Thought you'd be familiar with Twisties
Burger rings, you're right they are weird, can't be doing them.

Shall have to go and open my last precious packet of Walkers when I get home in the morning, got a desperate need for crisps now

OXO, and Bovril (in Australia) contain no beef, just a yeast extract, Bovril in the UK DOES contain beef.

Seabrooks are by far superior to Walkers, especially in the last few years when Walkers flavourings have been changed, and are no longer as good.

Friends and family are refused to admittance to our house unless they bring a big stash with them. Preferably anything with chocolate, and if they can squash them in, some Monster Munch

How about you?? Come back and let us know what else you miss ... we don't bite honest ... well unless you were covered in chocolate and then some of us might

Good news, Topic's located and being eaten!

My daughter craves Hula Hoops- you can't get them outside specialist shops that charge $3 for one tiny bag.
Hoummous is fine as are most dips- make them yourself though as they are much better.
Chicken is suprisingly expensive here, but the beef is much better.
For set yoghurts, make your own- buy a yoghurt making thermos, (Easiyo- about $20) and a mix to start with, then save a bit of the live culture for future use. Then you can make a litre of yoghurt for less than $4 if you buy the packet mix, or about $1.50 if you make your own from scratch.

Blame the mad cows. At the time, Caerphilly and Wensleydale and Sage Derby and all the other wonderful things disappeared off Australian shelves as well. However OXO returned after a while and when I looked at the ingredients, sure enough it was now beef free.

Still makes a cracking stock though.

Is the UK shop at Warringah Mall still there? Haven't visited the rellies there for a couple of years but I would stock up on Tizer, dandelion and burdock, double decker bars etc.

There is a sweet shop, but I haven't noticed the UK shop- I tend to go to the one in the CBD, as a treat after some nasty eye procedure!!

OXO has always been beef free, always been a yeast extract..

Don't think that's correct - oxo was originally beef stock with salt, and beef oxo cubes in the UK are manufactured using beef bone stock and beef fat. OXO is manufactured by different companies, including Mars in South Africa, and these are manufactured from yeast, but still add beef for flavour.

http://www.oxo.co.uk/products/stock-cubes/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxo_%28food%29

Canadian / USA version has beef, but made in Canada:

Ingredients: Wheat Flour Salt Yeast Extract Maize Starch Flavour Enhancers (Monosodium Glutamate, Disodium Guanylate) Colour (Ammonia Caramel) Beef Fat Flavourings Dried Beef Bonestock Sugar Lactic Acid

I always assumed that the UK version had beef but what the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve over

The UK version does contain beef!

beaten to the post.

I'd venture that the beef free version was formulated (edit: for export markets) to overcome the BSE import restrictions on anything cattle-derived out of the UK. Checking my box of OXO the current lot out of the UK is still vegetarian ... help, only one left... must shop tomorrow. must shop. must shop.

I can't find any listing for vegetarian beef flavour oxo cubes.