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Post by teddymaker on Sept 7, 2005 23:30:43 GMT 10
Actually Beth, they were Walmart brand, a cheap copy of Doritos...I only saved a buck and they were nasty!...So you didn't miss much!!!!!...Sorry you can't get them, I'm really surpised you can't cause Frito-Lay is such a big company...Maybe if you e-mail them and ask if they can make them available there  they might...Just a thought |
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Post by braided-rug on Sept 8, 2005 10:42:18 GMT 10
I am surprised that Woolworths don't have them, but I guess they have reasons for the brands they stock. I have always thought I would like to look at the Chrisco NZ catalogue to see what the food is like there. I should have quizzed our NZ friends when they were here a few months ago, since they have lived in Oz as well.
Lays looks like a wonderful chip, I haven't tasted them, but we have our local chip manufacturers already, so they are in competition with them.
Do you guys in the US have the new asian flavoured chips, they are very unusual?
Maybe the Mexican food hasn't caught on in NZ yet, most people in Australia started buying cornchips about 5-10 years ago when Mexican came in and the El Paso brand of tacos etc. I know our shop in a medium town started stocking mexican styled cheese, but stopped again, I guess the demand wasn't high. I have started using mozzerella as a substitute, I read it somewhere, for Monterey Jack.
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Post by braided-rug on Sept 8, 2005 14:08:20 GMT 10
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Post by teddymaker on Sept 9, 2005 0:15:13 GMT 10
Havent seen the asian flavored chips braidedrug...Lays are okay chips, I like our local brands better...I'm not a big doritos fan, dh loves them...I do like cheese curls alot, preferably the white cheddar, YUM!!!!!...I'm gonna check out your link now!!!
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Post by teddymaker on Sept 9, 2005 0:18:54 GMT 10
They are kinda pricey!!!!!
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Post by braided-rug on Sept 9, 2005 11:36:00 GMT 10
Things cost heaps more down under than in American, heaps. When my dh went there a few years back we wished he could take more money and bring back some more clothes. I depends on the exchange rate though, the next time wasn't so good.
We get paid more an hour, and things cost more to buy, I think that is the simple explanation. I think we get $12.
Chrisco is a little expensive apparently. I still love it at Christmas though. Our local grocery is not cheap anyway. Some people in town travel 1 1/2 hours to buy food, I just get the odd thing out of town if we happen to go there. Last time I bought rice stick noodles to try and cake icing jells, my ds wanted black.
I still think Bluebird is the same as our company that makes Twisties. Twisties are so nice.
We usually buy Doritos if we are making dhs nachos, the kids are not keen on the bean part, but they eat it and enjoy the meal. He boils up tomatoes and kidney beans (we don't have the ones you use in the country areas) and onions.
Cheese curls sound really good, wish I could try those. I'll eat anything with cheddar on it. Our kids go through 2lbs of cheddar very quickly, much more than they used to, it used to last 2 weeks.
That was the NZ site, NZ's economy was bad, but it is getting much better apparently. Alot of NZ's came to live in Australia but I have heard they are going back now. They came here for a better life financially. Australia has its own Chrisco site and I didn't know Canada had Chrisco now.
Do you have a Christmas hamper club in the US?
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Post by beth on Sept 11, 2005 13:51:03 GMT 10
Hey, Teddymaker - nyah-nyah-nyah! Hah! Now I don't feel so bad that you 'teased' me with an imitation. :-)
NZ has such a small market (only 4 million people in an area the size of/about California) so it's not exactly on the top of everybody's list of places to conquer. Things are slowly coming in - 3 years ago you couldn't get bagels, bacon bits, Captain Morgan Spiced Rum, jalapenos (still can only get them in a jar), Dr Pepper or Diet Dr Pepper (still can only get a local version, and it's in a can - yuck), Oreos, etc. Old El Paso now has a fairly large range of Mexican foods here. There are assorted other bits and pieces - maraschino cherries, Viennetta Ice Cream, some Kraft, some Sara Lee, Campbells - still, those last three brands are tailored for a NZ market.
Like, we have Kellogg's Raisin Bran, but the flakes are different here; in the US it was my fave cereal, here I don't bother with it.
The thing I miss most about American chips is the barbeque chips. There really isn't a decent bbq flavored chip here. Does Lays still make the Gourmet Applewood BBQ and (Smoked?) Cheddar chips? Mmmm those were gorgeous.
You can get corn chips here now, Braided, but nothing like the corn chips in the US, really - well, sorta, I guess. Nothing like Fritos cornchips, though. Do you have those in Australia?
And, despite local opinion, an "American hotdog" is NOTHING like a real American hotdog! LOL
Um...yeah there are some bluebird chips here. I only get the Eta ones - and only a couple of those. I like the Ready Salted (thin and Ripples) and the Chili and Sour Cream ones, and that's about it, really. Oh - the (Bluebird) Grainwaves (think Sun Chips, Americans) but only the Sour Cream and Onion ones.
I make less money here in NZ (about the same number figure, or a little more, per hour, but with the exchange rate, much less) but things cost a bigger PROPORTION of the salary. Like, in the US, a meal at McDonalds would cost me 1/3 of my salary; here it's nearly half. I used to complain about the price of 20oz bottles of soda/fizzy in the US when it got up close to $1; here, it's the equivalent of about $1.50-1.80us.
Some things are cheaper but lots of things are more expensive, proportionately.
Like, a smallish bag of Grainwaves is nearly $4nz which is nearly $3US.
I think the cheapest I've ever bought capsicum is about $1.50 each and often it's closer to $2 each - $2 would be $1.40 in the US - where I came from, capsicum (bell peppers) were almost free, although I do have to say that they were grown locally. ;-)
Elizabeth
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Post by braided-rug on Sept 11, 2005 16:41:03 GMT 10
Bell peppers are nasty. What I mean to say is that years ago, I bought a red pepper instead of green when we were on a tight budget and didn't realise the difference in price. These days I am very careful, sometimes they are the same price, most times not.
Oreos I was first introduced to in the Chrisco boxes. The kids loved them. When we got our black and white cat last Christmas they wanted to name it Oreo, apparently people do that.
I forgot you don't have sultanas there. Our raisin bran is sultana bran, I love the taste of it, and wondering if our flakes are like the kiwi ones or the States ones or just our own. It is so confusing.
In Australia Coles has their own label of soda which makes things cheaper, we try not to buy it it doesn't go far with five children. Although I think some of the cheaper are very cheap these days. My son buys the supermarket/grocery ones on trips to save buying expensive cans etc.
In the older days Eta was a nice brand, probably still is. I think we ate Eta nuts etc. when Mum entertained.
Beth if you could help me with what a real hotdog is supposed to taste like that would be great, as inquiring minds wish to know as they say on boards.
I get footy franks, or large red hotdogs, but have since heard that you can use bratwurst. Which is the real one if any? Still trying to learn how to use sauerkraut with them, just need to give it a go. We had a can of sauerkraut on Friday with a can of potatoes, all fried with onions, I was impressed because the sauerkraut was from Belgium, even though it was Edgell. Edgell is supposed to be American owned these days.
We don't have Fritos, and I would love to try the real cornchips. The ones here, the plain ones are hard to eat, they can get stuck in your throat, which is not good.
When I was little BBQ was a favorite flavour, now I am wondering about what the other BBQ flavour is like.
Do you find jalapenos to be the same? I find the jar ones far too hot, do most Americans think that?
Spiced rum is like tabasco sauce?
I have a ggg?grandma called Sarah Lee, I am pretty pleased with that lol.
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Post by beth on Sept 11, 2005 18:57:25 GMT 10
Hey, Braided and all, I'm thinking of trying to grow capsicum this year. Anyone have any experience with that? I love gardening but have never been into growing herbs (til I moved here) or fruit/vege, but I'd like to, I think. Yeah, I've heard of people naming pets after all sorts of things; "Oreo" wouldn't surprise me at all. :-) Sometimes, nothing beats an Oreo. :-) I've found a couple other cookies here that I really like, but when I just have to have that 'something familiar', it's an Oreo. I think we do have sultanas here. Not sure. Now that you mentioned it, Kelloggs may call it Sultana Bran here, but it LOOKS like raisins. It's the bran flakes that kill it for me. I'm guessing you'd have the same thing we have, as what we have is PROBABLY Aussie. ;-) You mentioned Eta nuts - well, another thing that is not here is honey roasted cashews! Argh! Eta has finally come out with some honey roasted peanuts but no cashews yet. I can't help with the taste of a real hotdog. It's like nothing else, really, that I can compare it to. But, for one thing, sausages in the states are 'meatier' than sausages here in NZ. The closest in texture to a real hotdog might be something like Sizzlers if you have those, but the taste is not close. (Speaking of sausages, I think I would do about anything for a "Jimmy Dean brand" breakfast sausage biscuit! LOL) You can get bratwurst?! I don't think we can here! I found a humourous site about brats, which are sausages rather than hotdogs: www.bratwurstpages.com/brats.htmlI'd say the footy franks are DEFINITELY not the real deal, because that sounds like what htey call an American hotdog here. Sauerkraut is good, but coleslaw or chili is more popular in the American south. I've eaten jalapenos for years so I don't think they're 'too' hot - I actually think fresh are hotter. Nothing like biting into English mustard or wasabi for the first time, though. Different kind of 'hot'. Spiced rum is like tabasco sauce? I have a ggg?grandma called Sarah Lee, I am pretty pleased with that lol. |
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Post by Admin on Sept 12, 2005 5:10:15 GMT 10
Here in the south we serve hot dogs and brats sometimes with sauerkraut baked in the oven and served with mashed potatoes.
We also serve them both on a bun. And yes in the deep south we love cole slaw on our hot dogs. Yum
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Post by braided-rug on Sept 12, 2005 11:50:53 GMT 10
I first had coleslaw with sausage on a bun at a church here in our town. Because there are alot of German's here I guess that is why.
So that is why we have brats and good quality sauerkraut called Seeburger from Austria, apart from the canned one.
Sultanas are Amercian raisins Beth, it has taken me awhile to work some of that out.
Capsicums grow well with hotter weather I think, we used to grow them.
I have been making breakfast sausage from sausage mince that you get in the meat section here, traditionally it is used to make sausage rolls, at least in Australia. It tastes nice. Whether it is exactly the same, I will have to go the States to find out lol.
People down under get the chocolate ripple biscuits/cookies and make a kind of dessert by sandwiching them together with whipped cream. Maybe that is a good Oreo substitute?
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Post by beth2 on Sept 12, 2005 20:07:13 GMT 10
Ahem. Braided. Let's get ONE thing straight. Okiedokie? There is NO substitute for Oreos. None. Nada. Zilch. Comprende? <big grin>
Oreo. There IS no substitute.
Now, be a Bart Simpson and write that on the chalkboard 100 times.
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Wife to Alister
Stepmum to two grown "kids"
Mum to two spoiled felines
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Post by braided-rug on Sept 12, 2005 22:50:43 GMT 10
Um, how about those chocolate Arnott's ones in the mix? I think I had better run. Not that I remember them very well, at $7 I don't buy them anymore, maybe they don't exist.
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Post by teddymaker on Sept 13, 2005 1:00:08 GMT 10
My nephew's cat is named Oreo ;D....we now have many flavors of Oreo's, there are peanut butter cream, mint cream, double stuff(double the cream), uh Oh oreo's(The cookie part is vanilla and the cream is chocolate), and chocolate covered Oreo's....I have a friend from England who moved to the states and he is in love with the peanut butter Oreo's. Oh and I love a good hot dog, with chili sauce and cheese ....and bratwurst with hot and sweet mustard and grilled onions  Good stuff!!!...Speaking of Fritos, my niece was saying that she likes to eat them with Reeses peanut butter cups ;D sounds like a pms thing to me!!!! |
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Post by beth2 on Sept 13, 2005 7:18:17 GMT 10
Yes, braided - RUN! :-)
Jayne - no, no, no, no, no, NO! All those other Oreo flavours are wanna-bes. They may have hijacked the Oreos name, but they can never, never, never, never be as good as the original. Ever! :-D
But...ooooh...peanut butter? Hmmmm. I *could* be tempted. I'll just pretend it's called something other than Oreo. ;-)
Be careful when you say 'chili sauce' when there's a Kiwi or an Aussie around - they'll think you're talking about sweet red chili (Thai) sauce, which is a whole 'nother thing altogether. Yes, they put that on their "American" hotdogs here! I love the sweet red chili sauce on fish or chicken but not on 'dogs. ;-)
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they might...Just a thought
Good stuff!!!...Speaking of Fritos, my niece was saying that she likes to eat them with Reeses peanut butter cups ;D sounds like a pms thing to me!!!!