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| Methinks some of us have forgotten how bewildering it is to uproot and move to a country in which the people speak different languages from yours. I remember the first few times I went to a supermarket, I stood in front of the cheese shelf for 10 minutes and for the life of me, I couldn't decide which cheese I should put in my basket. Do you remember slowly, painstakingly reading all the labels of the milk packaging? Even my German other half mistook Milch Drink for something quite artificially vile.
After a while I was slightly dizzy from examining the array of 'alien' products. It was like Stendahl's Syndrome but over milk, cheese, sugar and flour, I tell ya.  | |
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did you come on EF and give a shopping list of items you couldn't find
I was the same but trial and error - you have to find local equivalents
My shopping list would have been
Why can't i find:
Robinson's Squash
Shreddies
Salt and Vinegar Walkers
Pork Pies
Scotch Eggs
Fish and chips
cheddar cheese (found it eventually
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Salad cream
golden syrup
brown sugar
self raising flour
the list could go on.......