aliz

oh my god, when i'm away from australia I miss everything... violet crumbles, chicos, minties, fantales, snakes, tim tams, wagon wheels, peppermint crisps... oh and after talking about this with another aussie in london, we realised that peppermint crisps kinda need explaining. english people get horrified because they think we're talking about a bag of peppermint flavoured potato chips. a peppermint crisp is a chocolate bar with this magical mysterious crispy peppermint stuff inside. soo good.

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zylah

So many treats, so many calories, lets see yes i love stroop waffles, and olebolen and specelas (lidl in UK sells some near xmas time- along with peffernoote)
hmm and ANY italian gelati is super, we had so many different flavours and they were all good.
ohh but my altime favorite might have to be the deepfried Mars Bar. it sounds totally disgusting but is sooooo worth it.

treats i miss from OZ are Milo (why dont they sell it in the UK??) and cherry ripes. (Its a coconut and cherry mix coverend in dark chocolate.
sigh im soo hungry now

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d_fresh

not candy, but the first thing I had to have when I got back was a Tim Horton's coffee.

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aliz

^^ you just made me miss canada so much.

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MolsonGirl

Haha Jake now knows all about the Joys of Tim Hortons and their food. Especially the "everything" bagel, toasted with butter... mmmmmmmm

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MeTurk

Aliz, we have wagon wheels here in Europe. Usually you can only buy them in packs of 16 though.

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aliz

16? are they the mini ones? back in the old days when i was in primary school they were sold individually, and they were huuuuuuge. they havve gradually shrunk over the years. although, i had much smaller hands back then so i thought maybe they just seem smaller now, but my dad confirmed that they definitely have shrunk. still good though.

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BigE

My favorite is not exactly a candy but a cookie. When I was a kid, my dad would get a box of Liebeplätzchen from a woman he knew when he was a kid living in Germany every year during Christmas. The cookies were almost live a gingerbread cookie that had a waffer on the top with a sugar glaze. They were very good. The woman has since died and I can't seem to find it. When I google "Liebeplätzchen" I end up with German porn.

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TheJake

tim hortons = amazing bagels.

Apparently they have a few tim horton's here in colombus so I might make mike take me to one before hitting the airport!

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travelchick75

:D My fave food in the UK has got to be rockies, those babies rock my world like you'll never know! And from home it has to be Tim Hortons, Tim hortons basicallly kept me alive when i was in school, nothing was more comforting after 30 hours of travel then when i finally got through security and smelled Tim Hortons Coffee for the first time in 3 months.

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micdans

sugar = amazing!


anyone have the desire to own a parcel of land and grow their own everything? i do.

DharmaBum

SOO EFFING TASTY!!!!!!!!!!!!! my awesome friend in Ireland mailed me one.

raoulduke

Old thread I know but I stumbled across it and thought I might add.

I met a guy in Berlin who bought a packet of Pim's from Belgium (also available in Spain) they were awesome! Chocolate covered things with some weird cross between biscuit and marshmallow inside. You can get them filled with flavours but the regular ones were awesome enough.

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lauren313

I had a caramel Rocky last night, it was yummy. But my friend and I were discussing how they used to be far bigger and chunkier, the chocolate used to be about half a centimetre thick, it was amazing.

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mbo108

That sounds damn good. But i prefer Belgian chocolate...

MeTurk

Actually come to think of it they used to sell them here too. chocolate with little bit's of green crispy peppermint. The wrapper was like a almost plain paper wrapper.

there about 3 inches in diameter, there individually wrapped but in packs of 8 or 16, you never see them sold separately.

Rocky bars are class too, especially with a nice cup of tea.

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lauren313

You can still get a peppermint crisp type chocolate bar in the UK... just not called a peppermint crisp. Even Dairy Milk does a peppermint crisp variety.

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raoulduke

You can still get peppermint crisps in Oz, they come in a green foil like wrapper.

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