Frozen milk in luggage ?

costapkt

Adopt a cow in a foreign country.

Quasar

I'm of two minds on this one. On the one hand, I find that going abroad and insisting on one's one food a bit pointless, as local food is so much part of the culture one visits.

However, when you have children it might be sapping if they start moaning every time they have to eat something they don't want to even try, so compromising a bit by taking something they are used to might help keep the holiday smoother for all concerned.

PolishBigSpender

Quasar wrote: »

However, when you have children it might be sapping if they start moaning every time they have to eat something they don't want to even try, so compromising a bit by taking something they are used to might help keep the holiday smoother for all concerned.

Of course, if you bring up children properly, then it shouldn't be an issue. I'm 100% certain in this case that the children NEED to have their 'British' (which is probably French/Polish!) milk because the mother says they can't drink that 'furrin muck' - and not because they'd actually notice the difference.

Same goes for the food - I can imagine the mother howling because her children can't possibly eat non-'British' food.

I feel for the original poster, I really do.

Tojo_Ralph

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Of course, if you bring up children properly, then it shouldn't be an issue. I'm 100% certain in this case that the children NEED to have their 'British' (which is probably French/Polish!) milk because the mother says they can't drink that 'furrin muck' - and not because they'd actually notice the difference.

Can you please explain why you know this is fact?

From wat I can see, the OP has posted twice, twice only and all they have stated is that their wife is fussy when it comes to food and that when overseas, neither she nor the children drink the milk.

The relevant parts of the two posts are below and thus I would appreciate it if you would enlighten all of us and explain how you claim to know so much, when in reality you have read so little?

dodgy_gooner wrote: »

Hi, we are flying off on holiday and my wife wants to take milk with her as she and the kids just won't use milk when we are abroad ..... [FONT=&quot]Unfortunately she is incredibly fussy and I've tried time and again to convince her that stuff like this is fine. I've only told the half of it as I'm sure she is planning to take one suitcase just full of food.[/FONT]

To be honest, it is beyond me why you continue to lambast the OP's family when you have zero facts and if ever a xenophobic pot was calling the kettle black, it's you, with the only difference being that your views are clearly documented and the views of the OPs family that you judge them on are wild assumptions based on your own issues.

Quasar

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Of course, if you bring up children properly, then it shouldn't be an issue. I'm 100% certain in this case that the children NEED to have their 'British' (which is probably French/Polish!) milk because the mother says they can't drink that 'furrin muck' - and not because they'd actually notice the difference.

Same goes for the food - I can imagine the mother howling because her children can't possibly eat non-'British' food.

I feel for the original poster, I really do.

You are 100% certain... etc etc, but you have no proof to support any of your above assumptions. Sorry PBS but this sounds like your usual rant at the British with little or no knowledge of all the facts of this particular case - which none of us have.

The only thing we all know for sure is that many children (of ANY nationality) can cause a bit of a rumpus at the table, and I can well understand a mother wanting to avoid that as much as possible when on holiday.

Perhaps you could start a company over here teaching parents how to bring up their children "properly"? I'm sure the whole of Britain is desperate for the Great Enlightening.

ETA - that'll teach me for not reading your post first, Tojo, lol.

jess1974

I tend to agree with the op's wife, i took frozen milk on the ferry to France last year, mainly because we were camping, anyway once we'd run out, we had to buy some. it was awful, completely different taste....

However i don't think i'd risk taking some on a plane...

lynzpower

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Or indeed, they have no problem drinking 'foreign' booze in the UK.

I wouldn't be surprised if the kids in this case end up being the stereotypical Brit in Spain who screams and howls because the supermarket is out of baked beans, or worse, they used 'some foreign beans' instead of proper English ones.

I'm positive that many of these 'don't wanna eat furrin muck' types probably have a menu something like this -

Monday : Lasagne
Tuesday : Chicken Tikka Masala
Wednesday : Goulash
Thursday : Sweet and Sour Chicken with Rice
Friday : Beef Stroganoff
Saturday : Sushi
Sunday : Sunday roast

But they just can't eat 'furrin muck' can they?

I actually wonder how much food consumed in the UK is actually solely British.

We just came back from Orlando, flying Thomas cook.

In the inflight magazine, there was an advert for Iceland foods, apparently in spain there are Icelands dotted around, the advert showed frozen Iceland lasagne, milk, tea bags black forest gateaux and so on. Just in case you want to go all the way to another country to eat an Iceland bloody lasagne instead of going out in spain for a large platter of tapas and a jug of sangria, you can have a frozen iceland "£1-at-home-but-more-there-as-theyve-had-to import it"lasagne?

Sorry I dont get it either. I just dont. I have seen people going on flights we went to to Europe ( eg spain) with full on roasting joints from asda in thier suitcases WHY? Do you really have a roast dinner in Menorca

Ive never taken food out of the UK unless its to eat on the plane. There is a lack of milk in many places in the world in general. Its like hens teeth in some places, I remember venezuela being a case- i simply never saw it. No Biggie, Ill just drink coffee? Not a problema :rolleyes::A

Tojo_Ralph

crowlands wrote: »

This year in Benalmadena I did see Cravendale for sale in some 'english supermarkets'.

blue_haddock wrote: »

I suggest the OP next year decides to visit Salou as everywhere you went you were offered english food, english tea, english beer and english TV.

deegee999 wrote: »

I went to crete this year and 2 resturants did greek food, 6 did only english grub.

tanith wrote: »

I am sure they sell English Milk like Cravendale abroad, I have seen it in Spain anyway....

With all this English food being served overseas, one has to wonder how the Scots, Welsh, etc, get by?

Quasar

To be fair, I know plenty of Italians who come to London to visit and then flock to Italian restaurants, occasionally trying some different cuisines.

Again, while I think it's a shame that people visit foreign countries and not want to eat that food which is so much part of the local culture, when you have small children you have to ensure that they will eat with as little fuss as possible - or it wouldn't be a pleasant holiday.

I speak as someone who has no children, so I might be talking out of my backside.

deegee999

With all this English food being served overseas, one has to wonder how the Scots, Welsh, etc, get by?

are they not still cooking game on open fires? seriously though even the plastic irish pubs do'nt sell roasted leprachaen.

the ones i saw were doing pie & chips saus egg & chips chips& chips etc not what i go abroard for. Mind you pukka pie chips & peas + a large beer for 3 euro's was cheap.:D