New Zealand
Lemon & Paeroa
L&P
Lemon-flavoured soft drink originally made with mineral water from the town of Paeroa, sold since 1907.
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Lolly Cake
Crushed malt biscuits and condensed milk bound with butter around chopped fruit puffs, rolled in coconut and sliced.
New Zealand
Louise Cake
Shortbread base spread with raspberry jam and topped with a coconut meringue, baked and cut into squares.
Australia
Meat Pie
Aussie Meat Pie
An Australian meat pie is a hand-sized pastry filled with minced beef and thick gravy, served hot with tomato sauce.
Scotland, United Kingdom
Millionaire's Shortbread
A layered tray bake of buttery shortbread, caramel filling and a dark chocolate topping, named for its rich, indulgent combination.
New Zealand
Mince and Cheese Pie
Individual short-pastry pie filled with peppery beef mince under a layer of melted cheese, with a puff pastry lid.
New Zealand
Muttonbird
Tītī
Young sooty shearwater (tītī) harvested each autumn under Rakiura Māori customary rights on the islands around Stewart Island, salted and traditionally stored in kelp bags; dark, oily, intensely savoury meat.
New Zealand
Mānuka Honey
Honey from bees working mānuka flowers, thick, dark and graded by its methylglyoxal content.
Australia
Neenish Tart
A Neenish tart is a small pastry filled with mock cream and jam, finished with a sharply divided two-colour icing.
Christchurch, New Zealand
New Zealand Marmite
Marmite
Yeast-extract spread made in Christchurch to a caramel-sweeter, less salty recipe than the British version.
Australia
Pavlova
Pav
A baked meringue dessert with a crisp shell and soft centre, topped with cream and fruit; Australia and New Zealand both claim its origin, so this record preserves the contested history.
Australia
Pikelets
Small thick pancakes, Australian teatime treat, served with butter and jam, light texture with properly cooked and good toppings, a familiar and nostalgic classic, daily.
New Zealand
Pikopiko
Young unfurling shoots of native ferns, harvested in spring; mildly bitter greens lightly blanched or stir-fried, sold in bunches at Māori and farmers' markets.
New Zealand
Pineapple Lumps
Chewy pineapple-flavoured confectionery centres coated in a thin layer of chocolate.
New Zealand
Pāua
Pāua Fritters
Black-footed abalone prised off the rocks, its flesh dark and firm, its shell an iridescent blue-green.
New Zealand
Pūhā
Sow thistle picked wild, rubbed and rinsed to remove its bitter sap, then boiled with pork.
New Zealand
Rēwena Bread
Rēwena parāoa
Sourdough leavened with a potato starter kept alive as a bug, giving a dense, slightly sweet loaf with a sour edge.
United Kingdom
Sausage Roll
Seasoned sausage meat rolled in puff pastry, baked in a long strip and cut into portions, eaten hot from a bakery counter or cold at a party.
Australia
Sausage Sizzle
Bunnings Snag
A sausage sizzle serves a grilled sausage in white bread with onions and tomato or barbecue sauce at a community fundraiser.
United Kingdom
Scone
Sconaí
A small plain or fruited quick bread, split and spread with jam and clotted cream as the centre of a cream tea.
Auckland, Niue
Takihi
Thinly sliced taro and ripe papaya are layered with coconut cream and baked in the umu until the taro softens and the papaya breaks down into a sweet, creamy sauce, making this the national dish of Niue.
Colombia
Tomate de Árbol (Tree Tomato)
Tomate de árbol
A red-orange Andean tamarillo with tart seed-filled flesh, used for juices, ají, and desserts in Colombia and Ecuador.
New Zealand
Toroi
Cooked green-lipped mussels minced together with pūhā or watercress and enough cooking juice to bind; packed into jars or gourds where it keeps — and ferments slightly — then served cold spooned onto bread.
New Zealand
Tuatua
Pale surf clams dug from clean-sand beaches where waves break, eaten raw straight from the shell or minced into fritters; recreational bag limits are small and enforced.
New Zealand
Venison
Farmed red deer raised on pasture, marketed under the Cervena appellation for tenderness and lack of gaminess.
Australia
Weet-Bix
Australia's No.1 breakfast cereal: whole-grain wheat biscuits with malty flavor since 1926, crisp biscuits not too soggy in milk, Aussie kids are Weet-Bix kids.
New Zealand
Whitebait Fritter
Translucent juvenile galaxiid fish bound with barely any egg and fried into a thin patty, served with lemon on white bread.