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Are we creatures of habit lol?


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No, Liz, not really. I think we are a very, very adaptable nation (think of the folks who built our Empire!) but we are just used to good, honest, tasty food that does not make us ill.

Back bacon, sausages and tea bags.Brought self-raising flour back with me for nearly 20 years then I discovered that all the Asian supermarkets sell it here!

I noticed a couple of people said sausages and bacon. I thought that these days you were not allowed to take those items into EU countries. With my luck the sniffer dogs would smell them out. They have them in the check in queues now sniffing around luggage.

I would miss bisto and marmite. fortunately where we stay in Tenerife there is a supermarket that has a British section and a German section (German cherry jam is lovely). You have to be lucky as they have one lot of stuff in, sell out then ages before another lot.

edited to correct finger trouble!!

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Ann do you have to chase the cherries round the jar lol

I am just saying what do you miss, never mind whether you could take it with you lol

Mac, trust you!

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Hi Liz
i miss my hollands meat pies,Lurpak butter,oxo grandels dont make them any more,Jelly babies,pork pies,cornish pasties
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Dutch, you have pinched my cornish. Hi Liz I would miss cornish pasty and pork pies, Liquorish allsorts and coconut mushrooms, yummy. I would also want to be where I could buy Frys Turkish Delight or I'm not going.

Caz xx

i would miss my favorite tea bags

Frys turkish delight--any supermarket in Ayia Napa will have it (strange-but whatever!)
What I really miss is smoked haddock and real kippers--so I pig out on them when I'm back -can't pack them in suitcase to bring a whole lot through ,(can you imagine a delayed/lost suitcase half full of smoked haddock?)

Mince and tatties (honest)

When I lived in Italy I had Walkers crisps and PG Tips posted out to me weekly.... crisps were usually mashed but still yummy!!

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We lived in West Australia for a while and I missed English sausages. I hated the ones there - sure they were made of kangaroo! My young son missed fish fingers, theirs were nothing like ours here in England.

tesco's ready salted chipsticks lol

Liz - strange you mention what you miss in Malta.
I lived there as a very young child and was given some 'black' bread - so much nicer than the sliced 'Mother's Pride' we used to eat!!
As soon as I could walk & talk, I would get up early and knock on the (Maltese) neighbours door asking (in Maltese) for 'black' bread. Moved to Scotland when I was 4. I have longed for it for over 45 years.

In June this year my sister & I, our children, their partners and their children all went to Tuscany on holiday. My eldest's partner is a chef and when he saw the pizza oven in the wall outside he was in 7th heaven. The first thing he did was make bread - and it turned out just like 'black' bread!! I was in 7th heaven then! It was gorgeous.
Now all I need is some Italian flour and a wood oven...................

Evening Liz,

When out in Oz i so missed Oxos and good old British Choccies.

Hope you are well.

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We lived in Moscow in the mid 60s.
We really missed fresh fruit and veg in the winter months. There was a little shop in the British Embassy and that did its best and there was a Diplomatic shop in the city for foreigners and high ranking communist party members but that sold jars of things like Bulgarian preserved fruits........ and the fresh fish were still swimming in a tank.

I'd miss Marmite and brown sauce too if I were abroad. I also like my real loose leaf tea.

Sue
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Live In Germany and really miss things like sausage and cheshire cheese, make sure I get basic things in like Sarsons vinegar and bisto gravy granules.
It has got better here though, and we have a few British shops where we can stock up on things, cost 2 - 3 times the price but it worth it :O) especially for things like mincemeat at Christmas :O))

Julie there is quite a good shops in Düsseldorf that does mail order goods you can even have things like sausage, cheese and pork pies sent out to you.......

My friend takes lots of stuff back to Germany.

Maggie, where did you live in Malta?
When you say black bread, was it white bread in an unsliced loaf but with a black burnt crust? I mainly get authentic Maltese food etc when we visit my son's grandmother, she is very traditional as is her daughter who still lives with her. We had the little marrows that she cooks in a soup, they looked like dumplings but were little marrows and sometimes she will serve them with a main meal or seperately as a starter or snack, or in with the soup. My favourite things are the cheesecakes, first thing my son and I went to get when we were there.
I love their mince and pasta meal, baked macaroni or baked rice or timpana and also beef olives. Lampuka is great and the swordfish - oh am making myself hungry just thinking about it all, it's a year ago since we were just home from there.
Sorry, I digressed but you got me thinking then Maggie, lol

Lizxx

Oh, we are off on cheesecakes again!!
Oh, those cheesecakes! One day, Liz, one day I WILL have a go at making them - and might inflict one on you.
Now you have reminded me, I haven't made timpana for ages - yum, I will get cracking on that. And those lovely meaty fish dishes; we used to have fish sellers coming to the door, and we used to let down the basket from the balcony - just like everyone else.
For some reason I can't really remember much about the bread out there. I have a feeling Mum used to make most of ours, but of course, we did have the NAAFI.
The one thing which still surprises me every time we go back is that now the food does not give you Malta Dog!!
My parents would not have believed it.
I shall go and find my Maltese cookery book now. xx

I too never got round to making the cheesecakes Jo, will have a go another day maybe, I have the recipe now so no excuse.
I love timpana, must make some of these things and get my lad round to try them out when o.h. is on late shift so we don't have to share lol

Have a go, Jo, get cooking lol

Lizxx