During your travels, have you ever found a product you love but can't get at home

[katiemack Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close katiemack]

When we were in Aruba several years ago, I got a cold and had to visit the local pharmacy to search out a remedy. I use homeopathics at home, and was hoping to find something like what I used at home.

I picked up a bottle of a homeopathic remedy that was fantastic...it really kicked the cold out fast. So, before I went home I bought a couple of bottles (about 100 tablets per bottle).

This product cannot be bought here. I wish I could find it, but it doesn't seem to exist in any form.

The same thing with some of the food products we have come upon, in Aruba and in Italy. Many are far superior to what our local stores sell.

How about you....is there something that you discovered along your travels that you wish you could get here in the U.S.?

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

Mega Giant Pineapples from believe it or not PR. These babies were huge but you could only get them at the airport.

[RESORT2ME Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close RESORT2ME]

DW!

[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

In St. Maarten there's a rosemary and black olive cracker that we used with our cheese/crackers and wine happy hours. I cannot find them anywhere.

[joycapecod Silver Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close joycapecod]

In Greece there is an ice cream that is very, very white (more so than conventional vanilla) and has just a touch of mint. It is of course full fat and the flavoring is made from mastic which come from the island of Chios...

Even being full fat the ice cream is delicate. It is sold under several name but
Kaimaki is the one that comes to mind.

Joy

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

Jacob's Cream Crackers from the U.K. They're inexpensive, ordinary crackers over there, but over here you can only find them in fancy gourmet shops, and they're fabulously expensive and usually stale. I remember in the 1990s, my DH's aunt brought a whole extra suitcase on her London vacation so she could fill it with Jacob's Cream Crackers on the way home.

For a while we had a big "international" grocery store that carried import Jacob's Cream Crackers in a big tin. They had them once and then never again....

Also, McVitie's Digestives with chocolate on one side. These are, again, just ordinary plain good cookies over there, but here they're pricey delicacies. Some big grocery stores here have started carrying similar cookies, but the McVitie's are the best.

[JWC Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close JWC]

Not really. There are a lot of products from Mexico that we like but they are readily available here in the Mexican markets.

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

Clotted cream. It's just as well that I can't get it here.

[logan115 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close logan115]

Jacob's Cream Crackers from the U.K. They're inexpensive, ordinary crackers over there, but over here you can only find them in fancy gourmet shops, and they're fabulously expensive and usually stale. I remember in the 1990s, my DH's aunt brought a whole extra suitcase on her London vacation so she could fill it with Jacob's Cream Crackers on the way home.

For a while we had a big "international" grocery store that carried import Jacob's Cream Crackers in a big tin. They had them once and then never again....

Also, McVitie's Digestives with chocolate on one side. These are, again, just ordinary plain good cookies over there, but here they're pricey delicacies. Some big grocery stores here have started carrying similar cookies, but the McVitie's are the best.

On the flipside, I travelled to London last month for work and prior to the trip many of my UK-based co-workers begged me to bring Reese's peanut butter cups Best $10 I ever spent as they were more co-operative than usual as each day I was able to get a bit more out of them by telling them if they helped me out with ______ I'd bring in another bag tomorrow.......

Chris

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

I'll have to check the Mexican stores now that there are a few of them hereabouts, but Golden nuts, con limon are the greatest. Some now even call them "Tony's Golden Nuts" since I promote them so highly.

[buff Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close buff]

In 1984 I found a beautiful brown skinned girl in Martinique I spent 3 days with. I couldn't put her in my suitcase and knew I would never find another woman like her in nyc

[vintner Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close vintner]

Now that must have been a nice trip buff.

I think I would have to say some of the foods. We ate at a seafood festival at the fairgrounds at St. Augustine that was such a selection of wonderful flavors that I will never see again.

Also, found some spices/seasonings by a vendor there. All local made and sold, so I won't get replacements on thoses either.

[logan115 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close logan115]

I'll have to check the Mexican stores now that there are a few of them hereabouts, but Golden nuts, con limon are the greatest. Some now even call them "Tony's Golden Nuts" since I promote them so highly.

Not sure how much of a sales driver that's gonna be.......

Chris

[GrayFal Silver Contributor and supermoderator Find all posts View Profile Close GrayFal]

In St. Maarten there's a rosemary and black olive cracker that we used with our cheese/crackers and wine happy hours. I cannot find them anywhere.

I think Trader Joes has a similar cracker - check it out.
And Amazon.com

[GrayFal Silver Contributor and supermoderator Find all posts View Profile Close GrayFal]

I'll have to check the Mexican stores now that there are a few of them hereabouts, but Golden nuts, con limon are the greatest. Some now even call them "Tony's Golden Nuts" since I promote them so highly.

I have my last bag here right now tony - and agree - I like the limon the best.
I am going to try amazon.com

In 1984 I found a beautiful brown skinned girl in Martinique I spent 3 days with. I couldn't put her in my suitcase and knew I would never find another woman like her in nyc

I am hoping that instead of stuffing her in the suitcase, you married her...