Now the Maoris want their kumaras back

[Wasp]

fine by me, i dont like kumara

[dawnrazor]

sweet potatoes....problem solved.....what is this kumara of which you speak?

[vifferman]

Contact the South AMurkns - they'll probably want to exercise a claim against the Maori to the kumara, since it came from there originally.

[judecatmad]

We want our KFC, Our Marijuana and our Holdens back.

And our benefits system....

Well there's certainly enough Poms in the country to have a second crack, but we all know the brits are a lazy bunch of pricks and they'll stop every 5 mins for a cup-o-tea and a moan about something.

We don't want to kill them either. They're good for Tourism.

Yeah, but if we were model citizens then what would YOU whinge about, Finn?

[LilSel]

omg.... .... *shakes head*... Its a... kumara for shits sake...

[roogazza]

They've just about had their fill ! It's all down hill from here !!!!!!

We'll have to have, not just waitangi day, but, china day,indian day,arab day !
What about having New Zealand day ? can't be that far away ? Gaz.

[The_Dover]

Can we have our fucking white man subwoofers back as well you cunts?

then we wont have to listen to the fuckin papakura jungle telegraph at full noise.

[Motu]

What a crock. I've just been reading the penguin history of NZ, and the kumaras that the original eastern polynesians (whos descendants became the maoris) brought with them were much smaller and a totally different variety anyway.

True,and if you read the article those are the ones the Maori are talking about,the pre European kumara,not the Owairaka red.I am happy if they want to keep an old strain of vegetable going.

It's a shame Maori no longer garden,the old people always had a big vege garden,and different varieties were passed down,and around.A couple of years ago I pulled into a friends place in the Naki late on a winter evening,on the bike.She knew I was coming and she gave me a plate of purple potatoes! They were a strain in her family that she recently got from an uncle,she thought they had been lost.They look and taste like an ordinary potatoe,but inside they are purple.I might see if she has kept them going,maybe I can grow some myself,and keep them active....if she doesn't mind them going out of the tribe.

The fruit and veges you buy in the supermarket are varieties that produce and sell well,the bottom line is always money.But there is an underground culture of unimproved seed,original settlers stock.

[Dai]

omg.... .... *shakes head*... Its a... kumara for shits sake...

Gone way past that.

Its a principle now.

When does the line get drawn?

When does all this crap finish?

For how much longer do the demands of the few take precednce over the wishes of the majority?

When do the tree hugging do gooders stop kissing arse and realise that you cant fix everything with a kiss, a hug and a few hundred million dollars?

There are very few places left in this world where there is an indigenous race of people. What we do have is a population that settled an area at an earlier time than those who came later.

Time for a revolution of some kind that will put an end to all this crap otherwise my great grandchildren will still be held responsible for the actions or inaction of my great great granparents.

[Jimmy B]

She knew I was coming and she gave me a plate of purple potatoes! They were a strain in her family that she recently got from an uncle,she thought they had been lost.They look and taste like an ordinary potatoe,but inside they are purple.I might see if she has kept them going,maybe I can grow some myself,and keep them active....if she doesn't mind them going out of the tribe.

Seen them and eaten them in a downtown Auckland Restaurant, maybe Kermadec from memory. They must be around, tasted pretty good too from memory if not a little weird to look at

[Swoop]

The group says the Crown breached the treaty by failing to preserve pre-European kumara varieties, and deliberately allowed the last remaining stocks to be lost to overseas collections.

The scary part is the fact that there are people out there who COLLECT potatos!!!!!!
*shudder*

[Finn]

It's a shame Maori no longer garden

They do up North. It's a billion dollar industry.

[LilSel]

Gone way past that.

Its a principle now.

otherwise my great grandchildren will still be held responsible for the actions or inaction of my great great granparents.

yup... cant everyone just get along n share a vege (sounds like its $$$ orientated)... next thing some other race (euro) will try claim oranges or apples or somthin cuz that variety of fruit was bought here on a ship from some other country when they came here over a hundered years or so ago... my sister grows potatoes in her garden... does she have to pay a commission to the pple that introduced them??...

watch it turn political....

[MisterD]

Seen them and eaten them in a downtown Auckland Restaurant, maybe Kermadec from memory. They must be around, tasted pretty good too from memory if not a little weird to look at

Had them at Bowmans in Mt Eden, tasted ok but I was sick as next morning...nothing to do with the amount of red wine, no sir.

[SPman]

Fuck them.

We want out missionaries back too!!

Oh no we f**king don't!