...is that I can walk into some Australian supermarkets and buy: soda made in the USA (Boylan, A&W), Ben & Jerry's ice cream, lemonade from France, Irn-Bru, Pocky(Thai, Korean & Japanese), english Digestives and a range of Hormal's food-like substances. Not to mention whatever product line the higher-ups decide to not locally source.
I do swear I once saw Twinkies on the shelf somewhere........
But can you get Taylor Pork Roll and Drake's Cakes?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
I wish I could get Irn-Bru around here consistently. It's remarkably tricky at times.
I wish I could get Boylan's here. They make the second-best ginger ale I've ever had (the best being Vernor's), but nobody here stocks it any more.
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
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And that's the downside of globalization. You discover something incredibly good that isn't made locally... but the stores determine that 'not enough people buy it' and replace it with something else brought in that might move more units.
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Rod H Wrote:I do swear I once saw Twinkies on the shelf somewhere........
... we can get those here? I though customes belived the filling to be off... or highly toxic.
dark seraph Wrote:Rod H Wrote:I do swear I once saw Twinkies on the shelf somewhere........
... we can get those here? I though Customs believed the filling to be off... or highly toxic.
It was many many years ago, possibly in a 7/11 that I saw them. However I have found a local retailer that regularly gets them in, unfortunately due to Customs & shipping, they're a little bit past their best before date.
Also I just tried a can of A&W cream soda, it's a drink I'd only drink if it's the only drink on offer thing for me. It's probably the corn syrup, caffeine & some other ingredients which set my decision that way.
--Rod.H
Twinkies have a best by date? Isn't that date something like 1 month after the world ends?
Anyway not enough globalization for my tastes, you can't get proper licorice anywhere outside Holland and the Scandinavian countries. Of course everyone else seems to hate proper licorice. In my opinion licorice is not even the right word, since what the rest of the world means by it seems closer to plastic than candy.
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Eh, I never liked the flavor of licorice much, so I wonder how "proper" licorice tastes.
One thing I wish we could get here in the US are the German Kinder Eggs. Those things beat out Nestle Wonder Balls any day of the week, hands down. Better chocolate, and a much cooler prize - if that's normal for Germany then it's no wonder so many people there become engineers of one sort or another.
Other than that... I'd like to see if there's a restaurant around that does good yakisoba or okonomiyaki... or even tonkatsu. *Mouth waters at the thought of taste of tonkatsu with the traditional sweet, zippy sauce.*
Rod? Cream soda exists only for creating ice cream floats, IMNSHO. Take beverage in a tall glass, place a scoop of Vanilla Ice cream on top. If you're lucky, the acidity of the carbonated water reacting to the base in the ice cream will generate foam that *doesn't* make a godawful mess.
I'm a New England guy, our big things are
Cain's Mayonnaise,
Wise Potato Chips, and
Moxie... and Moxie is slowly dying as the guys who drank it because of
Ted Williams are getting older and older.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
I can get the following from a local comic store.
Dr pepper.
Most flavors of Mt Dew (boo yah, Caffine!)
Hershy chocolat bars
Bazoka joe bubblegum
Welshes Grape Soda
American Coca Cola (one word for that stuff "gaaaaaaaah", this is the noise you make as at least one tooth melts from the suger)
Reease peices
Jr mints
and this is just the stuff I can remeber off the top of my head
Meh, see the info
here, I typically drink two of the brands listed there, Schweppes Brown 'Creamy Soda' & Bickford's red 'creamy soda'. Both of them neat, both of them cold, except the Schweppes one I tend to drink at room temp. There was two other brands I liked: Tarax & Marchants, neither are made any more.
DS, it appears that your shop gets stuff from
here.
--Rod.H
blackaeronaut Wrote:Eh, I never liked the flavor of licorice much, so I wonder how "proper" licorice tastes.
One thing I wish we could get here in the US are the German Kinder Eggs. Those things beat out Nestle Wonder Balls any day of the week, hands down. Better chocolate, and a much cooler prize - if that's normal for Germany then it's no wonder so many people there become engineers of one sort or another.
Other than that... I'd like to see if there's a restaurant around that does good yakisoba or okonomiyaki... or even tonkatsu. *Mouth waters at the thought of taste of tonkatsu with the traditional sweet, zippy sauce.*
Never herd of Wonder Balls before you mentioned them. We do, however, have Kinder eggs. And there's a candy store in town that sells all sorts of licorice (and licorice allsorts, as well) - Canadian, Australian, British, and Dutch licorice are all in their bins.
Oh! And there's a shop near where I work that sells Bassetts' Jelly Babies... when they can keep them in stock. (I picked up a 215g bag of them the second-to-last time I was in because they were out of the larger size.)
Japanese food - I can get a good yakisoba at a restaurant just down the road, while the best tonkatsu in town is found at a place near the local anime shop. Okonomiyaki... as far as I know, I have to drive a bit for that. [size=smaller]("A bit" being defined as "over four hours on the expressway each way at the speed limit, plus city driving at both ends".)[/size]
There is, however, a Mongolian-style hot-pot place on my way home from work. I haven't been there for a while...
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"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
I'd just like to note A&W Root Beer, I'm not a fan. I'll recommend it's use in a Fenspace soda reactor though, along with the rest of your corn syrup using drinks.
Quote:American Coca Cola (one word for that stuff "gaaaaaaaah", this is the noise you make as at least one tooth melts from the suger)
If there's one thing I've learned from travelling it's that Coke and Pepsi taste about a billion times better everywhere but the US. Mostly because a lot of countries force the use of actual cane sugar in soda.
I'll second that.
mexican coke (with cane sugar) is worth getting if you can find it in the US.
it's popular enough to be found in various ethnic markets.
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There's an anime shop in town that imports some Japanese snacks, including Pocky, some pre-packaged bread rolls and mochi, and Ramune.
There are a couple of decent Japanese restaurants in town, too, that serve a nice assortment of dishes. Indian and Americanized Chinese
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jpub Wrote:I wish I could get Irn-Bru around here consistently. It's remarkably tricky at times.
I've only been able to try Irn-Bru once. I was leaving a local Scottish festival and saw that one of the vendors was selling it. Having heard of the soda "made from girders" in a Buffy fic, I just had to try it. Odd, but not too bad.
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Agreed that Mexican Coca-Cola is better, it's just so expensive compared to the corn-squeezins... Subsidized Corn AgriFactories do that...
But you think US Coke is sweet, try US Pepsi! Bleech.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
There's even a difference in taste between coke bottled here in the Republic, and in Northern Ireland. Republican coke tastes a good bit sharper and less syrupy.
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ECSNorway Wrote:There's an anime shop in town that imports some Japanese snacks, including Pocky, some pre-packaged bread rolls and mochi, and Ramune.
Personally, I prefer to hit up local oriental markets when I can for my J-snacks. They may not always have the most well-known brands, but I tend to start hurting for a half-way decent instant yakisoba now and then. The Maruchan crap they sell here in the US just doesn't quite cut it. (Let alone the stunning absence of traditional Japanese flavors. Cheese yakisoba!? Blech!)
blackaeronaut Wrote:ECSNorway Wrote:There's an anime shop in town that imports some Japanese snacks, including Pocky, some pre-packaged bread rolls and mochi, and Ramune.
Personally, I prefer to hit up local oriental markets when I can for my J-snacks. They may not always have the most well-known brands, but I tend to start hurting for a half-way decent instant yakisoba now and then. The Maruchan crap they sell here in the US just doesn't quite cut it. (Let alone the stunning absence of traditional Japanese flavors. Cheese yakisoba!? Blech!)
I've tried the "cheese"-flavored "ramen", and yeah. it is indeed awful.
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Right, Mountain Dew Throwback...I like it, more than the local version. Dublin Dr Pepper....not bad, better than the local just not too sure with the smell it has.
sweno Wrote:I'll second that.
mexican coke (with cane sugar) is worth getting if you can find it in the US.
it's popular enough to be found in various ethnic markets.
I suppose that's an indicator of geography. Down here in Texas, Mexican Coke can be found in the supermarket, next to the salsa, canned
nopales, and Mexican cocoa mix. And that's in North Texas. On the border, you can buy it in the gas stations and fast food joints (at least in my experience; it's been a few years since I've been down to Laredo. It's really not safe for
gringos in that region right now, with all the gang activity.)
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It seems to be growing in popularity in some sectors; I've been finding it rather frequently in local grocery stores (Wegmans FTW, they also carry genuine Jaffa cakes, real Scottish shortbread, and an incredible selection of beers...)
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