Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Dealer's Choice, an oral history from Planet 1994

Jason Kemp

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 18:55:59 +1300

To add to the archive – an interview from 2011 with Peter Fulcher who was mentioned above

Peter Fulcher interview – the last days of Mr Asia

Lofty Miller

Sat, 26 Oct 2019 04:03:11 +1300

What a great read & flash down 'memory lane'! – I found it largely correct but it all depended where & who you were n' knew – Buddah sticks are what changed NZ's pot quality – In 1973, 3 of us paid $17 for each of our first two sticks and there…

Rob S

Fri, 25 Oct 2019 17:36:18 +1300

everyone thought frog tucker n plonk were the bees knees which shows how naive we all were.

Thinking about the alternatives at the time, not much comes up under top food...….
The hungry horse, Tony's steak house? Bonapartes for the Politicians and grandees.

Naïve?. possibly.

Back on track I can…

James George

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 19:43:47 +1300

Fair bit of tosh in there which is unsurprising since I've yet to read any take on kiwi pot in the 70's that wasn't chocka with tosh.
EG I left aotearoa for a coupla decades in january '76, by that time large scale thai sticks (buy a kleensack full containing…

Russell Brown

Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:04:01 +1300

Fascinating story. Sad to realize that 25 years has passed with relatively little change.

Re-reading that whole issue, I had that "not much has changed" feeling more than once.

Joe Boden

Mon, 21 Oct 2019 10:49:41 +1300

Fascinating story. Sad to realize that 25 years has passed with relatively little change.

Public Address

Mon, 21 Oct 2019 10:49:41 +1300

Discussion from blog post.