Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Calis Beach Forum => Calis Beach Questions and Information => Topic started by: johntaylor49 on September 14, 2016, 11:42:42 AM
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Been asked by someone to bring them some Cheddar Cheese and have some questions if anyone kind enough to help?
a) anyone know if you can carry in hand luggage or is it considered liquid?
b) Can you put sealed package in a suitcase without any problems? (obviously ensuring it cannot leak oils)
JT
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We always vacuum seal our cheese and place in suitcase, we have friends who placed cheese in hand luggage and it was confiscated :(
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I had cheese in hand luggage and was put in the swab for drugs ,and go through your hand luggage line, first thing I said to him was you are not taking my cheese are You! He put it bag in the bag.
I think all airports it's the luck of the draw n if your face fits on the day
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Apart from the fact that the import of ANY dairy products into Turkey is prohibited ( as are diary products from Turkey into the UK and any other EU country ), you shouldn't worry about it as I've heard that the accommodation in Turkish prisons is 5-star. :)
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I used to bring it in its sealed manufacturer's packaging and then in a ziplock bag. I've also frozen it first (it tends to makes it more crumbly though). Isn't it possible to buy cheddar in the Pork Shops? I must say I stopped bringing it as we liked the Turkish cheeses a lot.
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Yes, Cheddar Cheese is in the Pork Shops now, no need to bring it over.
Last time we went through Dalaman there was a bench set up at the door and some tourists where being taken over and their luggage and hand luggage search. :o
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We always used to bring blocks of strong cheddar cheese in our hold luggage, but have now discovered cheeses off the vans in the markets that match, and in some cases better, what we used to bring over. Room for more shoes in the wifes luggage now :)
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I've had some of the pork shop cheddar, it has all the taste of a bath sponge. Still bring my cheese back from Blighty runs, packed into a coolbag, sometimes in hold luggage, sometimes hand luggage - depends which one can take the weight - & have been stopped a couple of times, but still managed to hang onto the cheese :D
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i bring it over in the hold luggage in a carrier bag in the case ,
fine
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I can understand people coming on holiday and bringing cheese etc with them, but I cannot see the point of people who live here for most or the some of the year, doing this. The cheeses here are lovely, some like mature cheddar, lots of choice. Just go into the market and ask to try, and also you can do this in supermarkets like Migros. There are also some good cheese stalls around the outside of the fish market area.
If you are coming on holiday for the first time and don't know what you can buy, or even don't want to spend your time shopping, totally understandable.
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I'm interested in why nobody, with the possible exception of KKOB, seems interested in WHY governments take a hard line on the import/export of meat and dairy products.
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Ok Colwyn, enlighten me and put off my cheddar cheese toastie ;) ;D
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Hey, I'm not into the business of smuggling things into or out of countries. No need for me to worry about it! I'll ask Amnesty International to visit you if you get banged up.
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Ok Colwyn, enlighten me and put off my cheddar cheese toastie ;) ;D
4 words for a starter.....Foot and Mouth Disease.
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Perhaps because they have tried the ones in the market and around and prefer an English cheddar cheese.
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4 words for a starter.....Foot and Mouth Disease.
Shall we stir some avian flu into the mix? Anybody remember the Bernard Matthews turkey scandal in 2007?
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Well yes, why not not just buy local cheese and other products. Integrate. If you leave your home country you cannot expect it to be the same elsewhere, surely. If it is, why would you move?
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Do you eat/buy everything Turkish Liss a? Do you keep to all Turkish Customs?
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We found Turkish cheese to be beyond our tastes. We did consider not moving to Turkey because of this but decided that not liking the local cheese shouldn't be a reason to prevent us living abroad.
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My husband loves the Turkish cheese and goes to the market and tries all the different kinds. Have to say it is not bad and some is very strong.
We have also note a lot of the Supermarkets now have cheddar cheese. Some Kerrygold last time we were over.
We would not bother bring cheese or any other food over from the U.K. We can live without it for 4 weeks.
I understand the ex-pats bringing it over though.
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I love the strong stuff, usually crumbled which they serve at Iskele in Fethiye Bay and I think also in Pasa Kebap and other places, often with the puffy bread. (Lavas?)
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Yes, I do generally eat Turkish produced food. I don't keep to all Turkish customs though! I certainly did not sacrifice an animal this week!
I don't eat bacon etc so have no need to either bring back with me or buy from the pork shop. I used to bring Parmesan back, but now I can buy here in Migros and Sok, I don't bother.
I prefer English t bags though so bring some back when I go to the uk, but if I run out, I buy here. Or drink Turkish leaf tea.I love swede and know some people bring these back, but I would not bother to do so. Just eat when I am in England!
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The "Parmesan" the sell in Sok tastes dreadful......
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The one you grate yourself? I don't mind it, each to our own, I suppose! I don't always use Parmesan though, sometimes just use a hard strong Turkish cheese. Guess we all have our own likes and dislikes!
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Yep! I actually bought it twice as I thought the first one had gone off! :)
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Things must have changed.. I tried all the cheeses guaranteed to taste like cheddar in the 6 years we lived there.. They were all nothing like it.... I used to bring about 4 kilos back every time I came back to make Quiches for the charity.. Nothing else tasted the same... I once made 90 portions for one of our events.. I must have been barmy lol...
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Well yes, why not not just buy local cheese and other products. Integrate. If you leave your home country you cannot expect it to be the same elsewhere, surely. If it is, why would you move?
I did not expect things to be the same at all - I love Turkish food - and cheese - but there is nothing wrong with missing some favourites from the UK and being able to treat yourself to them from time to time when travelling outside Turkey. What on earth shouldn't I, if I have the opportunity?
Wensleydale with cranberries.
Reece's Peanut Butter Cups.
Theakston's Old Peculier and various other real ales for Mr WB
My favourite coffee.
All things I brought back with me after settling my daughter in the UK at the start of September. Along with a healthy quantity of Dairy Milk, Cheddar of varying strengths, Stilton, Revels, liquorice, Heinz Salad Cream and pork pies for a number of Turkish friends who had requested them!
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I find theres less and less I miss the longer Im here. Just ate pork in Bulgaria but it doesnt taste how I remember. Im sure taste buds change.
The tulum cheeses to me are fine for a lasagne etc.
My main shopping priority is Kenco coffee and double choc mocha sachets.
Most other stuff I can make myself now. My curries surpass anything I previously got in a jar :)
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I know what you mean Kayakebab - very rarely do we buy anything pre-made over here, it's all fresh.
That's one thing I don't like at all about going back to the UK - the change in diet. So much more fat and sugar over all....I feel very bloated and lethargic after just a couple of days. (Though face-planting into a bucket of KFC probably doesn't help. ;D )
Never have liked pork much so that's not been much loss....apart from not being able to make my Italian granny's traditional bolognese that calls for half pork and half beef mince - never bettered by any other recipe!
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There is a cheddar cheese (cant remember the name currently) in packs of 5 slices that I sometimes treat ( quite expensive) myself to when in calis that is very good, as for making do without uk foods I love the (slimming world recipe with a few adjustments) scotch eggs my better half makes with fresh chillies from my garden so when it calice last managed to talk her into making with kofte meat from the local butchers, chilli flakes instead of breadcrumbs (my idea) & turned out alright, kofte eggs might catch on you never know?
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kofte eggs might catch on you never know?
Not with eggs that over done I'm afraid.
JF
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Hard boiled ? Not burnt meat just used chilli flakes instead of breadcrumbs, how do you mean over done johnf
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The yolks should be barely set after boiling, that way when covered in whatever mixture, then breadcrumbed and fried, they're just set. Kinda yellowy yolky colour, definitely not hardboiled.
JF
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Healthy eggs, no breadcrumbs & not fried, tasted fine to me ;D
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Crack on.
JF
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The yolks on you.