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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 1

LutzM (8/10/2010)
GilaMonster (8/10/2010)
...Love to, but it wouldn't be allowed through customs on this side. Same with honey, fruit and meat products etc. Otherwise I'd bring biltong when I visit (as a gift)
You're not talking about Elephant or Zebra biltong, are you?
Based on Wiki it recently became legal to import biltong into the Euro zone. Seems like I need to give it a try... They sell 100g (3oz) for about 5€ (R48 or 6.5USD) over here.

Biltong has been available here in the UK for a while now. The deli round the corner sells strips for about 5£/100g or so. It's still slightly bendy and quite good. There's a South African store near my flat in east London (where there's a thriving SA community) which sells bigger strips, maybe 500g/£10, and it's excellent, still a little red & moist in the centre and quite floppy. Beef, ostrich & kudu, some others but can't remember.

Try substituting jaggery - palm sugar - for the demarara or soft brown sugar - it has a meltingly warm sweet taste which makes demarara taste like a mixture of aspartame & vinegar.

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Dave Ballantyne (8/11/2010)
Jeff Moden (8/9/2010)
Dave Ballantyne (8/9/2010)
Woot woot , just got my speaker selection email for sqlbits. Time to get some material together now..
Congratulations and I understand the EXCITEMENT!!!!! :-P;-):-P;-) I felt the same way when I got my speaker selection for PASS this year.
Bundle of nervous energy at the moment. On before lunch http://sqlbits.com/information/agenda.aspx so if its going badly at least i can be a hero and send everyone away to get fed first.

That's GREAT, Dave! Congratulations! Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be exceptional!

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173068 More actions · Answer 3

GilaMonster (8/10/2010)
Jack Corbett (8/10/2010)
If you are going to use maple syrup please at least make it REAL maple syrup, not Mrs. Butterworth's or something else like that.
For those who can get the real thing. It's just about worth its weight in gold down here. A small jar (250g) can cost easily R75, if you can find it at all.

Same with the U.S. and Canada. There are restaurants that offer the real deal, for an extra price, with your breakfast. Or you can go with the maple-flavored stuff (so not the same thing). And the real stuff comes in such tiny bottles.

But it is absolutely to die for!

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Gianluca Sartori (8/11/2010)
That's GREAT, Dave! Congratulations! Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be exceptional!

Thanks for the vote of confidence, happy with my material , its just my skills at joining it all together coherently now 🙂

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Steve Jones - Editor (8/10/2010)
I've turned the kids onto chorizo here, and that's supplanted bacon most of the time.

Now I'm hungry. Favorite dish at a local Mexican joint, chicken, chorizo, pineapple, cheese...mmmm

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Kit G SSCrazy Points: 2888 More actions · Answer 6

Brandie Tarvin (8/11/2010)
GilaMonster (8/10/2010)
Jack Corbett (8/10/2010)
If you are going to use maple syrup please at least make it REAL maple syrup, not Mrs. Butterworth's or something else like that.
For those who can get the real thing. It's just about worth its weight in gold down here. A small jar (250g) can cost easily R75, if you can find it at all.
Same with the U.S. and Canada. There are restaurants that offer the real deal, for an extra price, with your breakfast. Or you can go with the maple-flavored stuff (so not the same thing). And the real stuff comes in such tiny bottles.
But it is absolutely to die for!

Pancake syrup will never enter my household. Having grown up in Upstate NY, there is only one type of maple syrup and that is the real stuff.

Maple sugar candy is awesome, although I can't eat it anymore, gives you quite the sugar high. As a kid, not knowing just how potent the sugar high was going to be, I had eight pieces in a short period of time. Got a bit ill after that, but loved every moment of the flavor. Good stuff, but be careful with it. 🙂

-- Kit

Ray K SSC-Dedicated Points: 31164 More actions · Answer 7

Chris Morris-439714 (8/11/2010)
LutzM (8/10/2010)
GilaMonster (8/10/2010)
...Love to, but it wouldn't be allowed through customs on this side. Same with honey, fruit and meat products etc. Otherwise I'd bring biltong when I visit (as a gift)
You're not talking about Elephant or Zebra biltong, are you?
Based on Wiki it recently became legal to import biltong into the Euro zone. Seems like I need to give it a try... They sell 100g (3oz) for about 5€ (R48 or 6.5USD) over here.
Biltong has been available here in the UK for a while now. The deli round the corner sells strips for about 5£/100g or so. It's still slightly bendy and quite good. There's a South African store near my flat in east London (where there's a thriving SA community) which sells bigger strips, maybe 500g/£10, and it's excellent, still a little red & moist in the centre and quite floppy. Beef, ostrich & kudu, some others but can't remember.

I had to look up what "biltong" was. Sounds interesting. Any suggestions on where we Yanks can find it here in the States?

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Ray K SSC-Dedicated Points: 31164 More actions · Answer 8

Kit G (8/11/2010)
Brandie Tarvin (8/11/2010)
GilaMonster (8/10/2010)
Jack Corbett (8/10/2010)
If you are going to use maple syrup please at least make it REAL maple syrup, not Mrs. Butterworth's or something else like that.
For those who can get the real thing. It's just about worth its weight in gold down here. A small jar (250g) can cost easily R75, if you can find it at all.
Same with the U.S. and Canada. There are restaurants that offer the real deal, for an extra price, with your breakfast. Or you can go with the maple-flavored stuff (so not the same thing). And the real stuff comes in such tiny bottles.
But it is absolutely to die for!
Pancake syrup will never enter my household. Having grown up in Upstate NY, there is only one type of maple syrup and that is the real stuff.
Maple sugar candy is awesome, although I can't eat it anymore, gives you quite the sugar high. As a kid, not knowing just how potent the sugar high was going to be, I had eight pieces in a short period of time. Got a bit ill after that, but loved every moment of the flavor. Good stuff, but be careful with it. 🙂

Concur. I love maple sugar candy, but it doesn't love me, so I don't have it very often. Around here, you can find good maple sugar and syrup (the REAL stuff) pretty much anywhere, including the supermarkets.

Kit -- I'm a lifelong upstate New Yorker. Where'd you grow up?

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Kit G SSCrazy Points: 2888 More actions · Answer 9

Ray K (8/11/2010)
Concur. I love maple sugar candy, but it doesn't love me, so I don't have it very often. Around here, you can find good maple sugar and syrup (the REAL stuff) pretty much anywhere, including the supermarkets.
Kit -- I'm a lifelong upstate New Yorker. Where'd you grow up?

Grew up just south of Rochester, NY. Got the maple sugar candy visiting some a colonial village site that I now can't remember the name of. Probably has something to do with the sugar high. 🙂 That stuff is good... but it packs a whollop.

-- Kit

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 10

Ray K (8/11/2010)
Sounds interesting. Any suggestions on where we Yanks can find it here in the States?

Interesting and awesome!

Have a try here - http://funkymunky.co.za/safood.html - several links for various SA food items. Some links are bad, others seem to work.

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The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 11

GilaMonster (8/10/2010)
LutzM (8/10/2010)
You're not talking about Elephant or Zebra biltong, are you?
No, just beef to start with, wouldn't want to scare the poor Americans :-D. Kudu biltong is awesome, if you can find a good source (I like my biltong dry). Any biltong ranges from terrible to excellent, depending where it's from.
They sell 100g (3oz) for about 5€ (R48 or 6.5USD) over here.
Not far off what it costs here, depending where you buy it from.
I used to drive through the Free State each year (for aikido camp) and would stop at a biltong shop that's literally in the middle of nowhere (garage, bottle store, biltong shop, nothing else). Awesome stuff and very cheap, but not really worth driving 350km for.
Now I'm craving biltong...

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 12

The Dixie Flatline (8/11/2010)
GilaMonster (8/10/2010)
LutzM (8/10/2010)
You're not talking about Elephant or Zebra biltong, are you?
No, just beef to start with, wouldn't want to scare the poor Americans :-D. Kudu biltong is awesome, if you can find a good source (I like my biltong dry). Any biltong ranges from terrible to excellent, depending where it's from.
They sell 100g (3oz) for about 5€ (R48 or 6.5USD) over here.
Not far off what it costs here, depending where you buy it from.
I used to drive through the Free State each year (for aikido camp) and would stop at a biltong shop that's literally in the middle of nowhere (garage, bottle store, biltong shop, nothing else). Awesome stuff and very cheap, but not really worth driving 350km for.
Now I'm craving biltong...
In sudden disgust, the lionesses realize they have killed a Tofudebeast, one of the Serengeti's obnoxious health antelopes...

Jeez Bob you're playing with them funny pills again. Don't you remember what happened to Timothy?

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For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 13

I was just remembering one of my favorite cartoons from "The Far Side", Chris. 🙂

The comics world lost a great humorist when Gary Larson finally decided to get counseling and therapy.

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 14

The Dixie Flatline (8/11/2010)
I was just remembering one of my favorite cartoons from "The Far Side", Chris. 🙂
The comics world lost a great humorist when Gary Larson finally decided to get counseling and therapy.

His stuff was too funny - do you remember "You've got cows, Mr Farnsworth?" and "Car!"

The sharp edges of the world seem to acquire a little soft padding after a few pages of Larson.

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For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

Ray K SSC-Dedicated Points: 31164 More actions · Answer 15

Kit G (8/11/2010)
Ray K (8/11/2010)
Concur. I love maple sugar candy, but it doesn't love me, so I don't have it very often. Around here, you can find good maple sugar and syrup (the REAL stuff) pretty much anywhere, including the supermarkets.
Kit -- I'm a lifelong upstate New Yorker. Where'd you grow up?
Grew up just south of Rochester, NY. Got the maple sugar candy visiting some a colonial village site that I now can't remember the name of. Probably has something to do with the sugar high. 🙂 That stuff is good... but it packs a whollop.

Ah -- if I remember my Rochester geography correctly, you were in Chili or Henrietta (or somewhere thereabouts), is that right? I can describe my entire life according to exits off the NYS Thruway (born in Buffalo, grew up in Woodstock/Kingston/Saugerties, educated in Syracuse, currently live/work near Albany).

There are plenty of places to get maple sugar candy around here, including local farms, markets, drugstores, convenience stores, etc. I don't typically see maple candy in supermarkets, but they do carry local maple syrup.

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