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Coast Guard show from NZ last night

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 3:22 pm
by mxysxy
Last night I was watching the “Coast Guardâ€

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 3:48 pm
by wild_flower
yeah, we call em abalone here. they had some New Zealanders caught last time on that show and apperently its worth like $10 each so those couple of hundreds that u saw last night, would brought them a few grand.

but man, there are really tasty! :wink:

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:48 pm
by afterburner
Well it sure as hell wasn't me!

You're thinking of Paua - a native shellfish of this country.

You shouldn't really be surprised to see an FTO on a NZ TV programme - there's hundreds of the bloody things over here!

And you guys must be getting really desperate for quality TV if you're buying our TV shows - do you get Shortland St at all, quality drama that it is?

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:51 pm
by FTO338
Anything is quality compare to Big Brother :roll:

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:18 pm
by sunraider
haha.. i saw that episode too.. thr poor buggers were lucky that they hid that last stash so well in the water, because they would have all been fined for sure.

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:58 pm
by onnzo
It's called abalone here and its an asian delicacy. Sells for hundreds a kilo (dried). Paua is the Kiwi term for it.

I was watching a few episodes a go and the people were hiding them in their engine bays :)

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 3:46 pm
by AJ
Yeah, I saw this too at the gym so there wasn't any sound but the FTO was in it a few times.

Also last night I was watching that NZ highway patrol show and as the cop was going to the Mitsi 4x4 on fire, he passed a silver FTO. I've got good eyes. 8O