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“FEAR AND POUTAMA IN LAS VEGAS”

Article originally uploaded here https://poutama.co.nz/kaitaia-fire/ Author - Garry Sommerville – Ngāpuhi “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold”. (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson) Great first line for a novel, but in our case, not quite true, as the drugs had been working their magic since long before we left San Francisco.  We’d arrived in the Golden Gate City to await a shipment of Kaitaia Fire Chilli Pepper sauces sent by sea from Auckland.  The plan was to clear these through US Customs, load them into...

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