Hello !
Have you ever came over all misty-eyed in front of a super market shelve on the sight of your favorite cookies ?
Have you cheered up in the view of this specific sauce you were using at your BBQ parties when you were in your home country ? I don't know about you, but I have done this ! Of course, I am not the typical example as I love cooking and nice food, but again... I am pretty sure that any expat could complete a long list of missing foods, chocs, biscuits, drinks... on the spot !
Missing the food and tastes we were used to all those years in our country is more than usual. It happens every time. We tend to enter a super market in our new homeland, seeking to find exactly the same products (needless to say also aligned in the same way as in our previous supermarket...).
It's also normal, foods and tastes to remind us home, to bring us memories; who could deny that, as a philosophy, food is a social action ? We link food with family gatherings, joys and sorrows, successes and failures...
This time, I will only give you the following tips that I would definitely follow :
1. Do not accept any visit to your new home from a friend or relative UNLESS if he brings the maximum amount of your favorite snacks he is allowed to with him.
2. Try to order online (if it is legal of course !)
3. Save to your piggy bank for those products (in some countries the prices are extremely high...)
4. Last but not least : Forget what I have told you before about food and sharing. This does not apply in that case.
IF you find them, DON'T share them ! :)
Just enjoy them !!!
