New Zealanders delight in the nickname 'kiwi'.
A kiwi is a strange bird that fistles around in the dark when everyone is asleep... probably right definition for New Zealanders who are awake and active while Europe sleeps... :-) Kiwis are on the verge of extinction... the birds that is!
Kiwi is used in the definition for everything and was/is sometimes used as a racist way of separating the identity of europeans from maori here...
I was amused to see 'real kiwi pies' advertised in a bakery the other day. What was really in the pies... did they catch the kiwi, kill it, and then cook in pastry????
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