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 🙂
Oct 05 2010
Oct 05 2010
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 🙂
October 7th, 2010 3:05 pm
This is very artistic arrangement for you, Chris!!! 😉
October 8th, 2010 2:59 am
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.
October 11th, 2010 11:48 am
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.