Do you mean this sweet, which looks like chocolade, but which is much viscouser?

If yes, it belongs to my childhood-memories of the 70ies, too. In Germany we had it also.

From the picture on Wikipedia it seems to look a little like European version of Milky Way bar (which is different from the US model - candies seem to be as complicated as cars )

Oh, with candies you have to be very careful in the US (and in Australia and New Zealand, too).

Once in NZ I've bought a bar, which looked on the cover like Milky Way - but it had nearly broken my teeth!
In the USA had some other strange experiences, too (also with sweets from a PX-store, I got from an GI).

I like to try always food from other countries - but with US-made sweets I let other people test them before.

Or I buy the stuff, I know from home.

Ah, I just see, that the sweet, which was known in the 70ies in Germany as "3 Musketiere" nowadays is sold as "Curly Wurly" by Cadbury.
It seems, that it's available here, too, but obviously not everywhere.

@marioman: Vegemite is stocked by the larger supermarkets in the UK - fortunately; I used to like Marmite but nowadays I don't like its treacly consistency, so I buy Vegemite instead.
@ccf: I've only ever heard it called black pudding. I quite like it, but only occasionally. When I used to drive a van the better drivers' cafes used to serve it as part of a 'full English' breakfast.

-Not sure about Vegimite. I know we have Marmite here. They're sort of the same, aren't they?
-Shell's everywhere. I'll buy gas anywhere that has pay-at-the-pump, but I usually go to a Shell station if I want some junk food.
-I've never seen a BP in Canada, but there's a few in the US. I can't remember if it was BP or Sinclair; I noticed one of them was rare in the north (Washington), but got more common as I traveled southeast.
-3 Musketeers are pretty good. You know it used to be three mini bars? One had strawberry filling, one had vanilla filling, and the the third was like the ones we get now.

Yes, I read on the net it used to be three bars. Marmite is sort of the same I think, we have it as well.

In Germany BP went out of the market. They were quite common, but ca.2 years ago they made a big deal with the German ARAL-company with selling/swapping a lot of gas stations. The deal was so big, that by the law BP has to give up nearly all stations, with their name to avoid a monopolistic/oligopolistic market-position.
So now ARAL took all former BP-stations and the smaller, older ARAL-stations were sold to the Polish company ORLEN. For a while they put their name on it, but after a few months they got the name "STAR" (but still hold by ORLEN).

The history of the fuel business in Germany is interested, but complicated.

So we don't have EXXON, here they are named ESSO.

Ca.25 years ago TEXACO has left the German market, all of their stations were named DEA. The name DEA was very popular in the pre-war-times and 50ies, but has left the market then. After a few decades they came back...

A propos BP: I've read, that just 5 or 6(!) BP-named stations are left in Germany. One of them you could see, if you have watched the TV about the techno-party "Loveparade 2008"
And in the second house behind that BP-station, there is my office

Isn't that the case for whole Europe?
At least in Belgium it is (I often go to an Esso Express station as it is the cheapest of Brussels and on my way when going back from work)

The biggest choice of gas-stations -and the biggest gas-stations in Europe itself, too- you findin Luxemburg, close to the border to Germany.

Just a little question, I had in my head, since just had bought boxes with beverages.
Are there some other countries, where you can get Coca Cola light (European name, Diet Coke in America) with green-tea-taste? We bought one bottle, my wife likes it.

Food or drinks with green-tea-exctract I know from trips to Asia, mainly ice-cream, but Coke light with this taste I cannot remember.

Green-tea and Coke?

Diet Coke with Green-tea-flavour.

Yes I know, but it still sounds quite nasty. But hey, maybe I'd like it if I'd try it, but we don't have it here in the US. Maybe we'll get it sometime in the future though, then I'll for sure give it a try

Yesterday, on a trip to the far South of Holland, I was also driving a bit across Belgium.

Surely I've looked around to get confirmations for the prejudices about the Belgian way of driving.
The motorway-ring around Antwerpen is good for that. I've seen some drivers, who were too fast, have overtaken on the right side or have been to close to the car in front. But I must admit, that I was a bit surprised, when I've seen, that the majority of them had yellow license-plates.

A propos licence-plates: I saw a VW Bora from Maroc at the exit to Burgerhout.

Is there any Lancia-fan around? On the motorway, direction Eindhoven, nearby the "Massive"-lamp-factory I've seen a broken down Lancia Delta. Perhaps a bit abandoned. The hazard-triangle was still there, but the front license-plate was gone.


Then I wanted to buy something typical Belgian (and compare the prices to Germany), so I went to the "Carrefour"-market in Turnhout.

@Antoine: a lot of things are f...ing expensive in your country (wine, fruits, meat, deodorants and much more). Sometimes 50% or even 100% more than in Germany.
So I didn't buy Belgian chocolates, mustard or beer. I'll get it cheaper here or in NL.

I but just a few things as gifts for wife and cat at home. But there I've found out, that it wasn't Belgian. The "Chocolat Liegois"-pudding was made in Germany, the rice-vanillapudding "rijstpap" made in Poland and the cat-food made in Liechtenstein.
Belgian was the stuff, which was tasting good, but was stuck as a brick in my stomach later on, two "profiteroles"

But Diesel was cheap, even cheaper than in Holland.

Indeed lots of things are expensive here. People who live near France always shop there rather than in Belgium for example. I do not know compared to Germany, but it is probably the same. At least I know that it is for all electronic/photo stuff.

@weasel, @fck, @Bravada:
Our local supermarket has a "Polish week". Do you can recommend something personally?

http://www.rewe.de/index.php?id=22&no_cache=1&tx_nxmarktsuche_pi1[markt]=0019402- 746&cHash=9f20738800

I'm not really sure to recommend something from that market. Nice piece of these products are lower brand (Rolnik for example). I'm surely can recommend a kielbasa slaska (especially grilled) and ogórki kwaszone [pickled cucumbers].

Don't even look on polish beer. Almost all of breweries was sold to SABMiller, Carlsberg etc. and now it taste like other commons internatonal "beer-alike" drinks. For now I can recommend only two, true polish-made beers: Zywe and Kozlak from small brewery Amber. It's very common in Pommern.

The meets of the company Morliny were always good, I recommend also from the Krakus - "Krakowska Sucha Extra" and "Kabanosy".
Of sweets, perhaps the most interesting is the vanilla "Ptasie mleczko" of Wedel.

One of the most polish are "Bigos" and flaki - "Flaczki", but only home-made bigos is good, this from the shop are awlays worse - sometimes really bad (there is nothing to compare with the home bigos ), so it is better to do not try.
Same with the "Flaczki", well prepared are excellent (they have to be spicy and not too tough), but the problem is that many producers offer them, and it is not so hard to buy not good ones - then you will have the most boring dinner in your life and you will get really tired of chewing the meet.

And yes, beers are some strange foregin thing - try better one of the vodkas.

Many thanks for the tips, I will look for them.

I didn't know, that the Polish beer is that kind of "international", resp. uninteresting. When I had made a vacation-trip to Poland in 2003, I've seen, that the Polish beers always have more alcohol than the German ones, always around 6%. Here 4,9% to 5,2% are usual.
Now I'm talking like my Swedish friends do. At beer they are always looking at first on the alcohol percentage.
For "historical" reasons I bought some "EB" there, because it's from Elblag/Elbing, where my father's family had lived until January 1945.

I thought a bit about Bigos, because I like the Polish style of the Sauerkraut. There is not that much vinegar inside like here. I hate vinegar...
(Yes, perhaps im not a typical German - I prefer Polish Sauerkraut and Czech beer )

About Flaczki I must think a bit. Normally I don't like to eat giblets (if I recognize them), except the classic Scottish Haggis.

Is "Ptasie mleczko" similar to "Milky Way"?

Are Kamyki Brzeskie o.k.? I ask before, no that it's like the US-perversion to use salted! peanuts to put into sugar-cover or chocolate! Yuk!