'Citrusy aroma': how feijoas baffled a New Zealand immigrant – and polarise a nation

When Polish-born Hania do inquired about the strange avocado-like fruit, she was met with a mixture of indignation, hostility ... and sympathy

When Hania do, a new arrival in New Zealand, asked an innocent question about an unfamiliar fruit, she was not to know that she was undermining a national treasure.

As a registered nurse, do and her husband, an anaesthetic technician, had both been granted critical purpose" visas to take up jobs at Dunedin hospital. After landing in Auckland from the UK in late March, they were sent with their two children to the Crowne Plaza hotel for two weeks' mandatory quarantine.