A bit of nostalgia can be a great thing – many things which help shape our identities as Kiwis begin in childhood – from food, to culture, to traditions. Some of our favourites, particularly in the form make the occasional guest appearance now (K-Bar chocolate anyone?)
If you consider yourself a good Kiwi kid, have a look down this list (and please add any others you think of in the comments below).
In the food category
Your own personal MallowPuff eating style – smashing them on your forehead/eating the top first/leaving the top until last/trying to bite them exactly in half.
Cheerios and Fairy bread (go on, admit it, at kid’s parties, you often still sneak more than your fair share.
Hot chips at the beach, complete with sand in the sauce (they taste different at the beach than anywhere else).
50c mixtures at the dairy – with your fingers crossed for lots of jet planes, jaffas and milk bottles.
Marmite and chip sandwiches in your lunchbox.
L&P
In the school category
Skipping for fitness with one long rope.
Elastics
Sniffing Scented Markers.
Covering your hand in PVA glue and letting it dry, so you could peel it off.
Those bl**dy wooden vaults in PE
“Ma is white, whero is red…”
Writing words on an upside down calculator (extra points if you spelled more than ‘Hello’ or ‘Boobs.’
In the home category
Prickles on the lawn but going barefoot anyway
Goodnight Kiwi – what an achievement to stay up long enough to see him!
Playing spotlight while Mum and Dad had people over to visit
Holding a buttercup under someone’s chin to see if they like butter.
No seatbelts in the backseat of the car
Getting colour TV
In the beach category
Bombs off a wharf
Burning your feet at black sand beaches
Bat down or beach cricket
Coppertone sunscreen
Zinc on noses or peeling noses
Collecting pipis
In the sport category
The All Blacks. Legends since ages ago.
Getting up in the night to watch the FA Cup finals.
Bullrush
Swingball
The Haka
Running down sand dunes at full clip
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