ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 15th May, 2025

Episode Date: May 15, 2025

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it's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. Can I take a moment here to say I'm proud of my parents? Oh, nice. Lovely Ian and Christine. It certainly wasn't for their attempts at

pronouncing correct Tadayo place names when we went to New Plymouth recently. Oh, yeah. Net-a-doodle. Growing up, my mum talks about these places. Taranaki. Taranaki. Openaki. Openaki. What's that?

Oponaki. Right. Openaki. Yeah. Oponaki. And... Wipanaki. What's that? Oponaki. Oponaki. Yeah. Oponaki. Oponaki. Naki. Yeah. So, you know, we're trying to leave the world in a better place than we found it.

Yeah. Including pronunciation. Correct pronunciation. Not the actual world. That we're setting ablaze. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're putting it to the ground. But sort of culturally.

I'm back on the plastic straws too. Yeah, he is. In a big way. Yeah, they're so good. They just last a whole night. Yeah, they last a whole night. Oh, don't they? Never get soggy.

Yeah. And then you can wind them up and flip them and they make a little popping noise and that renders them useless and chuck them in the bin. And that also stops the turtles from choking on them because it's never going to poop. So it wasn't that, but I'll tell you what they did do. And my dad's pretty good at this,

but because my mum's always in charge, it very rarely happens for him. They tried some new foods when I took them away. Oh, my God. At their age. Very traditional meat and three veg situation with mum and dad. You're telling me they maybe put a bit of pepper on something? A bit of pepper, but not too much pepper.

Don't tell me they went Asian. We didn't go Asian. Mum loves Chinese. Oh, okay. Mum loves a Chinese takeaway. It's American Chinese. It's American Chinese. It's Mum loves Chinese Oh okay Mum loves a Chinese takeaway It's American Chinese It's American Chinese It's not Chinese Chinese

And I've taken her to Yum Cha And she's had a steamed pork bun And a couple of dumplings And a bit of shrimp and stuff Very exotic And I'm just like Oh we livin' Yeah

Mum tried ceviche Oh my god raw fish Raw fish salad Cause she's like What is I love ceviche How does she pronounce it Cause she saw tuna

And she's like She really liked tuna. What is the ceviche? Ceviche. Ceviche. Ceviche. Yep. And I was like, oh, that is ceviche.

And she's like, what is ceviche? I said, it's raw fish salad. She's like, oh, not for me. I said, mum, I'll eat it if you don't. Dad will eat it because dad can't stand waste. He'd eat like anything that's left. I said, let's get it. Let's get the entree size ceviche.

And we'll try and you can try it and she was like okay because as long as it doesn't have coriander spice blue cheese and you went through the list of things she doesn't know which is long and then i saw gnocchi on the menu oh yeah and i said and it said blue cheese gnocchi and i was like the gnocchi dad's like i love gnocchi and i didn't say about the blue cheese and then it got there and i said what they tasted what do you think of that? And they said, that is delicious. I said, do you know what the major flavor taste in that is? Blue cheese. And mum's like,

no. No, it's not. No, it's not. No. No, it's not because I don't like blue cheese. I said, do you not like blue cheese

and you don't like the idea of blue cheese because I think this is most of her problem. It looks gross and smells gross. Yeah. Yeah. And she's like,

no, I don't like blue cheese. I said, well, you just like something that is undoubtedly the most pungent blue cheese flavor dish I've had in a long time. She's acting like a 12-year-old. Yeah, dude, she's shocking.

She's shocking. But anyway, they tried a ceviche. What else did they try? Because a good ceviche raw fish with like soy sauce and... Dude, yeah. Or like a crudo with like a bit of like... What are those? Capers and stuff.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Calder. What is the Polynesian raw fish salad called? Because the ceviche is not. Capaccio is a raw fish. What's one with coconut? Ota Aika, which is a Tongan raw fish salad. Yum.

That's so yum. One that it cooks it in the citrus and the coconut cream. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love raw fish. Yeah, how do you eat it when it in the citrus and the coconut cream. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love raw fish. Yeah, how do you eat it when it's raw? I said, well, technically it's not because the acids in the sauce have cooked it somewhat. But she had a few spoonfuls, so I think she liked it. She was reluctant to admit she liked it because she doesn't want me to turn up at home with a big thing of raw fish.

She'll admit it when you love this. But still, no coriander. And she kept saying that to the people every time we ordered something. I'm just going to confirm, no coriander and she kept saying that to the people every time we ordered something i'm just gonna confirm no curry yeah but i get that because that is a genetic thing for people and it it tastes like um soap yes for a lot of people is the fijian one and that's what we think of yeah good stuff a good coconut curry with fish yum beautiful yeah why are you cooking it though just let it live just let it live in the coconut. Or like swim around in the coconut.

Yeah. Oh, sort of a pre-marinate. Ruthless. Sort of pre-cooking it before it's even dead situation.