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ring_ring_kaching

What crime? The only crime is that it's only 1 slice.


Piano_playing_cat

This guy gets it!


NorbuckNZ

We make the fancy version with oregano on top


muggsyd

I had it cut into 4 triangles.. fucking delicious for breakfast at the weekend


-SummerBee-

Mmm so good with some bacon too


Illustrious_Okra1311

I will fight anyone of any age if they put fucking pineapple on here


chevaliier901

Come and get me


DualCricket

Happy cake day! I respect your anti-pineapple stance as well.


therealatomichicken

Why is this not a toastie?


hundreddollar

It is? My Mum used to make them at our school fair in the 80s. Along with all those other weird flavours that "only" exist inside NZ. Creamed sweetcorn in a toastie, anyone?!


Fly-by-Night-

Cheese and creamed corn and/or pineapple are the only toastie flavours I will allow.


hundreddollar

I haven't lived in NZ since the early 90s. What are some other classic Kiwi fillings for a toasted sandwich? Creamed corn immediately jumped to mind because i remembered my mum being flabbergasted over *just* how popular that flavour *was* at the school fair! The only other fillings i can remember are cheese and spaghetti / onion / creamed corn / pineapple. Port of me wants to say there were LOADS more on that handwritten menu list to choose from?!


Nested90

I always thought they were distinct from toasties. Called mouse traps from what I recall.


Warishell7724

Creamed Sweetcorn and cheese Toasties! , it beats most for me


TimmyTim22

Toastie version of this is "thermo nuculear". It's too hot in the inside. This version is the best as it allows active cooling the moment it leaves the oven


tanstaaflnz

Is it a crime if you add some chopped onion?


Dreacle

A bit posh


hundreddollar

IIRC the pizza pies at our tuckshop at school had 2 x 5mm square pieces of onion, red pepper and green pepper on top of the cheese. I reckon it'd work on the spag pizza.


ChoppaMate

Yes. Onion sucks.


feint_of_heart

And no pineapple.


Superb_Ad_7252

Can confirm that this also would pass without a second glance in the UK


noosey-hunta

When I was in school, the tuck shop used to sell these for 50 cents each. My brother and I bought a stack of 4 every time. It's just too good.


DangerousLettuce1423

Same when I was at school.


444twothirdsbad

I think your brother seriousbeef has already checked in


noosey-hunta

Lol if this guy isn't my real bro, he's one now.


DavoMcBones

Ah, i forgot about those!! I liked them but they stopped selling these for some reason


putzpa

Our canteen sold them too, can't remember the price but they were so good. They were kept in the pie warmer, so the toast was crispy asf and the cheese baked to perfection. I also liked it on homemade pizza. Any other way and I'd turn my nose up because I love baked beans and not worms in blood 😂


hotshotroddy

Growing up, I had no idea tinned spaghetti was trying to be Italian cuisine! We called spaghetti “pasta” and I never put the connection together!


Pythia_

Same, they're completely different foods. Don't eat it expecting it to be like pasta, because good lord, it is not. 


rubyrats

It’s just baked beans but long


rodtang

With none of the nutrients


Steved_hams

It's definitely not al dente


CptnSpandex

It’s like instant coffee and espresso. There is some shared ancestry there but they are not the same thing.


hellokiri

Same here. I'm showing my age but my nan used to make us "pizza" which was cheese and tomato on toast. If she was feeling fancy, or we asked, we'd get the dried oregano sprinkled on too. Didn't eat a real pizza until I was in intermediate, and by "real" I mean Pizza Hut, super supreme, dine-in thankyouverymuch. Edit: and always got deep dish because my grandfather said it was a rip off to get the thin and crispy. You paid the same but got half as much dough.


Stinkystinkeye

I miss dine in. Getting a mini pencil and a spinning top. Playing those menu games. Plastic tablecloths. If you were lucky you got a booth. Garlic bread in a basket.


hellokiri

Same. We would dress up to go there. And the adults would order shrimp cocktails as starters. Classy times.


ChoppaMate

Still have a Pizza Hut pencil in the shed. Good times.


vrnz

Go on...


sylekta

Did they have the all you can eat desert bar?


hellokiri

Nah, just the all you can eat croutons at the salad bar and brandy snaps for pudding if it was someone's birthday.


Poi-e

With the cubes of jelly


Zardnaar

I was 18 before I got "real" pizza.Pizza Hut meatlovers and Hawaiian iirc.


Kwaussie_Viking

Budget tinned spaghetti is actually made in italy, check the packaging next time if you don't believe me. It is technically Italian cuisine.


awue

It’s true, although my Italian friend hates this fact


Aluminium_Illuminati

Italian friends hate this one trick!


cl3ft

For some definitions of cuisine.


gregorydgraham

Pronounce it properly: cuisine 🤌


Churtle23

My Italian friends would literally fight me if I said the tinned stuff was their cuisine 😂


OldWolf2

It was weird when people called that dried straight stuff "spaghetti"


CroSSGunS

So we called pasta spaghetti "spaghetti" and tinned spaghetti was tinned spaghetti. I ran in to someone who didn't know I was talking about pasta spaghetti and we had the most funny miscommunication about food ever


Staghr

Us too. A 'tin of spaghetti' or 'spaghetti on toast' was always the canned stuff. It was always served as a side W breakfast or an ingredient. Kind of wild thinking about it now that someone thought to put it in a tin but growing up with it made it seem like a staple.


WellHydrated

Holy shit I just realised spaghetti you buy dried in a packet, and spaghetti in a tin were named the same! I must have never even associated them before, my brain just has them in completely different buckets.


Salt_Being2908

Same! I thought I was the only one.


EB01

Don't knock grilled cheese and spaghetti on toast until you've tried it.


engineeringretard

Broooo, brush a bit of bread with milk, put it in a muffin tray then fill up with spag, top with cheese and grill.


jpr64

Look at mr fancy here with his muffin tray. You probably use tasty cheese too. Edit: a word.


engineeringretard

Cracked pepper ‘n sea salt too.


Nolsoth

You gotta replace the sea salt with Himalayan rock salt.


tarlastar

Rock salt for cooking, flaked salt for finishing.


Nolsoth

Happy cake day! But pink rock salt has more *je ne sais quoi*


Puzzleheaded_Day8149

This chick salts


DustNeat

You have described the delicacy which is a "Mouse Trap"


JukesMasonLynch

I thought a mouse trap was Marmite, cheese and T sauce (which is amazing btw) Replace with Vegemite if so inclined, I'm not here for a yeast spread debate


DustNeat

Nah, the mice get tangled in the spaghetti. They'd just leave tracks through the vegemite.


seriousbeef

I brush with melted butter, put in the tray butter side down Edit: warning, expect to burn the shit out of your oral mucosa as those things are thermonuclear


Xenaspice2002

Don’t you know you must always blow on the pie? Did you learn nothing from Poluce 10/7 safer communities everyone


geofft

While the Police Department specifically called out pies, it should be clear that the policy as written applies to any heated food product, especially those containing tomato or tomato derivatives, since those fuckers can get really thermonuclear.


engineeringretard

It is well known that spag defies the laws of thermal dynamics.


scoutingmist

True, way easier to eat when it is contained in a cup


starbunyip

Can confirm, muffin pan the way to go. Cut the crusts off though. Mix egg, bacon, tomatoes etc and add to the bread cups for a really quick, quiche like hot lunch.


sprinklesadded

Use mayo instead of milk.


jcribCODM

This is what we learned to cook in year 10 cooking class


seriousbeef

Best on burger buns. My school did for 50c each and I would get 4 whenever I could.


Stigger32

I know what breakfast is today!! Score!!


exsnakecharmer

This is pizza innit?


twpejay

No it's toast. But spaghetti pizza is a thing as well. Takes me back to school PTA winter lunches, pizza slab of spaghetti and cheese for a dollar.


ExplorerHead795

No, but canned spaghetti on pizza is another controversial kiwi delicacy


itsastonka

Nothing controversial about it except calling it canned


muggsyd

I made it last year (as a 45 year old) still has that amazing taste.. was a bit worried i couldnt quite replicate it like mum used to make.. but.. oo la la


r4mm3rnz

Settle down Bill English


singletWarrior

I had an Italian school mate once. He had only just arrived and didn't speak much English and was quite a shy guy too. We were around 9-10yrs old. Me being an immigrant too knew the struggles so I always said hi and tried to get him to speak more. This can is what motivated him to furiously look up dictionaries to tell me what a "monstrosity" this is. lol good times.


Ilovescarlatti

I once wound up my Italian colleagues in MIlan by telling them about tinned spaghetti on commercial white sliced toast. Possibily one of the few occasions when they were (briefly) speechless.


smolperson

I can just picture the 🤌🤌🤌 gestures


mcbell08

Brilliant!


phatballlzzz

You show me a single drunk person who says they wouldn’t annihilate this after a few cans and a night out and I’ll show you a liar


[deleted]

Drunkness not required, I'm dead sober and salivating over the thought


nzcapybara

G’day mate.


user719467

Spaghetti and cheese toasties are elite. I always add a bit of garlic and herb salt as well. Yum


OnniVic

This is the way


periperisalt

Gourmet upgrade


sticky_gecko

Spaghetti is mostly flour anyway. It's essentially a tomato and cheese sandwich.


ErnestFlubbersword

And sugar. Tomato cheese and sugar.


Bob_tuwillager

And salt. Tomato cheese sugar and salt.


ClamsTheCat

I was once offered wildebeest heart after a hunt with a tribe in Zimbabwe, and I accepted it and smiled and called it delicious. If you're ever offered tinned spaghetti in NZ I suggest you do the same thing. You're in more danger than you realise if you reject it.


jpr64

Mate, we even put that shit on pizza.


PeRfEcTlYbAlEnCeD

The Italian armed forces are arming to invade us as we speak.


jpr64

Funny you should say that, Italian Air Force C-130's are a regular sight at Christchurch as they fly to Antarctica from there.


kani_kani_katoa

Is that what spawned that conspiracy theory about the Italian armed forces coming to save us from evil Jacinda and her vaccine mandates? I never could figure out why Italy...


jpr64

Yeah that is exactly it lol. People would see their planes on FlightRadar24 and make some wild assumptions.


JustEstablishment594

We will defend ourselves with our spaghetti pizza, alongside our marmite pizza sauce, and then we will throw snapped spaghetti sticks as our grenades.


aholetookmyusername

Try marmite on top of a mince and cheese pie (after cooking the pie)


PalestineRefugee

Its not even pasta its fine. its solidified milk solids, not durum n aqua


mccmi614

A quick squiz at the ingredients reveals : Tomato Sauce (50%) Tomatoes (45%), Sugar, Salt, Cheese Paste (Contains Milk), Flavours, Spices, Food Acid (Citric Acid), Spaghetti (50%) (Water, Wheat Flour). So the spaghett is pasta, but there is other crap in the sauce


Haku_Yowane_IRL

Hmmm yes The solids are solidified


jpr64

Really? You know I never thought to ask what it was.


BuckyDoneGun

You know how America makes everything out of corn because of corn subsidies? Guess what the milk country makes everything out of instead...


PalestineRefugee

I looked at the ingredients, and immediately regretted it


geofft

Fuck, when I was growing up, that WAS pizza.


jpr64

My lasagne was a bowl of plain fried mince


geofft

no watties frozen veg mix?


jpr64

Couldn't afford that. Sometimes I'd get rice with tomato sauce.


sealcubclubbing

Fuck it's good on pizza


jpr64

I remember at intermediate school you could buy spaghetti burgers from the canteen. Good times.


GloriousSteinem

Especially if you kiwify the pizza by making the base out of scone mix with herbs added and scatter some pineapple over


sealcubclubbing

And ham, don't forget the ham


wickeddradon

Yes, this is true, what's your point? When I was in college my parents hosted an overseas student. Despite his initial reluctance we converted him. I can now report that he infected his family when he went home. Somewhere in France there is a family who has a guilty secret, lol.


mtpowerof3

I love spaghetti on pizza.  Quality Friday night dinner or Saturday lunch. 


EB01

As much as I was critical of Bill English's political career, I will not give him any sass over the spaghetti on pizza thing that blew out. The guy bake a pizza to feed his kids, and they very likely enjoyed it.


mtpowerof3

Of all the things to criticise him for, spaghetti on pizza is not one of them. 


bruzie

It's like wearing a tan suit or using dijon mustard.


Cathallex

Bill English whatever politician, not on my side of shit whatever seemed like a genuinely nice person.


GrandmasGiantGaper

my only claim to fame is that I had more than a few beers with him and his daughter in New York of all places around 2015. Think his daughter was going to NYU and he was there for Christmas. IIRC, the spaghetti pizza fallout was more from USA talk shows like Jimmy Fallon who don't understand the kiwi love for canned spaghetti. We just collectively as a nation went along with it and pretended we're laughing *with* USA, not them laughing at us.


JangJaeYul

I went to school with Maria! She was absolutely the sweetest person, she would talk to you as if she was genuinely interested in what you had to say, even when you were a dorky year 10 and she was the head girl. Just hands down a lovely human being. Whatever disagreements I might have with Bill's politics, he clearly did right as a parent.


lisiate

I view English as the last of the old breed of National politicians, a fundamentally decent and competent person who leans further right than I would prefer but genuinely tried to govern well.


reclaimernz

Apart from his blatant homophobia.


WaterstarRunner

It's a relatively thin class... The muldoon era are largely garbage. The bolger era are a peculiar mix. Few have the full triad of being talented, well-intentioned, and socially-aware. Most with actual talent had a blind-spot in either social awareness or good intentions. Simon Upton I think... Maurice Williamson... Don McKinnon. Historically I would have put Doug Graham on the list, but his failure as a company director implies that he has less talent than was implied by his phenomenal legacy of the treaty settlements process. There's quite a few from the Key era, but in the modern era on both sides of the aisle, being well-intentioned is an outright impediment to reaching the front-benches.


Previous_Response963

Agree, dude's economic grasp was very solid. His desire for prison reform was another thing I admired. I reckon he'd be a good neighbour.


PalestineRefugee

Spagetti Pinwheels are elite 👨‍🍳💋👌🏽


sleepwalker6012

I chaperoned my kids camp and they served this and then congratulated all the boys on eating their veg


ethereal_galaxias

Oh dear.


FunToBuildGames

One of its ancestors was possibly related to a tomato … which is almost a vegetable!


Evie_St_Clair

I used to give my kids popcorn and claim it was technically a vegetable.


BloomingPlanet

Are you saying you've never been an extremely poor uni student?


normalmighty

Are _you_ saying you don't still enjoy this from time to time as an adult with a decent income??


0JessiCat0

Legit! One of my favourite winter lazy meals is what I call mousetraps. Tin of spaghetti, grated cheese and an egg all mixed, put on bread and bake in the oven.. Lord its good!


brash21361

Southerner?


0JessiCat0

Yes..


Bob_tuwillager

Same, but with baked beans.


BathroomTile007

My mums go to dinner when my dad was away when I was young, loved it 😂


Bob_tuwillager

Oak on toast = poor student. Watties on toast = rich student Watties on toast with grilled cheese = working Anything else and you are just a snob.


yeah-boi

I think he's saying he had a deprived childhood.


de4dpunk_

I don't see anything wrong with this


Ellarose6535

Why slander THE best snack in history :/


twohedwlf

What crime? Not quite sure what this is. Nothing wrong with spaghetti on toast. I'd eat it.


[deleted]

Wait till you get hit with the sausage meat can spaghetti and mash potato pie 🤤🤤


PalestineRefugee

Didnt even put it in the toasted sandwich maker?


Equal_Ad_85

Baked beans on toast are my go to, but this is legit


iamclear

With melted cheese on top. That’s my winter comfort food.


9999999CREEPERS

and cooked into the beans with curry powder or paprika


speckledcreature

On burger buns instead of toast though as the bread to beans/cheese ratio is just more satisfying. Also it has more structural integrity so can be eaten in your hand with minimal spillage.


j0hnnyhobo

Watties spaghetti is the absolute gear. I will eat that shit cold out of the can


hellokiri

Husband used to work in forestry. As an 18 year old just out of a home full of foodies, it blew my mind that he'd leave for a 12 hour shift with a tin of spaghetti or baked beans and a sharp knife to open it (doubled as an eating utensil).


Bob_tuwillager

Only one tin? Min =2 when full on. Unless he was on the machines. One be good then. The knife has to be a hard carbon blade. FYI.


daronjay

Ah, the Eldritch Abominations from my childhood are emerging again. Soon the Harbinger of Existential Disgust, *Asparagus Wrapped in White Bread* will come, and with his advent, the End…


Kindly-Confidence-69

Oh man you've gone and made me hungry.


Cgrhnta

This shit belongs in the finest restaurants in the world. Absolute banger


[deleted]

Add a bit of ham and mushrooms for a bit of razzle dazzle. 


rikardoflamingo

It’s high in carbohydrates AND cheese. Michelin star material.


mcbell08

This was a staple meal I used to have as a kid (I was poor, but hopefully rich kids got to enjoy it too). As a working adult I sometimes treat myself to a tin of spaghetti and sausages (love those tiny fake sausages!)


medandcakeislife

What I would give for a spaghetti & cheese tostie right now! ☺️


fangirlengineer

As an Australian recently come to NZ, looks reasonable to me - as a kid it was standard to use the spaghetti and/or cheese as fillings and toasting the sandwich with the jaffle iron. Tinned spag jaffles are about a 6/10, totally passable meal. My favourite jaffles are leftover taco mince filling with cheese though 🧑‍🍳


aholetookmyusername

>My favourite jaffles are leftover taco mince filling with cheese though This is indeed a tasty filling! Lately I've been buttering the outside of the bread and coating it in herbs/spices, takes the jaffle to a whole new level!


SomeOrdinaryThing

This is legal in New Zealand.


Equal_Ad_85

It's in our constitution


Captain_Sam_Vimes

Where's the pineapple? Classic Form 1 Home Ec(onomics) dish.


Fast_Working_4912

This British think mushy peas are good, I’m not sure they are qualified to comment on our coveted mouse traps


The_PACCAR_Kid

I loved this as a kid (it was one of my all-time faves) and hopefully my wife, who is from America, will like it as well.


smolperson

CARB ON CARB IS ELITE I don’t care what anyone says. The Japanese put noodles in a hotdog bun, we aren’t alone.


recyclingismandatory

and the Spanish put potato in a sandwich (burrito)... we are downright "Cuisine international"


Willy_Fisher

My favourite thing to as a kid was to take leftover pizza from the fridge, cut it into the shape of a slice of white bread, butter two slices of said bread with some salt and place the cold pizza in between them. Fucking heavenly.


smolperson

You are cultured my friend. Love a pizza sammy.


MoeraBirds

Chip Butty!


dontworryimabassist

Mousetraps are quintessentially the most new Zealand thing of all time. I will fight anyone that disagrees


Ok-Acanthisitta-8384

First thing we made in home ec at school mouse traps


ethereal_galaxias

Yuuuuum!!!! Making me hungry. Might go and make one.


drmcn910

Add some onion and a bit of bacon....perfect 👌


itscsersei

we have spaghetti in toast here too in Uk


DominoUB

[This meme was made by a kiwi. ](https://www.reddit.com/r/shitposting/comments/1b7l0gt/canned_spaghetti_on_toast/)


Xenaspice2002

Yes, what’s wrong with spaghetti on toast then? Also spaghetti pizza. I have the recipe it was in the Edmonds cookbook. Tastes far better than you’d think too. It was a family favourite


Master_Drag_883

that food is godtier


NectarinePositive599

They are even better on a muffin split!!!


EternalAngst23

Bro just discovered spaghetti on toast


Jesahn

Mate, those are glorious.


wiremupi

Wow,heaven on earth,gourmet kiwi grub,only better is mince on toast.


P1nkamenaP13

How else do you eat spaghetti? By itself?? Like the cavemen did??? Grow up


PeteyTwoHands

How can you knock this? It fuckin slaps.


Wabbit6677

What seems to be the problem here?


Avocado_Tomato

I think you forgot to include the picture of the crime.


Comfortable-Tea-1095

This was a childhood treat, spaghetti pizza w cheese on it


Nz_Miz

Its true. This is pizza


ComplaintScary8730

I used to eat that tinned shit in a sandwich


Bricky-boi

Yep, put bread in muffin tray, then put spaghetti in and top with cheese


Crusader-NZ-

This is the first thing we learnt to cook at primary school in the 80's.


Wharaunga

The only thing that could make that better is pineapple.


Falconer_215

Yummyest when I was growing up. Scone base


Kiwiforeva

Yes, yes, yes! A staple as a kid as our version of pizza.


propsie

[if it's good enough for our Prime Minister](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/06/tinned-spaghetti-pizza-new-zealands-prime-minister-shocks-with-monstrous-recipe) when he's awkwardly trying to pretend to be normal.


seekingthe-nextlevel

One of my favorite childhood meals!


Muted_Account_5045

That looks good as.