Taking food abroad

thelawnet

devildog wrote: »

May not be a good idea to take sausage rolls especially if they are of the pork variety!

Egypt has a large Christian minority, who rear numerous pigs.

Voyager2002

thelawnet wrote: »

Egypt has a large Christian minority, who rear numerous pigs.

Sadly, they used to rear numerous pigs. The pigs of Cairo have all been slaughtered, allegedly to protect the population from swine 'flu.

lollipopsarah

To be honest, I've never thought of taking food abroad, especially now with the expensive baggage costs.
For me the whole point of going abroad it to enjoy the culture/foods etc otherwise you may as well stay at home or go to spain! (mind you that's not cheap anymore.)
May I suggest searching the local embassy, they may have a link as to what you can take.
As for the bad tummy, always take tablets with you and never ever drink the water, not even when brushing teeth. Also do not take ice cubes.
Have a great holiday, last time we went to turkey the food was lovely.
x

Doshwaster

lollipopsarah wrote: »

To be honest, I've never thought of taking food abroad, especially now with the expensive baggage costs.

Me neither. I've never taken food abroad - but I'm a fairly adventurous and independent traveller. The idea of taking anything with me never crosses my mind. It might be different if I had kids who were picky eaters.

I regularly go to India and SE Asia, eaten street food and have never had any "gastric" problems. In fact the only time I have ever had a bad reaction from food is from a dodgy paella in Spain. I'm much more likely to come off worse for over indulging in the local grog (one word of advice about Thai whisky: don't)

dickydonkin

kindofaverage wrote: »

EGYPT

Hi all - traveling to egypt soon and wanted to know if I can take sausage rolls and pasties etc in the hand luggage. would it be confiscated? thanks

An opportunity for Greggs no doubt - they seem to have cornered the pie and pastie market over here!

I'm with Murphy on this one - I just could not be faffed to take food abroad - jeez - its bad enough packing normal items in a case without worrying about jam leaking out of my doughnuts!

It is a small world now and you can get most of the stuff you get at home overseas - with the exception of a Gregg's sausage roll of course - or 'Geordie Dummies' as we call them up here!