NZ things I can’t get in London

This blog post was sitting in my drafts folder for years. I decided to post it retrospectively, with a few amendments.

• Proper Marmite: the Marmite in the UK is brown, rather than black. It just doesn’t taste as good (to me)

• Rice crackers: hmmm … with dip
  • edit: you can get these in some supermarkets
• Sweet Chilli Philly

• Tim Tams: these were available at the Kiwi/Aussie/SAFA/Canadian store – Penguins are an alternative, but they don’t work for the Tim Tam Slam.
• Lamingtons: although I did find a cafe in Shoreditch that had them
• A proper really good flat white: being from Wellington, I’m a snob about my coffee. Sacred cafes do the best in London.
  • edit: there are some good flat whites now…
• Reduced Cream: mixed with soup mixtures (Onion) for amazing dips

• Sugarfree V: although you can get regular V in some dairies / stores, if you don’t want the massive sugar hit, you can’t get sugarfree.
• Grain Waves
• Spirulina smoothies: seriously, getting a 1L smoothie with spirulina in it … I haven’t found that in London. You can get other green smoothies, but not with spirulina.

• Pineapple Lumps

• Chocolate fish: give that man a chocolate fish!

The moral of the story: bring me these things!