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erinja (User's profile) March 11, 2008, 7:59:19 PM
They are selling Bloater Paste, remember (heavy British influence) and they import much of their food (4 condiments from 4 different countries on a table, none of which are the country I'm in)
Rope (User's profile) March 11, 2008, 10:14:17 PM
erinja:You're generally in the right region of the world, but try again.Ah, is it Misr? I will be there in June.
They are selling Bloater Paste, remember (heavy British influence) and they import much of their food (4 condiments from 4 different countries on a table, none of which are the country I'm in)
I shal make a point of looking.
erinja (User's profile) March 12, 2008, 9:04:03 PM
Miland (User's profile) March 12, 2008, 9:09:29 PM
Taciturn_ (User's profile) March 12, 2008, 9:17:46 PM
erinja (User's profile) March 12, 2008, 10:06:04 PM
Good guess!
Rope (User's profile) March 13, 2008, 8:13:06 AM
erinja (User's profile) March 13, 2008, 3:56:27 PM
Rope:Doh, should have got that one. I did not know that Maltese was a Semitic language.Maltese is a Semitic language but it is written in Latin characters (it is the only Semitic language that is written with Latin characters in its standard form, in fact)
The Arabic written on packaging actually was Arabic. This was a surprise to me because I simply didn't expect to see that. But if you look at where Malta is geographically, it's very close to North Africa (Libya in particular). I think that they get many of the same exported products that goes to much of North Africa. That packaging was mostly dual language Arabic and English (and often produced in Germany). There were many, many products with packaging in Italian only, clearly made for the Italian market. And there was a large assortment of products made all over Europe. There were a very few things made in Malta, which seemed mostly to be local snack foods, plus some staples like bread and milk.
mnlg (User's profile) March 13, 2008, 4:02:32 PM
erinja:There were a very few things made in Malta, which seemed mostly to be local snack foods, plus some staples like bread and milk.That, and Kinnie!
erinja (User's profile) March 13, 2008, 4:56:01 PM
mnlg:I included that in the "local snack foods" category.erinja:There were a very few things made in Malta, which seemed mostly to be local snack foods, plus some staples like bread and milk.That, and Kinnie!
(Kinnie is their local soda. It's very much like the Italian chinotto. It's a soda made of bitter orange and herbs. It tastes... bitter and herby. And orangey.)
There is a second local drink I saw around but its name escapes me and I never got to try it.