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[cayaholic]

[[I think nothing of going to the seaside and walking along eating sunflower seeds.]]

They drive me mad, or rather people eating them within earshot do. Click , click , click! And the mess they make as most people seem to drop the shells everywhere!

You can get proper chocolate here Cayaholic. Try Milka.

Welcome to the forum bye the way.

Hi Sunny

I don't drop the shells but I can open them in my mouth, following a lot of coaching!

Milka - proper chocolate!! No way! I grew up within sniffing distance of the Cadbury factory - now that's real chocolate! Probably a good job for my belly that you can't find it here.

[sunny]

Very true Lu, but bring a straight jacket for me!

You'll have to speak nicely to people who do the visa run or are going on a visit to the UK to get some Cadbury's provided that Kraft haven't changed the recipe!

[Cukurbagli]

I'll be getting at least two 400g bars of Whole Nut next week when I go over to Meis.

Edit: I wasn't far from the Cadbury's factory either.

[Ashina]

Just a few weeks in, I suspect that living in a resort area and working where I am is showing me a very particular subculture. It still feels disturbing to go to an office job dressed so casually, and to see so much human epidermis so casually exposed to UV-rays.

A combination of inertia and work success will probably keep me here for a while. Who knows how I'll evolve? Maybe I'll get extensive cosmetic surgeries.

[Fil]

I think we have had the great choccy debate before. I reckon Cabury's just doesn't taste the same in hot weather.
And if you eat Milka and Dairy Milk one after the other I think the Milka tastes better.
But there is nothing to compare with the taste of Cadbury's Dairy Milk to bring back childhood memories.

[sunny]

My gran always used to bring me a bar of Fry's Five boys. Does anyone else remember it?

[dande]

My gran always used to bring me a bar of Fry's Five boys. Does anyone else remember it?

I certainly do now you've reminded me:



'Five Boys' retained its popularity until it was withdrawn in 1976.

However, I don't remember this advertisement published around 1905! "Five Girls want Five Boys and will have no other"!

[Lucid]

'dande' u make this forum fun for the visual learners like me!
u always post interesting pics

[Elzibubs]

I saw a Cadbury's delivery in Ortaca a few months ago?!! I was very confused - I have never seen any Cadbury's for sale other than in the Airport.
Also, have you seen that they are selling Robinson's squash in Sevigolu! I was very excited by this!! I have stocked up, because I doubt they will sell it in the Winter months....
Also, those sunflower seeds ...I love them!! Only now I have figured out the art of munching on them!! I remeber when I learnt...At the Dalyan vs Ortaca football derby! Haha!! By full time there were piles of the shells around everyones feet!!

[Lucid]

sweet jesus are you sure about the robinsons 'Elzibubs'
goddddddddddddd...i was only in there yest n didnt think to look as i have never seen it there before
you mean dilute one?? like orange and pineapple???
actually there wasnt must stock upstairs..looked a bit like closing down or maybe stock is due
random or what that shop

crikey been yrs since i tasted that drink...was my fav in UK.
blast from past!

[Elzibubs]

Yes...sorry Lucid..I didn't mention that this was the sevigolu in Dalyan
Also, a limited range of summer fruits and apple and blackcurrent...But still very exciting!!!

[sunny]

See, something else has changed - would you be drooling over a bottle of squash in the UK?

[Abi]

Gosh I remember those Fry's chocolate bars as well, also I remember my father bringing home the same sort of thing but each section had a different flavour.

[scoobydoo]

Abi, you just triggered my memory of those choccie bars too, the ones with different flavours in each segment. My Dad used to bring them home too and us 4 kids used to share one between us as there wasn't a lot of money for luxuries! Happy memories

[dande]

Abi, you just triggered my memory of those choccie bars too, the ones with different flavours in each segment. My Dad used to bring them home too and us 4 kids used to share one between us as there wasn't a lot of money for luxuries! Happy memories

Yes, Cadbury put together eight of the most popular Milk Tray chocolates – keeping their distinctive shapes – into one chocolate bar! The Milk Tray Bar had a cult following back in the 1970s and, as we have discovered here, people still reminisce about it to this day. It was originally launched in 1947 and was a favourite through to 1981.

Here's a reminder:

[sunny]

I must have been a deprived child, I never saw one of those in our area.

[eva]

One of the tradition I took after coming in Turkey back home, it is to eat something sweet. I did learn that each morning, before starting to eat, take something sweet. The explanation is, it makes your life more beautiful, sweeter. It is a superstition, but I respect it... maybe even more because I love sweets

[Agamemnon]

Thanks for all your replies, nice to know I'm not the only one who has gone over to the other side!

[samanthaozkara]

its strange how people become turkified isnt it. i know i am very high on the scale of being turkified as i am often referred to as a mini version of my mother in law haha she is a very nice woman thanfully!! i see her as my teacher, she shows me how to cook, teaches me the culture and i have learnt most of my turkish from her!! so its not a bad thing really i guess.

there are so many things i do now like a turk like taking my shoes off by the front door and grabbing my slipper boots straight away (i have never owned so many slippers before), having a salad with alot of lemon and olive oil (it was very rarely in the UK i had a salad as i found it boring but here i eat atleast 2 a day), putting toilet paper in a bin and not down the loo is 1 that took me so long to get used to and now i cant help doing it on accident in the uk haha!!

I also find when i go back to my parents house in Cardiff i also feel like a yabanci, cant relax and sit still for more than 30 mins. Also i used to be a bit of a TV bug when i lived in the UK but watching UK tv now really irrates me as i find i dont understand most of it or its just as boring as turkish tv haha.

there are probably so many other things i do like a turk just havent noticed it. one thing i will never let myself become turkified over is with fashion!! really dont get the fashion of turks and i dont think its something i will understand very soon hehe xxx

[Reyhan]

I had been thinking of making a thread about this same thing. I wish I could immerse myself into the culture as much as many here have been able to. Course I know that comes with actually living there for a time. With my Türk sweety having been in my life for about a year now, it feels like my life in US isn't what I want. Of course, I know I should keep taking it slow even if part of me would so love to start a new life with him there.

But I have kind of been able to become a little Türk. Well, as much as I am able to in a state/city that has hardly any Turkish population But I have Turkish tea with him every night that we chat on msn, and I even got Turkish glasses for it. (the ones in my previous avatar, but those don't look authentic) I also did find a Turkish restaurant fairly close by and have gone there occasionally. But its a small "Mom and Pop" type place so not much business. The food is great and the man that owns the place is from Turkey. He is very kind and gave me a little impromptu Turkish lesson last time I was there. But Ive not been back there in a while.

Thats about as Turkish as I can get right now. But one day, whatever is meant to happen, will happen right?

edit: Garip..I thought I changed my avatar but it still shows the old one