Kumara, taro, rotten corn, pork and puha boil up are traditonal maori food
Meat cooked hangi style in earth ovens.
Kaimoana too, i.e seafood...kina, crayfish, eel, whitebait, cockles, pipi, toheroa, greenlip mussels
Though everyone took to potatoes..as the crop can keep better than kumara in a cooler climate.
Lamb is also a staple meat. Though beef is eaten, we dont eat nearly as much ground beef as americans do. And its not burgers its more in meat pies and sausages.
fish and chips...now am hungry...