what can you buy in canada that u can't buy here?

[cheeryface]

and what can you buy here that you cant get in canada ?

info appreciated!

apart from all the yummy grub, what else makes canada great ??

Friendly people, lots of opportunities, lower cost of living, beautiful country... (this thread is making me homesick!). But there are lots of great things about the UK too, which is why I live here.

Mounties cheeryface, oh the Mounties...sigh

I loved KD when I was a child. So much so that I was amazed that you could like actually make mac and cheese with.... mac and cheese (and a bit of milk, flour and butter) and that it doesn't have to be orange! I suspect my DD would love it.

This thread is not helping my homesickness either and I've lived here (UK) for almost 20 years

AlbertaWR, where are you from? I'm from Edmonton, but pining to move back to Calgary (heresy!) or Vancouver (where all my Canadian family and friends also aspire to live ).

can you get moose burgers?

I like to live in canada. Is it cold?

Purdys

All my Rellies (mostly in Vancouver area) take home loads of Bisto & Cadburys.

Candian Ice Wine (BUY BUY BUY!). i love the stuff. it is expensive though and probably more an Ontario thing.

newkid: I'm also from Edmonton, but have family scattered all over the country, in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario. Oh yes, Vancouver is gorgeous. I think everyone wants to live there, hence why it's so expensive!

my brother is at vancouver island. Parksville

You can get perogies here - they're not Canadian they're Eastern European! (I don't love the ones I find in East London, but they're ok.)

Other things you can get there but not here:

• better range of Aveeno
• root beer
• good bagels, but only in Montreal, Toronto bagels are gross
• iboprofen and paracetamol in big jars, not blister packs
• rubbing alcohol (to clean wounds/spots/whatever)
• lots of sweets
• Laura Secord easter eggs
• Tristan and Isault clothes, which I quite like
• jeans etc are bought unhemmed and hemmed to the right length for you (free, by the store)

Things you can get here but not there:

• lots of sweets
• marmite? I think? although why you'd want it, I don't know
• I'm sure there's loads more, I don't notice what I can't get there, iyswim, as I live here.

Oh, out there, he can get nanaimo bars, those are great, if gross

This yum yum and its blardy gorgeous!!!

Tim Hortons!

Coffee Crisp

Cheezies (not the mushy cheese puffs)

Beef Jerky

Infant Tylenol (Paracetamol equivalent but 1 ml dose instead of 5 ml.)

vitamins

Philly cream cheese in a brick (hence delicious cheese cake)

Graham crackers.

Fruit leather

Clothes from Please Mum and Roots.

Sports equipment.

Root beer and Cream soda

Lobster

Dry Smoked Salmon

Work books with metric and Canadian content.

Perogies

Anything crafty

Large bottles of anything from Costco

Cake mix

Pie plates

Should I just quit?

Can you tell that I am getting my list ready for going back 'home' on Friday?

My UK list is just about as long now that we are in switzerland though.

We miss Penguins, Snowballs, Beer, Cornish Pasties, Real, proper children's shoes...

(DH is now taunting me with: "say Fruit-shoots"... I've been here too long!)

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