It’s been almost two years since I moved here and just six months since I’ve been in Toronto, but I still miss so many things about Canada. No, putting on snow tires is not one of them. I do miss my friends and family and so many familiar places, experiences and everyday products.
With the holiday season underway, I know I will miss them even more as the holidays draw nearer. People have been asking about what I want for Christmas this year. I’ve given this some thought. I don’t want anything big under the tree this year unless of course, it’s a visitor! But, in the absence of that, it would mean so much to me to have some little things that I truly miss from my home country. Not because they’re “stuff” that I want to accumulate, but, because there’s a certain familiarity to them, a certain snippet of the Canadian experience that would help me get through the Christmas season being so far away from over forty years of familiar.
Dear Santa,
While I know I can’t go to Canada this Christmas and I know that I can’t bring my family and friends here, if it’s at all possible, I’d really appreciate one or two of the following little things that I miss so much that you just can’t seem to get here in Oz:
- Crystal light individual drink packets – all flavours
- Hersey SKOR bars
- Kraft Dinner
- Tim Horton’s coffee
- Greens plus capsules
- Real Maple Syrup
- Clamato Juice
- Montreal Steak Spice
- Thrills gum
- BBQ Fritos
- Playtex super non deodorant tampons with plastic applicators
- Kotex lightdays hourglass shaped non-deodorant pantyliners
- Kraft caramels
- Bits and Bites
- Body Shop brazil nut soap and body butter
- Smirnoff cosmopolitan mix
- Red licorice
- Green relish
- Lubriderm sensitive skin body lotion
- LCBO Food and Drink magazine
- Toronto Life magazine
- Any dollar store item with a Canadian maple leaf on it
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