Hot sauce! Also brown sugar and specific medications. :) I've tried hard to find suitable replacements or whatever locally as much as possible, and that has worked for almost everything else. I mean, I miss root beer and good salsa, but sometimes I can find acceptable versions in Germany, and bringing them back just doesn't feel worth it.
I almost always end up bringing second-hand books back with me, though. It's not that English-language books are that hard to find here, but the market is obviously bigger in the USA. And occasionally there are specific things made by a small-scale creator or whatever that will only ship within the USA, so sometimes we treat ourselves with those.
We really should have gotten some hot sauce. I’ve made brown sugar once since getting here and now just need to find some molasses and keep experimenting.
I'm interested to see how people will answer that. Back in 1970, when we packed for a year in England, my mom packed JiffyPop - good forethought as it became the entertainment of a birthday party for my sister. Her English friends were unfamiliar with the popcorn-at-home concept ("it tastes like poly-styrene")
Hot sauce! Also brown sugar and specific medications. :) I've tried hard to find suitable replacements or whatever locally as much as possible, and that has worked for almost everything else. I mean, I miss root beer and good salsa, but sometimes I can find acceptable versions in Germany, and bringing them back just doesn't feel worth it.
I almost always end up bringing second-hand books back with me, though. It's not that English-language books are that hard to find here, but the market is obviously bigger in the USA. And occasionally there are specific things made by a small-scale creator or whatever that will only ship within the USA, so sometimes we treat ourselves with those.
We really should have gotten some hot sauce. I’ve made brown sugar once since getting here and now just need to find some molasses and keep experimenting.
Oh nice, I've never tried that!
Just remembered: antiperspirant deodorant. Most German versions contain gelatin (!?) and the few that don't just aren't that great.
I have started to find some hot sauces I like (sambal oelek!) but nothing beats Crystal sauce.
I'm interested to see how people will answer that. Back in 1970, when we packed for a year in England, my mom packed JiffyPop - good forethought as it became the entertainment of a birthday party for my sister. Her English friends were unfamiliar with the popcorn-at-home concept ("it tastes like poly-styrene")
Thankfully we can find popcorn kernels easily because movie theater popcorn comes prepackaged at the 2 theaters we’ve been to.
that is so smart and so funny!
American chilli powder and cheap but good razor blades
Great now I’m just thinking about chilli powder…