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Re: Which of these ingredients are available?
« Reply #75 on: August 23, 2017, 10:10:15 PM »
Very different. If you're someone who's a heavy sweater and the only anti-persperant deoderant that worked at all isn't sold here... It makes you very sad.

I hate deodorant here. Surprisingly the cheap stuff from Aldi works. My dove stash from America ran out. 

I'm a dove girl through and through. It's the only soap my grandma used, so naturally my mom only used that and now me. Though I much prefer their body wash to the bar soap I grew up on.


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Re: Which of these ingredients are available?
« Reply #76 on: August 23, 2017, 10:55:03 PM »
I hate deodorant here. Surprisingly the cheap stuff from Aldi works. My dove stash from America ran out. 

I'm a dove girl through and through. It's the only soap my grandma used, so naturally my mom only used that and now me. Though I much prefer their body wash to the bar soap I grew up on.


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Re: Which of these ingredients are available?
« Reply #77 on: August 23, 2017, 11:22:06 PM »
Tesco sells Dove Invisible Dry Stick antiperspirant deodorant. The scent is mild and unobtrusive (and I usually use unscented due to allergies, so I'm quite sensitive to smell). I had multiple meltdowns about deodorant until I found this at Tesco. I currently own no fewer than 3 sticks of deodorant because I'm not going through that again! My wife, either. She was ready to kill me. :P
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Re: Which of these ingredients are available?
« Reply #78 on: August 24, 2017, 12:20:45 AM »
Tesco sells Dove Invisible Dry Stick antiperspirant deodorant. The scent is mild and unobtrusive (and I usually use unscented due to allergies, so I'm quite sensitive to smell). I had multiple meltdowns about deodorant until I found this at Tesco. I currently own no fewer than 3 sticks of deodorant because I'm not going through that again! My wife, either. She was ready to kill me. :P

I will try to remember this next time I order from/go to Tesco.  The words "invisible dry stick" sound promising, at least!
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Re: Which of these ingredients are available?
« Reply #79 on: August 24, 2017, 08:02:50 AM »
I'm a dove girl through and through. It's the only soap my grandma used, so naturally my mom only used that and now me.

I use Dove soap and love it, but the Dove deodorant (the regular scent, not the pomegranate or cucumber... not seen these!) smells yukky on me.  Must not agree with my body chemistry?  So I just stick with the Mitchum baby powder scent stick.


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Re: Which of these ingredients are available?
« Reply #80 on: August 24, 2017, 09:09:06 PM »
I use Dove soap and love it, but the Dove deodorant (the regular scent, not the pomegranate or cucumber... not seen these!) smells yukky on me.  Must not agree with my body chemistry?  So I just stick with the Mitchum baby powder scent stick.

It's a bit fascinating how our body chemistry can make something smell so off on one person, but great on another.

Do they sell Mitchum here? It was my back up to dove in the states.


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Re: Which of these ingredients are available?
« Reply #81 on: August 24, 2017, 09:20:15 PM »
Do they sell Mitchum here? It was my back up to dove in the states.

They do :).

See: http://www.boots.com/search/mitchum+women
(the solid ones are at the bottom of the page)


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Re: Which of these ingredients are available?
« Reply #82 on: August 25, 2017, 12:10:02 AM »


By the way, does anyone know what cream of tartar does?  I didn't have any so I just skipped it.

It's acidic. In the old days, when one made their own baking powder, cream of tartar went in it. In a pinch (ok, you have to use a lot more than a pinch) it can replace some of the acid found in like buttermilk. On the biscuit texture, it also depends on the kind of flour you use. For a really good Southern one, you want to use a flour with minimal gluten. See Alton's recipes here  http://altonbrown.com/southern-biscuits-recipe/

I think you can also use it as a cleaner, mixed with vinegar, but have never tried it.

It stabilizes egg whites nicely.
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Re: Which of these ingredients are available?
« Reply #83 on: August 25, 2017, 12:14:32 AM »
So, generally, I dislike biscuits (I hear that audible gasp!). But I like the kind I get at Popeye's chicken.  Do you know if they are buttermilk?  I suspect that's what they are, and that means I have figured out my preference.  Finally.

Yeah, they are buttermilk and they brush the tops with melted butter....  ;D

Everything's better with Butter.  ;)


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Re: Which of these ingredients are available?
« Reply #84 on: August 25, 2017, 12:16:17 AM »
LOL... between this, the discussion about egg noodles and a long-ago post in which someone claimed that the salt tastes different here.... I sometimes feel I have no idea what you guys are talking about!

Duuude, the salt DOES taste different here! :D
Is it iodized? I'm thinking not. And the texture is off. However, if you buy the sea salt it's a lot closer.


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Re: Which of these ingredients are available?
« Reply #85 on: August 25, 2017, 12:19:44 AM »
Oh, yeah. Picked up a bottle of molasses for 2.99 at Holland and Barrett. Says nothing about being blackstrap molasses, so hopefully it's not and will make a nice gingerbread this weekend. Am happy about that price - it is a good sized jar.


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Re: Which of these ingredients are available?
« Reply #86 on: August 25, 2017, 06:09:13 AM »
Duuude, the salt DOES taste different here! :D
Is it iodized? I'm thinking not. And the texture is off. However, if you buy the sea salt it's a lot closer.

It's usually not iodized. We get rock salt and use a grinder. Haha.
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Re: Which of these ingredients are available?
« Reply #87 on: August 25, 2017, 12:01:01 PM »
She got it! My daughter will be on her way to me with my Velveeta this evening! I pick her up in Glasgow tomorrow.

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Re: Which of these ingredients are available?
« Reply #88 on: August 25, 2017, 01:02:27 PM »
Duuude, the salt DOES taste different here! :D
Is it iodized? I'm thinking not. And the texture is off. However, if you buy the sea salt it's a lot closer.

This is just... 50 shades of cray...!!!  :o ;)


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Re: Which of these ingredients are available?
« Reply #89 on: August 25, 2017, 01:48:23 PM »
It's usually not iodized. We get rock salt and use a grinder. Haha.

We do, too.  I much prefer this to the solid mass of table salt that won't fit through the top of the cardboard cylinder.  Humidity is the bane of my salty existence.

This is just... 50 shades of cray...!!!  :o ;)

Salt mined from different regions will have different trace elements in different concentrations in it and these will affect flavour.  That's why there's things like Himalayan pink salt.  If Nan ony used Morton salt in the US, for example, and she came over here and had to use a different brand, mined from a different region, she might taste the different balance of trace elements.  It's exactly the same as water that tastes different depending on its source.
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