- Today we'll be swapping First Nation Aussies
and Maori snacks.
I'm coming for you Salty Plum.
- Boom. Yeah.
- Yeah.
(both laughs)
- Can I just say though,
I've never in my life thought about putting
a meat pie in bread.
I cannot wait to try that.
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- Hey, everyone I'm will Cooper.
I'm a proud Wiradjuri Yorta Yorta man
- What's up bitches, my name is Mihaka Mihaka
I'm a proud Te Take Tau Māori descendant
from the Te Arawa tribe
and my sub tribe is Ngati Pikiao.
- My name is Lulu and my mom's from
the Torres Strait islands.
And my dad's from Ghana in west Africa.
- My name is Cribbs.
My iwi is Ngati Porou in New Zealand or Alto.
Māori food is very common there. Yeah.
- The perception of like first nations foods is
everyone eats kangaroo or crocodile, which is true.
We do.
But we also have a whole heap of other things that we enjoy
as well.
Will - And so hopefully today it's a bit more insightful.
We may not be exactly what people are expecting,
but that's kind of the whole point of why we're here.
- I'm ready.
- Bring it.
- I have Raro, which is very delicious.
I mean, it's cardio,
but I know everyone puts it on ice cream or mixes it with
milk and freezes it. Yeah.
- I've got a salty plum.
So you more Northern Australians will be eating this
to straight all night.
- Thank you.
Basically need to tear it off, put it in your hand and,
- And taste it?
- And taste as you will.
- Okay.
- All right.
Hmm.
- Oh. That's good. Oh my gosh.
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- I'm choking, powder went down the wrong way.
- Yeah, that happens [Indistinct].
- It's like a- a Fizz-Wiz, but better.
Like, this is good.
Like, I, I wouldn't turn it into a drink.
I'd just eat it like this. This is amazing.
Dead set.
So salty plums are like, it's the best thing ever.
Like if you don't like it, then I, I don't know what to say.
- Don't nibble them,
just kind of put it straight in your mouth and enjoy.
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- Yeah.
(both laughing)
- I don't want her to disown me
for what I'm about to say.
- Say it. Say it.
- I don't even know if I can talk anymore.
- The immediate flavors I get is very much in the name-
- Salty Plum.
- Very salty,
but then I get this little kiss of sweetness
it's trying to cut through.
- Although it's probably not something I would eat all the
time. I have to admit this
I could probably see myself having a little, a cheeky little
snack with.
- If it was less salty.
I think I could eat this like a few times a day.
- If I have to pick one. Right.
And I didn't say salty plum.
- Mom's on the phone.
- Absolutely!
Fam would come for me.
I have to say salty plum, but I, I, this is good, man.
- Well, I have no allegiance to anything.
So I'll go with the Salty Plum.
- How kind of you
- Yeah.
- Okay. So here I have a pack of noodles.
Everyone at school
have these in their bags because there was
no other food in the cupboard.
That's all that we could have was like noodles.
The way most of us would eat,
it would just like scrunch it up,
chuck all the flavorings in and then just eat it.
But watch out when you get to the bottom,
because that's where most of the flavor is.
- The flavor is.
- Don't want to choke again.
- This one's probably more of a like New South Wales Walmart
way sort of snack.
It's literally just chicken chips and lemon.
And you just squeeze it straight in there.
- There you go.
- Thank you!
- Will the packet pop?
- Nope. Just like this.
- Just crunch it now?
- Just crunch it. But try not to pop it.
Like you just did.
- Oh you have to shake it.
- Ah gotta shake it to get the flavor on there.
- This is, this is a cool snack.
- Yeah.
It's really like better than Cheezle's or something.
Ya'know?
- How do you like it?
- I like it.
Yeah. This is my first time actually eating it like
proper dry.
I've never done it. I've always had the hot water.
- I feel like if we didn't have chips, it was like,
go get a packet of noodles.
- Perfect - That's the one. Yep.
- That's good.
Really cancels out like
all of the chicken flavor and then it
had like a zip to it.
- A little zing.
- Yeah a little zing. There we go.
- Good?
- Yeah.
- Yeah?
- I would put this in a sandwich with like some mayonnaise.
- Some Mob Dude.
- Yeah?
- Mm-hm.
- Oh my gosh. That's so like us as well.
- It's like fish and chips. I don't know how to explain it.
You know what I mean?
- Yeah, yeah. Of course.
- Like the crunchiness of a battered fish.
- Dishes we've had so far super close,
so both delicious and I'd eat them again.
- Oh yeah. I'm definitely eating them both again.
- Okay. So I have Boil Up, but like,
I feel like the star of the show is probably the Doughboys.
So it's kind of like dough.
That's boiled in water.
- Well, I've got for yourself.
It's again, it's a stew, but with Doughboys as well,
it's literally just flour butter, a bit of water as well,
roll them in.
And then you just drop them into the stew and then they just
cook up and to soak up all the flavor.
Same, same but different.
- Wanna, wanna try it?
- I'm ready to dive in.
- Yeah?
- Yeah. I'm ready.
- Cool.
- Because that was a much more like fluffy probably for the
part of it. More easier.
- Yeah.
I mean, I would personally eat that with a lot of tomato
sauce, but go hon.
- This is Soul food right here. This is really good.
This has got a bit of a smoky tang to it.
- Because the climate in New Zealand like cold,
this is like a warm hug. Sometimes.
I don't think anyone eats it with like utensils people eat
it with your hands.
- Like that.
- I was gonna say you're drink it. Yeah.
- Like that.
- Yum. Yeah. I can't put my finger on that,
but it's really yum.
I can put my mouth on that.
- I want this on toast. I want everything with bread.
- It's definitely really different.
This one is obviously quite crumbly.
Like in the way that it's cooked.
- It's like really light fluffy.
- And that's why it's such a good like, like a snack option.
- Did you make this.
- Yeah.
- Really?
- Yeah, true.
- This is really good.
- Oh, Thank you.
- D'you have more?
- There is a whole pot.
- I think I'm gonna go with the curry.
I'm going to get a lot of hate for that.
- This is probably my favorite so far.
- I don't know. I think I like this one.
- If my fellow Maoris would treat, could taste this,
I feel like you might partially agree with me.
- I'd eat this any day, but I love a good Curry.
So.
- Something I had today?
- Are you kidding?
- Yeah.
It's a pie sandwich. A sandwich and a pie and a sandwich.
That's what it is with tomato sauce.
- I actually ate this like recent.
- Chuck it in the microwave, heat it up.
And then.
(eating noises)
- This is a Devon and tomato sandwich.
Everyone talks about these.
- Devon is a cheap meat.
Growing up, ate a lot of like Devon sandwiches.
- I, um, I'm not too keen on them. They are delicious.
But yeah,
it's been over 20 years since I've had one of those things.
So, here we go.
- Let's swap.
- So with this, do you have to have tomato sauce on it?
Tomato sauce is like a big,
big staple for like Māori families, Māori children,
everywhere. We put it on like I said, boiler.
- That's like us with canned curry.
- Yeah.
- This is genius. This is honestly, this is the best.
This is so good. Oh my gosh.
I feel like I can feel all the serotonin
and just like making me really happy.
- On a sandwich, it is interesting. Oh, that is really good.
It's delicious. Yeah.
- Well I think it's pretty good.
- She's a bit full. This one.
- No tomato sauce but -
- No, that's good because Maori people love tomato sauce.
- Well you always say either you love it or you don't so
I am glad we were prepared for that.
- No serotonin here.
- Hmm. This is really good.
- Yeah. I'm gonna finish it.
- Seven-year-old me would appreciate this,
is what I would say
28 year old me, eh.
- Oh, this is, this is good.
I'm going to be making these from now on.
- I think it's undisputed.
I think it's the pie.
- I know, but I hadn't, you know, pie on a sandwich.
So you know.
- Uh I can't believe that.
Like every Aussie should try that.
- We have steam pudding and this is Maori as,
and you either have it with like fresh cream,
fresh New Zealand cream or custard.
And you can save it for ages.
It's probably not good for you but.
- This is actually bread and butter pudding.
Any type of bread,
you butter it all mixed in with egg and some milk.
And then cook.
Thank you to my Nan Cooper for steering through.
She got very cranky with me earlier when I was trying to
cook this.
When those elders are telling you how to cook something,
you listen, you know?
- Yeah. You have to listen.
- Thank you.
- Yes, thank you.
- Pour this-
- Yep.
- All over?
- Yep, the whole thing you have to like drown it.
- I feel nervous for some reason.
- It's nice.
I reckon this would be really feeling like you got a piece
of this chill out with the fam and then go to sleep straight
after.
- Nice fluffy moist. The very moist has to be like, soaked.
Like I said soaked.
- I could totally eat this whole thing. This is delicious.
- You should.
- I remember my mom making it when I was younger,
quite a lot, to be honest,
like the bread was running low and we had to eat it.
My mum would make this dish.
- Oh, oh wow.
- Rich, smooth, very buttery.
- It's like french toast. You know?
- It's pretty.
- Whole meal of all breads.
(both laugh)
- Ya know I think you did your Nan proud.
- Oh!
- This time I have to go back to my roots.
- I feel like this needs to be a new town or something.
I guess it's, it's good.
It'd be nice with a coffee.
- I think they're both good dishes.
You know, someone offered me up either of these.
I'd totally go for them.
- I'd go for both of them.
They're both going on my plate.
- Yeah.
- I feel full.
I think this is such an underrated way for people to be able
to share an, and, and embrace other people's cultures.
- Just want to give a big shout out to
CathysKai. Thank you for preparing all of this food.
You did more than enough.
And it's very hard here in Australia to get like main Maori
main food. So a big shout out to you, Cathy.
I love you.
Like I actually love you.
- I don't want to hop on about it. The meat pie sandwich,
honestly, like that's, that's just a genius.
- As a people, we're really happy to hear that.
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