Traditional?

 I was just perusing the New Zealand "news" sites and I came across an advertisement that was promoting herbs and spices.

Fair enough but the ad' claimed that you create a "traditional" New Zealand roast by taking (a hunk of) lamb and infusing it with herbs and spices before and during cooking.

Actually they called it a "traditional kiwi roast" but New Zealand has no tradition of roasting kiwis and, as the kiwi is a nocturnal, flightless bird of the not very bright type I doubt they use fire (or electricity) in preparing their roots and leaves and so that is wrong as well.

 All of that is wrong.

A "traditional" New Zealand roast is made by taking a hunk of dead sheep, more often than not hogget and throwing (almost literally) it in the oven in a bath of rendered animal fat for a couple of hours until all life and taste has been burned out of it.

Some fancy the roast up with parsnips, peeled hunks of spud, even, god-forbid, bloody awful tasting orange stuff but that is it.

It is not the grossly overcooked sheep meat I'm complaining about (although most genuine eaters do) but the bullshit use of the word "traditional".