Those exotic foods in the 1960's

Hi there

Way back in the early 1960's we, in New Zealand, were learning about exotic foods.  I remember going into a bakery wth my mother.  She pointed to a cabinet  -

"Two of those bread rolls, please."

The assistant said, "They're not bread rolls.  They're croissants"

Mum and I, we both sniggered.  Someone was having us on, yes?  Silly pretentious shop assistant making up strange names for things. Talk about a rose by any other name still being a rose?  To us at the time, and I think probably to all of NZ, bread rolls were bread rolls, didn't matter what shape they were.

Also, in the 60's, yoghurt suddenly appeared on the shelves.   It was advertised as "an acquired taste".  With snobby noses in the air, we muttered to each other about this acquired taste, and how wonderful yoghurt was once you got over the first face-screwing-up awful mouthful.

And then, The French Bread Shop started up in town, beside James Smith's Department Store.  My mum raced breathlessly home, French loaf under her arm with instructions (from watching a demonstration) on the correct way to cut it and eat it.

Yep,  we were so trendy in the sixties with all our new high-end foods.   Aotearoa was such a gourmet paradise.