[tomo1340]

I don't know if that has been done before, tried a search but dodn't find much.

Everyone has their routines of what they buy while shopping etc, but how does that transfer when moving to a new country. If you feel like it list the products you 'had to have' back home and list what you get in New Zealand instead, it might also help to list where you got them from in your old country and where you get them from now. A price comparrison would be cool too.

Having no frame of reference of NZ I am struggling to provide an example but I did live in Germany for a while and at the time I was a lover of beer in the 'bitter' variety.

Home Nation: UK
Product: Bitter (Boddingtons)
Price: £1.52 per pint (The good old days)
Location: Victoria Tavern

New Nation: Germany
Product: Altbeer
Price: 9DM (approx £3 at the time)
Location: Kings bar in NeiderKructon(sp?)

Not a great example especially as I rarely drink these days :laugh
I am thinking more of specific food stuffs, like one of my kids refuses to eat any cereal other that Ricicles, of course I just doctor cheap asda rice crispie thingies up and ensure I keep an empty ricicle box handy to protest my innocence.

Over to you.

[Tia Maria]

Hmmm, this has definitely been discussed, normally in the context of mayonnaise, not sure if its been a thread though. I'm sure someone will know ....

Cheers

Tia

[tomo1340]

Mayo you say? Is there a significant mayo situation in NZ?

[Andy-Dee]

I'm not saying that some people on this forum have a touch OCD when it comes to NZ mayonnaise, but even I who doesn't even like it and isn't in NZ yet, knows that Best Foods do a decent replica of Hellmans its been discussed that often.

[tomo1340]

I'm more of a salad cream fan. Cheap n Nasty from asda for me.

Something that has just popped into my head after watching 'kill it, cook it, eat it' on the bbci player, even though I know for certain I have eaten imported meat from NZ is how does it measure up? I have heard it can be expensive but tastes great. Any opinions out there?

[IanW99]

I'm not saying that some people on this forum have a touch OCD when it comes to NZ mayonnaise, but even I who doesn't even like it and isn't in NZ yet, knows that Best Foods do a decent replica of Hellmans its been discussed that often.

We clearly need to discuss Hellmans further :laugh Best Foods and Hellmans are actually the same company so no wonder they do a decent 'replica' :yes

Ian

[tomo1340]

We clearly need to discuss Hellmans further :laugh Best Foods and Hellmans are actually the same company so no wonder they do a decent 'replica' :yes

Ian


So for those hooked on Hellmans mayo look for Best foods. We could turn this into a tip collection of what to look for for the old favourites.

[Bruckner]

Home Nation: US
Product: Skirt steak
Price: 10.99 per pound
Location: Local supermarket

New Nation: NZ
Product: Rump steak
Price: 18.99 per kilo
Location: New World

I can't find skirt steak in the supermarkets and one butcher I spoke to said he could try and source it for me but the price was pretty steep if I remember correctly. Rump steak is fine, no complaints about the substitute but I mess a grilled skirt streak for dinner!

Emily

[Moorf]

Neiderkruchten ?

Have to ask - you weren't stationed at Rheindahlen or Bruggen were you? Did you know Elmpt?

Too add to the thread:

If you like UK Marmite, you'll need to buy "Ourmate" here in NZ ;) - their Marmite isn't the same, yuk!

[tomo1340]

[QUOTE=Moorf;173873]Neiderkruchten ?

Have to ask - you weren't stationed at Rheindahlen or Bruggen were you? Did you know Elmpt?

[QUOTE]

I was at Bruggen for a couple of years, 97-99, not including 6 months trip away. I used to date a nice young lady from Elmpt. Lovely place.

[Moorf]

My family (Dad in RAF) was stationed at Bruggen too - left in 1979. :yes

We lived in Elmpt, visited the Kaufhaus over the border in Holland (Roermond) regularly. Small world!!

(sorry for thread interrupt!)

[Moorf]

I used to date a nice young lady from Elmpt

Wasn't me!! :laugh

[tomo1340]

Wasn't me!! :laugh

lol.

My German wasn't very good at the time (it's not much better now), and her English wasn't great. Her grandad who had served in the war spoke excellent english and used to translate when it got too difficult, which was embarrassing at times. To be fair we never had an argument :laugh

I was part of the small army squadron there. Engineering telephone and data circuits on Bruggen, laarbruch and at JHQ. I believe the airfields are closed now and the Army holds Bruggen as a staging area for forward mounting operations in Iraq/Afghanistan.

I remember walking from the guardhouse in the soaking rain all the way past the naafi along the married quarters thinking it can't be too far ahead on what seemed like an endless drunken walk, only to get to my block and realise I had left my keys on desk at the guard house. Luckily a nice RAF snow drop came looking for me so I didn't have to brave the thunder storm again.

Funny enough it being a small world, while I was at Bruggen, I had one of my brothers based in Afcent just over the Dutch border for a short spell, and my eldest brother regularly flew into Bruggen while he was in the RAF, but never looked me up as he didn't want to be seen fraternising with 'low rank army scum'. ALthough when I was helping to run a very select private bar in the Falklands and he flew in there for 4 days, the islands were practically dry apart from a few bars he looked me up then, only I must have forgot who he was as I seemed to recognise all his air crew but couldn't for the life of me think who he was. :D