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Can I take peanut butter to UruguayThis forum post has messages dated from 01/13/12 through 01/19/12, please be sure to read all the messages. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it.
| Can I take peanut butter to Uruguay "Can I take peanut butter to Uruguay" that is a search phrase that popped up a few times yesterday.Customs might not notice, or might not care if you have "food" which is sealed in it original packaging. But why not just buy it in Uruguay? The grocery stores have a poor selection of peanut butter, maybe a US brand that is half peanuts and half sugar. But you can get 100% peanut butter from Bamboo or at the plaza on 18 de Julio a few blocks from Bamboo. What is the Uruguayan equivalent of Peanut Butter? In the grocery store you see rows and rows of dulce de letche like we might see peanut butter in the USA... Expert Page: Quick Tips for Getting Settled in Uruguay |
| "Peanut Butter"
The "supermarket" peanut butter I've seen here is usually 65% peanuts, 30+% vegetable oil, some salt and sugar. Never half sugar. You were being sarcastic, right? Disco has PB from Germany.There is a little health food store on Sarandi that has peanut butter, too. The PB at Bamboo and this place are both 100% peanuts, roasted & ground, no salt, no sugar. If I recall correctly, the Bamboo PB was $110 for 320g, the other was $170 for 450g. |
| "More cynical...."
More cynical than sarcastic.. that everything ("food" wise) in the usa has added sugar... a little or a lot... peanuts are tasty as is... and natural freshly made peanut butter is a lot more appealing to me... and easy to get in Montevideo....Expert Page: Quick Tips for Getting Settled in Uruguay |
| "Vegemite"
An Aussie needs Vegemite and I cannot find that here in Uruguay. I bring a few things back with me when I travel but mostly a few condiments. Most things I just appreciate more when I go back to Oz, even some of the simple things I never specially appreciated before.Expert Page: House Sitters for Uruguay |
| "Gift Stores"
Have you looked in the "gift" stores? These are shops that create gift baskets. Watch for a shop window full of "exotic" foods (mostly foreign products) and baskets, they may have Vegemite. |
| "Vegemite"
Not to get too far off topic... but Vegemite is a trademark of Kraft Foods... Yeast Extract... is that something like 'brewers yeasts'?Typed Drawing Word Mark VEGEMITE Goods and Services IC 040. US 046. G & S: YEAST EXTRACT USED PRIMARILY AS A SPREAD AND ALSO AS A FOOD FLAVORING IN SOUPS AND GRAVIES. FIRST USE: 19230000. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19230000 Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING Serial Number 71467061 Filing Date January 15, 1944 Current Filing Basis 1A;44E Original Filing Basis 1A;44E Registration Number 0435592 Registration Date January 6, 1948 Owner (REGISTRANT) KRAFT WALKER CHEESE COMPANY PROPRIETARY LIMITED CORPORATION AUSTRALIA RIVERSIDE AVENUE SOUTH MELBOURNE, VICTORIA AUSTRALIA (LAST LISTED OWNER) KRAFT FOODS LIMITED CORPORATION BY CHANGE OF NAME FROM AUSTRALIA 187 TODD ROAD FISHERMANS BEND VICTORIA AUSTRALIA 3207 Attorney of Record EDWARD J KONDRACKI Prior Registrations 0037184 Type of Mark TRADEMARK Register PRINCIPAL Affidavit Text SECTION 8(10-YR) 20071229. Renewal 3RD RENEWAL 20071229 Live/Dead Indicator LIVE Expert Page: Quick Tips for Getting Settled in Uruguay |
Comment #601/15/12 09:06Rural east Colonia departmento | "Peanut butter and yeast extract"
Tienda Ingles at Portones usually stocks Dutch peanut butter of both smooth and crunchy varieties. Cheap it isn't.AFAIK neither Vegemite (from Oz) nor Marmite (from the UK) are available in the ROU. I usually bring back a couple of kilos from Europe whenever I visit. I did once buy emergency supplies from e-bay (US) and although it resulted in an inspection and an amusing interview at the postal customs unit at Missiones, I did manage to import it tax free after offering the customs bod a sniff and a taste :-) |
| "PB & Veg"
Tienda Inglesa has, as noted, both creamy and crunchy imported PB, though I though it was German. They also have a couple of local brands. The Dutch (or German) is $135 for 350 g.Considering all the other imported goodies they have, I'm surprised they don't have Vegemite or Marmite. They seem to have just about everything else (except Wine Gums). |
Comment #801/15/12 12:05Rural east Colonia departmento | "Tienda Ingles"
They've been out of pre-mixed English mustard for some time now and their supplies of Sharwood's mango chutney are erratic at best.OTOH the TI at Portones and the Disco off Batlle y Ordonez usually stock fresh mushrooms imported from places like Argentina, France and Japan. The funniest item I've met are the soya bean sprouts imported from China. The ROU is awash with soya beans yet apparently, no Uru-entrepreneur has sussed out how to sprout them :-) |
| "Vegemite"
Here's another thought: maybe you could find Vegemite at a health food store. The idea came to me today while I was in Bambu (which didn't have it). |
| "Not enough Aussies"
I reckon you could count the Aussies in Uruguay on both hands and have a finger or two to spare. With that market it is going to be a long time before anyone puts it on the shelves anywhere here. I just put a bottle in the luggage when I come back from Oz. Thanks for the suggestions. Expert Page: House Sitters for Uruguay |
| "Brewers Yeast"
Besides the flavor... what's wrong with just sprinkling some brewers yeast on your sandwich? Though I suspect the flavor is quite similar.Expert Page: Quick Tips for Getting Settled in Uruguay |
| "Taste it and see"
Ah Glen, I have never tasted brewers yeast but from what I understand it has a cheesy flavour - nothing like vegemite.I prefer my brewers yeast where it belongs - I will have the beer at the end of the process. As for vegemite, it looks like dirty axel grease but I won't try to describe the taste. Got to be good - for the last five generations of Aussies to have thrived on it it must have something to recommend it. Next time you are around town drop me a line and we will have some vegemite and cheese and crackers one afternoon. Since coming to Montevideo I have had lots of locals try it. Only two have come back for a second cracker so my stock has not been significantly depleted. As for Marmite, that terrible stuff the Poms seem to like, the company states that "It took a while to get the machinery and manufacturing process right." Well believe me they still haven't got it right . . . it still tastes like axel grease. Expert Page: House Sitters for Uruguay |
| "Vegemite or goold old peanut butter"
Gosh Glen, what's the matter with good old peanut butter? Is there something horrible in it I should know about? |
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| "a rose in every cheek"
Wonderful stuff peanut butter Vicki but seeing as this thread has been thoroughly hijacked by Vegemite it is probably worth a You Tube link. This theme song was written for radio back before TV arrived in Australia. It is a tune known by all Aussies I reckon and has been run on TV in recent years with remastered original TV ads. The phrase "happy little vegemites" has become part of the language for kids that are pretty pleased with themselves.I reckon a lot of Aussies might know this better than our national anthem. Expert Page: House Sitters for Uruguay |
| "Peanut Butter"
The first point about Peanut Butter is that it is not embedded in the Uruguayan culture the way it is in US Culture. Though it is available in the grocery store, that will be an imported, expensive, unhealthy brand and very little shelf space. Instead you'll see dulce de letche taking up shelf space like peanut butter in the usa.Peanut butter made from, well, peanuts, as can be found at Bamboo and some other places is just fine. Skippy for example, is peanuts, sugar, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and salt. That I object to. As the article below points out, "Considering the hundreds of options of peanut butter that are available today, not only Skippy but any of the big name peanut butter brands should be avoided." Expert Page: Quick Tips for Getting Settled in Uruguay |
Comment #1701/18/12 08:26Rural east Colonia departmento | "Marmite -v- Vegemite"
"As for Marmite, that terrible stuff the Poms seem to like [snip] . . . it still tastes like axel grease."That's fighting talk! If it was true, I'd be scraping the bearings on my offset disk harrow and spreading in on my toast daily :-) More seriously, have you tried ebay? |
| "Peanut butter and culture outside the US"
Glen, I am not arguing the validity of unhealthy additives in peanut butter. I understand your point somewhat when it comes to your strenuous objection to anyone trying to make the culture of another country into what they are used to...but come on. Just because a person wants to enjoy a food they like while they are in another country instead of always having to find an alternative does NOT make them a rebel trying to change the culture to fit them. I am 50 years old, haven't died from eating peanut butter YET, and just because I want to enjoy a little sugar or salt in my peanut butter instead of eating something that tastes like axle grease...or eating yeast on my toast...I don't think that should offend someone in another country if I look for some yummy peanut butter there! |
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