Oct 05 2010

John and family came round wit…

Category: Friends,Pictures,TweetsChrisM @ 6:22 pm

John and family came round with a few items for us, that you just can’t get here in Kazakhstan… http://twitpic.com/2uusge nom nom nom 🙂

Coke Zero, Marmite, Spaghetti Hoops, Shortbread, Squash, Corn Flakes and Weetabix

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3 Responses to “John and family came round wit…”

  1. IrinaM says:

    This is very artistic arrangement for you, Chris!!! 😉

  2. Alex C says:

    Lol. You can’t get cornflakes and spaghetti hoops in KZ? Wow. Marmite’s a tough one though. I buy the New Zealand or South African version which I think is just as good but Mat’s finally given in and switched to vegemite.

    • ChrisM says:

      Proper Kellogg’s corn flakes I’ve seen a couple of times, where people import stuff from Germany. Generic/American/Turkish brand corn flakes are readily available, however same problem as in UK – they don’t taste right and taste even stranger as soon as they’re soggy. Combine that with the milk situation over here, and I’ve not eaten cereals in Astana for years. I had wanted to get some British stuff shipped over since we first moved here, so after four years I thought it was time for a treat 🙂
      btw, fair enough on the vegemite, but you know that the NZ version of Marmite is pretty different? I remember reading a wiki entry on it ages ago, let me check…
      The Sanitarium Health Food Company obtained sole rights to distribute the product in New Zealand and Australia in 1908.[5] They later began manufacturing Marmite under licence in Christchurch.
      Sanitarium’s recipe differs somewhat from that of British Marmite, most notably in the addition of sugar and caramel.[1] Common ingredients are also present in slightly different quantities from the British version;[1] the New Zealand version has high levels of potassium[citation needed], for example, while the British version does not. New Zealand Marmite is described as having a “weaker” or “less tangy” flavour than the British version.[1] It is distributed throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
      yep, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite for details.