Random Foodstuffs I Can't Get Here

-Feta cheese . . . or any sort of cheese that would substitute for feta.
-Sour cream . . . well, that's not a suprise, and in any case you can fake sour cream.
-Plain yoghurt. Even the "natural" stuff contains vanilla and glucose.
-Berries. Seriously, raspberry and strawberry are two of the most popular flavours for yoghurt, jam, candy, and the like, and I have yet to see berries other than grapes in any market.
-Pine nuts. Not surprising, but I really want to buy some.
-Basil and rosemary (fresh) . . . and yet, basil is in lots of dishes, and I got dried rosemary, but I haven't found any fresh stuff for sale.
-Cheerios, or any cereal that ressembles them. Frosted flakes, corn flakes, rice krispies, a thousand granola varieties, but no cheerios.
-Juice concentrate. You can get fruit that is grown for making juice, you can get juice in bottles and tetrapaks, you can get powdered fruit-flavoured drink mix, but you can't get frozen or bottled juice concentrate.
-Salad dressing. Okay, admittedly I haven't really been looking for salad dressing, but I don't recall seeing it.
-Zucchini. Eggplant, sure. Cucumbers, you bet. Giant things that look like zucchini but are really some other squash variety with a hard peel, ubiquitous. Cute little courgettes? Not a chance.
-Chocolate chips for baking.
-Basmati or thai rice.
-Baking soda in anything larger than a 50 g packet.

Foodstuffs I Am Surprised to Find Available Here
-Quaker oatmeal, plain, vitamin fortified, and in the usual assortment of flavours
-Soy milk - very popular
-Cheddar cheese (in Canadian food dye orange)
-Sugarfree Trident gum
-Camembert cheese
-Philadelphia cream cheese
-Marshmallows, white and coloured, large and hot-chocolate-sized
-Soy and rice flour baked goods
-Arborio rice, and brown rice
-Snickers bars

Okay, that last one isn't that surprising.

I don't know why, but some days there are fresh mushrooms and asparagus at the markets and some days there are not. I mean, I would understand if asparagus was only in season at certain times, but it seems weird that it comes and goes almost weekly. Also, domestic white mushrooms don't really have a season, do they?

This Week's Winner of the "Strange and Foreign Product from a Familiar Company" Contest
Rasberry-scented Kleenex brand facial tissues, in a Winnie-the-Pooh box.