What you can't get in Canada
Oct 4th 2007, 4:59 am
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Re: What you can't get in Canada
I bought a jar of Robertsons Bramble jelly jam AND 
the biggest bar of Galaxy today............. Yummy
the biggest bar of Galaxy today............. Yummy
Oct 4th 2007, 1:19 pm
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Re: What you can't get in Canada
In answer to MKmurrays - the frying chickens can be fried in a deep fat frier! Or at least that is what some of my friends tell me. One of them deep fat fried a turkey for a christmas party last year (instructions on the internet). I couldn't go, but apparently it came out really crispy on the outside and juicy inside (who cares about all that fat!).
Dobbie - I am with you on the twigletts. now I am hungry again.
I miss the drink alternatives. We often drank some of the alcohol free bottles of slightly fizzy presses and ginger and fruit extracts. It wasn't cheap, but did slow down my wine intake somewhat. With the cost of wine over here I am surprised that they don't have more upper quality alcohol free alternatives.
Dobbie - I am with you on the twigletts. now I am hungry again.
I miss the drink alternatives. We often drank some of the alcohol free bottles of slightly fizzy presses and ginger and fruit extracts. It wasn't cheap, but did slow down my wine intake somewhat. With the cost of wine over here I am surprised that they don't have more upper quality alcohol free alternatives.
Oct 4th 2007, 1:59 pm
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Re: What you can't get in Canada
What would you use for applie pies, apple crumbles, or red cabbage and apple (if such a dish is eaten here?) ? We're looking for what we call Bramley apples - huge, quite bitter (so you add sugar!) things - about twice the size of (mainly sweet) 'eating' apples ...
Oct 4th 2007, 2:06 pm
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Re: What you can't get in Canada
Hellman's, please tell me I can get it in Canada. 
Oct 4th 2007, 2:14 pm
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I wandered around our Safeways looking at the apples and decided they are all dessert apples, so I thought I'd ask a local what they used for cooking and picked a likely-looking housewifey sort of personage.
She was initially utterly perplexed by the question, and eventually suggested Spartans. mmmm never mind eh.
Maybe it's worth looking in the farmer's markets though ......
She was initially utterly perplexed by the question, and eventually suggested Spartans. mmmm never mind eh.
Maybe it's worth looking in the farmer's markets though ......
Very firm, tart and green.
Oct 4th 2007, 2:16 pm
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Re: What you can't get in Canada
If you are going to add sugar anyway, what does it matter?
Has it occured to anyone that the "cooking apples" in the UK might just be a way to sell the otherwise unpalatably bitter ones?
We just use regular apples for apple pie, and dont cook it for quite as long as they are softer to start with. No one has complained yet.
Has it occured to anyone that the "cooking apples" in the UK might just be a way to sell the otherwise unpalatably bitter ones?
We just use regular apples for apple pie, and dont cook it for quite as long as they are softer to start with. No one has complained yet.
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Oct 4th 2007, 2:17 pm
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Oct 4th 2007, 2:18 pm
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Oct 4th 2007, 2:21 pm
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Re: What you can't get in Canada
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Oct 4th 2007, 2:23 pm
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Oct 4th 2007, 2:27 pm
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there's only Hellman's!!!
Got it in one!
Is that what her Doctor prescribed?
Oct 4th 2007, 2:29 pm
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Re: What you can't get in Canada
Its your money...if you want to pay twice as much for the same stuff thats in the cheaper jars, thats not my problem
Have you ever had real, home made mayo? or Dutch "Frite Sauce". Now we are talking
Have you ever had real, home made mayo? or Dutch "Frite Sauce". Now we are talking