Poll: Do you think that the brilliant dessert The Pavlova belongs to the Kiwis or Aussies?

I had pav for pudding tonight lol. I'm an Aussie but I'll say New Zealand lol.

It's named after a ballerina because her dancing was 'light' like a pavlova. She was Russian.

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I'm an Aussie, not a "bloody" one either thank you. It looks to me like it would be from NZ. Below is an excerpt from the Wiki.

I am never disrespectful to New Zealanders, and I would appreciate it if you could return the favor please.

"Some sources say the recipe originated in New Zealand, while others claim it was invented in Australia. However, like the Anzac biscuit, the earliest known books containing the recipe were published in New Zealand.

Professor Helen Leach, a culinary anthropologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand found a pavlova recipe in a 1933 Rangiora Mothers' Union cookery book.[1] Professor Leach also has an even earlier copy of the pavlova recipe from a 1929 rural New Zealand magazine.[1]

Keith Money, a biographer of Anna Pavlova, wrote that a chef at a hotel in Wellington, New Zealand, created the dish when Pavlova visited there in 1926 on her world tour.

The claim that it was an Australian invention states that the pavlova is based on a cake baked by Bert Sachse at the Esplanade Hotel in Perth on 3 October 1935. Sachse's descendants believe he may have come up with the recipe earlier than that, since Anna Pavlova visited Australia in 1926 and 1929 and died in 1931."

Dude its so silly - look at the spelling of the word, pronouce it as well.

Does it sound English to you? It dont to me. Sounds Russian to me - so I'm going to say its proberly not either........

Oh yeah I dont care where its from just as long as I can always get it here - NZ

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Its from Australia! Along with the lamingtons..

LOL i'm with you paulie, they steal everything from us, that pav is ours for sure!!! :) *fellow kiwi* :)