On Feb 23, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Thaths wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:13 PM, mark seiden <[email protected]> wrote: >> and in the opposite direction, too, there are a few things hard to find in >> the bay area. > > Such as what?
well, as one example, some generic drugs are 10% of the price in india versus the us. (india does not observe the patent monopoly on the drugs.) i'm sure the foodies will pipe up about a huge selection of such things. i like burmese tea salad which uses fermented black tea. i have not found a source of it in the US. (there probably is a single combination video rental and spice place somewhere in santa clara or fremont.) country distribution is a strange thing: i like a specific flavor of large size soap made by roger-gallet, a french company. not imported to the US in that size, and a lot more expensive too than in france. there are certain shapes and colors of le creuset cookware that are not imported from france to the US. i remember arturo bejar, who's mexican, whining about his favorite flavor of mexican crunchy snack crackers that were simply unavailable in the bay area (only 500 miles away...) (yes, i'm good at searching for sources online).
