In general, Swiss grocery stores don't have the selection we're used to back home. A lot of times, I'm okay with that -- do you really need 100 different cereals? How, exactly, are there "fresh" fruits galore on sale in the dead of winter? -- but it's really cramping my style when it comes to baking.
Baking soda
You know those boxes you can buy in Canada, the ones for cooking, cleaning, or just plain putting in your stinky fridge? They don't exist here. Instead, you buy baking soda in teeny-tiny Splenda-sized packages.
Brown sugar
Again, doesn't exist. The brown sugar here isn't the moist stuff we associate with cookies and cakes of Canadian origin; it's basically raw sugar (sugar cane sugar) that is somewhere between the granulated stuff and the baking stuff. Swiss people insist that their brown sugar IS baking brown sugar, but it really isn't, as my crumble will attest. It still tastes good (it is sugar, after all) but decidedly different.
Cheddar cheese
No cheddar in the land of cheese? Well, not entirely, but it is hard to find, and orange cheddar is next to impossible to get.
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Well, they do know that things that come out of cows can be of many colours . But Orange is decidedly NOT one of those colours. We North Americans can thank Dow Chemical .or one of those for that bit of Faux-Keratin experience.
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