Sometimes one feels like a taste of home - our South African fare which is usually (although not always - I hasten to add) available is artistically arranged on these few shelves at Countdown supermarket. Pak 'n Save and New World supermarkets don't have 'international' items on offer specifically - here and there you might find something tucked away amongst similar products, but not frequently.
You will notice that this photograph was taken a wee while ago - no matter, the items haven't varied in that time!
The big sellers are Ouma rusks, Ricoffy and Freshpak rooibos tea - the other things we assume, are on the shelves because they do sell, but they don't seem to run out, like the rusks and coffee do.
Ceres fruit juice, NikNaks, Koo tins of unexpected things, a few Robertson's spices, jelly tots, chocolate logs, wine gums, tex bars, Zoo biscuits, dried fruit roll - only guava and apricot, cerebos salt, aromat -especially the chilli flavour which we don't like, mieliemeel (one variety and exorbitantly expensive) and cans of cream soda! The aforementioned 'green soda' (sic) is sold for approximately $3.00 a can - that's about R15.00! We are not that crazy about green soda!
Mrs Ball's chutney is amongst the other chutneys in the 'ordinary aisle' and the chemist section sells Bio Oil which loudly proclaims on it's label - made in South Africa!
And that folks, is about that - the specialist South African shop in New Plymouth has a few other bits and bobs, most notable of which is Rennies antacid but not really anything too spectacularly worth driving all those kilometers for! What we really could do with is someone who sells Grandpa headache powders! Don't care what anyone says 'bout how bad they are for you - sometimes they are what does the trick!! maybe it's because they taste so disgusting!
Dis al!
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