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If you knew then, what you know now
Topic Started: Feb 1 2010, 12:35:31 AM (2,190 Views)
CynicalCountess	Feb 4 2010, 12:07:56 PM Post #21
True Blue Mate Posts: 595 Group: Members** Member #3,432 Joined: Dec 24, 2009 I come from... Knoxville, TN I now live in... Newtown, Sydney, NSW	They sell TimTams at Target, man! Pepperidge Farm puts them out.



blarg	Feb 4 2010, 02:23:44 PM Post #22
True Blue Mate Posts: 977 Group: Members** Member #2,865 Joined: Oct 18, 2008 I come from... Portland, Oregon I now live in... Sydney Area, NSW	And for us people who love Vegemite, you can certainly get it in the US. http://www.simplyoz.com/products/aussie_food/groceries/vegemite



SanDiablo	Feb 4 2010, 09:01:27 PM Post #23
True Blue Mate Posts: 996 Group: Members** Member #280 Joined: May 1, 2007	I saw Milo at Safeway when I was in California over Christmas!
	"I'll try anything twice."


crapola	Feb 4 2010, 09:19:24 PM Post #24
True Blue Mate Posts: 693 Group: Members** Member #2,773 Joined: May 21, 2008 I come from... southaussieland I now live in... southaussieland I'm planning to move to... the nearest freezer...	SanDiablo Feb 4 2010, 09:01:27 PM I saw Milo at Safeway when I was in California over Christmas! that milo (if made in china) is disgusting. i missed the different biscuit (cookie) varieties that we have here, and chicken chips and twisties. hmmm, aussie sausages, aussie lamb (could get kiwi lamb in alaska, but its got a different flavour), all the different lollies (candy), decent pizza, decent chocolate, cordial (even though we got used to kool aid). daughter just said she missed the first season of aussie idol...



crapola	Feb 4 2010, 09:23:32 PM Post #25
True Blue Mate Posts: 693 Group: Members** Member #2,773 Joined: May 21, 2008 I come from... southaussieland I now live in... southaussieland I'm planning to move to... the nearest freezer...	and now for things from america we miss... good mexican food, tortilla chips, kool aid, double stuffed & chocolate cream oreos, chex mix, clam chowder, hamburger/tuna helper, chili's (the restaurant), snow snow and more snow, sierra mist, iced tea, jello puddings, reeces peanut butter cups, costco, american sausages, former father-in-laws jambalaya, 24 hour supermarkets... i'm sure there's more that we'll think of...



CynicalCountess	Feb 4 2010, 09:33:32 PM Post #26
True Blue Mate Posts: 595 Group: Members** Member #3,432 Joined: Dec 24, 2009 I come from... Knoxville, TN I now live in... Newtown, Sydney, NSW	American Idol. A girl I graduated HS with is on this season.



Judy	Feb 4 2010, 10:57:29 PM Post #27
True Blue Mate Posts: 228 Group: Members** Member #2,859 Joined: Oct 17, 2008 I come from... Perth, Australia I now live in... Washington DC area I'm planning to move to... Somewhere in Australia	Things from America that I miss when I'm in Australia: stick deodorant, cheap jeans, cheap shoes, Reeses Pieces, snow, central heating. And I agree with Crapola about the Milo here. It just isn't worth buying. Edited by Judy, Feb 4 2010, 10:58:35 PM.



CynicalCountess	Feb 5 2010, 02:41:55 PM Post #28
True Blue Mate Posts: 595 Group: Members** Member #3,432 Joined: Dec 24, 2009 I come from... Knoxville, TN I now live in... Newtown, Sydney, NSW	Tortillas that don't fall apart and taste dry.



RachaelK	Feb 5 2010, 07:06:30 PM Post #29
True Blue Mate Posts: 276 Group: Members** Member #2,918 Joined: Nov 11, 2008 I come from... Upstate, NY I now live in... Elwood (Melbourne), VIC	For any Reeses lovers in the Melbourne area - there is a little store in Elwood that sells every Reeses product I've ever seen. They have them just in front of the counter: PB cups, pieces, white choc... There's about 10 different types. I thought of you all when I saw them!



jayde	Feb 6 2010, 12:08:04 AM Post #30
Yacker Posts: 37 Group: Members* Member #3,143 Joined: Jun 1, 2009 I come from... Queensland I now live in... Gold Coast I'm planning to move to... Gold Coast	SanDiablo Feb 4 2010, 07:13:06 AM aurora Feb 1 2010, 12:35:31 AM This one is a question from MUO's Boomerang Lounge , but thought y'all (!) might be better at answering this.....(don't know if I am in the right forum though) What is something that you would have brought with you to Oz that you did not? Out of curiosity, what sorts of things do the Aussie's miss that they cannot find in America?? Besides vegemite and timtams... besides my family of course, a few things come to mind, "sars", magnum ice blocks, mars bars, top deck chocolate, pavlova, lamingtons, mince pies, shortbread, the breads, the bacon sold there, custard from the milk aisle, some fruits, the different varieties of fish, the surf, the smell, covered car parks and driving out of the car park in the correct direction to get where I am going. of course I have found ways to substitute for most of the 'treats' but there is just no way to bottle the smells and sounds
	N400 approved Sep 2009. Australian Spouse Visa 309/100 applied for 21 Dec 2009 Medical criteria not met, so waiver application sent Medical Waived and 100 visa approved 12 July 2010


jenbrooklyn8	Feb 11 2010, 04:37:03 PM Post #31
True Blue Mate Posts: 111 Group: Members** Member #3,304 Joined: Sep 28, 2009 I come from... Upstate New York by way of CT, RI and Brooklyn NYC I now live in... Yarraville - reminds me of Brooklyn!	I think it's funny that Americans move to Australia and search for decent pizza while Australians move to America and do the same! I never saw so much ham on a pizza in my entire life before I moved to Melbourne and my step kids love it - barely any sauce, barely any cheese and an inch of ham! Blech! Of course, being from NYC all of my pizza memories from the states reside there and you really have to to be lost and misguided to find bad pizza in NYC..........
	Postcard from the edge of the world.........


shylady	Feb 11 2010, 05:57:01 PM Post #32
oldYank Posts: 4,802 Group: Members** Member #18 Joined: Feb 18, 2007 I come from... By the Shores of GitcheGumee (Longfellow) I now live in... Perth area, Western Australia	jenbrooklyn8 Feb 11 2010, 04:37:03 PM Of course, being from NYC all of my pizza memories from the states reside there and you really have to to be lost and misguided to find bad pizza in NYC.......... Boy, ain't THAT the truth!!!
	"I could�ve turned a different corner, I could�ve gone another place... " ku,'09


CynicalCountess	Feb 11 2010, 06:16:46 PM Post #33
True Blue Mate Posts: 595 Group: Members** Member #3,432 Joined: Dec 24, 2009 I come from... Knoxville, TN I now live in... Newtown, Sydney, NSW	I would learn to be comfortable using yeast - I miss having raw pizza dough (which I bought, rather than making my own) to use for calzones and stuff. I also miss good sandwich bread! Though my boy chucks his bread in the fridge; maybe that's why it tastes off. Edited by CynicalCountess, Feb 11 2010, 06:17:15 PM.



Bindie	Feb 11 2010, 07:35:54 PM Post #34
True Blue Mate Posts: 2,194 Group: Alumni Staff Member #43 Joined: Feb 18, 2007 I come from... The US, North America, Earth, The Milky Way I now live in... Canberra, ACT, Australia, Earth, The Milky Way	Really? I love the bread here. =)
	The future is no place/to place your better days, DMB Canberra, ACT since 2004


CynicalCountess	Feb 11 2010, 08:41:01 PM Post #35
True Blue Mate Posts: 595 Group: Members** Member #3,432 Joined: Dec 24, 2009 I come from... Knoxville, TN I now live in... Newtown, Sydney, NSW	My family only ate Autumn Grain. I miss it - so good.



RachaelK	Feb 12 2010, 08:04:42 PM Post #36
True Blue Mate Posts: 276 Group: Members** Member #2,918 Joined: Nov 11, 2008 I come from... Upstate, NY I now live in... Elwood (Melbourne), VIC	jenbrooklyn8 Feb 11 2010, 04:37:03 PM I never saw so much ham on a pizza in my entire life before I moved to Melbourne and my step kids love it - barely any sauce, barely any cheese and an inch of ham! Blech! Ahahaha!!! I think I had that pizza last weekend! I ordered the 'yank' pizza and there was SOOOO much ham on it and no sauce. It was good cold and not so bad hot after I put some sauce on it to make it not quite so dry... I decided today (now that I'm working and wearing work clothes) that I wish I had packed Dryell. Do they have something like that here? For at home 'dry cleaning'?



caspercorb	Feb 22 2010, 02:15:32 PM Post #37
Chinwagger Posts: 83 Group: Members* Member #3,407 Joined: Dec 4, 2009 I come from... Austin, TX I now live in... Melbourne	blarg Feb 2 2010, 04:45:17 PM In the end you just get used to the pricing. You innately know that $12/kg for mushrooms is expensive and $8/kg is cheap (in my area). Of course if you go to a market you can get it even cheaper, but my point is just that I found it most helpful to get a general feel for what the price normally looks like and then you can make your purchasing decisions on that. Last week Woolies were doing a sale on mushrooms. Such a good sale, only $14/kg. Uh, no thanks. This week they're back down to $11/kg and they're not on sale. Whatever. Had to laugh at those prices- I live blocks from Vic market and paid $2 for a kilo of mushrooms! It took us a whole week to eat that many mushrooms!
	Check it out- I'm Discovering Melbourne


blarg	Feb 22 2010, 02:23:44 PM Post #38
True Blue Mate Posts: 977 Group: Members** Member #2,865 Joined: Oct 18, 2008 I come from... Portland, Oregon I now live in... Sydney Area, NSW	Yup, when I go to Paddy's I get mushrooms for around $3-4 per kilo. Hence why we don't usually buy our produce at the supermarket.



Samantha	Mar 1 2010, 06:13:14 PM Post #39
True Blue Mate Posts: 317 Group: Members** Member #405 Joined: Aug 11, 2007 I come from... Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana I now live in... Adelaide I'm planning to move to... Staying in SA w/luck, the UK or TX if not :(	I miss cheap and reasonably priced everything. Except Greek Yogurt, a small tub of that stuff costs 6.00$ in the US and a nice big one about the same here. Thank you to Australia's substantial Greek population



Johnnynero	Mar 19 2010, 10:17:10 AM Post #40
Anklebiter Posts: 21 Group: Members Member #3,412 Joined: Dec 7, 2009 I come from... La Porte City, Iowa, USA I now live in... Adelaide, SA	Oh, god. The food. And American Target. The ability to find what you want, when you want, without having to go to 4 or 5 different places and ending up settling for something that's close. We brought everything we could. I wish we could have brought the 15 boxes still sitting at my Mom's house waiting to be shipped.


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