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Originally Posted by lupo
Ah spades... If you take an English, or the superior, long handled, Irish ditching spade to Italy, you will at least never have to insure it against theft. I've never yet used mine over there and neither have any of my Italian friends and collaborators. OTOH i've used my italian spade for shovelling, cutting, slicing, digging, lifting and shifting antique coppi and mattone, undoing screws ... and I reckon it would easily double up for getting the Pizza in and out of the oven.
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The Italian spades
would be best for taking pizza out of the oven, after bending the blades ( yes... blades) before even the handles broke on two of them whilst using them for just normal digging, I brought over the Irish long handled spades with decent metal blades and thick well fitted handles.
Using it to do a job with a local Italian gardener, I was filling 2 barrows with stone for every one of his. Every time I put it down, he started using it and he has asked me to bring him one from Ireland as he says he never saw one as good... he had the same reaction to the garden hoe that we brought over, and my Irish mattock just bowled him over...
so my advise is ... bring your own garden tools anyway. Italian spades with their broom stcik type handles and in-line flat weak blades, are as Lupo says good for pizza baking, because I suspect they come from the same factory.
Metro sells Marmite, salad cream, mustards, curries and much else that people seem to have cravings for... yes it probably costs a bit more as it has to be shipped in by them, but how much marmite does one use in a year, and is it worth the stress of wondering whether the more cheaply purchased, specially imported stuff lasts out until the next food parcel from home arrives ?
Spending £15 on marmite in a 12 month period rather than £7 at home will hardly force most budgets under, particularly if it is balanced against all else that is much cheaper in Italy.