What do you miss most from home?

rtrewick · #1 (**permalink**) 12th August 2007, 01:42 PM

G'day my fellow aussies,

Please help me out! I will be starting up an online shop selling aussie food in the UK. I need to know what you guys & girls miss from Australia.
Let me know so I can get the website up & running.

Thanks

Rach

kyleishere · #2 (**permalink**) 14th August 2007, 01:05 AM

Are you looking just for food or for anything that people miss from home? I miss the people I used to know most of all.

rtrewick · #3 (**permalink**) 14th August 2007, 08:36 AM

I know what you mean... I'm going home for a holiday in November... It will be two years since I have seen my family & friends.

smcquie · #4 (**permalink**) 16th August 2007, 09:10 AM

other than sunshine....

arnott's bbq shapes
ooooh - savoury shapes too!
golden gaytime ice creams (these won't post well though)
mint patties
redskins
golden roughs
cherry ripe!!! (how could I forget??)
Peppermint crisp
life savers - fizzy tingles, and those musk ones
oh - and while I am asking... I want chips - not CRISPS! and I don't mean those pathetic 'walkers' skinny ones... I mean Samboy or Smiths ridged thick ones - tomato flavoured ones and salt and vinegar. On the topic of chips, french fries that aren't hollow inside please - you know the ones I mean.
Most importantly I would buy loads of Aussie music from your shop. All the top Aussie bands on the charts - in fact you should have a part of your site that tells me what is hot back home - top 20 maybe!
I hope you oopen your shop soon!

rtrewick · #5 (**permalink**) 16th August 2007, 09:57 AM

Thanks for that mate.
I'm going Home in November for a hol so I'm looking at starting once I get back at the end of November. I'm on the hunt for a supplier at the moe. I will let you know when it's all up and running.

Penguins_Pet_Pumpkin · #6 (**permalink**) 16th August 2007, 10:10 AM

Find a partner who can provide American products too! There are several sites that provide American products abroad (foods, cleaning supplies, etc.) but they're missing quite a few things I'd love to have. My husband is getting very tired of going on business trips to America with my shopping list in his luggage.

smcquie · #7 (**permalink**) 1st September 2007, 12:07 PM

Do let us know when it's up and running. The best thing would be the aussie music - shops over here charge £15-20 for a CD, and I end up trawling eBay for things I want - I'd much rather go to a site like yours that told me what was hot and not charge ridiculous amounts for purchasing it. I have over a thousand CDs and I prefer to have the hard version rather than download - that's like going to a gig and closing your eyes! I'll pay a tenner for something good, but £20 is taking the mick. Hopefully you can find a supplier that makes it viable, since you need to make money too!

Ciao!

XX

rtrewick · #8 (**permalink**) 10th September 2007, 11:08 AM

I am just going to start off with the food side of things first and maybe do CDs later on. I do buy my own CDs from the Sanity website(it wont let me put a link in) and the price works out at about £11 including postage and I haven't had a problem yet!

MichelleAlison · #9 (**permalink**) 18th September 2007, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by smcquie

other than sunshine....

arnott's bbq shapes
ooooh - savoury shapes too!
golden gaytime ice creams (these won't post well though)
mint patties
redskins
golden roughs
cherry ripe!!! (how could I forget??)
Peppermint crisp
life savers - fizzy tingles, and those musk ones
oh - and while I am asking... I want chips - not CRISPS! and I don't mean those pathetic 'walkers' skinny ones... I mean Samboy or Smiths ridged thick ones - tomato flavoured ones and salt and vinegar. On the topic of chips, french fries that aren't hollow inside please - you know the ones I mean.
Most importantly I would buy loads of Aussie music from your shop. All the top Aussie bands on the charts - in fact you should have a part of your site that tells me what is hot back home - top 20 maybe!
I hope you oopen your shop soon!

Don't put our CRISPS down - my children are missing them like mad. South American ones aren't the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

smcquie · #10 (**permalink**) 18th September 2007, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by MichelleAlison

Don't put our CRISPS down - my children are missing them like mad. South American ones aren't the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry Michelle - I'm not meaning to be rude - they are perfectly good crisps. I'm just used to a much thicker variety and find sometimes that it's Walkers or nothing! Clearly they are very popular or I'd have much less trouble getting McCoys