Observations from a Canadian visiting New Zealand:

Cat

@sundogplanets I'm pretty sure I've run into the Kākā at the nightclub*

*alt txt may have missed the part where they become "confident" in "breeding season"

Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝

@sundogplanets I really enjoyed the signs in NZ when I visited 25 years ago. This was a personal favorite.

Steveg58

@sundogplanets
The do not swim here posters at Napier are also fun. We didn't see the tsunami posters there but we did as Kaikoura.

primalmotion

@Sylvhem @sundogplanets careful. the big bird will big beak you with its big bite

Moz

@coffee2Di4 @sundogplanets the bugger ads, and the Barry Crump ones are also worth while.

Moz

@sundogplanets I'm still sad that DOC removed the platform with "do not jump from this platform" engraved in it from the side of the Pelorus River Bridge (near Nelson). Likely because the swimming hole beneath it filled up with gravel.

The Department of Conservation has the best signs.

Prof. Sam Lawler

Maybe I am just really tired (ok yeah I'm definitely really tired) but learning that the options for mustard in a NZ grocery store are "hot English" or "mild American" made me giggle uncontrollably in the middle of a grocery store aisle

Phil

@sundogplanets They used to stock "overpowering American" but people's sandwiches kept trolling shoppers on Twitter and trying to get all the other condiments in the fridge deported to Australia.

Hanna

@sundogplanets Where is the winy mustard from France, NZ?!?

bamfic

@sundogplanets New York style mustard is mild? I think not.

New York mustard, last I remember it, was Gulden's brown mustard with horseradish. You put it on your hot dog or pretzel from the cart on the street and you can *taste* it.

Midwestern or California mustard is the yellow tasteless American stuff.

Randulo.com (Randy)

@sundogplanets Go Dijon!

Johanna, CanCon variant

@sundogplanets

Sooo… “Mustard” vs. “Turmeric coloured vinegar paste”?

MikeH

@sundogplanets By the time you've read that last one it's probably too late.

MikeH

@sundogplanets Us English are certainly hot.

T. Mohammad from Gaza

@sundogplanets Exhaustion really does make the simplest things incredibly funny.
“Hot English” and “Mild American” sound more like personality types than mustard!
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Alfred Chow - Maker of Things

@sundogplanets
First glance at the image, I thought it said 'Not English'.

Petra van Cronenburg

@sundogplanets Also giggles from France! 🤭

Carey

@HannaEsmeralda_ @sundogplanets We have a few different brands of “Dijon” mustard in most shops as well

Corb_The_Lesser

@sundogplanets The Heinz is in the "hot dog/yellow mustard" category here in the US and would be sitting on the shelf next to different brands of "Spicy Brown", "Dijon", "Stone Ground", "deli", etc., alongside boutique brands with all sorts of weird flavorings.

Coleman's is usually available for people who want that "hot English" taste. As far as I remember, the "hot" comes from horse radish, which would be an unwelcome surprise to most Americans.

D Ingram

@sundogplanets Try Pak'N'Save or Woolies rather than New World. There are more options out there.

Wandering Adventure Party

Observations from a Canadian visiting New Zealand: