fry-ups and blandish sandwiches, but true it's what most NZ's/workers want. After all many kiwi's grew up on plain gravy meat and vege meals and a bit of fish'n chips; not spice...to...rice deli - cuisine foods; - Other nations/Ethnic groups do that.	kahawai chaser (3545)
1415015	2016-01-24 07:28:00	We used to use the phrase "pork bones and puha" when using watercress at all. The Maori word Puha means: to blow, spout, spit out, belch, erupt. Perhaps that why we used to f a r t a lot after eating the stuff. As previously stated it's best taken from clean flowing streams, which there are very few of today. lurking.	Lurking (218)
1415016	2016-01-24 18:27:00	I'd be cautious doing that and wouldn't buy it unless I could be assured of some kind of quality control. So many of our streams are polluted with livestock effluent and I'd think twice. . He was from North somewhere, backyard stream. I didn't die. Didn't get sick. Did wash it. Anyway haven't seen any for quite a while now.	pctek (84)
1415017	2016-01-24 22:43:00	Sounds disgusting to me, but I'm all for more choice. It seems like every food shop I visit fills their sandwiches & rolls with shredded carrot and mayonnaise, neither of which I like much at all. My favourite sandwiches are nothing special, yet they are almost impossible to buy. Ideally I like ham, tomato, cheese, pepper and mustard but will settle for any combination really and can live with a bit of lettuce in it. Even straight ham and mustard is hard to find locally these days. They could at least tone down the carrot, seems like half the sandwich some times. remember back when some takeaways would use cabbage instead of lettuce in hamburgers, and so much butter it would be dripping out the bottom of the bag. But I'd agree many lunchbars seem to be stuck in the 1950's . I tend to avoid them & go for Subway (or macca's if Im being honest) And every local bakery around here has a pie award or 2 stuck up on the wall. Do the just give them out willy nilly to everyone ? These award winning pies are usually pretty generic or even disgusting & uneatable (mostly gravy & awefull taste in the award wining mince pie)	1101 (13337)
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