Australian Supermarkets and Chocolate - Any Good?

"H.B. Lasseter" wrote in message
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Spoken like a Pitt St. Farmer!!

You once could buy a wide assortment of merchandise from Farmers on Pitt
Street.

Regards

David Bennetts

"Kerry" wrote:

I went into Sydney yesterday. I bought some pepperooni, smoked blue tongue,
and a BBQ'd emu chicken. I was walking out of the David Jones Food Hall and
tripped over a kangaroo sleeping in the doorway. Something should be done
about kangaroos sleeping in doorways - don't you think?

Darned 'roos sleeping everywhere, bloody things have been in
the liquor section too long I reckon...

http://www.davidjones.com.au/services/food.jsp

I can put on 5 kilos just thinking bout that place. I used
to work in the office block above Centrepoint Tower and had
great difficulty keeping away from the Foodhall.

Sadly it's a crappy website for such a wonderful place.

Maybe the original poster would like to enquire about
specific foods apart from chocolate, coz if he has specific
esoteric dietary requirements they might be harder to find
here than in the bigger cities in the USA.

As another poster mentioned, some familiar things will have
different names, but on the whole we have everything you'd
expect to find in a big US store.

We won't have your "local favourites" but we will have
plenty of our own for you to try. Chocolates/candy bars are
a good place to start. I take violet crumble bars over to
the USA most trips. Tim Tams will be a big hit too for the
chocoholics. And so on...

Some things will be cheaper and others more expensive,
depends where and what it is.

Part of the fun will be cruising unfamiliar stores and
finding and trying all the new and different stuff...

Cheerz Mark.

The original posting related to chocolate. Perhaps this can reassure the
enquirer:-

http://www.bandt.com.au/news/7d/0c028f7d.asp

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The Commissioner

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"aussiemardi" wrote in message
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wrote:
Does Austalia have good, well stocked supermarkets like in the US and
Western Europe? Are the products high quality? How many brands of
chocolate are there? Do they have sport drinks?

I'm an Aussie in the US, and I can't wait to get back to Australia's
fantastic quality of food and especially chocolate. YUMMY!!!

Theres no chocolate like NZ Cadbury............... ddrrroooooolllll.

wrote in message
oups.com...
Tell me then, why do some countries with similar standard of living
indices not have very good food? But most importantly these are
question to ask people who live there and have visited the US. It's the
only way to get right answers to my questions.


Would you ask the same question of New Zealand? THey only have 4 million
people?

BTW, NZ has some of the tastiest food on earth, almost everything that Ive
eaten in the US taste like **** in comparison to NZ food.

Travel there, eat and repost. You will never feel the same way about home
town food again.

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oups.com...
Does Austalia have good, well stocked supermarkets like in the US and
Western Europe? Are the products high quality? How many brands of
chocolate are there? Do they have sport drinks?



The food in Australia much then the food on offer in the USA.


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Tell me then, why do some countries with similar standard of living
indices not have very good food?

Simple.

The average American in Japan ignores the high quality excellent
Japanese food all around him, and tries to find USAmerican food.
He finds the USAmerican style food in Japan to be comparatively
expensive and not quite the same as the food back home in the USA.
Ignoring all the very good high quality Japanese food, he complains
that Japan does not have very good food.

And he does the same elsewhere.


But most importantly these are
question to ask people who live there and have visited the US.

If they wear blinkers like our American friend does, then
they will of course complain that the US does not have very
good food.


It's the
only way to get right answers to my questions.

A better way to right answers, would be to cross-examine your criteria.

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:24:54 -0000, "www.poms.co.uk"
wrote:

Does Austalia have good, well stocked supermarkets like in the US and
Western Europe? Are the products high quality? How many brands of
chocolate are there? Do they have sport drinks?



The food in Australia much then the food on offer in the USA.

Errr....yeah..I think..um..

Cheers, Alan, Australia

"Alan S" wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:24:54 -0000, "www.poms.co.uk"
wrote:

Does Austalia have good, well stocked supermarkets like in the US and
Western Europe? Are the products high quality? How many brands of
chocolate are there? Do they have sport drinks?



The food in Australia much then the food on offer in the USA.

Errr....yeah..I think..um..

Cheers, Alan, Australia

Maybe his "then" should read "than.' Then it will make sense no matter what
he is trying to say. :-)

Gerrit

"Gerrit 't Hart" wrote in message
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"Alan S" wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:24:54 -0000, "www.poms.co.uk"
wrote:

Does Austalia have good, well stocked supermarkets like in the US and
Western Europe? Are the products high quality? How many brands of
chocolate are there? Do they have sport drinks?



The food in Australia much then the food on offer in the USA.

Errr....yeah..I think..um..

Cheers, Alan, Australia

Maybe his "then" should read "than.' Then it will make sense no matter
what
he is trying to say. :-)

Gerrit






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