Interesting - I guess I knew a lot of it - sort of by osmosis - I speak of the differences in culture spoken of.
hi there, margo and all! i had forgotten that wonderful name "sustromming" - our tourguide just raved about it. she claimed that at the close of summer - which seems to be the end of august- friends hold big parties at their summer-cottages and consume copious quantities of the stuff. glad we were there in early august or we might have been invited to partake. but i like smoked eel - which is difficult to get in canada - and it is just as appetizing to canadian born citizens as the aforementioned "sustromming" is to us! i still remember buying carp for our first christmas in canada in 1956 - the fishmonger didn't think i looked chinese at all; so what was i buying the carp for? a big puzzle to him! any other interesting food stories?
hello, c.i.: where you perhaps ordering "sustromming" with your breakfast at ihop? i'd prefer their pecan waffles. whenever we travel south - myrtle beach is usually as far south as we get - we find ihop a good place to stop. when i'm called "honey" by the waitress at a restaurant, i know we are getting close to our destination! i still don't know if it's my grey hair that makes them call me honey, or do i just simply look like the old fuddy-daddy that i am. sure wouldn't mind going southright now - the winter is getting to me - must be cabin fever.
We have inferior anchovies? Our anchovies - like cinnamon - yield to nothing!
Well, they're not really Oz anchovies - there don't appear to be such a critter! They're just the anchovies you can buy in Oz, and, while certainly having their uses, are decidedly inferior in the Janssen's Temptation stakes!
Here in California, we no longer know where our fruits and vegies come from, because many are imported from Mexico and other countries. I wonder what percentage comes from outside our country? c.i.
That's kinda funny, c.i. Almost all the fruits and veggies at my local grocery seem to be labelled 'grown in california'. You may need to come to tranna to get some quality u.s. produce.
Hi all -- When I visited Oz our tour guide Matt, encouraged us to try vegemite. He advised: "Piece of buttered toast, thin layer of vegemite, layer of eggs." I took his advice and tried it and I liked it very much, must have been the salt and the B12. One of our fellow travelors, who tried and did not like it, asked Matt if he really ate it growing up and he said, "Why of course. That's why I'm so tall."
Little k -- Where can you get it in Boston?
Many of our fruits and veggies don't have labels. c.i.
ahhh. ours do. tags on the broccoli, stickers on the oranges ... all kinds of markers.
edithdoll - I go to that import food-stuff store in Harvard Square - right in the big intersection.... hmmmm, I'll go look up the name.
hi, margo, c.i., edithdoll and ebeth: yea, lots of labels, and sometimes you have a hard time getting them off - we need the guy who managed to change the labels from "made in china" to "made in the USA' for george bush's backdrop when speaking to the u.s. workers - or perhaps the boxes came with reversible labels from china - sort of flip-flops ??? getting back to vegemite: how far do you usually stray of the original subject? i'm sure i didn't help matters by getting into MATJES, carp etc.... wouldn't mind some guidance! but what the heck: anchovies (and also SILD or APPETIT-SILD); my dad always had a jar of them around in germany - to be eaten with hard-boiled eggs. we can buy them at our local danish deli here - but the medical profession seems to think we should stay away from anything salty. now, that's sad - bye, bye, anchovies.....
hamburger, Most of us try to stay on subject, but sometimes a 180 degree tangent is unavoidable. Let's just say, we're flexible.
c.i.
hi c.i.: thanks for your advice; i'll try to stay a little more focused - which i find a bit difficult as i'm getting older - the mind does wander...........................sometimes! hi, littlek: what's the secret hidden in your message ..........???
hamburger, You'll welcome to go whereever man has not gone before. Just follow the rules, and you'll be okay.
c.i.
This year I'm probably going for Midsommar. I do hope there aren't any especially foul customs for that season - no-one has mentioned any, so far! 
