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View Poll Results: Would you be interested in this type of service?
No 18 56.25%
Yes 4 12.50%
Maybe, it would depend on the costs and how much I trusted the business 8 25.00%
No, but I know people that would 2 6.25%
Voters: 32. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-30-2010, 10:17 PM
 
Location: The Mango Tree
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Hi everyone,

From my experiences, most expats miss some type of food/drink from the U.S. that they are unable to buy wherever they're living. Examples are boxed mac n' cheese, cookies, chips, Dr. Pepper, candy, etc.

Here's the question:

If you had the opportunity of a "fairy service" that would get and ship these missed comfort foods to you on a routine basis (or even a one time thing) in the form of care packages, would you be interested?

There's a poll.

Thank you so much, all advice and opinions are greatly desired!!
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Old 10-30-2010, 10:42 PM
 
Location: Macao
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Depends on the price.

Actually kind of happens anyways. So it would have to be financially realistic to make it worth going through a company to do that.

On the other hand, I do know some expats who would love that.
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Old 10-31-2010, 03:59 AM
 
Location: rain city
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Tex Mex.

US expats miss Mexican food more then anything, no matter where in America the expats are from, or what kind of Mexican food they're used to.

It simply cannot be had anywhere else in the world.

I remember meeting up with some pretty good quality corn tortillas in a restaurant in Beijing. I pestered the server and management to tell me where these tortillas had come from. By the time I left the restaurant, I had managed to talk them out of a big stack of these tortillas and discovered that Mexican living in Beijing had gone into the tortilla business. And a very tidily profitable little business it was as he was the sole person in all of China making tortillas. And even then, they were the first corn tortillas I had seen in years of living overseas.

If you want to get rich overseas catering to US expats: open a business and cook Mexican food. Your fortune is guaranteed.

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Old 10-31-2010, 04:38 AM
 
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Tex Mex.

US expats miss Mexican food more then anything, no matter where in America the expats are from, or what kind of Mexican food they're used to....If you want to get rich overseas catering to US expats: open a business and cook Mexican food. Your fortune is guaranteed.
Interesting story. The one and only American product I ever saw in a market and went "Aha!" was a special display shelf of Mexican-American food products from the U.S. I have only met one American in the last five years where I live, so the supply which includes quite a few sauces, tortillas, etc., moves quite slowly. And I wonder sometimes if the hipermercado will one day just decide that it's not worth the space it takes.

On the other hand, I couldn't care less about American products. I live in Europe, I buy the same products that all the local people do. But then I'm not an "expat," I'm an immigrant, a permanent resident.
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Old 10-31-2010, 04:56 AM
 
Location: Sweden
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Hi everyone,

From my experiences, most expats miss some type of food/drink from the U.S. that they are unable to buy wherever they're living. Examples are boxed mac n' cheese, cookies, chips, Dr. Pepper, candy, etc.

Here's the question:

If you had the opportunity of a "fairy service" that would get and ship these missed comfort foods to you on a routine basis (or even a one time thing) in the form of care packages, would you be interested?

There's a poll.

Thank you so much, all advice and opinions are greatly desired!!
We have a store like that over here.
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Old 10-31-2010, 05:13 AM
 
Location: in the southwest
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Tex Mex.

US expats miss Mexican food more then anything, no matter where in America the expats are from, or what kind of Mexican food they're used to.

It simply cannot be had anywhere else in the world.

I remember meeting up with some pretty good quality corn tortillas in a restaurant in Beijing. I pestered the server and management to tell me where these tortillas had come from. By the time I left the restaurant, I had managed to talk them out of a big stack of these tortillas and discovered that Mexican living in Beijing had gone into the tortilla business. And a very tidily profitable little business it was as he was the sole person in all of China making tortillas. And even then, they were the first corn tortillas I had seen in years of living overseas.

If you want to get rich overseas catering to US expats: open a business and cook Mexican food. Your fortune is guaranteed.
My son (in Paris) misses Tex Mex too. He enjoys and cooks French food daily with his girlfriend, but there is nothing quite like flavorful Tex Mex--it gets those endorphins going.
He can get Old Victoria products but that is not exactly the quality to which he is accustomed. I send him the occasional jar of organic salsa.
He says Mexican restaurants exist in Paris but that none of them have been that good--he would rather be able to purchase what he needs and make the food himself.
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Old 10-31-2010, 07:14 AM
 
Location: Macao
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Interesting the Mexican food references. I've long thought about that as well. Actually, interesting most people assume that Americans will miss American food when they live abroad....but quite the contrary...it's always the Mexican food that we miss!

I type this as I am eating enchiladas at the moment..here in Japan.
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Old 10-31-2010, 07:15 AM
 
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When I lived outside the USA I missed Philadelphia cream cheese.
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Old 10-31-2010, 07:30 AM
 
Location: Macao
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What I miss is some of the fastfood choices like 'Arbys', etc.

Generally seems like most countries do have some general american stuff like goldfish crackers, doritos, etc.
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Old 10-31-2010, 08:10 AM
 
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mexican food. ewww
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