A marmite question
#61
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Re: A marmite question
and why cant you get Bovril here or not the real McCoy anyway. its that runny stuff!!!:curse:
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you can get everything from mint sauce to pot noodles, walkers crisps etc as well as marmite so is it that bovril is a beef extract? it was a serious question not a critiscisim
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Re: A marmite question
The customs guys here get snotty about meat products. I once saw a woman get hauled over the coals for having a salami in her suitcase and I've also seen Agriculture Canada guys with sniffer dogs in the baggage hall. They were't looking for drugs.
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oh my, that's why i would not dare to bring anything like that in because it would just be my luck to get caught.
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Re: A marmite question
Yet my MIL when she was alive (who wouldn't say sh*t if here mouth had been full of it) brought in a Melton Mowbray pie on one trip and plant cuttings along with a bunch of seeds on another. She just looked way too innocent..
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Re: A marmite question
The problem with the airports there is no continuity with there procedures.A friend of ours returned back from a holiday in Switzerland via Vancouver airport,and smuggled a salami through customs without any problems.I am not saying what she did was right,but it does make you wonder what items do get through security.
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Re: A marmite question
The problem with the airports there is no continuity with there procedures.A friend of ours returned back from a holiday in Switzerland via Vancouver airport,and smuggled a salami through customs without any problems.I am not saying what she did was right,but it does make you wonder what items do get through security.
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Re: A marmite question
The problem with the airports there is no continuity with there procedures.A friend of ours returned back from a holiday in Switzerland via Vancouver airport,and smuggled a salami through customs without any problems.I am not saying what she did was right,but it does make you wonder what items do get through security.
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Re: A marmite question
My ex attempts to bring salami, cheese, bathtub schnapps and chocolate from CH a couple of times a year. She specifically flies direct as she's never had any confiscated when flying into Toronto but did have to give up her salami sandwich in Chicago when routed through there. otoh customs open her mail and review the publications she orders before deciding whether or not to forward them. It's all a shambles but I don't think that's cause for distress, just don't tie up a large proportion of your assets in meat products.
Most of my mail from the UK gets opened. All my courier packages do.