Frozen milk in luggage ?

thorsoak

I've found this thread quite funny; 15 years ago DD & SIL went to live & work in Singapore, we visited them a couple of times and each time they took us out for all sorts of different types of meals which they (and we) thoroughly enjoyed. Three years later, DD is pregnant & still in Singapore BUT for first 3 months she survived on MaccyDs and Starbucks ...because she found that the "unfamiliar foods" set off morning sickness!! Seemed as if the smell of McDonalds & Starbucks settled it down again.

Fastforward another 3 years, they've now moved to Japan and baby no 2 on the say - this time she hankers over singapore chicken & rice! And what is baby no 1 eating greedily? Sushi, & miso soup.

Back in the UK at holiday times ......prepare "home cooking" - roast dinners etc .....children pick at it - sorry it doesn't seem like "proper dinners"

They are now in the US and now first thing they ask for when they come over is fish & chips, sausages & "proper" bacon sarnies!

Expensive to take them out for a meal though - g/daughter asks for lobster if she sees it anywhere on a menu!!! Ouch!

horse76

costapkt wrote: »

Theres quiet a few Polish food shops in this country now, seems they do not like what we eat.

Agree... also restaurants and even a polish hairdressers in Dundee - seems our hairdressers don't make the cut these days either.

(sorry off topic, i know)

PolishBigSpender

Tojo_Ralph wrote: »

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.

Well, it's politer to suggest that the children are spoilt brats who need their turkey dinosaurs - I mean, suggesting that the original posters' wife needs to have a whole suitcase of food just for herself is a bit mean, don't you think?

The thing is that cases like this *are* very common with British tourists. You just need to visit any British resort to see this - spoiled brats refusing to eat anything 'furrin', the man needing his cooked English breakfast every morning, the woman insisting that she has her gin and tonic (which is actually local gin topped up in an Gordons bottle!) and so on. Those people are frankly a disgrace to the UK - which has such a great track record in spreading their people all over the world.

I can reasonably assume that the wife in this case is no different.

ferf1223

I suspect that mostly the Polish shops are frequented by Polish people who live in the UK and who miss a taste of home...not Polish tourists on holiday in the UK - I doubt (though could be wrong) that the first thing many Polish folks do when arriving in the UK on holiday is head to their local Polish shop to stock up on food for the holiday.

Only mention this as it doesn't seem to be a particularly fair comparison.

I agree that things taste different in different places (example: when I moved here from the US, I found Diet Pepsi -which was previously my life blood - tasted terrible and eventually switched to Diet Coke, and yet when I visit the US, it's back to Diet Pepsi - so I understand to an extent)...but I do find it a bit odd when people can't just find a compromise for a week or two and go so far out of their way to bring home with them on holiday...isn't getting away part of the point?

Then again, it's their holiday and their money paying for it, and if that's what makes them enjoy their holiday, then I suppose to each their own. I get that having kids probably makes it that much more challenging, but also agree that sometimes that's down to them always getting their own way at home. I know we ate what was put in front of us when we were kids as we weren't going to be given another option.

costapkt

We as a race might go all over the world, but that does not mean we have to eat foreign stuff. :eek:

Inactive

costapkt wrote: »

We as a race might go all over the world, but that does not mean we have to eat foreign stuff. :eek:

Well if it wasn't for " foreign stuff " our supermarkets would be near empty.:D

PolishBigSpender

Inactive wrote: »

Well if it wasn't for " foreign stuff " our supermarkets would be near empty.:D

Post of the year, I think

I really wonder what a British supermarket would be like if you removed all the 'furrin muck' - I imagine the shelves would resemble Poland circa 1981

I don't seek out a Polish shop in the UK immediately after landing. I don't take stuff with me to the UK to eat - and even though my opinion of British food is hardly high, the vast range of international food available in the UK means that I really have no reason to hunt down "Polski Sklep" to feed myself.

I'd love to know where the original poster is in fact going.

Kavanne

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

I don't seek out a Polish shop in the UK immediately after landing. I don't take stuff with me to the UK to eat - and even though my opinion of British food is hardly high, the vast range of international food available in the UK means that I really have no reason to hunt down "Polski Sklep" to feed myself.

I'd love to know where the original poster is in fact going.

Can you recommend a food or dish to introduce me to polish food? In Southampton we have many polski skleps but I have no idea where to start! I like trying new cuisines so any help you can offer would be appreciated big spender!!

costapkt

Inactive wrote: »

Well if it wasn't for " foreign stuff " our supermarkets would be near empty.:D

Well. I do not eat it.

Becles

Quasar wrote: »

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 think it depends on the children. We were in Turkey earlier in the year and our children are 12, 10 and 2. The hotel served mainly Turkish food, but our children tucked in and tried all sorts of new dishes. However there was another family who kept complaining every meal time as they wanted things like fish fingers and chicken nuggets and they refused to try any of the Turkish food. They seemed to have chips for nearly every meal.

Even when my children went abroad as babies, they just ate mushed up local food, to save dragging loads of baby food jars with us.