Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: The Nostalgic Kiwi Food Items Taking You Back!

Episode Date: June 22, 2023

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. Day of celebration at Air New Zealand today. Yeah, the longest serving flight attendant after 53 years. 53 years, incredible, incredible run. It's his final day today. His name is Ron Twain, and he joins us on the phone. Good morning, Ron. Good morning. Nice to talk to you. Well, actually, it's not a good morning in Christchurch. It's really not a very nice day at all, to be honest. Oh, the Crusaders

are going to lose. No, no. Oh, sorry. Don't wind them up. Ron, congratulations. 53 years as New Zealand's longest serving flight attendant. When you started, age 21, how long did you think you were going to be in the job

for? I had no idea, to be honest. Really, I look back at it now, and I sort of got into flying by default. I bumped into a crew on an overnight. They came to my hotel that I was working at, and they told me what this flying thing was all about. And once I got the word from them about people that they were meeting, the places they were going, every time going to work with a different crew, meeting all these different passengers, it just seemed like, that's me. And 53 years later, here we are.

You would have seen some stuff smoking. We were just talking before we got you on. There was a wild period there in aviation where we were all just allowed to light up cigarettes and it was a traveling capsule of of nicotine and cancer how did you as an air steward handle that flying 12 14 hours everyone just lighting up darts left right and center really it was horrible the airplane would take off the fasten seat belt sign would go off and you could barely see the bulkhead at the front of the cabin really so much smoke honestly andhead at the front of the cabin. Oh, really? So much smoke. Honestly, and then at the end of the flight, you'd get off and your hair would stink, your clothes would stink. And they eventually found out that in actual fact, it was quite a danger to the aircraft

because the buildup of nicotine in the air conditioning systems can self-ignite. Oh, jeez. So luckily, nothing like that ever happened to me, but just having the smoke in the cabin was enough. Did you smoke or you probably didn't have to? You got your fair share anyway. Use everybody else's. No, I did smoke.

I gave up in 1973, and since then, I've not smoked at all. Oh, that's good. 53 years, of course, in the job, working for you in New Zealand as a flight attendant. How many countries? Do you have any idea how many different countries you've visited over that time? Well, I mean, everywhere on Air New Zealand's network, obviously, plus a few others on holidays. No, I haven't counted. And somebody said to me, have you any idea how many miles you've traveled or kilometers? No idea. I gave up about two million, and that was only after a few years.

Now, you met so many people over the years i would imagine but george harrison from the beatles was one that you sat down with on a flight and had a conversation well we didn't sit down we just sat up in the galley drank coffee and chatted he opened up with a lot of stuff that i i really wouldn't have thought he might have told me but george is george you're spilling the beans here buddy all the beatles secrets you're telling he's just the most incredible gentleman to speak to. He really was. And really, for someone with his profile, just to sit down and talk, it was fabulous.

It really was. Now, the call for assistance button, what can I push that for? A pillow, another beer, a chat with you, Ron? I mean, what am I allowed to push it for? Virtually anything at all. Okay. I mean, as far as crew go

a call bell goes off it could be somebody's collapsed it could be somebody wants a beer as you say well with Ben's with me I could have collapsed because of too many beers too many beers

that's probably now Ron another quick question too what is one thing we could all be doing better as travellers as travellers my comment to that would be treat your crew with kindness and they will look after you.

Oh, OK. Honestly, it's something that people don't even think about. They take it for granted that we're there to at their beck and call for everything. Basically, we're there for safety, as you know. You're a host, you're a barman, you're a nurse, doctor, counsellor, hopefully not too often a fireman, an entertainer. You've got to talk to people. You've got to be able to talk to people. Yeah, it covers a lot of ground.

One of my favourite things doing on an international flight is in the middle of the night you walk through the aisles and watch everyone sleeping and everyone looks deceased wrong. Not so much now, but people used to think that they were entitled to sleep on the floor. On the floor? That's a great option. I didn't know that was an option. I don't think it's an option.

No, it's not an option. It's a real safety hazard. Where do you sleep? Because I heard there's beds in the wings, I've heard there's beds in the roof, I've heard there's beds underneath. Where are the beds? On the 777 we have bunks in the rear of the aircraft up in the roof. I've heard there's beds underneath. Where are the beds? On the 777, we have bunks in the rear of the aircraft up on the roof. We do. All right.

Yep, we do. And we end up normally, say, on a long-haul flight to LA or San Juan or Vancouver or somewhere, we normally get around three hours each. Oh, well, Ron Twine, congratulations on such a remarkable amount of service for Air New Zealand. Enjoy retirement and thank you for being with us. Jono Ben thank you both very much. I enjoyed talking to you. Cheerio.

Wow man. There's many rivalries in life Ben. Cats versus dogs. The Greens versus ACT. My digestive system versus spicy food but none more so than North versus South. And what do we do every week, mate? We put the two islands up against each other

and we have a representative from both. Who do you want to get on first this morning? Let's get the wonderful Hayley from the Hits in Wellington, the capital city. Good morning, Hayley. Good morning. I have got a weekend that I think will have Connor shaking in his boots. Oh, great. Let's get him shaking.

Get him quivering. Alright, what's going on in the North? Well, you've got seven minutes to make a good impression and prove that you'd be a half-decent girlfriend and boyfriend in Wellington tonight because we've got speed dating. Oh nice. Yeah. I always thought you could do a real twist on speed dating

featuring amphetamines and everyone's just like, get up, mate. Here's a gun. Really, really. Get it done in less than seven minutes, that's for sure. Exactly, two minutes. But the only thing is the age cutoff is age 20 to 59. So obviously they've decided once you're 60, you're out of the market.

Okay, well, okay. Yeah, but I mean, 20 with a 59-year-old, I can take that. 20 with a 60-year-old, no thanks. Yeah, right. Okay, what else is going on in the North? We've also got the wonderful home show. How many times have you stood in your kitchen thinking, I really need a kitchen utensil that I store for about five years

but has one niche use, like a corn on the cob corer or an apple corer? That's what you're going to get at the home show. Exactly. All those pans, you know, they always display cooking with the non-stick pans And they cook rocks in them And you think, who in their right mind is cooking Stones for dinner on a Tuesday night Well you can do that this weekend

Exactly And then finishing with a bang Your guys' personal favourite We've got medieval combat fighting And good old Palmy Think cosplay but with weapons. And they say full contact sport. None of the sissy stuff.

No girls playing non-contact netball here. We've just got adults fully dressed up in character playing with swords. Yeah, we have done it. And it is wild. It's very violent to watch. And the armour is very heavy. Hayley, that's a wonderful report of what's happening in the north this weekend. We're going to head to the south.

Connor in Christchurch. Now, just a disclaimer, Connor. We have been told you are not allowed to reference the rugby final or support your local team. Now, I'll hand over to you. Yeah, no, no, I've got my lawyer in touch. No worries. I have to ask, do you two feel responsible at all

for the poor people of Ototo and Southland who are having to put up with Guy Williams filming for New Zealand today at the Nightcap Hotel next week? How do you feel about that? Oh, no. Well, we've unleashed Guy down there, have we? Guy Williams has gone around New Zealand and basically just inconvenienced the whole country, the whole of rural New Zealand.

Yeah. Yeah. But nothing better than watching someone else pretend to be someone else. That's why you should get along to Joanne Millett doing tonight and Nelson at the Theatre Royal

the Adele experience. Now, Adele herself is not huge on touring. But, I mean, she has been in New Zealand before, right? Have you seen her live before, guys?

I've never seen Adele. I would love to go and see Adele. Yeah. Ben Boyce? I haven't seen Adele. My wife did. She went and saw her in the pouring rain and said it was still incredible. Yeah. I'm sure it was and see Adele. Ben Boyce? I haven't seen Adele. My wife did. She went and saw her in the pouring rain and said it was still incredible.

I'm sure it was. Yeah, absolutely. And finally, now Hayley. See, this weekend would be hers, but I've got an event that would bring Hayley from Wellington on the ferry to Picton, presented by the NJBB Entertainment at Oxley's Bar and Kitchen in Picton tonight. It's a ladies' night out with Wolfpack. They were currently on their No Rules with the Z43.

No Rules. In case it wasn't clear, it's a bunch of shredded, oiled-up dudes doing performances like Magic Mike are pretty much addicted. Oh, the Wolfpack. No Rules. They should put some rules in place. Anything goes with the wolf pack. Okay, who are we going to give it to just quickly?

Oh, listen, I'm going to give it to, as much as I loved Hayley's rock cooking, I'm going to give it to the wolf pack. Yeah, all right, the wolf pack. The wolf pack in Pinton sounds greasy and wild. Oh, 800 the hits. So what's happening in your neck of the woods? What are you doing for your weekend? Now, Ben, you'll be going along to some underage amateur theatre, won't you?

See your daughter in Cats. Yeah, yeah, seeing us performing in Cats with the National Youth Theatre. Everyone would love that show. It'd be wonderful. Apart from dogs. Yeah, dogs would like it. You're right. You've got to be a fan.

We'll get Natalie on the phone. Why are you having the best weekend, Nat? Yeah, hi there. I'm a high school teacher and I'm actually going to a school ball for fun time, so I'm not going to get to supervise. Oh, that's good. Oh, for fun times. Okay, great. You've got a date? How's this working?

Oh no, I'm not allowed to bring a date. Oh right, she's like, that's weird. I've got a couple of teacher work friends. We actually paid for our tickets, so... Normally I'd go to the school board to supervise and look after the toilet or something like that. But this time I'm going to have fun.

Now you're going to go get lit. Watch out. You're going to have a great weekend. Yeah, we get to drink alcohol as well. Well, you have a great time this weekend, Natalie. Lovely to hear from you. Thank you. We've got Mitch on the phone.

Mitch, what are you having the best weekend? I'm having a hell of a weekend, fellas. I'm actually playing a show in Hamilton. Look, I know this voice from anywhere. They're lovely tones of Mitch. James, how you doing? I'm good, boys. I'm good. How are you? It's great to have you listening to the show, Mitchie.

Up early, listening to us. I wouldn't miss this show on a Friday morning. I've just come back from Europe, but the first thing I do is turn on the radio to Jono. That's right. He's a day one-er. He's catching up to the podcast. I mean, you know what we've been doing. You've been listening to the podcast for the last few months.

But, of course, you've been overseas in Europe with Callum Scott. That looked incredible. Yeah, yeah. So I did another run with Callum all through Europe and then did eight shows of my own all across Europe and now back in the motherland. So I couldn't be happier to be back, actually, apart from the shocking weather. Wildest story.

Wildest story from the tour. Wildest radio-friendly story. Yeah, radio-friendly, too. Radio-friendly? Oh, you've put me on the spot here, fellas. I'm just going to put it out there and say about 95% of them aren't very radio friendly. But look, I mean, I had a hell of a time. We'll put it that way.

Was there one particular place you were like, oh my goodness, this place in Europe, they know my songs, they're singing along. Was there anything that really surprised you? Yeah, yeah. It was in Bratislava of all places. I didn't know that that was even a place before it sounds like a made-up place that you just combine three different countries together yeah there was a there was a few mitch james fans uh packed into the front of a callum scott concert and in slovakia which was pretty damn cool so it's uh it's come a long way from from dunedin let's put it that way.

It's so awesome to see you over there doing big things with Kelham Scott and on your own. And if Kiwis want to go and see, as you said before, Hamilton tonight, but then you just kind of roll around the whole country for the next wee while

until the 15th of July. Yeah, yeah. No, it's always good to be back home playing shows. And yeah, so Hamilton tonight and then Leeds tomorrow and a bunch of uh shows in the south island most of them have sold out which is cool and there's a couple of tickets

left to a few others as well but yeah can't wait to see everyone grey mouth you're going to grey mouth you're going to hasten you're going to get you're going everywhere it's awesome yeah my old band's from grey mouse so i felt like it would be a bit rude if I bypassed the mouth, but I mean, that sounded a bit gross. Yeah, look, I'm super excited to get around everywhere. I think there's 13 shows across New Zealand, so I'm not too far away from everyone. Well, from Bella de la Locke all the way to Grey Mouth here. He's traversed the world.

Lovely to talk to you again, buddy, and awesome to see you. We're going to have to pop along and see you while you're on your long road home tour. Yeah, sounds good, fellas. Love you to bits. Quickly before you go, Mitchie, Crusaders, Chiefs. Oh, look, the Saders have had enough, right? Let's go with the Chiefs. And the Warriors.

I know you're a huge fan of the Warriors. I see you wearing your top overseas. Oh, I'm the Warriors. Always the Warriors. You know this. I love you, mate. Love you, boys. Peace.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Again, a New Zealand travel destination. It's been placed in the top 10 of a new ranking of hidden gems across the world. Woo! Go, New Zealand! Do you want to have a stab at what took number seven out of the hidden gems around the world? Hidden gems. Can you give me a clue as to what island it sits in?

North. North Island. North Island. And not in Auckland. Cathedral Cove. Oh, that's a really wonderful hidden gem island it sits in. North. North Island. North Island. And not in Auckland. Cathedral Cove. Oh, that's a really wonderful hidden gem, though. Yeah, right. That was not it, but it would have been great.

No. Is that kind of hot water beach area? Yeah, they're wonderful around that. Yeah. Oh, jeez. Would you head Northland region? No. We're going where?

No. No. We're going towards Wellington. Yeah, towards Wellington, but we're not going as far as Wellington. Although Wellington, oh, they would love it. They would love it. Wellington would keep banging on about the fact that they have some association to this. Is it a beach?

Is it a monument? Is it a town, city? What is it? It's a tourist attraction. A tourist attraction? The L&P bottle of Pairoa. No, I'd watch it. We've made the cut.

It's Hobbiton. Hobbiton. It's a hidden gem uh number seven and the world's hidden gems it's not really hidden that's all we trade off yeah well you're right yeah that's what i'm saying in wellington they love banging on it about the fact that the movies the movies were filmed here also filmed just out of matamata uh as well and yeah so that's one of the um the hidden gems when it comes to tourist attractions around the world opened in 2002 it was the set was built the first time,

then pretty much taken down after the movies. Then they made The Hobbit again, and they went, hang on, guys. Let's keep it up. We can milk this, aren't we? And we're in Martha's Garden. We're in the Waikato. We know how to milk things.

Yeah. And so now you can go and immerse yourself in the fantasy dwellings at Bag End. Now, let me ask you, Ben Boyce, what would be your hidden gem in New Zealand? While you think, I can say mine. Okay, yeah. Once I went to a friend's wedding,

and they hired a place in Taupo Bay up north. Have you been there? Oh, yes, once. It's incredible. Oh, my gosh. It's like three or four batches there. There's like a campground that rolls onto the beach. It is, you don't even think you're

in New Zealand. Yeah, along those same lines with one, and I can't remember exactly where it was. Where was that beach we did some filming once with? Whakatane. Yeah, Whakatane, a relation of Stan Walker's actually. I think it was his uncle. Remember that guy who went viral? He went viral

and he was in his digger and he was trying to rescue a seagull and the seagull kept attacking him. Yeah, he was trying to do a digger and he was trying to rescue a seagull and the seagull kept attacking him. Yeah, he was trying to do a nice thing. He was trying to do a really lovely thing. And he took us to this beach. No one was on this beach and no one even goes to this beach. Like kilometers and kilometers.

The most amazing beach. People riding horses on it? Just pretty much no one except for us there. It was pretty incredible, yeah. I said no one goes to the beach. I was like, there were people riding horses on it? I was going to say no one else was there except for us. Okay, well there's people riding horses. One person on a horse. Yeah, but it was pretty incredible, yeah. I said no one goes to the beach. I was like, there were people riding horses on it. I was going to say no one else was there except for us. Okay, well, there's people riding horses.

One person on a horse. Yeah, but it was pretty incredible. It was a beautiful part of Bolton. A lot of beautiful bits. Yeah, you're right. Like you, Ben. You've got a lot of beautiful bits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Super Rugby Final. Crusaders taking on the Chiefs in Waikato Stadium Saturday night. It's going to be huge. It's sold out. And I think we can all agree rugby's going to be huge it's sold out and I think we can all agree rugby's going to be the winner at the end of the day too plus probably a good old

bit of fashion binge drinking as well that'll take out some wins as well but Laura McGoldrick she does the afternoon show here at the Hits wild Crusaders passionate

passionate one eyed Cantabrian so we call her the Cantabrian Cyclops with one eye we've got to get her a Hits eye patch, don't we? Yeah, so yesterday we thought with the help of Harriet the boss here at the Hits We thought we'd test her loyalty and have a bit of fun

We called her after our show from Harriet's phone, our boss To see how far she'd go to support her team Hello Harriet's our manager Yeah Now, who would have thought you'd lower yourself to base-level prank calls in management? Anything to get Laura.

Yeah, we pitched this idea to you because obviously the big Super Rugby final this weekend, very exciting. The Crusaders taking on the Chiefs. And Laura McGoldrick does a great job in the afternoons with Brad and Laura, but also on Sky Sport as well. Huge Crusaders fan. She was wearing her Crusaders fan.

She was wearing her Crusaders top last Friday night, ahead of the semifinal. We were doing the live free draw, and we were just winding her up, weren't we? Like when she was on stage, we were like, go the Blues! And she would just crack off in an instant. I didn't really care either way. I was just doing it to get a reaction, to be honest.

Very passionate. So what we thought we might do, we've got a bit of a plan that hopefully Laura will think she has to get into a chief's top for some advertising for the hits. She is going to throw her toys. Now we've got a bit of an elaborate backstory. You'll hear it all play out

as Harriet calls Laura. Now we've plugged your phone in so it's going to come straight from your phone, alright? Good luck. Good luck. Does she screen your calls? Hey, how are you? Hi, Laz, how are you? Good, how are you going? Good. Are you having a good morning? Yeah, not too bad. Just about to go and get Teddy Boy from Kindy. He's not feeling very well, so that's good. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. How are you? Good, thank you. Sorry, just a very quick call um kelly from the pr team just came

and asked us if you guys would be keen to be in a herald article tomorrow and basically what it is they're wanting to get behind the boys and support obviously the crusaders versus the chiefs this weekend um and they're wanting to do a piece where it's you and brad in t-shirts and then jonathan ben in t-shirts as well and it's kind of like a bit of marketing for the show but also getting behind the final for the Super Rugby game. Yeah. And basically Jono and Ben have already bagged the Crusaders t-shirts so I'm just checking that you and Brad will be all good this afternoon

to get a photo in the Chiefs t-shirt so I'll make sure that they're in here for one o'clock when you guys are in. Haz, I can't wear a Chiefs t-shirt. Oh, I know, but Jonombian already took the crusaders once but it like goes against everything that we've talked about on air i know i know but i mean brad's from the waikato nah it just goes against everything like that i think it just without saying like dick, it's one of those things that, like, I feel like that goes against every, every running gag, running theme on the show. Not just one photo?

Can I just not wear one? Just one photo? It just, but I can't, well, I just, that doesn't make sense yeah i mean we could position it like you know brad's from the waikato he grew up there i know you know like jono's parents are from christ church so that's why it kind of makes sense for jono and ben to be wearing the crusaders ones because his mom and dad are from there. Yeah, they live there. Yeah.

What are the questions that we have to answer? Oh, it's not really questions. It's more just like, oh, we're getting behind the team and kind of looking really happy and thumbs up, good luck to the boys sort of thing. Oh, I can't do that for a Chiefs thing. What if you were wearing a blues blues top would that would that work laura can't believe they got you here i know i'm coming from me a cantabrian yeah could you wear one that says jonah and ben

i listen to them in the mornings on the hats. Nah, because I can't get behind that eye. Laurie, you don't have to wear anything you don't want to wear. Jono, didn't you grow up in St Helios? His parents just live in Christchurch. He didn't even grow up in Christchurch. Very tenuous. Can you just take us out on Go The Chiefs? No.

We've got a little child on the phone and if you say Go The Chiefs, they win $500. Oh no, I'd rather not. A little orphan. Sat waiting in an orphanage. Not even for $500 for little Timmy. Do you know what?

I'd give it to them myself before I said that. Oh, wow. If you say it, he gets adopted. You're a terrible person, Jono. Go back to the Elliot. Love your work. Love your passion For the Crusaders

Love you guys Bye See you mate The Hits The Jono and Ben Podcast We're taking you back right now With the foods that remind you Of your childhood

At a Kruskets For the first time in a while Yesterday Kruskets with marmots and cheese And I was like Man that reminds me of my childhood And I enjoyed it Great combo too

The peanut butter was also Another favourite spread On the Kruskets I've tried peanut butter on a crust. Get off, try that. Oh, buddy, you know that you cut the celery and then you put peanut butter in the middle of the celery? Yeah, yeah.

That's one that sort of saps every bit of moisture out of your mouth. But it's good. Nostalgic foods, foods that take you back to your childhood. You mentioned the other day about toasted sandwiches and that sort of triangle sort of toasted sandwich system as well. That took me back as well. At some point along the way, the toasted sandwiches and that sort of triangle sort of toasted sandwich system as well. That took me back as well. At some point along the way, the toasted sandwich innovators decided

to cease the deep, boiling hot pocket of spaghetti and cheese. Yeah, but it was good. And it would always explode out into the air. I know, that's probably why. 0800 with his telephone number. Food to take you back. We're going to kick things off with Faye.

Faye's on from Hamilton. Go the Chiefs, Faye. Yes, I was just going to ask you, which side are you on with that one? I'm on the side of footy, mate. No, no, no. All right. To be honest, Faye, I'm on the side of nothing.

It's going to be a heck of a game. It's going to be a great game. What throws you back to your childhood, I don't know. It's going to be a heck of a game. Yeah, it's going to be a great game. But what throws you back to your childhood, Faith? Tree tomatoes. Well, they were tree tomatoes when I was young. My nana used to make me eat them. Tree tomatoes? Yeah, and now they're tamarillos,

and you can't afford to buy them this idea. Tamarillos, that's right. They were dangling from everyone's front yard, weren't they? Yeah, they were beautiful, but I hated them. Oh, you hated them? I love them. I love them to bits on toast and everything. My grandparents used to love a grapefruit in the morning, cut it in half, but because

they were so sour, just so much brown sugar on top, just to make it reasonable to eat. You're like, well, this kind of cancels out the fruit part of this, but anyway. Oh, Faye, the chamarrillo trees, Dan, how old are you, Faye, if you don't mind me asking? I turned 78 on the 12th of this month. Geez. On the 12th gone, yeah. We're bloody killing it with the 70s demo, mate. Hey, you've got to catch up with the 70s.

That's the trouble. We're the new 50s. You're the new 50s. Running hot. Hey, we appreciate your call. We're going to chuck you at the Georgia Sea edge here and have a great weekend. Awesome. I'm just going to chuck you at the Jordan Sea Edge here and have a great weekend. Awesome.

I'm just going to say while I'm here, this morning I went to Te Rau for a pick up some patients and there were about six cars broken down on the side of the road within a space of about five minutes. Oh, jeez. And what, you just drive straight on past them? Honk, honk. Hell yeah.

Good on you, Faye. Thank you, Faye. There we go, a bit of a road report from T-Dale there this morning on New Zealand's breakfast. Genevieve, we'll get you on from Auckland. Foods that take you back? Mine's white bread with salt and vinegar chips. Oh, yes.

Butter as well on there. When I got that at a school lunch, that was a great day. That was when Mum had checked out for the week, but hey, I was like, oh, this is great. Carb overload. Yes. Beautiful Genevieve. Someone's texting to Genevieve, I don't know if this rings true to you,

Juicies from the tuck shop. Oh, yes. They were good, Genevieve. That plastic packet bloody sharpened the shop. Still have them. They're still around. You can buy them in boxes from the supermarket. We got them over summer. They're great. Feels like you're sucking frozen juice out of between two Ginsu knives, doesn't it? Yeah. Hey, Faith, I'm going to check you in the drawer for Genevieve to go see Ed Sheeran.

Awesome. Thanks, guys. Have a good weekend. Good on you. Thank you. Rachel, we'll get you on from Wellington. Food that takes you back, Rach? Wheatbix slice.

Wheatbix slice? What's that? Indeed, it's leftover Wheatbix and you make it into like a Like a slice of Chocolate icing Jesus, leftover Wheatbix Who's not eating all their Wheatbix?

Someone who's like, oh I can do six, no actually I can't I can't, I've got to do four I made it literally recently Because I remember as a kid my mum used to make I had three brothers, we always had lots of Wheatbix And I made it literally recently because I remember as a kid my mum used to make, I had three brothers we always had lots of Weet-Bix and I made it recently for my sort of boys and they all go, man this is amazing. I'm going, oh my God, it's been 40 years since I've had this.

It does take you back. Lefto, here's some sop from my Weet-Bix bowl reincarnated. Love it. Thank you Rachel. This afternoon I had a food that I hadn't had for many, many years and cheese I enjoyed it. A cruscut. Oh, yeah.

Cruscut with Marmite cheese. And all of a sudden I had those and it transported me back to, I remember sitting in Marston on my dad's couch, sitting at home, and I was like, I could imagine myself watching something like The Bartman. Do The Bartman. You remember it would come on TV and Z2. Yeah, we'd do The Bartman. That was like their filler video, wasn't it,

when they were running a bit early for the news or something. Yeah. It's a lot of fun. Yeah, do the Bartman. Were you doing the Bartman or were you just enjoying the Bartman? I was always enjoying doing the Bartman. I didn't know exactly what the Bartman was. Great song, though.

You're right. They would put it on TVNZ2 and just eating that crust. The ultimate white guy rapping. But eating the crust, eating that food just transported me back to my childhood and I was like I need to have more cruscets in my life the crusket you do need more cruscets it was lovely it was delicious like a crispy sandwich when you layer them on top of each other as well uh your taste buds you pretend that your taste buds is the older you get become more cultured but you know you have a cheerio in my mouth any day of the week and i will enjoy that over any you know any any meal ben you're right gone are

the days where you could go into the butchers or whatever and get your free cheerios right they would uh pc madness have gone pc madness gone wrong can't hand out raw meat to children you know it built character didn't it yeah Maybe there was a couple of cases of food poisoning. We all are better for it, aren't we? Fairy bread, another big one. When you taste fairy bread as an adult. Because you don't have it too much. I'm not making my work lunches with fairy bread. But at some point we decided, how can we make white bread more unhealthier?

Just sprinkle sugar rocks all over it. But that's bloody delicious as well. It's kids' birthday parties, eh, nostalgia. Those were the things, eh. A cake from the Woman's Weekly book. Some mum had been up for 14 hours overnight stressing out trying to build the jelly pool with the fingers around it, like pool fencing. Yeah, all I wanted was the train,

and mum was like, I just can't give you the train. I can't do it. I'm not. Who's a famous baker? Alison Hulse. I'm not Alison Hulse. I'm not Jordan Rondell. The train in Auckland, the underground, it would arrive quicker than

I think my mum making that train from the Woman's Weekly book. Well, this is what we wanted to throw open this morning. The foods that take you back. And generally they're foods that you just haven't had over a number of years. But as soon as you, it's like when I have a big old glass of breast milk. It takes me back to the start line, Ben. Right back to where it all began.

You know, memories. Yeah, well, okay, that's not quite happening. But what is the food that transports you back to your childhood? I'd love to hear from you this morning. And shall we, because it's a Friday, should we chuck every caller that calls up, gets on the air and draw to see Ed Sheeran in Vancouver? Hold on, that's Breaking Protocol.

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0800 THE HEADS. Yeah, and tell us the food that transports you back to your childhood.