I'd rather eat straw (27 June 2024)

Another day, another couple of NZ staples bite the proverbial.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus lush Night's podcast from News
Talks at be.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Thursday feels like Friday, beautiful day. They made a lot
of custard and ate that I'm joking. I'd never make custard,
but we talked about that last night. I just thought
i'd mentioned that. In fact, no part of me today
thought jade like some custard. Anyway, how are you going people?
You might be driving good if you got road reports,
keep those, keep us informed about those. A couple of

(00:38):
lines being discontinued. Canterbury Draft. What are you going about?
Canterbury Draft? They say the Bear has been around since
eighteen fifty four, but in fact it's only been around
since nineteen ninety. It was based on a beer that
was called Wards Bear. I always thought it was weird

(01:03):
that a bear would be called Cabris Draft, and that
its initials and its logo was CD when it probably
made you feel CD. So anyway, that was what I
had problems with. But anyway, it's no longer a thing.
They're stopping making it now. A couple of things spring
to mind. One is since the christ Church quake, the

(01:30):
bottles have been brewed at the Spates Brewery and the
Kagaroonis have been brewed up at Auckland. Yeah, nice Spates
and then for kegs and Lions Brewer and Auckland for
bottles and cans. So here's a question, does christ Church

(01:51):
not make its own bear to worry? I don't know
if people will be upset about the end of Canterbury
Draft to pale Ale four percent for a while was
the biggest selling beer in the Canterbury region. So there

(02:11):
he goes Gomburger and it stopped making bottles and cans
of beer about ten years ago, but continued brewing for
kegs as long as it could. Consumers choice increasing and
tastes changing. Well, that's said. That's like a Quite often
when you're driving through South Canterbury, am I right? Or
north you see pubs with a giant CD Canterbury Draft

(02:33):
lights out the front. What'll let go to?

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Now?

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Surely there can't be much unsatiable demand for the kind
of the sophisticated beer, can there? I don't know the
answer to that, but you want to talk if you've
got a Canterbury Draft story. Who doesn't like a Canterbury
Draft story? The other news you don't know what you

(03:01):
don't know what you've lost till you've gone, till it's gone.
Cadbury the world's worst chocolate making company. Who get nothing right?
I mean, what sort of chocolate making company can't make
a marshmallow wig and have to make just half an
egg anyway? They have now tapped and packed it in.

(03:25):
They're no longer going to make chocolate fish. So last
year they decided not to make chocolate fish, and they've
done a kind of a cute sea press release candory
saying you might catch some rare species in someplace, but
they will be the last of the breed, not good enough.

(03:48):
People haven't wanted them. It became harder to secure as
shelf space alongside other bars and snacking innovations and stores,
and harder for them to find their place on the
production runs. Who's got all the shelf space? It's all
those stupid sour lollies, you know, those everywhere sours? No
one likes those. Cad Be reached a point where it

(04:13):
could no longer keep making the fish at a price
that would work for consumers in tough economic conditions. Smaller
versions are available in Canterbury Kiwi Favorite Boxes. I'd rather
eat straw. I'd rather eat straw than eat a tiny
fish and a Canterburry Kiwi favorite box favorites. You look

(04:37):
at favorites, you think, not my favorites. Each one you think, well,
really do I want that? Not really? But what's worse anyway?
So two things on there, And I don't love the
shape of that box, that kind of trapezi. I like
it like a Roses box. It's flat, flip it up, beautiful,

(04:58):
that toffee one, that nutty one. But yeah, favorites, I'll
give something to Cadbury Favorites would be the only snack
I know that has been named so tongue in cheek ironically,
because think about favorites. They are without a shadow about

(05:19):
no one's favorites. Sort of thing you give to your
teacher at the end of the year, your kid's teacher amanas, yeah,
thank you for your if it he's some favorites and
they regive them. I think that's what's happened. So we
are talking Canterbury draft to the fact that they don't
make any beer in Canterbury to the beginning of the end.

(05:41):
It's the most livable, but no one wants to be there. Pauline.
It's Marcus.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
Good evening, Good evening, Marcus. Just a quick note about
the chocolate fish. I stopped eating them a while ago
because I think the chocolate layer, the outside layer, was
brittle and thin and tasteless.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, and that's because they've chopped up the gorilla's habitat,
haven't they.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
I think.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
So it's palm kirdle, isn't it. I think if they
got rid of the cocoa, but they put palm kernel
in there, is that right?

Speaker 4 (06:15):
There was a definite change and the taste and also
the texture, And so I stopped eating them.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yes, And look, i'd like to say I'd like to
say too that I think the chocolate fish were just
naked in the box with all the others and they
started shrink wrapped. Then they started wrapping them in plastic,
and I thought that was suspicious because what did they
do yet?

Speaker 4 (06:36):
I don't know. It's so Cadbury's going to fold all together,
is it.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
I don't know they know what they're doing. To be fair,
they're making I think it's all in Australia. They're making fay,
they're making favorites. I mean, they couldn't make the eggs.
They couldn't join two halves together.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Remember that, Yes, yes, I do pathetic, Yes, good topic, though,
Marcus will be interested to hear what others say.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
One of the great topics the old gentleman. Excuse me off,
she goes Pauline. Oh, I loved the good old chocolate fish.
It looks different now. The waste of the fish is less.
I'll tell you what I bet Old Regina are still
making them, and wal I'm heading off to the Wamu
six second shop next week. Get some of those liquorice

(07:23):
covered and sprinkles. Is it called the royal chocolate? Now royal?
What's it called? Rainbow? Rainbow? Rainbow? Used to be right,
Vagina and the change it to rainbow? Gosh knows why? Matthew,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
How's going, Marcus? How's get good?

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Thank you? You can to be draft man.

Speaker 5 (07:51):
In two thousand, mate, and I was bringing up more
come out, come out of their own breed.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, I'll tell you something. Your lines, where are you?
Which part of the country you and.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
Now a draft?

Speaker 6 (08:12):
Then? Oh?

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Is it any good they got that swamp water? Do they?

Speaker 5 (08:17):
People have got the wrong perception.

Speaker 7 (08:19):
That's a beautiful yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh, people do have the wrong perception, because the thing
about a lot of beer is marketing and snobbery. Yeah.
I always thought right in a draft was fairly good.
But people in Auckland call it swamp. It's got a
good label too, hasn't it. The green and the.

Speaker 5 (08:34):
Gold are used to have good headstick in the day.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
But I thoft how did they market? What were the heads?

Speaker 8 (08:43):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (08:43):
The chainsaw one where he went to the pub and
no one was in there and a guy behind the
bar ask from you know where all your mates and
he goes out with a chain saw and he sings
them a loose.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
It's quite good. I'd buy that. Okay, that's good. You
don't know if Witkers will do a chocolate fish. I
don't know. I mean people probably don't want them to.
I guess there's more choice now, isn't there.

Speaker 5 (09:09):
Yeah, but if it's Kiwi, surely people get behind it.

Speaker 6 (09:11):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Was it Kiwi though, or was I don't know the
history of it. Do you know the history of it?

Speaker 3 (09:17):
No?

Speaker 5 (09:18):
That Cadbury is not see we you know, is a
little bit more Kiwi.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, I reckon, I reckon. I mean people love what
because I reckon they've lost away. But there's too many meshups,
you know, peanut butter and marmite chocolate and all that
sort of stuff.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
Yeah, I agree. I don't tend to sway towards those
ones either, So I'm on your side on that front.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Okay. It does say it as a New Zealand thing.
They've been made in New Zealand since nineteen oh.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
Three, nineteen o three. All that's fun fact.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
All though, says marshallow based chocolate fish were first produced
in Dunedin in nineteen thirty seven.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
Oh yeah, but in New Zealand's history, there but a
bit of a shame how they shut down the Dunedin's
terrible factory your way back, Gwen and terrible.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah, I like you a lot, Matthew, thank you. Just
about a history of chocolate fish additional can fixture out
of a New Zealand. It's a commrad reward for a
job well done. Give that kid of chocolate fish. Pinkle
white marshmallow, cavien, thin layer of milk chocolate. The ripples
or scales are made by putting the fish under a blower.

(10:28):
The slides, the unset chocolate background, the illusions of scales
and of fish. Several manufacturers make the fish. There you go.
Tip Top sold of chocolate fish ice cream in twenty nineteen.
Peter Marcus welcome.

Speaker 9 (10:48):
Yeah, hi Marcus. I'm just doing a little trapped here
at the moment, and I'm actually eating chocolate fish. Now.
It's in a bluey green white packet and it's called
the name is nice a see chocolate fish rear, no

(11:12):
artificial colors. Now, it's actually made an Auckland. I look
over the back here, what does it say? Made in
New Zealand from imported and local ingredients? And yeah, it's

(11:34):
pretty good.

Speaker 6 (11:36):
You get at the warehouse, Yes, yes I did.

Speaker 9 (11:40):
As a matter of fact, I was going to there
with no intention of buying chocolate fish, but I saw
them and I was thought, oh, yeah, I love chocolate fish. Yes,
that's where I bought it.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah, it's a four dollar bag. How many are in there?

Speaker 9 (11:59):
Oh, ged be a few? Or what's in there?

Speaker 6 (12:04):
Now?

Speaker 9 (12:04):
I reckon of it and half of Oh I reckon
they'd be thirty five.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Oh goodness, sounds like a bargain. Okay, and that's called
I'll tell me. Okay, wow nice We didn't say they
made they're not. They're not played at Why can what's
it sounding?

Speaker 3 (12:23):
Back?

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Where they made?

Speaker 9 (12:27):
I'll just turn to go I didn't ready made in
New Zealand. And further up they've got a number you
can ring if you wanted to find out the warehouse number. Oh,
we're going back made in New Zealand from imported and

(12:47):
local ingredients. Which oh where are we protein? The biggest
thing is carbohydrate. Sugars are way up. They affording grams.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yeah, I think that's more the breakdown rather than ingredients.
But doesn't say we're the manufacturer, does it? Uh?

Speaker 9 (13:17):
An Auckland.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
I don't say we're in Auckland.

Speaker 9 (13:21):
No, just said an Auckland. And there's a yeah, there's
only the only phone number. It's a north kot Auckland
and goodness yea, no, No, I'm a canvary man of course.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Here.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
What what's your craft?

Speaker 9 (13:46):
I make what either can call them rugs or mats.
I buy the canvas and then I buy all different
colored wool, and I have a stick sort of thing
that there's certain thickness. I read the wall around it.

(14:07):
Then I've got a special razor sharp special knife you
run along the wood that cuts the wall and you
just push it back off there and thread the wall
through each little square.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Sure, how many hours would a day would you spend
doing that?

Speaker 9 (14:33):
Winter time?

Speaker 10 (14:34):
Now?

Speaker 9 (14:35):
About a day? Three and a half, three and a
half out.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Okay, well good.

Speaker 9 (14:44):
Yeah, I've got my housework and cook and olive on
my own.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
But if you get comfort from your craft, don't you?

Speaker 9 (14:52):
Oh yes, yes, this is this is my big thing.
I'm eighty eight years old and I can sit here
in the sun room that's when the sun's out, and yeah,
I've got me craft. I've got you guys. I listen
now to to the talk back during the day. I

(15:18):
think he comes on at nine o'clock John McDonald, is it,
that's right? Yeah, and then right through till abat have
as five tea and with you people now the men
before Marcus. But then I'll stop and watch Coronation Street.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Okay, now what image are you working on this time? Peter?
What's your what's a as a rip with the picture
you're doing, or as a design or what is it
you're doing your hook Roda.

Speaker 9 (15:52):
They're all designs, and the one I'm doing at the moment,
it's got a big, fairly wide black edge to it.
And you can buy these of balls or wall in
the warehouse. Oh the yeah, and this one has got

(16:15):
three colors in it in the in the one strand
there's red, blue, and yellow.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Do you have trouble getting rid of them? You got
the house ful of them, I presume by now.

Speaker 6 (16:28):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (16:28):
Yeah, I don't sell them. I'm not a religious nut,
but I'm a Christian person and I make them because
implore them.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
I'm not a religious nut. I'm a Christian person.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, God like that a lot.

Speaker 6 (16:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (16:45):
Well, there's some people that go, you know, and I
usually give them to someone that I think deserves them.
And there's a couple where I live in the little
village here, there's a couple of ladies there. I get

(17:06):
some cake and stuff from one of the ladies. As
how the people in the village do so made her
mass and Mary lovely person, she's eldly. Well, I'm made
he made one for her, made one for the major
at the Salvation Nami.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Go to Sallies here. I like the Sallies. Oh that's good, Peter.
I appreciate that a great deal, sir. And thanks for
the like the sound effects, thanks for the fish report.
You take care. Nice to hear from me, Marcus. You're
one hundred percent correct. I can tell you all teachers
regift favorites pretty much the week before Christmas. You're just
fredically unloading favorites to get them out of the house,

(17:50):
aren't you. It's like, who can take these? No one
wants them. That's where Kendbrey's gone from one of the
great brands to just people freendically trying to give this
stuff away with that creepy shaped box he's ever bought.
What do I feel? I feel like some form might
go to the wharehouse. I feel like some favorites no
one ever, We've got more choice. Do you go with Ferreroroshet?

(18:15):
All those ones that sort of the Ferrero shady sort
of melt in your mouth. It's a collapse in your mouth,
don't they? What's going on there? Delicious brittle but oh goodness,
but what's actually a Cadbury face? You don't know what
has it got? Cherry ripes in there and Turkish delight?
None of them are good.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
I don't know what.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
I just which one I have?

Speaker 3 (18:35):
First?

Speaker 2 (18:37):
To put a chocolate fish in there is patronizing. I'm
trying to see what's in them? Kiwi Favorites, New Zealand Edition.
How many different chocolates are in Cadbury Favorites Carra Milk,
Cadbury Crunchy, Cadbury twelve, Cadbury Morrow, Cadbury Boost, Cadbury Dairy,

(18:59):
Milk Frot. And that's the British one. I think our
is a bit different, probably in a bad way. Actually,
what way would you go to first? I'm looking at
someone's expanded Now you've got milky bar, chocolate fish, peppy chew.
I quite like that. That's the only thing I think
would belong to be the pippy chew. The rest get

(19:20):
in the sea. That's just me though, Get quite opinionated
on a Thursday night, fitling it to Friday. Get in
touch if you want to. Canterbury Raft nineteen ninety Gosh,
the beer is gone. It all went down the hill
when they got rid of the Continental. Box of chocolate.
Play were the best, some wrapped in gold and some without.
I think I enjoyed the Continental. Let me have a
look at those ones. I say which one I would

(19:41):
have picked first? I don't like the fact that the
fact that there's so much wrapping in those damn favorites,
all that kind of foil, plastic, faux foil, because often
if you get a bag, if you often if you
get a box of chocolates, you might have just broken
up with your girlfriend, or you've just seen a sad movie.
You just want to eat them all at once. Don't
you have to unwrap them all? It was the Cadbrey

(20:06):
Continent because they were good. You still see the old
boxes around sometimes people keep their stamps in them, don't
they Where there was the barrel shape one, the heart
shaped one. I loved going through those. The nutwell was there?
The nutworl now mentioning the Canterbury Draft has been around, well,

(20:26):
it has been around since eighteen fifty four. It was
called Ward's Beer. Didn't they check the Perkinana and the
oh that's what that is? There they do Chris Marcus, welcome,
ye Ahi Marcus.

Speaker 11 (20:40):
Those products that the guy was talking about, the chocolate
bush or whatever products and there at the warehouse thick
rainbow products. Now I don't know the stick imported because
I've been to a few other places like cracker Jack
and what's the other well, yeah, there's a few other

(21:05):
places and they sell important stuff like from the US
or Malaysia, and all the products the same as what
you get here, but much better taste. And even you
can get the chocolate fish much bigger than the one

(21:27):
you get for Cabreary. And yeah, and I and I
know you can buy them individually as well.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Okay, So, Chris, the rainbow stuff comes from one who
used to be called a Regina chocolate. And he was
talking not about rainbow. He was talking about a brand
called Nice n Ice that comes from north of Auckland.
So and there are there are a bag of little.

Speaker 11 (21:53):
Fish, Okay, because I know that there's nice. I know
I've brought the Nice musley bars, the little yeah, the
musley bars, and yeah, some other products. But yeah, I've
never heard of a chocolates or is it chocolate fature
was talking about. Yeah, and that in that product. Okay, Okay,

(22:16):
well that's different. I didn't know they had that in
that product.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
That's why. That's that's why I was just going to
correct you when you came through with some misinformation. But yeah,
it's that it was nice, not not rainbow, Okay.

Speaker 11 (22:33):
And that's one of more things. There's also a chocolate
first you can get was like a Paint Center. It's
like it's really really nice. I think there. I don't
know the brand though, is it?

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Is it Queen?

Speaker 12 (22:49):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Is it Queen Anne?

Speaker 13 (22:54):
Well?

Speaker 11 (22:55):
What I might there was bringing back another day and
I'll let you know about I have seen it in Gilmore's.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Is it Queen Anne? Can you hear me?

Speaker 5 (23:03):
Yep?

Speaker 11 (23:05):
I can't conform aim that. I I just buy it.
I just see the chocolate.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
You do a lot of you do a lot of shopping.

Speaker 11 (23:17):
Well, yeah, I've never heard of that name before, but yeah, yeah,
I think it might be Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Marcus't apologize for anything. It's all been very good. What
what name haven't you heard? I just can't work out
where this nice chocolate comes from? Yeah, well heard of
the I think I actually think what it might be.
I think there actually the address might be the warehouse's
head office. So it must be just something that it

(23:50):
must be something that that the wear. So maybe it
is made by Rainbow. Maybe the warehouse is just calling
it nice and they're getting some other provided to make it, maybe.

Speaker 11 (24:03):
The house brain of the warehouse or something.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
If they wouldn't. I know that White Kettle Valley make
a lot of chocolates.

Speaker 11 (24:11):
Yeah, I'm being honest with their white keadow when they
do that, they do the Easter eggs every time they
put them in the warehouse. Yeah, I don't really like
their taste very much.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
It doesn't spin my wheels.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (24:24):
No, oh, well, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
You like your you like your chocolate day.

Speaker 11 (24:32):
Yeah, but I'm into my Caromellow and and black Forest.
I'm into the.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah you tried, you tried, you tried white Keattow, Valley
box nuts.

Speaker 11 (24:53):
No, I've had the Easter eggs one but not. No,
not the nuts but and I've had the scatch diamonds
once but no. They taste like cardboard.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, all chocta with wix and cawdboard man, doesn't it
Marty Marcus welcome because house going mate, good Mary.

Speaker 14 (25:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (25:15):
Like talking about chopping fresh when we do when we
do Bible in schools, we get out in the warehouse, nice.

Speaker 11 (25:24):
Nice chopping fresh, and.

Speaker 8 (25:25):
They go down to treat the kids really like them,
give it down, and then there's a couple of left
over and hand them to the youth of their hands.
Just give them all out left with.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Bible and schools do they all get a fish?

Speaker 8 (25:40):
We give give it out for good behavior, good behavior
or winning a winning a competition.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Come on, Mardy, give you every one one? Can't you
give them all a Bible? We give them all the fish,
couldn't you.

Speaker 13 (25:53):
Wow?

Speaker 8 (25:55):
Well, it's a class, so it needs the time. At
Christmas time, we give everyone a candy cane that goes
down pretty good.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
I'm never kind of quite I'm never quite sure about
the taste of care. I mean, no one craves candy canes,
do they?

Speaker 8 (26:14):
Yeah, the peppermint. Yeah, there's a whole whole backstory of
this and that and the candy canes.

Speaker 13 (26:22):
The redistry.

Speaker 8 (26:23):
Okay, okay, yeah, anyway, but yeah, I quite like the
young nice. I agree with the gentlemen from christ Stretch
the nice time and fish are pretty good and reasonably
price fish.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
And do you think nice are made under license for
the warehouse by why Kattow Valley? Would that be your assumption, I.

Speaker 8 (26:44):
Would say, buy something would be that they'd have a
few different suppliers and they just chuck it in the
bag and Auckland's somewhere and feeds them out.

Speaker 12 (26:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Were you driving to We're driving to Marry I'm.

Speaker 8 (27:00):
Driving from Copper Copper in Auckland. I don't know how
to say it to te rounds. I'm half wire to
power fashion.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
What's happening up there?

Speaker 8 (27:13):
I have a funeral and I depended my brother's newborn baby.
There's news she mocking job, that's been the last ory.
But it's two dairy farms here.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Did you say it's the last of the dairy farms?

Speaker 8 (27:27):
Wow, there's not many. There's not many dairy farms around
Oaklands anymore.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
It's all got into houses. Hassard.

Speaker 8 (27:35):
Ah, I'd say blocks and style.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Does he get ahold of the baby? Does he get
ahold of the baby?

Speaker 15 (27:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (27:47):
What happened?

Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (27:47):
Baby?

Speaker 8 (27:49):
I mean yeah, pretty good? Yeah, strong.

Speaker 13 (27:52):
I'm just gonna have a trunk back for something.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
I can tell them any They always say that how long?
Sixty sixty centimeters?

Speaker 8 (28:01):
I didn't get the length. That's two big farms. It's
pretty fresh yet it's what two weeks off?

Speaker 2 (28:09):
I always talk about how long is? But I don't
even know is? Do they how many pounds they were
going to? Did you do they do pounds or kilos?
With the baby? Marty? She was I can't about seven pounds,
seven pounds?

Speaker 6 (28:25):
Eight?

Speaker 16 (28:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (28:26):
They always go back I've got to apologize, Marty. When
you said bibles and the schools, I thought you were
taking bibles two schools. I forgot you.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
I go back.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
But what you're actually doing is going week and telling
Bible stories to the class. I thought you were taking
Bibles and just giving them those in and so of
course some of my humor was probably slightly excure. But
now I see you're going there each week and give
them a chocolate fish. That makes perfect sense in the
candy cane. Great. I'm glad. Please have cleared that out.
Clear that up. We had the felt board of Missus Stewart,

(28:57):
very good. It was too don't they do a felt
board anymore? Maybe that's a discussion for the night, Marty. Anyway,
nice to talk to you at nine from nine. It's Marcus.

Speaker 12 (29:07):
Welcome today, Marcus, how are you? Beautiful night and open?

Speaker 2 (29:14):
Full moon? Very high tide, sorry, high tide, very high tide.
When I went to we went to the shops that
were very high tide.

Speaker 17 (29:24):
Oh ye, up here for the weekend.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
No, but the tides will be the same, wonn't they.

Speaker 17 (29:31):
Well not Little jon to Auckland, come on now, yeah yeah,
well well little Bluff, Yeah, very different to Auckland.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
But hi, I think if it's high tides, is high
tides everywhere, not at the same time. At least I
get that discussion. If you go, Chris, Okay, Nice, good
to Nice, nart Norkan God.

Speaker 17 (29:50):
Yep, White Keadow Valley, Choplet's got bought by Stephen and
that's about twenty five years ago. He bought them out.
And Nice is an Indonesian company.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Although it does they made in New Zealand. Sorry on
the packet it does they made in New Zealand?

Speaker 17 (30:16):
Does it say package to New Zealand or made in
New zond.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
We're doing dick forensics now, aren't we.

Speaker 18 (30:23):
Yeah, well, well there is.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
It's the same thing.

Speaker 17 (30:27):
They got. They designed in California, but they're made in.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
China, made in New Zealand from imported and local ingredients.

Speaker 17 (30:38):
Oh yeah, Well basically the thing comes and virtually done
and then they packaged them here in the finals.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
How do you know this because it'd be I mean,
there's a lot of companies called Nice Confectionery. There wouldn't
just be one or you got have you got inside knowledge?

Speaker 17 (30:56):
Yeah, well I used to work for the warehouse.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Oh gee, we should said that.

Speaker 6 (31:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (31:01):
Well, well, and that's why I knew that. Even he
bought White Caddow Chocolates, bought. He also bought the company
that made the you know, the ferry shows, and he
bought the framing company, and he bought, he bought. That's
what Stephen used to do. He was a corporate raider.

(31:23):
He bought all these companies that supply them with cheap goods.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
He's no longer at the warehouse, is he.

Speaker 17 (31:30):
No, No, he's completely he's got nothing to do with it.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Apartment of shares.

Speaker 17 (31:36):
He's in the in the Tindall Family Trust or whatever
they do.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Okay, okay, but you know that nice nice chocolate fish
and you're at the warehouse, nice chocolate fish were there,
and they're made in Indonesia.

Speaker 18 (31:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (31:54):
And we also used to have a chocolate bar. You
know those little blocks that wittakers do. We used to
have a dollar one that we used to produce with
the nuts and that in them. But workers couldn't do
anything cheaper than about well for us to sell back
in those days, it was about two dollars twenty.

Speaker 10 (32:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (32:17):
Yeah, but that's the way it goes. It's the same
as when I was with Allenstein's we used to bring
in these genes and we used to do a special.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
I forget the price.

Speaker 17 (32:30):
I mean it's many years ago now, but I think
two for forty, but we were only paying four dollars
a pair, so eight dollars and the retail price on
them was thirty nine to ninety five.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
Wow.

Speaker 17 (32:46):
And our T shirt rack we used to have, out
of all of our Hellenstein's, we had the big T
shirt rack two for ten I think two for ten
back in those days, and we were buying them for
a dollar forty cheapers and people thought they were getting bargains.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Well, I guess you go else. Don't doubt it. Thank you, Chris.
Nice to hear from you. Thomas Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 7 (33:15):
I guess I'm studying at our messy university in two thousand, yes,
and I was a classious lab and I was just
chanting to the bar girl as a student and I said, well,
it's just massy drink just got here. They said, oh,
that's the best selling drink, and I'm like, yeah, what
is it really? You don't have a brewery and I'm like,
it's d draft but the draft.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
On it and won't t to drop so which is
this Is this on campus or one of the like
the fits, so one of the pubs in town.

Speaker 7 (33:45):
It was on campus, yeah, back in two thousands.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
So they're they're rebottling Canterbro they're re labeling Canterbury Draft.

Speaker 7 (33:54):
Yeah, because it wants to sell drop. If it was
Kennedy Draft, but it was their best selling drink, if
it said Massy Lugger whatever it.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Was, Matt Palmerston or wouldn't they be Twoy Country, I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
Put it creat.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Chocolate chocolate.

Speaker 7 (34:10):
First, I was studying again, Aucklam was on lockdown and
we're doing those video conferences letters, and I wanted some
competition with the picture put on and he said, I'll
give you a chocolate fish and he he failed me
a chocolate fish.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Oh that's fun. What's what discipline was that? And Thomas,
I think you thinking advertising. That's good. That's good, Thomas,
thank you for that's made night, made the night? Thank you?

Speaker 3 (34:54):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Anyway, get in touch. Can you tell me when you
get Canterburry snowballs chocolate and coconut covered marshballow balls? Margaret?

Speaker 6 (35:06):
Who am?

Speaker 2 (35:06):
I don't make them anymore? Anything you want? They no
longer make. They just make half an egg and anything
with waxy chocolate with palm kernels or palm oil. That's it.
Don't make anything in Dunedin anymore. They went all to Melbourne,
Old Mandale. He's no good. You want to move away

(35:29):
from chocolate? What do you want to move into licorice?
Anyone ever made their own licorice? You never hear of
anyone making their own liquors? You parent on snack masters?
You ever made your own licorice?

Speaker 18 (35:42):
Very good?

Speaker 2 (35:42):
The guy emailed the chocolate fish.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
That's made my day?

Speaker 2 (35:45):
How are you going people? What technic? My name is Marcus.
Welcome the end of Canterbury Draft, the end of chocolate fish?
What else is it?

Speaker 6 (35:52):
The end of.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
Marcus? It's been announced at Canterbury Draft. Were we made
has been available in Kigs only since the quake. That's right,
that's right. But just like cat bring the chocolate fish
and these businesses made it get harder to buy their
product and then blame lack of sales withdraw the product.

Speaker 6 (36:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
I don't know much about brewery. It's all Japan now,
is it. It's all lined overseas. But what troubles me
more is that no beer appears to be made in Canterbury,
So what have they got at those pubs?

Speaker 3 (36:24):
Now?

Speaker 2 (36:25):
What I got to the pubs at Methvin. That was
a big Canterburry draft pub, wasn't it? As anyone tried
to make their own liquorice, that's the other question. But manye,
it's about chocolate fish and Canterbury draft. As we all
get ready for Matariki, let me know if you're doing
anything tonight, I'll keep you updated. Also with the news

(36:46):
that's happening. I'll be across all of that. So get
in touch, oh eight one hundred and eighty nine nine
to text anything else you want to talk about. Happy
for that to happen.

Speaker 6 (36:57):
Now.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
The Biden Trump debates on tomorrow. No one's asked me
where you can watch, but I presume it's going to
be on Fox and scene in with it, but I
don't know where it'll be. So if you want to
watch that tomorrow, that's tomorrow. Be pretty difficult watch. I
think death of democracy and all of that, but that's tomorrow. J. T.
Marcus evening Marcus.

Speaker 19 (37:22):
Why would a company that had such a beautiful name
ditched their name just because it was called Regina. I
don't know, and it's one that they didn't fetch it
a couple of decades ago.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Really, well, it's weird that they hang on to it
for so long. They went to Rainbow, and now Rainbow's
got connotations have been the Rainbow community too, which so
that's that's got that's got double meaning too, is it?
I mean the Regina Obviously people thought it sounded strange, right, Well,
that's I don't.

Speaker 6 (37:54):
Know why they changed.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
Do you know why they changed? Do you know why
they changed their name?

Speaker 19 (37:58):
Maybe because the queen died? Okay, but what's the debate
in America tomorrow of Joe Biden and Don Trump. I
don't think that those guys are going to be able
to stand up for ninety minutes.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
They might have them in cheers. You can't you can't
speak over each other. That's the new rules.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (38:20):
I think they said they're standing at lecterns and there's
only going to be two ad breaks in ninety minutes.
I'm picking that those old codgers won't be.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Able to do that.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Do you think you'll last? You think you'll watch it?

Speaker 19 (38:34):
Ah, I'm going to be out. I'm going to miss it.
But no doubt it's going to be heavily, heavily covered
in the news later on. And I don't think Joe
Biden is going to run for president. I think he'll
pull out before about the tenth of August, and in
his place will be Gavin Newsome and then him being

(38:59):
a young man against Trump, he'll win easily. Not that
Trump had a chance anyway, because you've lost the election
by seven million votes and the previous won the popular
vote by three million. You know, Joe Biden, he's not
going to be able to get through ninety minutes of
He's going to have a lapse. He's going to he's

(39:20):
going to do Mitch McConnell and Caesar.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
You're not going to watch it?

Speaker 19 (39:25):
Well, I would if I could, but I don't think
I'm probably going to be driving at that time.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
I'm sure there'll be all the highlights will be on TikTok.

Speaker 19 (39:34):
Yeah, and on the six o'clock news.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
I think they might have re edited and played up
the seasons. I think that's what they're saying. There was
sort of a bit of mischief making with those.

Speaker 19 (39:48):
Well of Joe Biden in Europe. Yeah, No, I don't
think he did anything wrong there, but.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
He is aging.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
If he wins his eighty six by the time he finishers.

Speaker 19 (40:00):
No, but I'd say if he wins, he'll step aside
and let the vice president take take it on. All
he has to do is one and then you can
step aside. That's the whole point in having the vice president.
They're all ready to go.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
Okay and just on into islander.

Speaker 19 (40:19):
Nicolas Nicholas Willis's decision back in December fourteen that was
totally unstavanomable gown history as being one of the stupidest
decisions of all time because when they ordered those ships
in twenty twenty one, it was in the height of
COVID and not many ships were being ordered. But now

(40:43):
there's a you know, there's a global navy shipbuilding boom
underway and it's just hard to get slots.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
And the ships were going up in price. They said
the ships were a fixed price contract. My understanding the
expense was to build the wolf s each in which
were to be quake proofed and stuff like that. So
that's where the cost blow us where the ships were.
The ships will prove to have been a bargain, I.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
Think, and they then I still have to be upgraded.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
Yeah, and then I saw some footage of the one
of the Fairies recently when it was little to listing
forty five degrees after one of those ten hour crossings.
That just look harrowing. The bigger the boat, the better,
I reckon.

Speaker 19 (41:24):
Yeah, the more you drill down into it. People say, oh,
the Blue Bridge. But the Blue Bridge only do thirty
percent of the crossings and their ships only average one
return trip per day, so they've got plenty of downtime
for maintenance, whereas the Enter Island ones they average three

(41:44):
sailings each per day, but they worked a lot harder. Yeah,
but I think Nicola Willis, being a lawyer, would realize
that you well contract. You can't say he's going to
buy a house and then the next day say, oh,
I'm not doing that. I mean, it's a watertight contract
that Hiandi's got.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
Is she a lawyer?

Speaker 3 (42:07):
I think so.

Speaker 19 (42:08):
I think it was her background. But yeah, I think
the government's neglecting the South Island because there's only two
South Island England England. The Cabinet English literature, all right,
but didn't she practice.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Graduated with the first class honored the Great English Lectures
from backing of postgraduate of plumber and Journalism from the
University of Canterbury in twenty seventeen. She was a member
of the Victoria Divisy Debating Society, competing in the national tournaments.
After graduation she went the senior advisor for Bill English
and then Keesy, Well, not a lawyer.

Speaker 19 (42:46):
She's on the helm of a ratherless ship.

Speaker 3 (42:49):
That's a coalition of chaos.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
Nice to hear from your JT nineteen past nine, Johnny belaving.

Speaker 18 (42:58):
Mate caught me righting through my Washington looking for the
tracking number on a courier.

Speaker 3 (43:02):
I think so when you get asked for it and
then you realize you try it away.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
Craft, What is the Why is the tracking number in
your laundry?

Speaker 3 (43:15):
You know, stuff in your pockets?

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Oh, I understand, I understand, you understand. Then I asked
you all.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
Those odd socks? Wet. I've just made some more money, Ben,
But I used the Line brand again from the supermarket.
This time went for the larger.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
And you made some beer.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
Yeah, you made some beer from a kid. Yeah, from
a kit.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Yep, tell me what what what's the brand?

Speaker 3 (43:46):
Line? Like Line and Lion Breweries.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
Okay, it's a beer kit? How much you pay for
it what supermarket.

Speaker 18 (43:52):
Okay, packet save packet fineteen dollars yep for a can
and five dollars for the sugar for the brewing sugar
that goes with it, and but pretty much the sodium
meta bi sulfate from the brewer shop that's only five
dollars ten dollars to sterilize with.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
And the yeast comes with with with the kits. It's
it's really simple and you just mix it together with
hot water and then bring it up to the I.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
Missed a step there, so you're paying fourteen bucks, right,
you've got to have sugar for five bucks yep.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
And you buy by the liquid turbo sugar and the
can it's right next to it on the shelf yep.
And it's it's just down from all the all the
normal cane sugar.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
And yeah, and then there's something else you said you
got to buy.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
Yeah, you need to have this bottle sterilized. That's that's
called sodium meta buy sulfate. You can buy that in
the supermarket and it's that's just by brew tick and
it's it's made all over the place. It's a no
rint sterilizer and you just mix that with water, and
after you've cleaned everything with soapet water, unless you're using
brand new pet bottles, you know, recycle recycled drontles. I

(45:05):
tried to winte wine bottles first, and I don't want
to go to the expensive Crown Kevin and buying those big, tall,
six hundred more crate bottles.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
If you like so well you say drink, I mean,
hang hang on. When you say recycled drink bottles, you're
talking about a pump drink or a coke drink or
what are you talking about? Yeah, okay, okay, So you
brought three things. Yep, you've brought that. You've brought the
sugar and the line kit and the sterilizer. How much
you're in four after buying all those three things? Thirty bucks?

Speaker 3 (45:38):
No about twenty year, twenty five dollars?

Speaker 2 (45:42):
Okay? And you get tends depending on.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
Where you get the stereoids. I've just packed away eighteen
liters roughly of beer, and seventeen liters of beer, sorry,
and for a teaspoon in each or teaspoon and a
half in each bottle. So everybody's got their different idea

(46:05):
of how much sugar, because sugar can make the bottles.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
Explaining on you put a teaspoon a half of what.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
So around teaspoon for every seven hundred and fifty mils.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Oh what you put beer in it?

Speaker 3 (46:19):
Yeah, you put the beer on top of the sugar.
So you put the sugar in the bottle through the
funnel first, and then you pour the beer on top
of it when it's been decanted through to ferment it.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Oh, you buy beer, just the beer you've made. So okay,
understand that's why it's good.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
Word okay, yep, you call it the worst I guess
and so on. Once that's been done, people put findings
and went as well to help clear it up. And
I don't use that. So I'm watching it clear up
over the last few days and it's doing all right.
So I used my also use my viva still I

(46:55):
told you.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
About So, Johnny, how much is your beer costing you?

Speaker 17 (47:01):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (47:02):
Well, I worves out price for a bottle, But I
mean I'm getting, you know, seventeen odd liters of good
drinkable beer, four rounds of twenty five thirty dollars.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Okay, yeah, okay, that sticks up.

Speaker 3 (47:20):
Yeah, and the moonshine that came out pretty good. But
some of the things that I noticed with the silicon
gromits that go to the condenser from the actual distillery,
they wore out overnight and it was proving a little
bit difficult to buy them locally, so I've had to
buy some more from China. So I found out there's

(47:43):
a place that compressed them anyway for me locally. So
that's that's good, is it? TiO?

Speaker 2 (47:48):
You got them from Timu the grommets, did you?

Speaker 10 (47:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (47:52):
I bought the whole kit from Timu, and then I
looked at the beaver still on its own on its
own website, and it was about one hundred dollars cheaper
from the manufacturer.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
Okay, I got to live with there, Johnny bit nice
to a good luck with all that had That works
out well for you. You're doubling on the bruin, But
on you soundra Marcus, Good evening, Welcome.

Speaker 14 (48:09):
Oh good evening, Marcus. Look, Chocolate Fish and the Pinky
Bar where some of my favorites, but they changed the
recipe and it's a shocking recipe, so I no longer
eat them, and the Pinky Bar is very hard to

(48:31):
find a New Zealand now. Anyway, I think they canceled
that out a while ago. What I do like is
the peanuts slab, but that's Wittkers and New World sell
the packet of three and it's gone up now it's

(48:55):
about five dollars for three. I know, I know, it
was only about three dollars well, the packet three, and
it was good value, but now it's gone up to
five dollars.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
It seems as though Cadbury, once they came out of
New Zealand, they just wanted to kill all the things
that were locally made because I guess the market's not
big enough. So all that local stuff, whether it be
Jeffers or chocolate fish or piggy, they all just seem
to have just let them all fall.

Speaker 14 (49:28):
Yeah, well they changed the recipe markets. Why change something
that works.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
They want to they want to make it, they want
to make it cheaper, and they just want to use
palm oil and stuff.

Speaker 14 (49:41):
Like that, right right yeah, yeah, Well it was horrible,
so that's probably why people don't buy them. Yeah, well
that was my experience with them anyway.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
And I think it is a New Zealand thing, isn't it.

Speaker 14 (50:03):
Yes, yes it is. And another one I like is
the crunchy bar. Now, I don't think they've changed that recipe.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
No, it's always a pleasant surprise.

Speaker 14 (50:18):
Mmm mmm.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
So then it would be pretty easy to make. They
just make some hockey poking dip it and chocolate. Does
it would be difficult?

Speaker 13 (50:28):
No?

Speaker 17 (50:29):
No, it would be.

Speaker 14 (50:31):
Quite a nice experience to makers and taste it, wouldn't it.
I'll put that down on my list.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
I guess they make those in Australia too. I think
it's all made in Australia now, yes it does.

Speaker 14 (50:45):
Yeah, yeah, but peanut slabs I like them, and but
it's not Capbury, it's Wittkers.

Speaker 5 (50:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
How mad you the week?

Speaker 17 (50:58):
Well?

Speaker 14 (50:58):
I used to get a packet of week and not
eat the all three myself. I'd dish them out to
a friend and one to my son and one to me,
so I'd end up with one, but I keep the
packet at three.

Speaker 17 (51:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Where are you not finding pinky bars where they used to.

Speaker 14 (51:27):
Be in the grocery shop?

Speaker 2 (51:34):
Okay?

Speaker 14 (51:37):
And I actually went on the hunt for them, this
is a wild back and everywhere said they no longer
made them. But that's a while ago. And then I
see that they've come back in. But the recipe is shocking,
so I wouldn't even bother with them.

Speaker 15 (52:00):
Mhmm.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
You ever tried making your You ever tried making your
own licorice?

Speaker 6 (52:05):
No?

Speaker 14 (52:06):
I don't like liquorice.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
A lot of people don't.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
No.

Speaker 14 (52:13):
The only liquorice I will lead is in the Allsort
All Sorts packet with the it's like a liquors with
the hundreds and thousands on it.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
Delicious. Don't know what they call those, but always delicious.
Marcus my GP advisor to avoid liquors due high blood pressure.
Fifty years ago, miss frozen Buzz Buzz and joined the
prep Like Colin, Marcus, love listening to you. I credit
my own alcoholm beer. Beer costs me around twenty five
dollars for two and a half dozen big glass ABC bottles,
Approximately twenty two letters takes a week to brew in

(52:49):
three weeks before you enjoy alcohols are much longer. Press
that costs around fifty five dollars to create fourteen liters
of forty percent cheers Megs. Marcs are doing exactly the
same as the last call a lion draft beer kits
made in Redcliff Street to lead and just by forty
court bottles cost sixty five cents each. I have made

(53:11):
two hundred times thirty liters over several years. Eighty six
years old, still dangerously well. Must be the yeast, so
people love it. I didn't know about those kits. These
seem to be a much simpler kit. Those going to
be much fairfing around does there. It's going to combine
it and pour it as long as I mean, you

(53:32):
got veray care for about serilization with beard, don't you?
Gets bad bugs in there quite easily. Now we are
talking about Canterbury Draft also tonight, Get in touch Allan,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 6 (53:45):
Good evening, Yeah, get my friend, how are you good?
Thank coming from Levin. You'll know that what I'm going
to talk about.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Licorice R Jay's or Beach j Yeah.

Speaker 6 (53:57):
R Jas Yeah Jays the best liquorice in the country.

Speaker 5 (54:01):
You know what I think?

Speaker 2 (54:04):
I find our J's licorice too soft. It's not as
good as the Black Knight. There used to be a
harder tasting licorice. Ah yeah, I think it's it hasn't
got enough, hasn't got enough mouth resistance to me.

Speaker 6 (54:16):
Yeah yeah, I'll mention that to the team down there
when it's on my buying buying my own pet supply,
you know, I'll make a point of missing that, ain't Yeah, because.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
Pretty much like it tastes prety much either Darrell Lee
Australian stuff which is also soft.

Speaker 6 (54:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. But of course licorice, you
need to keep it in the refrigerator so that it's cool,
you know, if you leave you know it's.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
It's not the refrigerator in the shops though, n I no,
but it's.

Speaker 6 (54:45):
But if you're opening a packet of it, if you've
kept it in your refrigerator, it'll have a firmness about
it and it adds to the enjoyment. But look why
I wanted to come and mention tonight, mate. You're asking
about if anyone made their own licorice. Well, of course,
licorice is the product of a plant, like a bean plant,

(55:11):
and it's something which is manufactured from that you know process.
If you have a look on Google, you'll find that
there is a very good Wikipedia article about it which
explains the history and it's processing right through to the

(55:31):
modern age. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
Yeah, I think people are aware of that and that
it's a plant, just not aware of it that they've
actually turned that into the confictionary.

Speaker 16 (55:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (55:44):
Here, I think that it's something you know that have
to there's there's several componentses beyond me at the stage
I have to confess I love eating the stuff.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Yeah, have you ever thought about making it?

Speaker 6 (55:59):
I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it quite truthfully,
and it wouldn't be economically sensible to do anyway. You know,
I just absolutely love liquorice.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
Is the liquorice made from the root or the back
or the bean.

Speaker 6 (56:15):
It's as I understand that that's made from the from
the bean.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
But I've never seen a sharp liquorice beans.

Speaker 6 (56:26):
Yeah, yeah, well that's that which No, I haven't I've
never seen them. But that's why I say. I think
they need they go through the process, and that in
that manufacturing process they get rolled into the flat sheets

(56:46):
then covered with beer.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
I think it might come from the I think it
might come from the root.

Speaker 6 (56:52):
Yes, I think you'd be right. I I my knowledge
stops at the fact that it's basically is a plant.
I understand that I had a very good friend of
mine was Roger Halliwell, who used to own he set
up days in the very early days. Oh and Rod

(57:16):
Jackson told me the story of it, of lictorice, and
it was just absolutely fascinating.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
I think the roots are ground, and then to make
a ground to make a paste and then they do
something with that.

Speaker 6 (57:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right. That's exactly right. Anyway, mate,
I don't want to sort of occupy myself.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
No, that's all right, that's good, Allen. I'm please that
you're a licorice person, as we all are. Nice to
hear from you. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine
to text Marcus adding to my text about the Continental Box,
it was etiquette growing up at my house that all
the top lay had to be eaten before you start.
The second won't be tired if you didn't. That's not

(57:59):
etiquette in your house. That's the rules universally. Biscuits, chocolates,
if they're two layer, the first layers finished, you don't go.
No one would even think of that. And a few
duds in the top, but you know, you had the
joy of the new thing to be revealed, and they
wouldn't put two layers if you could just have a

(58:21):
free for all of all of it. They'd put all
the good ones at the tops and the duds down
the bottom. But they don't do that, do they. I
love a double our chocolate box because you open it
all new, all those shimmery things either and then you
gotta finish those two and then they're going and then
they'll whoop, and they got brand new, the whole layout

(58:43):
all again, just a bit of magic that not with
the favorites though. Was there that sad old pile of
wrap kind of mini bars of sugar poison? You got
the warehouse Christmas Eve week and it says boxes and
boxes of those bins and bins of Cadbury Favorites. When

(59:08):
then we'll buy four or five of those just for
cannon fodder, take out some of the friendly fire of
the people wandering by. No one wants them. I don't
know what chocolate people do want it Christmas? Oh get
in touch anything and it has got a new tie.
I'd like to talk about hopping with those kids. I

(59:32):
like to talk about the Trump debate within reason and
white to Matar pale Ale if you want to talk
about that and the great beers we've lost. Spats is
that still a thing? Of course? Spats used to be

(59:53):
a beer that no one drank drinks spats, lose your mates.
They used to say. Then for a while, because of marketing,
the students got into it. I think we know that
beer is all about marketing. I know what people are
drinking these days, and drink that Mexican beer, don't they.
Wey surprised how well that's been around the Corona. By
the way, someone said they Corona beer no longer mix it.
It's made in China now, which is extraordinary. I think

(01:00:16):
you China can outcompete Mexico to make a cheap beer.
It's probably not so much that can be made cheaper
in China. I guess probably China is probably more a
center of world shipping. Be supply lines A. It's not
the price of labor. It's a supply line to get
a lot of China. You're good to go? Twenty six

(01:00:38):
past ten. You are home brewer dB.

Speaker 12 (01:00:42):
I'm a home distiller.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
Are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
Go you?

Speaker 12 (01:00:46):
I've got a couple of stools. I've got a T
five hundred, which is a reflux still, and i have
a little air still, which is little bench top thing
that does quite a good little job.

Speaker 4 (01:00:56):
And you know what to do it?

Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
Do ye?

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
I wonder if you have a T five hundred.

Speaker 12 (01:01:01):
That's as an entry level. Still that is fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
Yeah, it's the old it's the old one, looks like
the older. Well you brought it locally.

Speaker 12 (01:01:11):
Yes, it's got, it's got, it's got.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
It's like the coffee and with the spout at the
top of it.

Speaker 12 (01:01:21):
Yeah, no, not not the spout. It's got a big
column up it. But yeah, it doesn't look like you know,
your Scottish stools, which are ambilock stools.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
Yeah, yeah, but.

Speaker 12 (01:01:36):
I'm yeah, I though I understand the process of beer
making because I had to look it up too thriddly
with the spirits, the way I describe it is sugar
water yeast. When it stops bubbling, boile it job done.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
Good explanation. But then are you flavoring it with other
Sometimes people kind of buy kits to flavor, which sounds
a bit sort of unsophisticated to me.

Speaker 12 (01:02:04):
And yeah, in the is what you want At the
far end, I've had someone tell me that I was
having them on that I gave them to taste was
real Johnny Walker the other stuff Jack Daniels, and I said, no,
it's just flavored vodka that I've made. Myself.

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
Okay, and you buy the flavor. You buy the flavor,
do you.

Speaker 12 (01:02:25):
Write buy the flavor? So I can produce ten liters
of forty five ABV flavored for fifty dollars all.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
Up, wow, and off five dollars at.

Speaker 12 (01:02:48):
Yeah, basically must be a bit more than that, because yeah,
I'm going more ten dollars a liter by the time
you've taken an electricity and the time in.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
The price of the stuff.

Speaker 12 (01:02:59):
Yeah, well it was still yeah, one thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
Yeah, how are you drinking? How are you drinking that?

Speaker 12 (01:03:08):
According to my doctor, far too often than fast I
tend to make You should.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
Have told him you drink if you're making your own
jim bean just with flavoring, Are you drinking that meat
or with coke? Or how are you drinking it?

Speaker 3 (01:03:22):
No?

Speaker 12 (01:03:23):
Yeah, I drink almost everything that I have with tonic,
So okay, weird, but I like the taste of tonic.
But I've changed recently and I now make a faux wine.
I make the same sugar wash as you would for vodcast,
and make sure it's fully fermented out, and then I

(01:03:43):
just add wood not coloring that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
Current goodness, you'd be a daily drinker.

Speaker 12 (01:03:57):
At least at least daily. You can't drink more than that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
That's your moderation, is it?

Speaker 12 (01:04:07):
I have one glass a day, but some people call
it a bottle.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
So you're making wine with pure alcohol and you're flavoring
it with black currant.

Speaker 12 (01:04:15):
No, no, no, it's not pure alcohol.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
Rather, I mean, but it's from a still. It's from
a still. Don't know, hold the hang there, So tell
me what you're what you're drinking. How do you make
your own wine?

Speaker 12 (01:04:27):
So it's the sugar what before you destill it, which
is just sugar and water that's been cemented, and then
I add at the moment it's back current to like
you r eye beaner two bottels of that to twenty
five liters and I've got back currant wine. One said

(01:04:48):
about twelve percent the ABV alcohol by volume. Wow, but
I've been I'm just in the process of learning how
to make gin from scratch because he gets sick of
the stuff after a while. And I don't liked gin,
but I like the the education learning how.

Speaker 3 (01:05:11):
To make it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
And you like tonic. It's and you're probably always you know,
you can go to the tropical countries and not get malaria,
hopefully not get some queen.

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
And you too much tonic?

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
I'm sure you have. I'm sure you drink too much
of anything. I'm sure you're on your way to that.

Speaker 18 (01:05:30):
Are you.

Speaker 12 (01:05:31):
It's quite I don't drink. I don't drink before I
bring you, but I'll have a couple of wines after
I'm finished with you. Wise id incoherent? Yeah, I do myself.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
How quickly? How quickly do you get in coherent? How
would you know if you got incoherent?

Speaker 12 (01:05:47):
I'm told about it the next day. Okay, feedback loop?

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
Who's who gives you? Who gives you? Feedback?

Speaker 12 (01:05:58):
My flatmate after they kicked me a couple of times?

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
And you've got a flatmate. Okay, that's the that's that's
the bit we didn't understand. Where are they now?

Speaker 12 (01:06:07):
You're in their own room hiding from me?

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
Okay, where's the still.

Speaker 15 (01:06:14):
I have.

Speaker 12 (01:06:16):
I used to have before I moved down here. I'm
only up the road for you. I'm up in Nightcaps.
I had my own room in my last house, and
you know I had the distillery basically.

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
Nightcaps.

Speaker 18 (01:06:33):
You know.

Speaker 12 (01:06:34):
Goodness, population three and fifty.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
Growing or decreasing.

Speaker 5 (01:06:39):
Growing?

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
What about does does the name Crickle would mean anything
to you.

Speaker 12 (01:06:50):
One of the families around here, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
Report doesn't? Okay, just putting out a feeder for that one.
Do be nice to talk for those who don't know
nightcaps Northern where's the cold coming out of now? dB?
Tinker Town?

Speaker 4 (01:07:03):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
Yes, they're just a new scene.

Speaker 12 (01:07:08):
So they reckon they got cold for another three years.
You were asking about a mask that was bound sometime
in the seventies, a couple of nights ago.

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
And what that was found a week ago? A mast?

Speaker 12 (01:07:24):
A radio real it was down to the Bacttery deprie
or how you got that? Have you guys pronounce it
down here?

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
Baker Baker A mast.

Speaker 12 (01:07:40):
Yeah, it was a radio mask for FM radio.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
I think I don't think you want have your hosts
mixed up. That might have been posted the braspberry.

Speaker 16 (01:07:48):
I think that was me.

Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
I apologize if it was, but thanks dB. Roderts. Marcus, welcome, Marcus.

Speaker 10 (01:07:54):
I've got a chocolate box story. We devised a method
of eating the bottom layer first. Now, my wife chocolates
and she got to the Todays where they said, right,
I'm not opening these chocolates. I'm going to put them
in the fridge and you're not to touch them. Well,

(01:08:15):
that was a challenge for me and my boys. So
if you get a razor blade and carefully slit the
bottom of the box and go through to the bottom layer,
you can get all the chocolates out without really noticing
that the box has been tempered with.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
Where did you slit it at the bottom, well, around
the around the bottom edge.

Speaker 10 (01:08:39):
Right right down to the center of the bottom, and
then you can reach in and get the chocolates out
and it doesn't look as though that the box has
been touched.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
Are you supposed to stare them in the fridge?

Speaker 10 (01:08:54):
Well, they're there, we're warm, we're whereever, you know, and
they don't go but self of that if they're out
of the in their air.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
And that's a good story, Rob, Thank you, loving that all.
He's the top player as Danton m into that.

Speaker 13 (01:09:09):
Jamie, Hey, Marcy, there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
Good.

Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
Thanks Jamie.

Speaker 13 (01:09:14):
Although I just heard I talking about this spilling and
and he was wanting to make gin. I was making
gin for a while.

Speaker 6 (01:09:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:09:26):
You can buy you can buy a kit and then
you put the herbs on the top, or you know,
pick your herbs. If you do this for berries and
put it in your gin basket, and you can make
a nice gin. But the thing is what you think
might be good doesn't translate once it's once the vapor
has gone through the alcohol. Yeah, you're like, I've made

(01:09:48):
some terrible ones, but I've made some good ones too.
But the problem I found with my homebiru was after
being away at work all week, come home, we'd have
two of them and it just would absolutely spash me
hit you for six.

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
So I gave up that.

Speaker 13 (01:10:04):
So I haven't haven't made any drunk anything over a year.

Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
Hang on, hang on, hang on, what do you mean
you had to still at home right?

Speaker 3 (01:10:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:10:15):
Yeah, so I might have been so you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
Go, no, tell me, tell me what would happen with you?

Speaker 6 (01:10:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:10:22):
So say, because my goal was to make something better
than you could buy it the shop for like a
hundred bucks.

Speaker 18 (01:10:28):
So I.

Speaker 13 (01:10:29):
Had some like rum or some bourbon or whatever, and
then come home and we're like, I'll try that. That
was good. You end up having to take three glasses
and you're just like you're slurring your words and you're
that drunk.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
You know.

Speaker 13 (01:10:45):
So pretty much gave up drinking.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
Just because I wouldn't it wouldn't it wouldn't be you
probably will be the missus?

Speaker 3 (01:10:52):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
Is that what happened?

Speaker 13 (01:10:54):
I got we had a whole weekend on it, and
we got bad, pretty much got banned from my house.
So I was like, yeah, since that, I sort of
everyone keeps asking me to when you're going to, like
you still.

Speaker 18 (01:11:09):
Love is it? Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:11:11):
Because you think? But because?

Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
Is it is?

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
The is the mentality because you've made it yourself so cheaply,
you're actually making money by drinking a lot of it?
Is it kind of the what the mentality that kicks in?

Speaker 13 (01:11:22):
I think the mentality was that I would water it
down to like forty and then yeah, I just have
like three or four glasses. But you know, if you
have a beer, it's only four percent. But then because
you makes up like a triple or something in your glass,
do you have three? And then yeah? And if you

(01:11:42):
make a good alcohol and just can't even taste.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
It, you know, what are the good?

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
What are the good? What are the flavors for the
when you were still allowed to operate your still what
were the flavors that were good in gin?

Speaker 13 (01:11:58):
I just just put Jennifer Berri's sure, and that was
always good. But the other the best one I did
was rum. So instead of using sugar, you just use
the lasts and then brown raw brown sugar or raw
sugar just to like a bit of just to bump
it up. Leave that for two weeks and then run

(01:12:21):
that through you still and then agent on some rum
chips for like three months. And that was like, we
get told that was some of the best rum people
have ever had.

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
Who's telling you this? Who's telling you this, Joe, are
you having part having parties? Or you take it to
the barbecues with.

Speaker 13 (01:12:40):
The screens. I'll give it to whatever.

Speaker 10 (01:12:42):
Try this.

Speaker 13 (01:12:42):
They will turn their nose after your homebrew. But then
you're like, have a smell. And if you do it right,
you know, because homebrew has like a viscillated spirit sort
of smell talk. But if you can do it right,
you can get rid of that smell. And then yeah,
and then when they smell it, they all they don't
smell good. And then they try it and they're like, wow,
they do actually good.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
You know what, Jamie, what are rum chips?

Speaker 3 (01:13:07):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:13:07):
They were just like chipped out barrels.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
So yeah, like okay, So they give you that wood flavor,
so it gives you that thing that's been agent Barrett.
So they are actually chipped up old barrels, are they?

Speaker 6 (01:13:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:13:22):
Yeah, or maybe some sort of wood. Yeah, that's quite
remember exactly, but yeah, I think it was like chipped
up barrels, or they might might be a certain wood
that they they taste for you, even from the Bruce
shop and packets like team.

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
So you're not, are you not? You're not running You're
not running the still at all.

Speaker 19 (01:13:42):
Now.

Speaker 13 (01:13:43):
No, I haven't done it for a year. Heavi'tly even
drunk for over a year.

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
Now, how's that working out for you?

Speaker 13 (01:13:51):
Oh it's good, just good being a whale week and
then coming home with the little one. It's not a
very good look. And then there comes home and he goes.
You know, I didn't want to be that dad.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
So yeah, you've been watching blue again, have you?

Speaker 18 (01:14:13):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:14:15):
Lots of blues?

Speaker 18 (01:14:15):
Ye?

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
Your parent.

Speaker 13 (01:14:20):
They like watching people play Minecraft.

Speaker 5 (01:14:22):
Now, can't quite.

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
Work out how kids like to watch people playing Minecraft.
I can't work it out. I've watched a few I've
watched I've watched a few on this Preston and a
few I've watched a few of them to make sure
they're not dodgy. They seem to be some of the
adults that doing YouTube videos. They seem quite well meaning.
I mean, it's not the way i'd run a media career.

(01:14:47):
Was sort of playing Minecraft for followers, but they, the
guys that run the channels do seem to be quite
serious about it.

Speaker 13 (01:14:56):
Yeah, it's funny. I sort of thought about that, how
can these kids, how can my kids just sit there
and watch these people play Minecraft or any other video game?
And then I was like, oh, that's right. I remember.
It's like when your when your one mate was real
good at the video game in the remote and off
the level, We'll just watch your place. It's just a

(01:15:18):
modern version of that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:21):
I was considered. I think Preston's a bit of a
Bible besher. I thought they're going to sort of, you know,
talk about talk about evolution and stuff. But that's what
That's what I was concerned about. That he's, you know,
from the Bible belt. He's going to try and sort
of bring the kids across to the Lord. But that
didn't seem to happen.

Speaker 13 (01:15:40):
You must be and I am, I haven't even.

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
Mindraft you'd be on the still. That's yeah, yeah, I
kid you on minecraft turn the tap on.

Speaker 13 (01:15:54):
Once the temperature once I've got their bubble plates. I've
got too, so you can stand there and once the
all day bubbling away.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
Are you driving to You seem to spend a lot
of money on different things. You got your gimmicks. So
you're out driving today?

Speaker 13 (01:16:09):
Yeah, I'm hitting sitting down to ten and just gone
through Sydney around the south side of Sydney.

Speaker 6 (01:16:14):
Now on the no.

Speaker 16 (01:16:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
How the New South Wales people that you've seen being
about the state of origin. When have you talked to
anyone about that?

Speaker 13 (01:16:25):
I haven't really. I won't go out of the much,
but I think there when you're pretty happy.

Speaker 2 (01:16:30):
About it, Okay, they should be greatest forty minutes of
foot I've ever seen. I watch it again today that
first forty unbelievable. It's been a pleasure, Jamie. You've made
me knight. You're in the still. Wow, Marcus. Back in
the nineteen sixties or back in sixty nine, our family
was always given a large box of choppers at Christmas time.

(01:16:52):
I think from our grandparents is a Christmas holiday treat.
It was a lot large in the Continental chocolate box
and comprised three identical layers. It was called the El
Dorado and a picture like a treasure trip, perhaps with
a sailing boat on the front. The chocolates may have
well been Cadbre, as they seem very similar to the
Continent options, but it was a chocolate box on steroid.

(01:17:14):
We love them. It used to last. Our family have
two and outs and fortunate for several weeks, well into January.
I don't know why they don't still have these today.
Kind regards, Paul. Love a triple layer. I see if
I can see an image of the Eldorado chocolates. I
love a triple layer. I don't know why they don't
do them in layers anymore. That's what kid's so exciting.

(01:17:35):
I can't see an old Oh there is an old box.
You're right about the you're write about the description with
a pirate ship on the front of it. I'm just
waiting for it to Carpinal to describe the box to you.
Alls or Brooks Eldorado assortment. Wow, what a box of chocolates.

(01:17:56):
That is goodness. Hello Janets, Marcus.

Speaker 20 (01:18:00):
Welcome that those Eldorado chocolates you're talking Aboutline Bay Association
used to have them for prizes on the Chocolate Wheel.

Speaker 17 (01:18:10):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
Wow, goodness, that says something to it.

Speaker 20 (01:18:16):
Yeah. Many, it was many years ago though, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:18:19):
And that was the old triple layer one, was it.
It was quite a big box, it seems to be.

Speaker 20 (01:18:25):
It was about twice the size of an ordinary chocolate
cabridge roses box.

Speaker 6 (01:18:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:18:31):
Do you know what chocolates were in the elder On?

Speaker 20 (01:18:34):
There was quite a mixture of them. I think the
box was sort of like light fawny colors and a
tearly greeny blue.

Speaker 3 (01:18:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
I used to involved with Caroline Bay.

Speaker 20 (01:18:47):
Everybody that was the you know, I think that was
the only place you ever seen them. Was As for
pepples on the Chocolate wheel or something.

Speaker 2 (01:18:54):
Did you run the Chocolate Wheel, Jen?

Speaker 20 (01:18:56):
No way, I won a box at one stage.

Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
I just asked because I had spoken to someone that
ran the Choco wheel.

Speaker 17 (01:19:04):
Jen.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
Nice to hear from you. Thank you six If you
want to come through. We're talking about the other box
of chocolates. Oh oh good. The pub of night Caps
back up and running.

Speaker 6 (01:19:17):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
That's a good thing. We're talking the old bears of
New Zealand. The nicknames Michelle's texted, Marcus, I remember Southland
bitter nicknamed Southland Hitters. Cheers Michelle. There we go, Marcus.
What about a Sparkling Ale by Joseph Coots was better
than of this hazy crafty stuff around lately? Cheers Darren.

(01:19:42):
There we go, White Mata, Sparkling Ale, the early Bears.
That's what we are talking about tonight, eleven oh seven,
here till midnight. Mikey Bibben along from twelve. So what
do you want to do with the last hour? People?
Try your luck, you pay your money and you take

(01:20:03):
your chance. What have you got? Good evening, Richard, It's
is welcome.

Speaker 15 (01:20:08):
Good evening, eaving Richard. I've done my eighty hours listening,
and I was glad to hear a woman ring up
and talk about Caroline Bay and chocolate. Yeah good because
I think the abuse of chocolate and Caroline Bay go
hand in hand.

Speaker 2 (01:20:26):
Seems to be back the festival. Two people were raving
about it this year, that Christmas festival at Caroline Bay.

Speaker 15 (01:20:32):
No, I've been doing it for a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
Hang on, he's still a part of it.

Speaker 3 (01:20:39):
No, no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 15 (01:20:42):
But back then, when I was a kid, Calen Bay.

Speaker 2 (01:20:47):
Yeah, well, I just they had a concept that a
cook concert there this year, one of the new hits,
the new sort of country singer. Isn't that There was
an issue sort of a sellout crowd at the sound
sheell this summer.

Speaker 15 (01:21:00):
You know, it's a performing gem, the sound sheell see
so many people off on their career, and I hope, yeah, absolutely,
the young lady does the same.

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
Yeah, I've been You've just been.

Speaker 15 (01:21:18):
Listening along this evening and someone ronge up about chocolate
and Caroline May.

Speaker 3 (01:21:22):
And of course it was years I was just I
saw that.

Speaker 15 (01:21:25):
Tacker and one of the things I remember about that
was we'd visit to Marou on the school holidays and
and they'd be one of the school holidays, they'd be
all the spring wheels and chocolate's available. And that was
a long standing memory of mine, actually Tomoru and chocolate

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because of the Carolina.

Speaker 2 (01:21:48):
Where would where would you be coming from.

Speaker 3 (01:21:51):
Christ Judge?

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
Oh wow, you go from christ.

Speaker 15 (01:21:54):
Church tomorrow every year or every school shippers. Yeah, And
I just remember that so that the lady she in
particular half hour ago talking about Carolin Ban chocolate and
I'll just let's hand in hand.

Speaker 16 (01:22:11):
For me yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:22:12):
No, And you said you've been doing an eight hour shift.
Are you incarcerated or you've been listening to ready for
eight hours?

Speaker 15 (01:22:17):
Oh you know, no, I says to you once a
while back then, I normally do eight hours listening before
I'll call.

Speaker 2 (01:22:24):
Oh wow, okay, self regulated.

Speaker 15 (01:22:27):
No, I was regulated by you. The conversation we said
some years ago. Yeah, well I didn't know the topic
and you got a little bit flighty about it, and
I thought, well, it might pay for me to be
listening into what's been talked about before I ring.

Speaker 2 (01:22:45):
Oh, it's weird to just bring talkback having not listen.
That just sounds lonely, Richard, nice to talk, Thank you, Shoner.
It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 21 (01:22:54):
Yes, good evening, Marcus. I'm just a little bit contributed
to the Chocolate Fish.

Speaker 2 (01:23:01):
Thank you.

Speaker 21 (01:23:03):
I knew mister Hudson who bought the recip to New
Zealand for Cadney Fry Hudson of the Chocolate Fish. Wow,
mister missus. Mister and Missus Hudson lived on the waterfront
at Mission Bay, and my husband and I happen to
have a dairy for us and as many years ago,

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and they shopped with us They were a very very
dapper couple, if I could politely say. She was very
much smith and Curry with the pearls and whatever. And
he wasn't a very tall man, beautifully groomed and always
wore a felt hat, and he always carried the cane

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shopping basket. And one of his little pastimes was not
every week, but quite often he would go out onto
the grass lawn area of Men of Mission Bay, that
area there, and he would feed the sea gulls. And
there was actually an article about him. It was either
in the Star of those days or the Herald of

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how he'd done it for years and years. And he
was a charming man, had such a twinkle in his eye,
loved to chat to the ladies, and she'd be nudging him,
you know, with appoint at elbow. But they really were
a very very charming.

Speaker 2 (01:24:30):
Cattle couple, and they'd come out here from England. Is
that the situation started, Okay, Now I.

Speaker 21 (01:24:38):
Don't know it well. As he told us he bought
the recipe for the chopped fish, so that would have
been a He was a quite an oldly man when
we knew him, and so it was, you know, I
don't know It might have been early nineteen hundreds.

Speaker 2 (01:24:56):
You could well have been. Yeah, where did you have
When did you have the dairyan? Mission Bay? Was that
in the sixties?

Speaker 21 (01:25:05):
The eight seventy two?

Speaker 2 (01:25:08):
Oh yeah, then you've done your dish after four years?

Speaker 21 (01:25:10):
Eh, exhausted because three guys arrived and nobody wanted.

Speaker 2 (01:25:14):
To buy of course the supermarkets. Yeah, wow, didn't he
that comend job?

Speaker 21 (01:25:19):
Well, there were there will always the others, but you know,
three guys and people traveled from for absolutely miles and
miles to Mount Eden where there was only the first.
It really was you know, everyone thought it would be
the device of the derby.

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
You did you do ice? Did you do ice creams?
They would have been big at Mission Bay, they wouldn't they.

Speaker 21 (01:25:41):
Yeah, because we had the Barclay Theater, a couple of
all along, yes, and we could serve faster than in
the bulook, so we would pre roll chuck all the
frozen peas and chilians and stuff, and then we were
lucky the receptionist would be kind enough to tell us
how many were at the theater. Because Barclay used to
be a first release theater. They would bring the films

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out and they were judged by the you know, the
audience as to how long it might run in Green Street.
So the real movie bus, you know, used to come
in big numbers to enjoy the movies, and that thunder
down the hallway and we could we could serve faster
than than.

Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
And Mission Bay was always very good for takeaways? Was
that in your time? Was that slightly later?

Speaker 21 (01:26:29):
Well, there were very very few, but it was quite
a commercial little.

Speaker 2 (01:26:34):
Village, didn't that's the mission by the Mission Bay takeaways?
Weren't there in your time?

Speaker 21 (01:26:42):
There was a fish and chip shop, there was, there
was one. There was a very good men's wear store.
There were a couple of real estate agents, you know,
the little little book shop, a couple of hairdressers, to
chemist shops, a wine shop. And Nino who brought the
pizza to New Zealand opened up in Mission Bay. We

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knew ne know very well.

Speaker 2 (01:27:09):
Wow, I'm well, of course the shops there seem a
bit interesting now, don't they compete to on your day?

Speaker 21 (01:27:18):
Well, it was a thriving, you know, little place really,
and it did turn into very much the takeaway. And
I feel very saddened that there is somebody out there
who wants to really demolish the whole village and turn
it into multi story and do whatever of modern day ghastliness.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
Now, is that what's happening?

Speaker 18 (01:27:39):
Is it?

Speaker 6 (01:27:40):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:27:41):
He she?

Speaker 21 (01:27:42):
They have been pushing for it for a number of
years and to me it's got that deco look and
or whatever. There was a lovely wedding reception venue up
near the picture theater and hard they were one or
two weddings each Saturday. And yeah, and you know the
kids had come down from Iraqi to the movies and

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then try to pinch stuff while they were for this.
It was all very interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:28:09):
Goodness, lovely to talk to you. Thank you so much
for that twenty eight past eleven, loving it, Jacqueline.

Speaker 12 (01:28:15):
Good evening, greatning.

Speaker 16 (01:28:18):
Is that your markel?

Speaker 2 (01:28:19):
Yes hi, Jaqueline.

Speaker 16 (01:28:21):
Hello, I'm training about the Eldorado chocolate. I worked at
a bakery comtreet ice cream shop in the country, and
that is over seventeen years ago. And I used to
get the Eldorado chocolates in a lovely big box. And

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I had a certain customer who was a shepherd on
a big sheet station in Southland. This was in northern Southland,
and he used to order a cat and of those
every time he came to town. Wow, wasn't very often,

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and when he would take it, he would order one
for the next time he came in from shepherding on
the sheet station.

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
Goodness.

Speaker 16 (01:29:23):
And they were beautiful chocolates by night than anything you
get now.

Speaker 2 (01:29:29):
And what did you did? You say you at a
bakery shop? Is it what you heard?

Speaker 16 (01:29:34):
I didn't have it. I worked there, I started when
I was there at seventeen years old. Yes, and then
I am the actual pay to stool in Southland. But
I've never heard of those chocolates. So I've been listening

(01:29:57):
to you this evening.

Speaker 3 (01:29:59):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:29:59):
And was that shop in Lumsdon No, if you'd like to.

Speaker 16 (01:30:05):
Know where it was, it was Waikaia.

Speaker 2 (01:30:10):
Oh goodness. Yes, what a lovely town that is.

Speaker 16 (01:30:16):
Yeah, well I we lived south of that a bit. Yeah.
That was my first taste of employment.

Speaker 3 (01:30:28):
Wow.

Speaker 16 (01:30:29):
And I now are now eighty eight years of old
of tell.

Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
Me something, Jacqueline, when you lived there?

Speaker 9 (01:30:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:30:40):
Did you ever skate on the lake?

Speaker 3 (01:30:45):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:30:45):
That we had lagoons that were left in the on
the farms there from the gold mining years and we
were told never to skate on them on f time
we hid them and my father could never find the
bottom of us. Of course, they told us never to

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go on that lagoon skating, and you know what we did.
We always went on it every winter. Dutlands children.

Speaker 2 (01:31:26):
Yeah, and Jack one, do you remember which chocolates were
in the Eldorado box? What did you never eat them?
You just sold them?

Speaker 16 (01:31:34):
Yes we did, but no we used to have the
jars and fill them up with the chocolates out of
the boxes. But that I don't remember it. But I
think they're mostly milk chocolates.

Speaker 2 (01:31:51):
Okay, we'll see if we find out what's in them. Jacqueline,
love you to talk to Thank you for that. Twenty
six to twelve. Keep it going if you want to
talk Marcus till midnight eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
thank you, Jacquelin nine nine to the text. We are

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talking about everything you want to tonight. Have you got
anything to add? Brilliant be a part of it, part
of what part of the show. Queensland women have won
State of Origin gone gangbusters. Well done to them. Appalling

(01:32:35):
weather in Townsville, of all places, must be the monsoon.
So what's extraordinary?

Speaker 17 (01:32:46):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:32:48):
Is this British election because the Conservative Party is going
to be destroyed, not so much by the ballot but
by the fact that everyone, it seems to be has
gone and placed a bet on the date of when
the election was going to be announced. So not only

(01:33:12):
have they gone and cheated because they found out they're
going to call a staff election, they've all gone bet
on it. And now seven police officers are under investigation
for suspicious betting because they were on the Specialist Protection Command,
which I suppose is your diplomatic protection, and they've gone

(01:33:32):
in place bets. As many as fifteen Tories are said
to be involved in the widening furery orray. But what's
worse or better or more surprising is that Labour staffers

(01:33:55):
kept an idea on the bets that were being laid,
and when they saw unusual betting activity, they realized that
they were going to call an early election, so they
went up and bought all the advertising space so cheapest creepers. Clearly,

(01:34:17):
Rushy Sunak's not gonna win, But boy boy, they have
a long time to analyze what has been the worst
political campaign in history. From betting on the date when
it was going to be called the election to the
press conference in the rain to leaving Normandy before the

(01:34:40):
commemorations finished. What a cluster anyway, just got that off
my chest. Marcus. Where can you buy pink and white
coconut ice from these days? Finns fudge christ Church Marcus
account of you to a pinch of the punch for

(01:35:01):
the first of the month through two hours early as
your next shift will be next month. It's a good point,
but I'd like to mess with those things. I'm always
very I'll never do a pinch and a punch after midday.
I'll always do it on the morning. Take pinching a
punch first of the month, quite seriously, Don't know why.
I always think you can jink stuff if you mess

(01:35:22):
around with that sort of stuff. So we've got the
Trump debate tomorrow and then the British election on Thursday,
and Matariki tomorrow. She's all happening.

Speaker 1 (01:35:38):
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