Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily. Today on The Spinoff: we unpack the Waitangi Tribunal’s report on the Treaty Principles Bill, the Ministry of Health’s delayed ‘evidence brief’ on puberty blockers and TVNZ’s teaser for the new season of Celebrity Treasure Island.
Hayden Donnell: “In a post on Facebook last week, a father said his partner had been denied a Milo and toast after giving birth at a Wellington hospital. An email seen by RNZ from hospital services general manager Shane King said he’d cut off the hospital’s bread supply over a $1.5 million overrun on its food budget. He also cited nutritional concerns for new mothers. Neither option is great. Either our health system is so skint it can’t give two pieces of bread to someone who has pushed a human out of their body, or so paternalistic it’s policing the diets of people who’ve just spent hours in labour. More than that, it’s denying what many believe to be the most profound culinary experience you can have involving toast, and probably food overall. It’s that latter crime The Spinoff is most qualified to assess. Is it possible to find a toast context better than ‘just after giving birth’? What is the best toast a person can have? Behold: rankings.”
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The best times and places to eat toast, ranked
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