There are somethings you really don't appreciate until they're gone.
Cheese. If you'd asked me before I left just how much of a place in my heart cheese had, I would have estimated, 'perhaps a little more of a place than squash, but less of a place than chocolate'. Turns out cheese is an issue I really care about. Cheese here infuriates me for a numbers of reasons (well, mostly two reasons). All cheese is really expensive - we'll come to that in a bit. The bigger problem is that some of the really expensive stuff that's called 'cheese' is some sort of abomination. It's yellow (and not a cheese-colour yellow) and orange (likewise) all mixed together in an illegitimate marriage... in very large blocks. The other main option is 'pizza mozzarella', which is hard and comes in large rectangles. Mozzarella is not hard and shouldn't really come in cuboid shapes... *cheese purist*.
Given such parameters it seems reasonable to reject this 'cheese' given that it's also stupidly expensive. The problem comes in the shops which actually sell 'real' cheese (of which there are a pleasently surprising number). They sell cheese, but it may as well be gold. By point of comparison, a small chunk of red leicester (yes, I accept it's imported) would cost me the equivalent of 6 or 7 quid?! And don't even start me on gouda... So they tempt me with all of this nice real cheese and then price me out of it... :( *sigh*
Squash. Squash is less of a problem, but now that I can't have it, I want it (i know, classic psychology, I just need to stop being so damned normal...). The Canadians don't do squash. They do suspicious powder to put in drinks (and not very much of that). In fact they like powder over here - there are, like, a million and one flavours of powder to put on popcorn (yet none of them sweet. Fail.). Today I discovered the true price of squash. We came across a random newsagent that imnports British stuff and got very excited when we found Robinsons squash (and PG Tips, Twiglets, and proper Heinz Baked Beans... You could even choose to spend $6 on a Daily Mail, if you were particularly desperate...). However, you discover how much you truely like squash when you find out that it comes with a price tag of nearly $8. At that point you discover where your loyalties truely lie...
They probably will do frozen concentrated juice-in-a-can, that tastes like Squash when you put it in a jug and pour water into it... Try that.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's unfortunately expensive for food for no apparent reason.
Sounds as though you're having fun though (apart from the cheesy cravings!)
Yeah, it was defnitely the right decision. I'm content doing this and having fun so far (I've also got myself a job that involves free skiing :D But more about that in another post)
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, food in general is ridiculously expensive - unless you want to eat eat, for which it's relatively cheap... weird...
You're up blogging very early? (late? *confused*)
I mean 'eat out'
ReplyDeleteThey have no idea about cheese over there,.. it's really sad. Though eating out in my experience was very cheap compared with home.
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