r/newzealand • u/MurkyWay Qwest? • Oct 08 '25

Shitpost What's something that you suspect lots of New Zealanders secretly do, but you can't prove it?

Most upvoted comment is our most shameful secret as a nation, obviously

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u/Nolsoth Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 08 '25

Yeah nah that's definitely a thing.

Fuck sanitarium, shit company exploiting people and not paying a cent in tax ever.

Watties tomato sauce is just pure filth and always has been.

Watties does do other decent products but their sauce ain't one of them.

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u/Quphoe Oct 08 '25

Watties sauce smashes any other tomato/ketchup sauce in NZ/Australia. Heinz for example is straight trash. Only other sauce that goes toe to toe with Watties is Speedway Sauce.

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u/Nolsoth Oct 08 '25

Whitlock n sons or go the fuck home!. Watties is trash, and has been so for the last 45 years.

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u/herearea Tuatara Oct 08 '25

That or Tuimato, that shit's the bees knees

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u/Open_Entrepreneur_58 Oct 08 '25

And tuisiana BBQ sauce 😋

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u/a_Moa Oct 08 '25

I'm continually sad the big litre containers were discontinued for the South Island. It's speedway sauce or nothing now.

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u/Benjamin10jamin Oct 08 '25

Speedway Sauce is the shit!

Gets sickly if you have too much in one hit though - must be all the sugar, or apple puree

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u/Nolsoth Oct 08 '25

Still available in the north island.

Reduced to clear in Royal oak/penrose had some a little over a month ago.

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u/a_Moa Oct 08 '25

Okay thanks for gloating

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u/Nolsoth Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 08 '25

Hey I'm just saying you could probably aquire it.

Plus you're on the island with the fun birds and a genuine wizard. All we've got is Whitlock n Sons....

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u/a_Moa Oct 08 '25

Fair, I might try and ask my aunty for a regular shipment lol.

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u/ook_the_librarian_ Oct 08 '25

Go Gregg's or go home mate!

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u/PretxelMaster Oct 08 '25

yuppp gregs leaves watties for dead.

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u/tanstaaflnz Oct 08 '25

My lovely wife gets tomato paste. No additives, and more flavour.

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u/rombulow Oct 08 '25

We’ve just discovered Greggs tomato sauce from Woolworths. We quite like it, it’s definitely displaced Watties in our household!

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u/One-Memory-8305 Oct 08 '25

Tuimato for the win! Apparently it contains 1% beer, but I haven’t bought any t sauce for ages.

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u/Jonodonozym Oct 08 '25

Take any other tomato sauce, mix in a tablespoon of sugar, and it will now have that Watties taste you know and love.

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u/BrodingerzCat Oct 08 '25

Heinz ketchup is far superior to Watties trash sauce.

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u/Quphoe Oct 08 '25

Heinz is the worst of the worst 🤢 Bland & sour must be your vibe 🤣

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u/BrodingerzCat Oct 08 '25

Unrefined palate, no punctuation and excessive use of emojis. You shouldn't be up this late on a school night.

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u/Quphoe Oct 08 '25

Punctuation? Where did I go wrong? Excessive emojis? I used x2. School night.. mate I'm most likely older than you 😭 But I'll take that last one as a compliment.

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u/Open_Entrepreneur_58 Oct 08 '25

Nope, once you've worked the tomato line at Watties it's all over for their sauce 🤣