Traditionally our foods were from the English. Bland boring and boiled to death vegies.
With all the trendies doing their big OE's (overseas experience) that has changed. There is a lot of Asian foods and European spicy foods too.
Yeah we have all the main food groups too Macas, kfc, bk's,dominos, pizza hutt etc
We don't live on them. More as something different or if we are out. The city dwellers are different.
In NZ all our fruit and veg is paddock ripened, so alot better for you. We eat fresh or snap frozen veg, real meat from the butcher, that I can see from our house. No additives, no preservatives.
Pretty much all of our farm animals are pasture fed and are outdoors in the paddock.
A lot of veg is picked in the afternoon and on a truck early evening and in the shops next morning.
Our bread is baked at night and delivered to supermarkets before they open. After 2 days it goes as pig food. Therefore very lttle preservatives. A lot of our bigger supermarkets have a bakery and a butcher.
Yes, we can eat very healthy here, without going silly about, but alas there are those that live on junk food and sugary drinks and obesity is out of control with that lot.
Then we have the crackpots from all over the world move here, vegans, hippies, organic, you name it.
On the whole, we have very good food. Which is good because I like food. We have Foodsafe NZ and there are a lot of regulations about sprays, drugs, growth hormones and the withholding times for different animal vet treatments, for both meat and dairy. So we are well protected. A lot of the problems with meat and chicken overseas are not an issue here. We don't grow man boobs from eating chicken with growth hormones in it etc. Not allowed.
We can grow man boobs with out any help.
Our beef is a bit tougher than the US because the animals are walking around but has more flavour. Our butter is yellow, caratene from green grass/ sunshine. If you can afford to live here it is great. After 6 years of leftist UN WEF policies, our cost of living has spiralled out of control. Again driven by the cost of energy. Don't get me started about the Carbon Tax. Over a dollar a gallon on gas.
Enough.