Things you can't buy in New Zealand
Aug 1st 2011, 6:16 am
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Re: Things you can't buy in New Zealand
Aug 1st 2011, 6:23 am
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Re: Things you can't buy in New Zealand
Same as full nude strip with a lapdance, but on the last song a long string of pearls will gradually appear from where??!!%%. XX Rated 3 songs $320
Classy.
Aug 1st 2011, 6:27 am
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Re: Things you can't buy in New Zealand
Can't buy game meat or trout
Aug 1st 2011, 6:31 am
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Re: Things you can't buy in New Zealand
Gammon. No, not ham steaks, gammon. Cold water prawns. No, not from Thailand or Vietnam and smell like cat food. Turkey breast steaks, or for that matter turkey, period. Instant custard powder. Is it really so difficult ? I can't bear making custard like my Gran used to. Which is rubbish anyway 'cause it's Edmonds not Birds custard powder. Yeah I can buy readymade custard but what I really want is Birds instant custard powder. Vintage marmalade. The local brands of marmalade are to sweet. Cadburys cocoa powder. Yeah I've brought that brand here but it tastes different. Cadburys chocolate seems to taste sweeter too. They seem to have gone down the American route with chocolate and biscuits making them more sweet than they need to be, i.e. more sweet than actual taste. Weight Watchers from Heinz products. Mainstream Weight Watchers meals are yuk anywhere in the world. Paxo stuffing. The local equivalnet tastes like gravel. Sarsons vinegar. Why are the vinegar bottles so large here ? Why are they catering brands ? Small cans of Schweppes tonic water, can only get 330ml bottles here. Oh I've got such a shopping list for Bramptins the next time I visit, which will include Tetley tea bags.
I could moan for England about some things here and I honestly thought I had heard them all, but the sizes of bottles of vinegar has me
. If it really is so difficult for you to make custard the old fashioned way, with milk and custard powder, have cream or ice-cream instead. Sorted!
Aug 1st 2011, 6:32 am
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Re: Things you can't buy in New Zealand
Aug 1st 2011, 6:34 am
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Re: Things you can't buy in New Zealand
Crikey love, you have to build a bridge, because unless you're the richest woman in NZ you seriously cannot be affording to source or substitute all the UK things you miss from the likes of Bramptins. Your tastes will change, because quite simply, they have to.
I could moan for England about some things here and I honestly thought I had heard them all, but the sizes of bottles of vinegar has me.
If it really is so difficult for you to make custard the old fashioned way, with milk and custard powder, have cream or ice-cream instead. Sorted!
I could moan for England about some things here and I honestly thought I had heard them all, but the sizes of bottles of vinegar has me
. If it really is so difficult for you to make custard the old fashioned way, with milk and custard powder, have cream or ice-cream instead. Sorted!
Aug 1st 2011, 7:22 am
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Re: Things you can't buy in New Zealand
It's always surprised me that druggies haven't figured out that with a house in the country they could get as much opium as they wanted for smoking or making heroin 
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The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, is legal to grown in New Zealand and readily available. We have to outsource everything though, even illegal drug production...lazy IMO
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. The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, is legal to grown in New Zealand and readily available. We have to outsource everything though, even illegal drug production...lazy IMO
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Aug 1st 2011, 7:54 am
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Re: Things you can't buy in New Zealand
My daughter is a veggie and quorn is something we use a lot of 
Will need to get inventive with the cookbooks!
Will need to get inventive with the cookbooks!
Aug 1st 2011, 8:00 am
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Re: Things you can't buy in New Zealand
Gammon
Trout
Unsmoked rashers
Marzipan.
Paxo
Quorn
Quality wine at a decent price
Same for beer.
Unrotten fruit and vege all year round
Bourkes
Flat pack kitchens that aren't all the same boring paint finish.
A roll of wallpaper to check the pattern properly , rather than the wretched swatch books.
Off cuts of good vinyl and carpet to re-vamp a room.
Trout
Unsmoked rashers
Marzipan.
Paxo
Quorn
Quality wine at a decent price
Same for beer.
Unrotten fruit and vege all year round
Bourkes
Flat pack kitchens that aren't all the same boring paint finish.
A roll of wallpaper to check the pattern properly , rather than the wretched swatch books.
Off cuts of good vinyl and carpet to re-vamp a room.
Aug 1st 2011, 8:02 am
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Re: Things you can't buy in New Zealand
I don't quite understand why it is not available. It is here in the supermarkets in Oz, made in the UK, and Sue has been so impressed with my Spag Bols and Curries that she actually prefers it to chicken and mince now. Ah, right, that is the reason!
Aug 1st 2011, 8:04 am
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Re: Things you can't buy in New Zealand
Shredded Wheat. Cress. Normal size tins of soup, they are either huge or Soup for One.
Aug 1st 2011, 8:26 am
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Re: Things you can't buy in New Zealand
The contents are vile anyway; we soon learned not to go there and do without any kind of tinned soups.
The only way to get cress is to grow it yourself, you can get mustard and cress seeds in the supermarket.
The only way to get cress is to grow it yourself, you can get mustard and cress seeds in the supermarket.
