Nifty!
Some of what she says about American cuisine is slightly overgeneralized. There’s enough Mexican, California-Mex, New Mexican and Tex-Mex seafood out there that I wouldn’t be surprised to find squid tacos SOMEWHERE. Hell, Miami or some of the big fusion cuisine strongholds here probably have then too. But Mexico itself I know for a fact has commercial squid fisheries, and they’re eating them in SOMETHING.
They’re not as common as when I was a kid, but we also have small pancakes here, usually called “dollar” pancakes. That’s it the price, they’re so named because they’re closer in size to (but still larger than) our old silver dollar currency.
I’m pretty familiar with all kinds of hand pies from many world cuisines, which are what you have in NZ. I have to ask, though, is there ANY kind of sweet pie there, hand or otherwise? Mask because pies are among my favorite desserts.