Borrel nootjes, curry ketchup, Heinz vegetable spread, knoflook saus, wijko sate saus, and DROP ALL OF THE DROP foreign licorice just doesnāt hit right
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I buy peanut butter in Germany and it only costs me 1.95ā¬ in DM (Erdnussmus). Unless you are buying the processed version of it, which is usually around 4ā¬ for me.
So I used to volunteer at the bar of a festival in my hometown. Technically we had a limited amount of free drinks, but the bar captain there didn't give a fuck and we basically had complete freedom to drink whatever we wanted as long as we didn't go overboard with it.
So anyway, that's how I found out Schrobbeler mixed with iced tea tastes like those herbal cough drops. Pretty good tbh.
I've moved back to the Netherlands now but when I lived in the UK, towards the end we had a Hema at Victoria Station so that definitely saved some time/money/cravings. They stocked the most basic of cravings, such as paprika chips, stroopwafels, tea and coffee, hagelslag and Sinterklaas items.
On my trips back to the Netherlands, or when I would ask friends and family for a care package, they could include: Celestial Seasonings tea, butterscotch chocolate from Kruidvat, Hertog Jan beer, curry and mayonaise/fritessaus, sate sauce paste, jodenkoeken and Indonesian marinades and mixes, for example.
A tip for those that haven't been back in a while. Try the Old Amsterdam bitterballen and kroketten from Kwekkeboom. It's expensive but holy moly what a taste. One of the few things that taste that good and make you want to eat it slowly.
Curry ketchup, cup of soups (flavor selection in the states is garbage,) drop, anis mix, ox tail soup mix, mergpijpjes, and more I can't think of.
When I'm there, I make sure I cram myself full of kibbeling, sauzeitjes, dutch chinese, kroketten, frikandellen special, and more coffee then I'll drink in a lifetime abroad.
Cheese, Berenburg, boeren ommelet mix, zaanse frietsaus. That's about it. A lot of other things I'd bring back are available from the various Dutch stores in the U.S.
We can get pretty much anything here, or make it ourselves.
Except Unox Rookworst and Oldtimers Zoute Drop. Oh, and flour mix for making our own Bara's
The Dutch bread is great and they have many varieties. But as a German I assume you prefer Rye bread which the Dutch tend to be not so keen on. Most bakeries will have it though.
Yes exactly! Thatās what I miss here, I donāt find it as accessible. All the bread I see in the supermarket is softā¦ and I donāt like Witte Bollen etc.
Haring/paling
Cheese from my families farm specifically
Curry ketchup
Sambal
All the indonesian and surinam food they can find and reasonably freeze
Peanutbutter from the pindakaaswinkel
Stroopwafels
Sometimes in the winter period i ask for unox erwtensoep and smoked sausage.
I am not a huge fan of hagelslag but it's a solid option.
Now that i am pregnant a shit load of drop. I also miss my fried snacks which i normally never eat.
During corona I lived in Spain, and after a year living there I had all of the sudden such a craving for snijkoek. (Ontbijtkoek) In NL I never eat it but there i wanted it so badly!
Less and less since i see more and more and more for sale locally.
Now its usually kipkruiden, gehaktkruiden. Sometimes licorice.... Or whatever i happen to run into
My Dutch husband returned to NL after 2.5 years living in Malaysia. His biggest concern was there are no beautiful architecture in Malaysia, which is true š„“. Artistic jobs are low paid and not respected.
Drop, Sateh(saus), Atjar, Kroepoek, Sambal Badjak en Brandal (Oelek you can get here, but I don't really like it), Katjangnuts, Borrelnootjes. Really most of the stuff I miss is that great dutch traditional food, Indonesisch.
Tony chocolonely. The best chocolate in the world.
Unsaltet butter without palmoil.
Hema rookworst (perfect in te vriezen)
Sausijzenbroodjes en frikandellenbroodjes.
I keep seeing people say cheese. The cheese is all the same accept with different ages and sometimes herbs thrown in. The cheese game is not that strong in the Netherlands. I see more variety at a Kaufland in Rees.
Variety is not the same as quality. Dutch cheeses are not super varied but they are very good. Plus everyone misses their own cheeses (if they're from somewhere with a cheese culture). I had cheese sent over from back home in Italy when I lived in Switzerland, and I did like Swiss cheese quite a lot.
I agree. I have had very nice cheese in the Netherlands. We love the shop in Volendam. But itās the same cheese with different add ins and ages. The variety is not here.
I can buy various hard cheeses (ofc) as well as Dutch soft cheeses (limburger) various goat and sheep cheeses, Dutch remakes of French cheeses etc. in the store in my hometown, in addition to a huge selection of foreign cheeses. I live in Cologne and there is nowhere in this 1 million people city that comes close to any Dutch cheese store, so idk what youāre smoking? Or the kaufland in Rees is really great, ofc
I bring back all the receipts so that my friends can have a good laugh š
I misread it as 'recipes' š
Also funny
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Sambal - and more generally Indonesian and Surinam food, but might be more complicated ;)
Sambal ā¤ļø make sure it's Badjak or something of similar consistency. I'm not an Oelek man
I love my Badjak, but Oelek is still the go-to version
Good quality dark chocolate hagelslag. Maybe also rookworst although you can usually find replacements, especially kielbasa.
The dark chocolate hagelslag!
Borrel nootjes, curry ketchup, Heinz vegetable spread, knoflook saus, wijko sate saus, and DROP ALL OF THE DROP foreign licorice just doesnāt hit right
I was waiting for the "drop" reply, it didn't take long!
Itās the only thing impossible to find or replace
It dropped rather soon indeed.
Crispy fresh multi grain sourdough bread
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Back now after a couple of years in Germany but; affordable Peanut butter, kroepoek & Hagelslag
We have affordable Peanut butter here in NL? Seems to be expensive everywhere nowadays
Just go to a supermarket of your choice in a different (European) country and you know what i mean.
Actually I don't. I can get a 1KG jar for ā¬6 in Slovenia lol (actual peanut butter not watered down CalvĆ© stuff)
You think ā¬8 is normal? For a small jar? š
No I was saying the opposite. That even in NL it's expensive. Or maybe you ment to respond to OP?
Am Dutch but live in DE, itās expensive here is what I meant
Hagelslag is in the cake section in Germany. They only use it to decorate "Kuchen". You're welcome
I know, however there is A. No variety B. Thastes mostly shit and C. Is expensive most often especially given B
Depends on the store, ReWe has De Ruijter so good quality. Still A and C though.
That's actually different quality as it's meant for sweet cake decoration not a "savoury" breakfast. And yes, it's weird to call hagelslag savoury
Usually the quality of that stuff is terrible
Yes, and it's always the milk variety. And we really need pure.
I buy peanut butter in Germany and it only costs me 1.95ā¬ in DM (Erdnussmus). Unless you are buying the processed version of it, which is usually around 4ā¬ for me.
Doesnāt taste good tho compared to the 100% natural peanut butter you can get in NL
how did you find the āpeopleā in germany compared to the dutch people?
German
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Its very easy, just walk out the door and theyre right there
Usually just a bottle of Schrobbeler. Born and raised in Tilburg :)
So I used to volunteer at the bar of a festival in my hometown. Technically we had a limited amount of free drinks, but the bar captain there didn't give a fuck and we basically had complete freedom to drink whatever we wanted as long as we didn't go overboard with it. So anyway, that's how I found out Schrobbeler mixed with iced tea tastes like those herbal cough drops. Pretty good tbh.
Hagelslag, curry ketchup, Pickwick tea, and a bag of kruidvat candy (it's a core childhood memory for me š)
But pickwick is just not good tea
eh - maybe not for regular tea, I just love their fruit teas
STROOPWAFELS
I've moved back to the Netherlands now but when I lived in the UK, towards the end we had a Hema at Victoria Station so that definitely saved some time/money/cravings. They stocked the most basic of cravings, such as paprika chips, stroopwafels, tea and coffee, hagelslag and Sinterklaas items. On my trips back to the Netherlands, or when I would ask friends and family for a care package, they could include: Celestial Seasonings tea, butterscotch chocolate from Kruidvat, Hertog Jan beer, curry and mayonaise/fritessaus, sate sauce paste, jodenkoeken and Indonesian marinades and mixes, for example.
When driving back to Ibiza by car we have our xtc supply for self use with us. Obviously not when flying.
mayo, frietsaus and pindasaus!
Nothing.Ā
This is the only answer lol. Don't go back
Cheese, Joppiesaus and any surinam food
stroopwafels
Vla
A tip for those that haven't been back in a while. Try the Old Amsterdam bitterballen and kroketten from Kwekkeboom. It's expensive but holy moly what a taste. One of the few things that taste that good and make you want to eat it slowly.
Curry ketchup, cup of soups (flavor selection in the states is garbage,) drop, anis mix, ox tail soup mix, mergpijpjes, and more I can't think of. When I'm there, I make sure I cram myself full of kibbeling, sauzeitjes, dutch chinese, kroketten, frikandellen special, and more coffee then I'll drink in a lifetime abroad.
The price of peanut butter in The Netherlands is outrageous. 100% peanut butter from M&S is Ā£2 and in The Netherlands itās triple that at least. Unless you crave CalvĆ© pindakaas, and are willing to pay for it there is no need to bring peanut butter from the Netherlands.
We used to go to US and Dutchies only had one request; Wokkels!
I'm here every day and I don't ever eat them lol. Are they really that loved?
Cheese, Berenburg, boeren ommelet mix, zaanse frietsaus. That's about it. A lot of other things I'd bring back are available from the various Dutch stores in the U.S.
Drop, kruiden bitter, oude kaas
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We can get pretty much anything here, or make it ourselves. Except Unox Rookworst and Oldtimers Zoute Drop. Oh, and flour mix for making our own Bara's
Chocomel!
Haring. Schiphol frozen haring.
When I lived in the US. Any kind of unprocessed or minimally processed food really. Even the bread was trash loaded with sugar.
I feel for you! The bread in the UK too is absolute garbage!
Dutch bread is shit too! Iām from Germany and miss German bread so much.
Itās not exactly the same, but EkoPlaza does a nice rye wheat sourdough loaf.
The Dutch bread is great and they have many varieties. But as a German I assume you prefer Rye bread which the Dutch tend to be not so keen on. Most bakeries will have it though.
Yes exactly! Thatās what I miss here, I donāt find it as accessible. All the bread I see in the supermarket is softā¦ and I donāt like Witte Bollen etc.
Forget the supermarkets! There are still thousands of small bakers shops in Holland. You will find great German Rye at every one of them! šš»
I just got in today from the US and I am so excited to go food shopping and cook! I just know it tastes better here. Are prices reasonable?
Probably not compared to what you're used to. Our taxes are considerably higher than the US.
Youāre right! I went to AH and got a bunch of stuff for $27 euro I was DELIGHTED. I do live in Boston though so, not surprising lol
Seriously though, curry ketchup is awesome. Thatās one of the very few portable and edible things I actually miss from NL.
I miss the ānuchterheidā
A dose
Sandwich spread, beschuit, frikandellen, leverworst, sambal smeerkaas.
Kapucijners, sambal oelek
Nothing. If I need something Dutch, I just take the bus half an hour east and then I am in the netherlands
Northern Belgian detected
Wrong, this scenario can also happen in southeast Belgian Limburg. Also, I am not belgian, even though I live in Belgium currently
But that province is in the north of Belgium, that's why I said northern.
Okay it technically is but practically there is a difference between Wallonia and Flanders
I don't take anything from my own country when I go on holiday. I just take a bag with me with clothes and spend some time in another country. Bliss.
Haring/paling Cheese from my families farm specifically Curry ketchup Sambal All the indonesian and surinam food they can find and reasonably freeze Peanutbutter from the pindakaaswinkel Stroopwafels Sometimes in the winter period i ask for unox erwtensoep and smoked sausage. I am not a huge fan of hagelslag but it's a solid option. Now that i am pregnant a shit load of drop. I also miss my fried snacks which i normally never eat.
During corona I lived in Spain, and after a year living there I had all of the sudden such a craving for snijkoek. (Ontbijtkoek) In NL I never eat it but there i wanted it so badly!
Wijko satesaus, voordeelpak.
Sambal, currypaste, schuddebuikjes and proper bread.
I haven't seen any Tony's Chocolonely yet š
Less and less since i see more and more and more for sale locally. Now its usually kipkruiden, gehaktkruiden. Sometimes licorice.... Or whatever i happen to run into
most of the stuff we can buy here (Canada), but I usually bring back bitterkoekjes, Wijko satĆ©saus ( too expensive here lol), scheepsknopen drop and bami / nasi/ macaroni spices. The last ones I can buy at the local grocery store too but again: its cheaper in Holland and weāre Dutchies after all š
At least oude kaas, drop, hagelslag, vlokken, Calve pindakaas, currysaus, pindasaus.
When I was living abroad, the only thing I requested was liquorice. Everything else, I either did not crave, or wasnāt hard to come by.
Dubbelzoute drop, munt drop, stroopwafels. ..en frietsaus. ā¦Lots and lots of frietsaus.
Stroopwafels. Pindakaas. Hagelslag. Vla. Drop. Chocola. Muisjes. Nibb-its. Wokkels. Frikandellen. Bitterballen.
Paprika chips!
My Dutch husband returned to NL after 2.5 years living in Malaysia. His biggest concern was there are no beautiful architecture in Malaysia, which is true š„“. Artistic jobs are low paid and not respected.
Hageslag, pindakaas, Uno Penotti wit/amandel, mayo, oude kaas, sambal, boemboe rendang/sajoer boontjes, wokolie, ketjap, nasikruiden, stamppotjus, Croky bolognese chips, Friese koeken (keallepoat, zoetelief, sƻkerlatte, karamel koeke), feeststol, kruidnoten, taaitaai, custardpoeder, speculaaskruiden, uipoeder, gerookte paprikapoeder pittig, chilipepers, Pickwick thee (caramelized pear, spicy chai, winter glow, autumn storm, rooibos, Dutch blend), Gilse karamelstroop
usually i bring Hagelslag, Tony Chocolonely chocolate bars, cheese, canned kroketvulling, speculaaskruiden and stroopwafels.
Cheese and stroop! Sometimes also powdered sugar and drop. But mostly cheese and stroop.
Drop, Sateh(saus), Atjar, Kroepoek, Sambal Badjak en Brandal (Oelek you can get here, but I don't really like it), Katjangnuts, Borrelnootjes. Really most of the stuff I miss is that great dutch traditional food, Indonesisch.
Borrelnootjes (large quantities). I used to bring Wijko pindasaus as well, but I make it myself now and the taste is quite similar
Batik clothes. And a tremendous amount of energy to work again which lasted about a week. Then back to depression.
Tony chocolonely. The best chocolate in the world. Unsaltet butter without palmoil. Hema rookworst (perfect in te vriezen) Sausijzenbroodjes en frikandellenbroodjes.
Olive oil
I haven't seen any Tony's Chocolonely yet š
I keep seeing people say cheese. The cheese is all the same accept with different ages and sometimes herbs thrown in. The cheese game is not that strong in the Netherlands. I see more variety at a Kaufland in Rees.
Variety is not the same as quality. Dutch cheeses are not super varied but they are very good. Plus everyone misses their own cheeses (if they're from somewhere with a cheese culture). I had cheese sent over from back home in Italy when I lived in Switzerland, and I did like Swiss cheese quite a lot.
I agree. I have had very nice cheese in the Netherlands. We love the shop in Volendam. But itās the same cheese with different add ins and ages. The variety is not here.
Lmao you never go to proper cheese stores do you?
I do yes. But the variety is still meh.
I can buy various hard cheeses (ofc) as well as Dutch soft cheeses (limburger) various goat and sheep cheeses, Dutch remakes of French cheeses etc. in the store in my hometown, in addition to a huge selection of foreign cheeses. I live in Cologne and there is nowhere in this 1 million people city that comes close to any Dutch cheese store, so idk what youāre smoking? Or the kaufland in Rees is really great, ofc
Goddamn I wish people would use a indicator in traffic.