Chinese bringing food into Australia

[ladymuck]

you mean you give to your butler ?

That too. The poor chap does apparently need to eat occasionally. They don't get much back in steerage

[Mordac]

Well, at the moment you can't take bacon. We buy brown sauce, marmite and suet as they're largely unavailable. Tea because it's cheaper. Used to bring cheeses over to demonstrate to locals that there is a wide variety of British cheeses. Hopefully that'll get sorted out soon.

I'm sure there isn't a cheese on Earth that tastes better after spending several hours in a suitcase.

(You can get Danish bacon, surely? OK, it ruins the concept of a 'full English', but one can close one's eyes and pretend...)

[SueEllen]

A shame contractors are suffering such poverty.

You will not stay rich by wasting things especially if they are free/cheap...

[NotAllThere]

I'm sure there isn't a cheese on Earth that tastes better after spending several hours in a suitcase.

Packed carefully and kept in a cool bag, it's really no problem.

(You can get Danish bacon, surely? OK, it ruins the concept of a 'full English', but one can close one's eyes and pretend...)

The cuts available in different countries are different. For meat joints, France is closest to UK, but Germany and Switzerland cuts tend to be flatter. They have bacon but it's very thin - not the robust cuts we'd be used to - or quite thick belly pork. We can get a reasonable approximation but it's not even as close as Danish.

Can't get suet either, but there's no problem for us to import that.

[d000hg]

You will not stay rich by wasting things especially if they are free/cheap...

Do you like Bezos comes off his private jet with pockets crammed with napkin-wrapped pastries?

[SueEllen]

Do you like Bezos comes off his private jet with pockets crammed with napkin-wrapped pastries?

That's what his flunkies are for....

[MonkeysUncle]

They're about five to ten years old, those programmes. They're repeated endlessly on channels with numbers in the double digits. When they get to the end, they loop straight back to the beginning. Include weekend repeats and you could easily see the same episode six or seven times a year

I always have either Nothing to Declare/Border Patrol or Cant Pay Take It Away on in the background.

they make great background TV and when you want a break its easy to look up and watch for 10min before putting your head back down again

[saptastic]

I always have either Nothing to Declare/Border Patrol or Cant Pay Take It Away on in the background.

they make great background TV and when you want a break its easy to look up and watch for 10min before putting your head back down again

Exactly this

Nothing to declare is great for 30 minute background watch

[saptastic]

Some Asian families bring in suitcases of food. Am sure that food can be bought in Australia anyway.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Some Asian families bring in suitcases of food. Am sure that food can be bought in Australia anyway.

Yes it can but you have to declare it.

And they'll confiscate the frog fat even if you do.

And quite a lot of the other foulness.

Was considerably amused by the attitude of some Indian cricketting great who refused to clean his own kit, and had the tour manager pay the fine to the NZ customs because he was obviously far too grand to do so himself.

After all we're all untouchables by very definition.