Topical Tuesday #20 Do you take food with you on a foreign holiday?

Posted Monday, July 21, 2008

Topic : Do you take food with you on a foreign holiday?

Recently in UK media there have been reports that a large amount of tourists take not only tea bags and coffee but bacon, sausages and other food with them when they go abroad on holiday. And then when on holiday they seek out places to eat that sell the food they are used to in favour of local produce.

When you go on holiday to a foreign country do you like to immerse yourself completely in their culture and eat their food or can you not bare the thought of having to eat the food and take your favourite food with you?

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Topical Tueday #20 Do you take food with you on a foreign holiday? I´m British. I live in Spain. Before, when I was just a mere tourist, I never once brought food with me to Spain. When I travel abroad it is to immerse myself in the culture as best I can, to experience a culture different to my own. A very large part of that is to experience a cuisine that is different to our own. Wherever I have travelled, be it Greece, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Iceland, or the other countries I have seen along the way, I have never once only sought out British restaurants……
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Topical Tuesday #20: Do you take food with you on a foreign holiday? Topical Tuesday is a new meme intended to inspire the art of discussion via our blogs. Each week, on a Tuesday, a new topic will be placed on the main site for people to post about. Topics are open, and don’t necessarily need to be intended for serio...
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Mizmoe | 07/22  at  12:24 PM

Mine is up!

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Anna | 07/22  at  12:51 PM

Interesting topic! My responses are posted: http://fuchsia-revolver.org/?p=432

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