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« on: December 30, 2011, 22:03:15 PM » |
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Just wondering what goods you can't get (or are very expensive to get) that you really miss from back home?  |
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✈ Elle ☀
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« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2011, 22:22:25 PM » |
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You can get most things now... but stuff that we buy when we fly back... or get people to bring for us are:
Fray Bentos
Marmite
Mature / vintage Cheddar
Cheshire cheese
Big squeezy bottles of Salad Cream
Lyons sticky ginger cake
Teabags (they're just expensive here... or rubbish)
That's just our list... but other people will have their lists too.
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smokie
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« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2011, 22:52:05 PM » |
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You can get most things now... but stuff that we buy when we fly back... or get people to bring for us are:
Fray Bentos
Marmite
Mature / vintage Cheddar
Cheshire cheese
Big squeezy bottles of Salad Cream
Lyons sticky ginger cake
Teabags (they're just expensive here... or rubbish)
That's just our list... but other people will have their lists too.
You can get Cheshire cheese in Macy's but I've no idea about the price. Somewhere does sell squeezy bottles of salad cream but I can't remember where we got it. The most obvious one, for me at least, is the big tins of Quality Street. At Christmas in the UK you can get two for nine or ten quid, this year they were ONLY 8.95€ at Gangas. However, that's about a fiver cheaper than over the last few years so it's moving in the right direction. |
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✈ Elle ☀
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« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2011, 23:22:39 PM » |
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Ah... didn't know about the Cheshire cheese at Maceys... so that's handy to know. I actually had some problems finding it in Blighty... but found it in Waitrose in the end. www.maceyslanzarote.com if anyone wants to know more. It's run by the lovely Sue & Geoff and is named after one of their spaniels. |
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smokie
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« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2011, 23:25:27 PM » |
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Did you hear about Geoff being on the radio (Buzz FM)for being a hero.
Somebody on their way home from a night out managed to mislay their wallet and Geoff found it and got it back to the lucky owner.
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jude
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« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2011, 23:26:36 PM » |
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ooo oooo good thread!!  asda earl grey tea bags simple facial miosturiser impulse body spray marks and spencers knickers marks and spencers dine in for two bassets licorice allsorts midget gems good chocolate AND THE WHOLE OF PRIMARK!!!!!! ...................... actually just realised i'm doing a shopping list here lol most things are available and we learn to 'get by' without them but if family and good friends ask for wish lists then we go for it!! lol  |
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John B
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« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2011, 23:43:41 PM » |
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Swedes
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Ethans-dad
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« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2011, 23:47:35 PM » |
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Swedes
Shouldn't that be Polish |
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smokie
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« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2011, 23:56:28 PM » |
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It t Shouldn't that be Polish It tickled me a few years ago when all the ranty papers were ranting about London being overrun with Polish plumbers. They wouldn't shut up about it all the way through the long summer drought. So who needs a surfeit of any sort of plumber when there's no water. |
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John B
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« Reply #9 on: December 31, 2011, 08:21:45 AM » |
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Swedes
Shouldn't that be Polish What sort of polish do you put in a casserole, then? |
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Clanky
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« Reply #10 on: December 31, 2011, 08:22:23 AM » |
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Beer, real beer rather than pissy Spanish (or Englich) lager.
You can get most of the things you are used to having at home, but you may end up paying silly money for them, it always amazes me to watch people pay €2.50 for a tub of English branded margarine rather tham €1.50 for Tulipan, it's all the same sh*t.
To be honest if you are planning to make the move i would recommend going native as much as you can.
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elp
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« Reply #11 on: December 31, 2011, 10:24:41 AM » |
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Am  because most replies are food and drink related!!! Does that say something about the waistlines of the people on this forum?! If so, I am going to be at home here!!!....what about household goods? I hear furniture is very expensive? Your thoughts guys and girls (even if it is still on the food and drink theme!). |
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✈ Elle ☀
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« Reply #12 on: December 31, 2011, 10:50:25 AM » |
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Yeah - furniture is pricy. There is IKEA and a few independants... but I know some people who get stuff shipped in from the UK. Depends on what you want really. And yeah - most of us love our food! |
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John B
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« Reply #13 on: December 31, 2011, 11:28:44 AM » |
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Elp, I see now, your OP asked about things you couldn't get, or were pricey, but I just looked at the thread title, not the OP, and that just says "can't get". If you include what's pricey, then most things including food, furniture, tools and clothes, but not drink, plumbing hardware and petrol.
I've never found swedes - so can't get.
Particular things I like that are pricey- Abbott Ale (and then not in draught), Quorn mince, Cadbury's chocolate, Marmite, cottage cheese, Greek yoghurt.
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smokie
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« Reply #14 on: December 31, 2011, 12:20:02 PM » |
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ooo oooo good thread!! asda earl grey tea bags simple facial miosturiser impulse body spray marks and spencers knickers marks and spencers dine in for two bassets licorice allsorts midget gems good chocolate AND THE WHOLE OF PRIMARK!!!!!! ...................... actually just realised i'm doing a shopping list here lol most things are available and we learn to 'get by' without them but if family and good friends ask for wish lists then we go for it!! lol Bassets Liquorice Allsorts are now available in some of the supermarkets, but again, I don't know if this is on the list as very expensive. |
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