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[dmb]

^ That was the title of an email from my aunt.(She is visiting next month)
When friends/family come for a visit what do you ask for?
My list without even thinking.
Pork sausages and bacon
Exotic/Indian/Chinese spices and sauces
Bisto
Decent malt whisky
haggis
shortbread
a few lads magazines(loaded, GQ, etc)
What about you?

(oh the g/f wants wholewheat pasta )

[molly farquharson]

wow, people really eat haggis? I've never even seen it.

My please bring list includes peanut butter, decaf coffee beans, cheddar cheese, brown sugar, and chocolate chips. And books. My list used to be much longer, but I have learned to adapt or do without.

A related topic might be what do you have on your list to do when you go "home"? Mine includes good pizza, good Thai food, good Mexican food, going out for breakfast that includes hash browns, and high falutin' dinners with such things as cranberry vinaigrette on the salad. Oh yes, and good cheesecake. No wonder I always gain kilos while I am there...

dmb, I make my own shortbread, but only at Christmas time. pm me around then

[Golightly]

curry
marmite
bitter
books
baked beans
all the things that used to be on my wishlist

[ghost]

1. British Newspapers (expensive in Turkey)

2. British t.v. in the original format

3. 'Faulty Towers' re-runs with John Cleese

4. Canadian Gyms (relatively cheap and easy to access)

5. A good conversation which bypasses the usual well-trodden ones so prevalent in Turkey

Ghost, in Taichung, Taiwan.

[scb222]

vegemite
packets of gravy
some medicines that are too expensive here

[tekirdag]

I would ask for

salt and vinegar chips/crisps)
honeycomb cereal
marsh mallows!!

Molly wrote:[quote]My please bring list includes peanut butter, decaf coffee beans, cheddar cheese, brown sugar, and chocolate chips. quote]

I am curious(nosy, really). Do you not like the quality of these items in Turkey?

[Baba Alex]

CDs and Cider
Maybe the odd pork pie, although I usually end up with shortbread

[molly farquharson]

I have found peanut butter here, but it is like Jif or SKippy, which I don't like. They are sweetened and tasteless. I like the only ground up peanuts kind, which I thought I had found near the Misir Carsi, but it was really sweet.

I haven't found brown sugar very often and it is definitely not available in Galata. The brown sugar here is browm white sugar, and I use the "real" brown sugar for baking. I can add pekmez to white sugar in a pinch, but it is just not the same.

salt and vinegar chips are one of the things I always get when I am in Canada. And butter tarts, crumpets, and maple anything. Yum. last time I was in Canada was a few Christmases ago, and my sister cooked a moose stew-- interesting, seemed so Canadian in a stereoptypical way.

[corall]

magazines - even better if someone is coming from Britain
books
body spray
makeup - usually just foundation
tampons with applicators - i know this has been done to death but i hate ob
triscuits

[crumpy]

*British Marmite ... a Kiwi friend brought me some NZ marmite recently - it was't the same :-((
*HP fruity sauce
*curry powder ... we don't like the powder you can get here :-((

For those of you wanting books, I advise you to go to the British Consulate fete on Saturday, Ocober 1st (12:00-17:00). In past years the second-hand book stall there has provided me with many hours of happy reading.

For security reasons, you will not be able to enter the consulate on the day without a ticket. I believe you can buy them from Gaye, the owner of the Four Seasons Restaurant in T�nel ... as long as your surname's not Bin Laden :-))

For those of you that don't want to buy any books, you might just wish to go along for the bacon butties ... or maybe for simply sitting on the best bit of lawn in Istanbul ... enjoying a cold beer :-))

By the way, I'll be running the MEF International School Stall with my IB students ... if you want to actually see the prat who I am.

If any of you do decide to come, that would be great, but try not to wear a big overcoat with wires coming out of it though :-))

[Dan The Chainsawman]

Molly

Peanut butter tastes like crap here in Korea as well. Best to toss a bunch of peanuts in a blender, and make your own.

I have experimented with different types of nuts for flavor, but in the end yeee olde peanut butter seems to win the day.

[calsimsek]

If my family are coming over, I'm going to ask them to gring things that I can't buy for love or money. Lets face it most of the things listed can be had for the right price. '' HP fruity sauce, curry powder, tampons with applicators, brown sugar, books, baked beans, Decent malt whisky, a few lads magazines(loaded, GQ, etc ''. You can get all these things here. O.K a bottle of H.P may cost you around 10 YT.L, good new best seller may cost you up to 40-50Y.T.L and as for good malt you may have to pay out 80-100Y.T.L . The thing is you can get them all.

My list would include things I can't get.
4/20 footy pie.
Real DimSims
Real fish and Chips with flake (shark)
The Sunday Age paper
Vic Bitter on Tap
Thats just the start.

Btw Molly go to Etiler Makro market and buy all the ' 'peanut butter, decaf coffee beans, cheddar cheese, brown sugar, and chocolate chips''
you want.