Zardnaar
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Not a fan of sweet potatoes, but mom loves them. If she ever goes to NZ, I’ll point out the name change.
Those cheese rolls, though? Looks like a pn “improved“ frilled cheese sandwich with a different presentation. I’d be al over that!
There's several types but they're Polynesian sweet potato. No idea what the difference from US ones are. Kumura quite good in roast veggie salads (tomorrow nights plan).
That towns very close to Southland which is where they come from. Further north you go the rarer they become.
Towns like that are good places to find ye olde traditional tearioms vs xafee as the city ones gave become a bit hipster.
If you're after old school pies, baking, fish and chips etc there's where you find them.
Or you might find a random Indonesian fish and chip shop in a town of 400 people go figure.