bringing gifts to relatives & friends -- strange requests?
Feb 20, 2006, 8:29 am
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Originally Posted by IrishRed
Jif Peanut Butter
Originally Posted by Babaduck
Big Red cinnamon gum
JFK-->SVO
Skippy crunchy peanut butter
Tollhouse morsels (for chocolate chip cookies)
Big Red gum
A&W Root Beer
LGW-->JFK
Various items from Taylor of Old Bond St., Harrod's, etc.
O/H
Feb 20, 2006, 8:32 am
#77
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UK - DXB
Baby clothes and perfume
UK - YUL
Branston Pickle
UK - PFO
Diabetes test strips
There are a lot of Russians in Cyprus so I've asked my relatives in PFO for a young female Russian Au pair to look after me but no luck yet
Baby clothes and perfume
UK - YUL
Branston Pickle
UK - PFO
Diabetes test strips
There are a lot of Russians in Cyprus so I've asked my relatives in PFO for a young female Russian Au pair to look after me but no luck yet
Feb 20, 2006, 9:43 am
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We have a family friend who asks traveling friends to bring her back rolls of toilet paper to add to her collection. Doesn't have to be from the Ritz in Paris, or even from Paris, for that matter. Any hotel, any restaurant, any airplane, etc. Full rolls or partial rolls... don't worry if you have to smush it a bit to get it into your luggage.
We just ignore her.
We just ignore her.
Feb 20, 2006, 3:15 pm
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Originally Posted by Tad's Broiled Steaks
for my friends in the US, I brought back a pack of Fiesta durian condoms from Jakarta. the thought makes me shiver
Feb 20, 2006, 8:41 pm
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The Costco store on Saipan never has vintage port.
Feb 22, 2006, 9:29 am
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A friend had a lot of requests from a rather, shall we say particular, friend about for cooking ingredients from the US. She claimed she couldn't get any kind of satisfactory corn bread mixes in the London and also Ziploc bags. The latter struck me as odd, are there really no ziploc bags of any size in the UK?!