> Butt of a thousand jokes in Australia, let me tell you...

At the Kiwi House, I encountered another rivalry joke, favoring NZ of course. There was a map of New Zealand, with a disproportionately small map of Australia next to it. It was labeled "West Island." That struck me as hilarious. "That joke doesn't go over so well over there," Puck told me.

> > "What is this thing?" I asked Brunnen-G. "Beetroot." "What's beetroot? Same as a beet?"
>
> The plant it comes from is a beet, and the part of the plant it comes from is the root; so it's beetroot.
> Simple.

Ok. Well, I also scraped off the onionroot, but the chips were made out of some really nice potatoroots.

> I had a can of "Creaming Soda,"
>
> You don't have Creaming Soda in America?

I should have been clearer. We do, but we just call it "Cream Soda."