 Poster: A snowHead
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| Make your bolognese with Irish beef and then really confuse 'em! |
It won't confuse them, you still won't be allowed to re-import it to the EU.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Alastair Pink,
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and offering traditional British cooking.
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Cafe culture at it's finest 
andy wrote: open a Berni Inn.... you're showing your age.
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@sasha320, @johnE, So the sole benefit of Brexit to date is that law-breakers will not be punished!
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I think that was the reason Boris was so keen to keep Britain out of the European Arrest Warrent scheme.
I will be sad not to take a litre of milk with me. We drive overnight and get to the apartment about 6 in the morning desperate for a cup of tea. Getting milk in the middle of the night in France can be a bit of a challenge. And I will not even consider soya milk.
Which raises another point. Will we be able to have milk in our flask of coffee for the journey.
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@johnE, If you think of it like you were entering Australia , would they allow you to have a bag of seeds in your bag for when you transit through? Similar concept I assume.
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Well I gather there are quite a few eating places on the Spanish Costas adopting that business model and offering traditional British cooking.......
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Not just Spain, but I have seen advertisements for "tradditional english breakfasts" in Jeslo di Lido as well and a curry house in Andora.
I once thought it would be a good idea to open a curry house in one of the "English towns" in the Alps such as Meribel or Val d'Isere. Now I realise that since the French lost their colony in Bengal over 300 years ago getting cooks might prove a tad difficult.
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@johnE, If you think of it like you were entering Australia , would they allow you to have a bag of seeds in your bag for when you transit through? Similar concept I assume.
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The concept may be similar but by the time I've driven to Austrialia I suspect the milk will have gone off.
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@johnE,
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I once thought it would be a good idea to open a curry house in one of the "English towns" in the Alps such as Meribel or Val d'Isere. Now I realise that since the French lost their colony in Bengal over 300 years ago getting cooks might prove a tad difficult.
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A few years back when we were at the UCPA in Argentierre there was "Curry" for dinner one night. The cooks had obviously never had a proper curry, as it was exactly like 1970s school dinner curry - complete with sultanas. That said in parts of Spain popular with Brits there are very good curry houses and Chinese restaurants, as well as British cooking.
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My son was snowboarding in Andorra when he was younger. He still says that the best thing about the place was a Kebab shop on the piste! Perfect hangover snack.
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| I once thought it would be a good idea to open a curry house in one of the "English towns" in the Alps such as Meribel or Val d'Isere. Now I realise that since the French lost their colony in Bengal over 300 years ago getting cooks might prove a tad difficult. |
It may surprise you, but for the last few years Wengen has had a curry house! 
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| johnE wrote: |
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@sasha320, @johnE, So the sole benefit of Brexit to date is that law-breakers will not be punished!
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I think that was the reason Boris was so keen to keep Britain out of the European Arrest Warrent scheme.
I will be sad not to take a litre of milk with me. We drive overnight and get to the apartment about 6 in the morning desperate for a cup of tea. Getting milk in the middle of the night in France can be a bit of a challenge. And I will not even consider soya milk.
Which raises another point. Will we be able to have milk in our flask of coffee for the journey. |
But you can buy milk when you stop at a service station for petrol or the loo?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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you can buy milk when you stop at a service station for petrol or the loo?
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But that will be nasty foreign milk.....
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I confess we once smuggled a frozen curry from our excellent local restaurant into the USA, when Mr P jnr was working a season in Squaw Valley and desperate for a decent Indian meal. It was in the ski bag. Our timing couldn’t have been better, as we were in the arrivals queue st San Francisco at the same time as a flight from Delhi.
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You know it makes sense.
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you can buy milk when you stop at a service station for petrol or the loo?
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But that will be nasty foreign milk..... |
Only ever seen UHT at a service station in France.
My usual overnight stop going out is next to a supermarket so I suppose I can shop there then go back to the hotel for breakfast, will probably mean hitting the road half an hour later.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| pam w wrote: |
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you can buy milk when you stop at a service station for petrol or the loo?
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But that will be nasty foreign milk..... |
Horrid UHT stuff at the petrol station, although most supermarchés will have fresh stuff too. Blue lid, but not the Marguerite brand which is indeed vile. The Own brand ones are fine.
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Poster: A snowHead
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UHT is also a problem in Belguim : Supermarkets have a vast expanse of UHT/long life milk and a tiny amount of 'Fresh'.... 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Another problem is finding a service station that has more than the window open to take the payment for fuel. After a lot of discussion I had one attendent push a 50cl carton of pasturised milk through the payment slot.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@johnE,
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I once thought it would be a good idea to open a curry house in one of the "English towns" in the Alps such as Meribel or Val d'Isere. Now I realise that since the French lost their colony in Bengal over 300 years ago getting cooks might prove a tad difficult.
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unfortunately, I have a feeling that someone has beat you to it, I am pretty sure that on the old Merinet website there was an Indian restaurant in Meribel.
I had the same idea when I finished my seasons in Meribel over 20 years ago, i am pretty sure there used to be one in moutiers at the time, but we never ventured out of Meribel to get one.
I even had a name for it "3valley vindaloo", my business plan was to combine this with a flexible hostel type accommodation, as the cheap airlines were just starting to boom, and accommodation options have never really taken this into account, certainly not in the 3valleys.
unfortunately, my business plan did not factor in that I had no money to finance the venture, could have done with appearing on dragons den  am pretty sure peter jones is a skier!!
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am pretty sure peter jones is a skier!!
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pretty sure he doesn't stay in hostel type accommodation....
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Bergmeister wrote: |
| For those that drive to the Alps it looks like the end of frozen, ready-made Bolognese in a coolbox, for consumption on arrival night. |
Go vegan (for that meal). No meat, no dairy, no issues.
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As for food... they do have food and supermarkets in mainland EU. I find it kind of funny, all the Brits going to a foreign place to experience what they have there but not back home, but then take everything British. May as well just be done with it and open a chippy in Chamonix and Berni Inn in Morzine  |
Morzine actually has a really good chippy, Mamma's, that's better than most of the ones where I live in the UK. Changed hands last year but didn't seem to effect the quality any.
Now I'm sure some people will be itching to type "But your in France, the home of great food! How can you eat fish and chips!" - but these are people who have clearly never:
a) Eaten the slops that come out the kitchen at the self service 'restaurant' at the top of the Pleney. Eat there and then tell me how good the food is in France (over you're half-eaten plate and between stomach cramps and rushed trips to the toilets).
b) Hit the French mountain food hard at the start of the week (from one of the many very good village and mountain restaurants), to the point you're now sweating cheese fat and need a break!
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| Mjit wrote: |
| Bergmeister wrote: |
| For those that drive to the Alps it looks like the end of frozen, ready-made Bolognese in a coolbox, for consumption on arrival night. |
Go vegan (for that meal). No meat, no dairy, no issues. |
How do you prove to customs that a frozen lump of stuff is vegan ?
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| Alastair Pink wrote: |
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| I once thought it would be a good idea to open a curry house in one of the "English towns" in the Alps such as Meribel or Val d'Isere. Now I realise that since the French lost their colony in Bengal over 300 years ago getting cooks might prove a tad difficult. |
It may surprise you, but for the last few years Wengen has had a curry house! |
Le Nawab in Crans Montana is also a decent curry house...complete with authentic Indian music!!!
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@Goliard, ah, but does it have flock wallpaper?
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| @Goliard, ah, but does it have flock wallpaper? |
Of course...totally authentic!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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ah, but does it have flock wallpaper?
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And pictures of Tigers?
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b) Hit the French mountain food hard at the start of the week (from one of the many very good village and mountain restaurants), to the point you're now sweating cheese fat and need a break! |
Yep.....the annual cheese and chaucuterie overdose. I remember one year we went with TO. Having not skied for a few years my wife and I asked the TO on their night of where was the best raclette restaurant and were duly pointed in that direction. We learnt a valuable lesson about not ordering a baked camembert starter followed by a raclette main.......amazing food, but there is such a thing as too much cheese!
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You know it makes sense.
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All we usually take with us is stuff to eat on the journey on day 1, and food for the hounds. On a few EOSB trips I've taken other stuff that is less likely to be available in France. Stuff for my Rendang night usually. We take more when we go in the campervan, as we stock the fridge for a couple of days, but it is not a huge problem. I'm not planning a trip to Burger King at Eurotunnel just because I can't have my pork pies and chicken leg lunch on the train though. A French resto or supermarket will benefit instead. I'm more concerned about food for the hounds, but it won't be unsurmountable I suppose.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@johnE,
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I once thought it would be a good idea to open a curry house in one of the "English towns" in the Alps such as Meribel or Val d'Isere. Now I realise that since the French lost their colony in Bengal over 300 years ago getting cooks might prove a tad difficult.
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unfortunately, I have a feeling that someone has beat you to it, I am pretty sure that on the old Merinet website there was an Indian restaurant in Meribel.
I had the same idea when I finished my seasons in Meribel over 20 years ago, i am pretty sure there used to be one in moutiers at the time, but we never ventured out of Meribel to get one.
I even had a name for it "3valley vindaloo", my business plan was to combine this with a flexible hostel type accommodation, as the cheap airlines were just starting to boom, and accommodation options have never really taken this into account, certainly not in the 3valleys.
unfortunately, my business plan did not factor in that I had no money to finance the venture, could have done with appearing on dragons den am pretty sure peter jones is a skier!! |
That was always my BS business plan for a ski business in US and Canada. Resort based Princess Di theme pubs with a proper curry house on the side. Or a mobile pie/pasty business in the alps.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Buy some vegan rubbish. Empty the packet and throw tasteless nutrition-free "thing" in the bin.
Wrap genuine tasty, meaty, juicy, tasty (did I already say tasty), product in said wrapper.
Crack on.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Hells Bells, food for the pooch is still my main headache.
Had a reply back from the manufacturer confirming they don't ship to EU and have no resellers. They suggest other online resellers but I don't think they understand the whole export thing.
I tried to understand the logistics of the export paperwork and quickly gave up on that idea.
Haven't been able to find similar in France either. Anyone know of any quality wet food that comes in 400g trays similar to Forthglade?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| johnE wrote: |
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Travel times to the Alps have been slashed by virtue of the European Cross Border Directive now not applying to UK drivers in Europe, which in turn means no points on your licence should you be caught speeding on the Continent.
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Thank you for this post. I've been racking my brain for ages trying to find a single benefit in leaving the EU and now you have provided it. However, sadly, though you were fined and the fine chased you back to the UK for speeding you didn't actually get points on your licence. |
4uck!!!? You mean I slowed down for a few years and didn’t need to! Jeez I missed that trick!
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| I will be sad not to take a litre of milk with me. We drive overnight and get to the apartment about 6 in the morning desperate for a cup of tea. Getting milk in the middle of the night in France can be a bit of a challenge |
Powdered milk would do the job? Presumably it's allowed?
Or powdered white tea ('QT' by Typhoo), which we've used for years in thermos flasks for skiing, hiking & biking.
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@mountainaddict, standards dear boy, standards.
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| mountainaddict wrote: |
| Powdered milk would do the job? Presumably it's allowed? |
Hmm. I'm not allow to take milk across the border, so I'll just take this white powder instead...
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| I will be sad not to take a litre of milk with me. We drive overnight and get to the apartment about 6 in the morning desperate for a cup of tea. Getting milk in the middle of the night in France can be a bit of a challenge |
Powdered milk would do the job? Presumably it's allowed?
Or powdered white tea ('QT' by Typhoo), which we've used for years in thermos flasks for skiing, hiking & biking. |
Powdered milk is a marvel! 
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