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21 Oct 2005, 20:28
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hated dead or alive
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What would you miss?
When we came back from the UK this week, we stopped at the Hrwich supermarket to shop for those things one can't buy in Holland.
Basically we go home with a car ful of:
Heinz salad-cream
HP sauce
Crunchy Nut Cornflakes
Ambrosia Custard and ricepudding
PG tips
meatpie's
Mature Cheddar
Scotch Eggs
If we would live in the UK, Id miss hagelslag and drop most i guess.
What would you take if you moved to another country ?
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21 Oct 2005, 20:36
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Bored
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Re: What would you miss?
apparently other countries don't have orange squash...
And it's bloody difficult to get a decent cup of tea outside the UK!
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21 Oct 2005, 20:37
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Lucky
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Re: What would you miss?
'hagelslag' and 'drop' ofc.
and cheese, loads of cheese.
and a cheeseslicer!
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21 Oct 2005, 20:39
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hated dead or alive
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Re: What would you miss?
YES the cheeseslicer, gonna buy my whole family-in-law that one for Xmas.
And they dont have Lemonade here either i heard, tho i think 7up tastes the same
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21 Oct 2005, 20:41
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Banned
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Re: What would you miss?
Nothing much. I've found that continental europe adequetly provides for my material needs. I missed british humour. You can't adequetly translate "y'alright petal?"
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21 Oct 2005, 20:53
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: What would you miss?
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Originally Posted by sigrid
And they dont have Lemonade here either i heard, tho i think 7up tastes the same
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Where, in the UK?
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21 Oct 2005, 21:06
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hated dead or alive
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Re: What would you miss?
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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri
Where, in the UK?
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In holland
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21 Oct 2005, 21:20
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Guy next door
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Re: What would you miss?
Completely nothing really. Can't think of anything at the moment.
edit:
Maybe my own language, I remember after visiting France for longer then a week it's really awesome to hear Dutch people around me (or even proper English speaking folks), but I only realise that when I finally arrive back in Holland.
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21 Oct 2005, 21:28
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Re: What would you miss?
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21 Oct 2005, 22:01
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hated dead or alive
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Re: What would you miss?
oww, yeah bitterballen!
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21 Oct 2005, 22:11
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The brother of Spammer
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Re: What would you miss?
Thinks I would take...
Several Glass bottles of Irn Bru, Square sausage, tate scones, fruit pudding, black pudding, haggis, a case of 70' shiling (Mcewans, tartan ot tennents special)
A good single malt like Highland park.
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21 Oct 2005, 22:49
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lolly roffle
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Re: What would you miss?
Cadburys fingers.
They call them les cadburys fingeres abroad and they taste exactly the same, but its jut not right .
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21 Oct 2005, 22:50
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Ron Burgundy
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Re: What would you miss?
Garlic Bread?
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21 Oct 2005, 22:56
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lolly roffle
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Re: What would you miss?
Cheese cake!
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21 Oct 2005, 23:03
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: What would you miss?
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Originally Posted by JC
Cadburys fingers.
They call them les cadburys fingeres abroad and they taste exactly the same, but its jut not right .
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21 Oct 2005, 23:30
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Hamster
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Re: What would you miss?
Fish and Chips. Its bad enough living down south as these bloody Southerners cant make a decent portion of Fish and Chips but even down here its better than any I've had abroad. While on the whol chip shop issue I guess id also miss Mussy Peas, you might get them abroad but im not sure
As others have said a cup of tea would be something I miss. Give me a nice cup of tea over a cup of coffee any day. If I was moving to the states I guess I'd miss chocolate, yes they have it over there but it lacks that sweetness that we are used to over here and isnt a patch.
I would also miss a proper Cumberland Sausagae. Not these cheap knock offs you get in the supermarket that havent ever seen a Cumberland Sausage but a proper traditional one made in Cumbria.
Most of the things I would realy miss mind you, such as Yorkshire Puddings, Custard, Sponge Cakes ect ect really wouldnt be an issue because its the home made ones rather than shop bought premade or mixture jobs so as long as I could get the ingrediants then id be fine
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22 Oct 2005, 00:56
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Re: What would you miss?
Curly hair.
I think I would wholy embrace wherever I was and if I didn't like the food of where i was, I'd put loads and loads of ketchup on it which i would carry around in a little bottle at all times for such occasions/emergencies
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22 Oct 2005, 01:13
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The Bad Guy
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Re: What would you miss?
Decent bacon, cant find proper bacon anywhere but in the UK it seems.
Pork and Beef sausages.
Good old english cafes.
Proper fruities.
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22 Oct 2005, 01:17
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Re: What would you miss?
British Beef.
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22 Oct 2005, 06:39
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Re: What would you miss?
I'd miss proper tea. Irish tea. British tea is weak as piss and half as satisfying. European tea doesn't exist.
If venturing outside the EU I'd miss milk chocolate. That would be the main thing. That and a proper pint of Guinness.
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22 Oct 2005, 06:47
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Heh, Leeds !
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Re: What would you miss?
When I lived in the US I missed HP Sauce, Heinz Baked Beans (what kind of warped mind decided to put brown sugar in beans ?), mars bars, decent instant coffee, PG Tips tea and The Times.
If the US was ever to introduce all of the above then it could be considered possibly bearable.
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22 Oct 2005, 10:51
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Bored
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Re: What would you miss?
yeh i guess they would have tea...
i was thinking more "outside the UK but still in the western world"
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22 Oct 2005, 13:40
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Gone
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Re: What would you miss?
I'd miss Stockton, obviously.
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22 Oct 2005, 13:50
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Gone
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Re: What would you miss?
They are called Lorne sausages and they taste shit.
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22 Oct 2005, 17:47
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Re: What would you miss?
cornish pasties
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22 Oct 2005, 18:40
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Re: What would you miss?
google tells me hagelslag are chocolate sprinkels, jeremy clarkson was right!!! weird ****ing dutchies! whats drop?
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22 Oct 2005, 18:47
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The brother of Spammer
Join Date: Jun 2005
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Re: What would you miss?
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Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson
They are called Lorne sausages and they taste shit.
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You can't get good square saugage outside of scotland... closest I could find in england was in sainsburys. Which I am guessing that is the case.
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22 Oct 2005, 18:55
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share the <3
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Re: What would you miss?
square sausage?? what part of the pig do you kilt wearers use?
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22 Oct 2005, 18:56
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Re: What would you miss?
the cheapest
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22 Oct 2005, 19:29
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Re: What would you miss?
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Originally Posted by Vaio
When I lived in the US I missed HP Sauce, Heinz Baked Beans (what kind of warped mind decided to put brown sugar in beans ?), mars bars, decent instant coffee, PG Tips tea and The Times.
If the US was ever to introduce all of the above then it could be considered possibly bearable.
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Heinz and Mars are American companies
Mars also makes m&m's, is this some subliminal desire for MM?
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22 Oct 2005, 19:40
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Re: What would you miss?
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Originally Posted by dda
Heinz and Mars are American companies
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You can get something called a 'mars bars' in America but its actually an uber Milky Way rather than being the same as a British mars bar
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23 Oct 2005, 10:51
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hated dead or alive
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Re: What would you miss?
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Originally Posted by Nusselt
google tells me hagelslag are chocolate sprinkels, jeremy clarkson was right!!! weird ****ing dutchies! whats drop?
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drop is liquorice. The dutch have like 100 flavours tho, not just the english ones.
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24 Oct 2005, 15:10
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Gone
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Re: What would you miss?
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Originally Posted by horn
yeh well so does cock
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24 Oct 2005, 15:19
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Lonely analytic
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Re: What would you miss?
Unox Rookworst
'Belegen' cheese
Peanutbutter (That crap from the UK is like doughlike and not creamy at all)
Drop (licorice)
Boerenkool (don't know what that is in english)
Erwtensoep, or any canned dutch soups
Space-koeken
Kroketten, frikandellen, bitterballen kaassouffle's mexicano's. RAS-patat.
Sate
One-person meals from Albert Hein & Lonny's
Surinam spices
Indonesian spices
Puddings & deserts from Mona
Griesmeel
Marsepein
pepernoten
ontbijtkoek
Havermoutpap
Anyway I can't really get them here and anyone bringing them to me will receive a heroes feast, during wich I will kill you so I have more goods for myself and won't have to pay for them.
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24 Oct 2005, 16:48
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Lucky
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Re: What would you miss?
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Originally Posted by xtrasyn
Unox Rookworst
'Belegen' cheese
Peanutbutter (That crap from the UK is like doughlike and not creamy at all)
Drop (licorice)
Boerenkool (don't know what that is in english)
Erwtensoep, or any canned dutch soups
Space-koeken
Kroketten, frikandellen, bitterballen kaassouffle's mexicano's. RAS-patat.
Sate
One-person meals from Albert Hein & Lonny's
Surinam spices
Indonesian spices
Puddings & deserts from Mona
Griesmeel
Marsepein
pepernoten
ontbijtkoek
Havermoutpap
Anyway I can't really get them here and anyone bringing them to me will receive a heroes feast, during wich I will kill you so I have more goods for myself and won't have to pay for them.
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agree on most of it, escept for RAS-patat and havermoutpap. they're both horrible.
btw you forgot zuurkool.
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24 Oct 2005, 17:29
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Re: What would you miss?
If you can buy twinnings loose leaf assam tea there and lots of fresh ingredients, i dont think i would miss anything at all.
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24 Oct 2005, 17:44
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Re: What would you miss?
As others have mentioned, I find certain differences in established products most disconcerting when abroad. So something is called the same thing but made by a different company and tastes completely different.
Most places I've been there's been at least one "English shop" in the region anyway. It might be different if you were in some sort of third world place. Then I might miss a lot.
Like lack of AIDS for instance.
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24 Oct 2005, 19:41
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Wick
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Re: What would you miss?
nowhere in Devon seems to sell the Red Kola that they sell in Scotland so when i go up there i always make sure to bring back a few bottles of that
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25 Oct 2005, 14:51
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Lonely analytic
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Re: What would you miss?
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Originally Posted by KoeN
agree on most of it, escept for RAS-patat and havermoutpap. they're both horrible.
btw you forgot zuurkool.
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No I didn't, I can actually get that here.
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