Calling Toronto... I need Branston Pickle

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Mar 26th 2007, 7:08 pm

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Re: Calling Toronto... I need Branston Pickle

[QUOTE=lizwil98;4559629]I buy Marmite all the time at Superstore.

Yep i have brought marmite here as well. But only in the smallest jar

no good to me as we go through it so quick. that is why my mate brought me over the biggest jar possible from UK.

weeks of the yummy stuff

Mar 26th 2007, 7:11 pm

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Originally Posted by j4cksparrow

Next thing you know, people will be asking for uk kebabs, lucozade, pret-a-manger sandwiches, curries from london and the midlands, coloured toilet papers

oh my god,yes, had forgotten all about coloured toilet paper

will now be on a mission to see if i find any.......................

Mar 26th 2007, 7:17 pm

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what happened to the one you've been using to take pics on your drive-around?

That's the one from Costco.

Mar 26th 2007, 9:46 pm

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Re: Calling Toronto... I need Branston Pickle

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Originally Posted by Frozenrose

okay fellow Toronto Residents I am in desperate need, no, DIRE need of Branston Pickle - I just finished the three jars I brought back with me at christmas and I cannot live without it... there must be somewhere to buy it here.... DOES ANYONE KNOW? if anyone can help on this quest I will make you a toastie...
thanks!

In Alberta Safeways sells it..... as it is a national company.... try there.

Mar 26th 2007, 9:55 pm

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Originally Posted by Helen Parnell

In Alberta Safeways sells it..... as it is a national company.... try there.

Actually you won't find many Safeway stores east of Manitoba.

Also the point has been made that Branston Pickle sold in Canada recently is now made by Smuckers in the U.S. and bears little resemblance to U.K. Branston Pickle.

Mar 27th 2007, 6:16 am

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the stuff i saw in the smallest jar in the universe at dominion today did have the Crosse and Blackwell name but it didnt look a thing like the branston from england... and as my canadian boyfriend pointed out to me "youre so obsessed with this damn stuff at the moment that youre bound to notice the difference from this fraudulant looking stuff".

Mar 27th 2007, 10:36 am

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frozenrose, i sent you pm last night of where/when we would be staying.

Mar 27th 2007, 11:55 am

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That's not true. I have found a lot of things which here are supposed to be the same as the stuff from the UK but tastes nothing like it.

Mar 28th 2007, 1:50 pm

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Re: Calling Toronto... I need Branston Pickle

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Originally Posted by Biiiiink

When you try the cheese here, the Branston will be the least of your problems

Pretty sure I got my jar at Zehrs!!!

Mar 28th 2007, 1:51 pm

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Pretty sure I got my jar at Zehrs!!!

And yes, my Canadian fiance views it with disgust!

Mar 28th 2007, 2:10 pm

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Re: Calling Toronto... I need Branston Pickle

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Originally Posted by jempee

When another EP came over to visit she asked if there was anything i would like brought over

so i was thrilled to get a couple of jars of branston and piccalli (sp?) love either on my jacket spuds

Also i like the mags from UK, just your normal girly real story mags, nothing intellegent like.
When friend here went back to UK to visit he brought me back the BIGGEST jar of marmite i have ever seen.

Jempee we're coming out soon - send us a shopping list!

Mar 28th 2007, 10:08 pm

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Re: Calling Toronto... I need Branston Pickle

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Originally Posted by Frozenrose

Now, I was brought up in Toronto with a favourite of eating cheese and relish sandwiches. So when I went to the UK in the early 80's I couldn't get relish so had to eat cheese & pickle...so see, I had to convert. Of course, they now do relish in the UK but strangely I never could find the just plain old green Bicks style. The red, the yellow but never the green.

Gotta agree though that I'm having trouble enjoying the cheese back here.

Cathie

Mar 28th 2007, 10:10 pm

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Re: Calling Toronto... I need Branston Pickle

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Gotta agree though that I'm having trouble enjoying the cheese back here.

I'm always tempted to bring Canadian cheddar from the UK back, it tastes so much better for some reason - but can you imagine how that conversation would go at customs?!

Mar 28th 2007, 11:09 pm

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I'm always tempted to bring Canadian cheddar from the UK back, it tastes so much better for some reason - but can you imagine how that conversation would go at customs?!

he.he.he......Canadian streaky bacon from M&S was always better than the Canadian streaky I get here...here it seems so watery!!!

Cathie

Mar 28th 2007, 11:27 pm

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Re: Calling Toronto... I need Branston Pickle

Waaa waaaa I'm a Brit and I miss Marmite, the cheese is to expensive and I can't find decent jelly babies anywhere. The eggs are a funny colour and they put funny stuff in the baked beans.
It's a big wide world out there, there's more to it than Angel Delight and Bisto.

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