Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?

Figgy1

Figgy1

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JenniferS said:
Are two of the letters the same?
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Songbird76

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ajrwdwgirl said:
Butterfinger bells are just bell shaped butterfinger candy but the butterfinger stuff is crushed into the chocolate so it isn’t a big chunk of the butterfinger toffee stuff. I like the butterfinger toffee stuff but it always get stuck in my teeth, so with the bells and being crushed up I get the best of it without it getting stuck in my teeth.
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I will have to ask my best friend to send some so I can try them.
 
Songbird76

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Swissmiss said:
Oh I’m jealous that you can get the pumpkins and trees; we still only have "original" Reese’s here.
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Well, we didn't get them until last year....maybe you'll get them soon? There are so many things I couldn't get when I first moved here. I really learned how to cook and bake because so much stuff wasn't available, like Crisco and Baking Soda....I had to stock up when I was in the US and bring it back with me, or have my best friend send it. I still have to do that with butter extract because I still can't get that. But things like brownies, cheesecake, carrot cake....any cake really....they only have pound cake. I had to learn to make all of those things myself. There's no such thing as cool whip here, so I can't make anything with that in the ingredient list, and with cooking, there's no velveeta, no ranch dressing (I can make that from scratch, too), no stuffing. I did find a couple of websites that sell American products, but obviously they don't have everything. Have you ever ordered from American Groceries Europe? I'm pretty sure they are based in Belgium, because it used to be American Groceries Belgium. They were really small when they first started and I only used it when the site I usually used didn't have what I needed, but they grew pretty quickly and they've added some payment options because that was a problem for customers outside of Belgium. I don't know if they have the reeses trees and pumpkins, but I was able to get stuffing there a few weeks ago when my normal site didn't have it. I usually order from Kelly's Expat Shopping, but they've been getting worse and worse about selection and stocking. They have several shops in the Netherlands, but none near me, and some of the stuff you can't order online. But I've noticed that certain things, they don't have the brand name anymore, like instead of cheetos, they have Takis, and instead of pop tarts, they have toast 'ums. AGE still has the originals I think. Anyway, you might look there if there's something you miss that you can't find there.
 
Figgy1

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Songbird76 said:
Well, we didn't get them until last year....maybe you'll get them soon? There are so many things I couldn't get when I first moved here. I really learned how to cook and bake because so much stuff wasn't available, like Crisco and Baking Soda....I had to stock up when I was in the US and bring it back with me, or have my best friend send it. I still have to do that with butter extract because I still can't get that. But things like brownies, cheesecake, carrot cake....any cake really....they only have pound cake. I had to learn to make all of those things myself. There's no such thing as cool whip here, so I can't make anything with that in the ingredient list, and with cooking, there's no velveeta, no ranch dressing (I can make that from scratch, too), no stuffing. I did find a couple of websites that sell American products, but obviously they don't have everything. Have you ever ordered from American Groceries Europe? I'm pretty sure they are based in Belgium, because it used to be American Groceries Belgium. They were really small when they first started and I only used it when the site I usually used didn't have what I needed, but they grew pretty quickly and they've added some payment options because that was a problem for customers outside of Belgium. I don't know if they have the reeses trees and pumpkins, but I was able to get stuffing there a few weeks ago when my normal site didn't have it. I usually order from Kelly's Expat Shopping, but they've been getting worse and worse about selection and stocking. They have several shops in the Netherlands, but none near me, and some of the stuff you can't order online. But I've noticed that certain things, they don't have the brand name anymore, like instead of cheetos, they have Takis, and instead of pop tarts, they have toast 'ums. AGE still has the originals I think. Anyway, you might look there if there's something you miss that you can't find there.
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Did you manage to get a turkey for Thanksgiving this year?
 
Songbird76

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It finally stuck here!! This is what we woke up to. The only problem is E is stuck on her way to University today. She has to do a presentation for Cell Biology every Friday. It's pass/fail, so no grades, but if you are late, you run the risk of failing that week's presentation. It's a six week course and I think she said you only have to pass 4 weeks or something...we'll see. But it's just REALLY bad timing. First of all, DH is in Germany for work, with the car. So we had no car available to us, but really, that wouldn't have helped anyway because the problem is traffic jams from the snow. People don't know how to drive in snow. There have been several accidents....one car slid off the highway and landed upside-down. So there are HUGE delays on the highways. Normally, E takes the train from here to Arnhem, then transfers to another train to Ede-Wageningen, then takes a bus to Wageningen. But today, there was a strike until 9:00 am for train workers in Arnhem, so no trains going to arnhem until 9:00. And usually, it takes a while AFTER that to get the trains up and running again, so she got up super early and took a BUS to Arnhem instead. She said she'd have a huge wait before her train went from Arnhem, but at least she'd be on time. But with the traffic jam on the highway, they bus was delayed by 50 minutes, so she missed her train and she'll be late to her class. She says she can probably make it before class is over, and she let them all know she was late and why, but it's up to the TA whether she passes the week or not. That entire class is participation-based, so everyone does a presentation each week, and it's expected that you ask questions and actually participate in the discussion of the presentations, as well as presenting your own topic. If she's not there to participate in the discussions, she fails the week. There was never any way she was going to get there on time between the strike, the traffic jam, etc. So hopefully she's there in time to still participate somewhat in some discussion of other presentations so she can pass this week.

The week that she had to moderate (They all have to take a turn at moderating), the other girl who was supposed to moderate with her overslept after having partied the night before and slept through her alarm. She was over an hour late, and E had to do everything herself. The girl failed that week, but that was her own fault. It would be pretty nasty if E failed because there was no way she could be there on time. She got up several hours early just to make sure she'd catch the train from Arnhem as soon as the strike was over, and she left the house early so she could bike slower on the snowy/icy roads on her way to the bus station. It's just unfortunate timing. If there hadn't been a strike, she'd have gone with the train and been on time. If there hadn't been snow, the bus would have been on time and she would have made the train in Arnhem. If DH hadn't been in Germany, she wouldn't have even needed the bus. Murphy's law.

Oh, and this week's topic she has to present, they didn't give her all the information she needed until after she had to hand in her materials. There are several different topics, and each student is assigned one topic from the syllabus. Instead of a professor giving a lecure about that topic, the students do presentations. They have to research the topic using the text book and materials listed in the syllabus, and external sources, and then turn in their overview to the moderators for the week on Wednesday. She spent all of Tuesday trying to find out this one particular thing that was mentioned in the source material, but not further discussed. It's all about a particular tree and how there's this chemical produced in the tree that is the basis of a chemo drug, and how it blocks mitosis somehow, but they don't know how the tree is able to live with this mitosis-blocking chemical in it, because the tree should not be able to grow without mitosis. But there are different theories about the effect of the chemical on the process of mitosis, and that wasn't included in the source material....like, they said it, but didn't go into it. And she couldn't find anything about it...so she asked a friend who has the same topic in another group for this class, and she looked, and they had added that info Wednesday sometime onto the online resource they are supposed to use, AFTER E had already turned in her overview. So she researched it and now she can at least answer questions about it, but they must have made a mistake when they posted the online resource and realized it just a bit too late for her to be able to use it. I was up late with her on Tuesday trying to discuss possibilities of how the mitosis might be effected, or why the tree might be able to live with it, and trying to look up external sources about it, but there wasn't anything recent, and you can't use research from 50 years ago because it may have been disproven in the meantime. This whole week has been doomed from the start. She can't win!!
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Figgy1 said:
Did you manage to get a turkey for Thanksgiving this year?
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I probably could have, but neither of the boys will eat turkey, and a turkey is WAY too much for just E and me. We are doing beef Bourguignon on Thanksgiving, and then E and I will have a chicken with all the fixings on Friday night, because Friday is "Fry day" when the boys always eat deep fry, which E and I don't like. We're not big on the fried foods and we eat a lot of vegetarian dishes. So we always do something different on Fridays than the boys anyway....just as easy to postpone the traditional meal by a day.
 
Songbird76

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Songbird76 said:
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It finally stuck here!! This is what we woke up to. The only problem is E is stuck on her way to University today. She has to do a presentation for Cell Biology every Friday. It's pass/fail, so no grades, but if you are late, you run the risk of failing that week's presentation. It's a six week course and I think she said you only have to pass 4 weeks or something...we'll see. But it's just REALLY bad timing. First of all, DH is in Germany for work, with the car. So we had no car available to us, but really, that wouldn't have helped anyway because the problem is traffic jams from the snow. People don't know how to drive in snow. There have been several accidents....one car slid off the highway and landed upside-down. So there are HUGE delays on the highways. Normally, E takes the train from here to Arnhem, then transfers to another train to Ede-Wageningen, then takes a bus to Wageningen. But today, there was a strike until 9:00 am for train workers in Arnhem, so no trains going to arnhem until 9:00. And usually, it takes a while AFTER that to get the trains up and running again, so she got up super early and took a BUS to Arnhem instead. She said she'd have a huge wait before her train went from Arnhem, but at least she'd be on time. But with the traffic jam on the highway, they bus was delayed by 50 minutes, so she missed her train and she'll be late to her class. She says she can probably make it before class is over, and she let them all know she was late and why, but it's up to the TA whether she passes the week or not. That entire class is participation-based, so everyone does a presentation each week, and it's expected that you ask questions and actually participate in the discussion of the presentations, as well as presenting your own topic. If she's not there to participate in the discussions, she fails the week. There was never any way she was going to get there on time between the strike, the traffic jam, etc. So hopefully she's there in time to still participate somewhat in some discussion of other presentations so she can pass this week.

The week that she had to moderate (They all have to take a turn at moderating), the other girl who was supposed to moderate with her overslept after having partied the night before and slept through her alarm. She was over an hour late, and E had to do everything herself. The girl failed that week, but that was her own fault. It would be pretty nasty if E failed because there was no way she could be there on time. She got up several hours early just to make sure she'd catch the train from Arnhem as soon as the strike was over, and she left the house early so she could bike slower on the snowy/icy roads on her way to the bus station. It's just unfortunate timing. If there hadn't been a strike, she'd have gone with the train and been on time. If there hadn't been snow, the bus would have been on time and she would have made the train in Arnhem. If DH hadn't been in Germany, she wouldn't have even needed the bus. Murphy's law.

Oh, and this week's topic she has to present, they didn't give her all the information she needed until after she had to hand in her materials. There are several different topics, and each student is assigned one topic from the syllabus. Instead of a professor giving a lecure about that topic, the students do presentations. They have to research the topic using the text book and materials listed in the syllabus, and external sources, and then turn in their overview to the moderators for the week on Wednesday. She spent all of Tuesday trying to find out this one particular thing that was mentioned in the source material, but not further discussed. It's all about a particular tree and how there's this chemical produced in the tree that is the basis of a chemo drug, and how it blocks mitosis somehow, but they don't know how the tree is able to live with this mitosis-blocking chemical in it, because the tree should not be able to grow without mitosis. But there are different theories about the effect of the chemical on the process of mitosis, and that wasn't included in the source material....like, they said it, but didn't go into it. And she couldn't find anything about it...so she asked a friend who has the same topic in another group for this class, and she looked, and they had added that info Wednesday sometime onto the online resource they are supposed to use, AFTER E had already turned in her overview. So she researched it and now she can at least answer questions about it, but they must have made a mistake when they posted the online resource and realized it just a bit too late for her to be able to use it. I was up late with her on Tuesday trying to discuss possibilities of how the mitosis might be effected, or why the tree might be able to live with it, and trying to look up external sources about it, but there wasn't anything recent, and you can't use research from 50 years ago because it may have been disproven in the meantime. This whole week has been doomed from the start. She can't win!!
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She passed! She has to bring a treat to share next week for being late, but that's no biggie. We bake all the time anyway.
 
Swissmiss

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Songbird76 said:
Well, we didn't get them until last year....maybe you'll get them soon? There are so many things I couldn't get when I first moved here. I really learned how to cook and bake because so much stuff wasn't available, like Crisco and Baking Soda....I had to stock up when I was in the US and bring it back with me, or have my best friend send it. I still have to do that with butter extract because I still can't get that. But things like brownies, cheesecake, carrot cake....any cake really....they only have pound cake. I had to learn to make all of those things myself. There's no such thing as cool whip here, so I can't make anything with that in the ingredient list, and with cooking, there's no velveeta, no ranch dressing (I can make that from scratch, too), no stuffing. I did find a couple of websites that sell American products, but obviously they don't have everything. Have you ever ordered from American Groceries Europe? I'm pretty sure they are based in Belgium, because it used to be American Groceries Belgium. They were really small when they first started and I only used it when the site I usually used didn't have what I needed, but they grew pretty quickly and they've added some payment options because that was a problem for customers outside of Belgium. I don't know if they have the reeses trees and pumpkins, but I was able to get stuffing there a few weeks ago when my normal site didn't have it. I usually order from Kelly's Expat Shopping, but they've been getting worse and worse about selection and stocking. They have several shops in the Netherlands, but none near me, and some of the stuff you can't order online. But I've noticed that certain things, they don't have the brand name anymore, like instead of cheetos, they have Takis, and instead of pop tarts, they have toast 'ums. AGE still has the originals I think. Anyway, you might look there if there's something you miss that you can't find there.
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We have a couple of places/websites here. I was speaking to the man who owns one of the sites recently and he said that there are some products that no longer satisfy EU regulations and can’t be imported for sale, hence why some products are mo longer available.
 

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