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    Try Park n Shop on the peak.


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    Quote Originally Posted by motoX:
    thats interesting- park and shop eh? ( purple singaporean biscuits ? is that the brand name? )

    I shall risk that $20 thank you!
    I've tried them. They are nothing like real Garibaldies (although somewhat similar in concept). Have you tried Olivers?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Satay Sue:
    trivia - we used to call them "squashed fly biscuits" at school
    Yep - we did too

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    dead fly?

    well I tend to just eat live ones!

    first, 2nd and 3rd date with my wife I managed to eat a fly!

    is that a record?!! and this week was our 5th wedding aniv. - guess what? went to macau - and ate a fly!

    no I am not a spider!

    which olivers do you recommend?


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    Quote Originally Posted by MovingIn07:
    I've tried them. They are nothing like real Garibaldies (although somewhat similar in concept). Have you tried Olivers?
    I actually just ate some of these. They are nothing like Garibaldi but I quite like them. International have a range of Waitrose biscuits but no squashed fly ones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by motoX:
    dead fly?

    well I tend to just eat live ones!

    first, 2nd and 3rd date with my wife I managed to eat a fly!

    is that a record?!! and this week was our 5th wedding aniv. - guess what? went to macau - and ate a fly!

    no I am not a spider!

    which olivers do you recommend?
    motoX
    The only Oliver's I know of is in Princes building Central.
    btw, I've also swallowed a number of flies, riding with my visor up!!

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    I know Oliver's well, and they don't seem to have anything but the Go Aheads (which I have come to enjoy quite a lot!), although they do manage to charge about HK$3 more than PnS/Wellcome...

    As far as my extensive personal research can determine, the Arnott's "slabs" I linked to above are genuine "Garibaldi" biscuits in every way, but I have only seen them at the CWB PnS (and this was a few weeks ago).


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    thats a good lead..

    can we clarify..

    is CWB clear water bay park n shop - or Cause Way Bay? ( more than one? )

    I wish to overwhelm my friend with variations of the squashed fly when he returns..

    such a good friend is he.


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    There is only one "CWB" in Hong Kong, repeated perversions of "Causeway Bay" notwithstanding...

    (I think it's actually called a "Fusion", and as you know, there is only the one.)


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    struggling to remember the last time I went to causewaybay?

    anything else other than squashed flies ( and squashed people ) that you cant get anywhere else?

    so fusion - hmm heard of it... never been!