If you think the choice is Aus supermarkets is pants (and expensive) now ........
Oct 14th 2008, 4:36 pm
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Re: If you think the choice is Aus supermarkets is pants (and expensive) now ........
To add to others list of things they cant get here.
Bananas that taste like bananas
Strawberries that taste like the ones i had in the UK hospital...(geez they were the nicest i ever had!)
Cumberland sausage (they ever heard of it here)
Haddock
Large eggs (stop laughing Nu Shooz!!)
Gawd the panadeine forte is kicking in now. My mind gone blank.... i shall be back![/QUOTE]
must admit i have no problems finding great fruit.
don't really eat sausages, they're full of ground up animal carcass where ever in the world you buy them
try finding a baramundi in Tesco
no egg issues either to be honest!
Bananas that taste like bananas
Strawberries that taste like the ones i had in the UK hospital...(geez they were the nicest i ever had!)
Cumberland sausage (they ever heard of it here)
Haddock
Large eggs (stop laughing Nu Shooz!!)
Gawd the panadeine forte is kicking in now. My mind gone blank.... i shall be back![/QUOTE]
must admit i have no problems finding great fruit.
don't really eat sausages, they're full of ground up animal carcass where ever in the world you buy them
try finding a baramundi in Tesco
no egg issues either to be honest!
Oct 14th 2008, 4:41 pm
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Re: If you think the choice is Aus supermarkets is pants (and expensive) now ........
Oct 14th 2008, 4:52 pm
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Re: If you think the choice is Aus supermarkets is pants (and expensive) now ........
Having read over the more recent posts, what I am noticing is that most of the things people are listing fall into a couple of catagories...
A) Ready made meals eg Curries, Decent pizza's(in a supermarket? Isnt that what pizza shops are for?)
or
B) Typically English food eg Cumberland sausages, pork sausages, pork pies, twiglets etc
or
C) Decent tasting fruit?
Ok, the way I see it is with (A) Make it yourself, thats what most Aussies do. (B) Well, what can I say, you aint in the UK anymore. We have beef sausages so of course thats what you will find the majority of over here. (C) Things ALWAYS taste better in season. Its only just the start of Strawberry season. When in season, its also far cheaper. Just look at the price of lettuce(cant help but grin) and how it goes up and down between winter and summer.
When I lived in the UK, things went up and down as far as price and quality as well, why should it be any different here?
Dunno, just seems like common sense to me....
A) Ready made meals eg Curries, Decent pizza's(in a supermarket? Isnt that what pizza shops are for?)
or
B) Typically English food eg Cumberland sausages, pork sausages, pork pies, twiglets etc
or
C) Decent tasting fruit?
Ok, the way I see it is with (A) Make it yourself, thats what most Aussies do. (B) Well, what can I say, you aint in the UK anymore. We have beef sausages so of course thats what you will find the majority of over here. (C) Things ALWAYS taste better in season. Its only just the start of Strawberry season. When in season, its also far cheaper. Just look at the price of lettuce(cant help but grin) and how it goes up and down between winter and summer.
When I lived in the UK, things went up and down as far as price and quality as well, why should it be any different here?
Dunno, just seems like common sense to me....
Oct 14th 2008, 5:29 pm
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Re: If you think the choice is Aus supermarkets is pants (and expensive) now ........
Having read over the more recent posts, what I am noticing is that most of the things people are listing fall into a couple of catagories...
A) Ready made meals eg Curries, Decent pizza's(in a supermarket? Isnt that what pizza shops are for?)
or
B) Typically English food eg Cumberland sausages, pork sausages, pork pies, twiglets etc
or
C) Decent tasting fruit?
Ok, the way I see it is with (A) Make it yourself, thats what most Aussies do. (B) Well, what can I say, you aint in the UK anymore. We have beef sausages so of course thats what you will find the majority of over here. (C) Things ALWAYS taste better in season. Its only just the start of Strawberry season. When in season, its also far cheaper. Just look at the price of lettuce(cant help but grin) and how it goes up and down between winter and summer.
When I lived in the UK, things went up and down as far as price and quality as well, why should it be any different here?
Dunno, just seems like common sense to me....
A) Ready made meals eg Curries, Decent pizza's(in a supermarket? Isnt that what pizza shops are for?)
or
B) Typically English food eg Cumberland sausages, pork sausages, pork pies, twiglets etc
or
C) Decent tasting fruit?
Ok, the way I see it is with (A) Make it yourself, thats what most Aussies do. (B) Well, what can I say, you aint in the UK anymore. We have beef sausages so of course thats what you will find the majority of over here. (C) Things ALWAYS taste better in season. Its only just the start of Strawberry season. When in season, its also far cheaper. Just look at the price of lettuce(cant help but grin) and how it goes up and down between winter and summer.
When I lived in the UK, things went up and down as far as price and quality as well, why should it be any different here?
Dunno, just seems like common sense to me....
Apparently cucumbers have now taken over from lettuce as the expensive food item....wonder if they go up and down too........
Oct 14th 2008, 5:35 pm
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Re: If you think the choice is Aus supermarkets is pants (and expensive) now ........
What I don't understand is why, if everyone in Aus is making wonderful home cooked food with fresh meat, fruit and veg thanks to the absence of "those awful unhealthy ready meals", the levels of obesity are on par with (or higher depending on which survey you read) UK?!!!
Oct 14th 2008, 5:43 pm
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Re: If you think the choice is Aus supermarkets is pants (and expensive) now ........
Too right! only posted this morning and we're on 5 pages already!
What I don't understand is why, if everyone in Aus is making wonderful home cooked food with fresh meat, fruit and veg thanks to the absence of "those awful unhealthy ready meals", the levels of obesity are on par with (or higher depending on which survey you read) UK?!!!
What I don't understand is why, if everyone in Aus is making wonderful home cooked food with fresh meat, fruit and veg thanks to the absence of "those awful unhealthy ready meals", the levels of obesity are on par with (or higher depending on which survey you read) UK?!!!
Oct 14th 2008, 5:58 pm
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Re: If you think the choice is Aus supermarkets is pants (and expensive) now ........
What I don't understand is why, if everyone in Aus is making wonderful home cooked food with fresh meat, fruit and veg thanks to the absence of "those awful unhealthy ready meals", the levels of obesity are on par with (or higher depending on which survey you read) UK?!!!
Hmmmm......
Oct 14th 2008, 6:02 pm
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Oct 14th 2008, 6:05 pm
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Oct 14th 2008, 6:07 pm
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Oct 14th 2008, 6:07 pm
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