Author Topic: Food shop (Read 7775 times)

woody · « **on:** June 21, 2009, 08:52:48 AM »

Hi Kalkan lovers,

Thanks for all the information you have provided, however can anyone help me by giving me some names of a few groceries, Just in case they don''t make any sense in Turkish to me he he, eg semi skimmed milk, fresh orange juice, butter, cordial juice (no fizz) and any other important information you can give regarding a food shop.

Thanks again Tracy x

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Enjoy Kalkan · « **Reply #1 on:** June 21, 2009, 10:37:42 AM »

Great idea Tracy, lets see how many we get and we could make this a sticky topic to help others....

I think from memory milk is Dogul Sut

Wendy · « **Reply #2 on:** June 21, 2009, 11:46:44 AM »

Ayran - lush yoghurt drink. You either love or hate it.

turkeyfan · « **Reply #3 on:** June 21, 2009, 02:27:29 PM »

I''ve never seen cordial in bottle but you can get all different flavours in powdered form in sachets. We always take a couple of bottles of cordial wrapped in bin bags in our suitcases.

felicity · « **Reply #4 on:** June 21, 2009, 03:33:05 PM »

You wont find fresh semi skimmed milk - but long life milk. Sut is the word for milk and I think that semi skimmed is in blue cartons (pink is skimmed) but most of the makes say 0% or 50% indicating skimmed or semi skimmed!

Butter is tereyagi and orange juice is portakal suyu. Su - water, Ekmek is milk, Elma - apple, tavuk - chicken, et - meat, vegetables - sebze - however you will find english speaking people in all the supermarkets so you wont have a problem! hope that helps!

Enjoy!

chickengeorge · « **Reply #5 on:** June 21, 2009, 03:38:52 PM »

Actually Ekmek is bread so don''t ask for it in your tea!

woody · « **Reply #6 on:** June 22, 2009, 05:33:15 PM »

Actually my Husband dips his toast in his tea

Blue Lizard · « **Reply #7 on:** June 22, 2009, 06:13:09 PM »

Buy him some glasses so he can find his egg!!

woody · « **Reply #8 on:** June 28, 2009, 08:58:46 AM »

Well not long left now, going on the 6Th July, what would be the best supermarket to go to, to get our first
big shop and the cheapest. We will need all the basics and plenty of beer and wine for BBQ,s

Cheers Tracy x

Rosie · « **Reply #9 on:** June 28, 2009, 02:02:59 PM »

I think Felicity you''ll find ''ekmek'' = bread

Blue Lizard · « **Reply #10 on:** June 28, 2009, 05:30:06 PM »

Errr....chickengeorge already got to that one!!

Sevil were cheaper for everday basics,(they don''t sell alcohol)But tesko and yali both did wine offers which we made use of!!(a lot)

woody · « **Reply #11 on:** June 29, 2009, 04:20:23 PM »

The supermarkets in Kalkan, are they like little corner shops or bigger?
Where is Sevil ?

Cheers Tracy. x

The Engineer · « **Reply #12 on:** June 29, 2009, 04:46:37 PM »

The biggest and I think cheapest Suremarket is ADDA on the Kas road. There is far more choice here as its huge and I believe you get a 5% discount if you are an EK member. Very good value.

M

Blue Lizard · « **Reply #13 on:** June 29, 2009, 05:36:55 PM »

Woody..they are like our local co-op sizes......not vast supermarkets...Sevil and kartin,and Yali are on the road to the market.....Tesko is by the samira hotel..Adda is on the road out of kalkan up to kas road...(opposite taxi rank) hope this helps

Enjoy Kalkan · « **Reply #14 on:** June 29, 2009, 10:11:36 PM »

John,

Ill have a chat with ADDA management tomorrow

misty · « **Reply #15 on:** June 29, 2009, 10:15:37 PM »

Is 5% worth all the effort

Enjoy Kalkan · « **Reply #16 on:** June 29, 2009, 10:22:47 PM »

as its excludes cigarettes and alcohol probably not lol

Lantana · « **Reply #17 on:** June 30, 2009, 06:42:50 AM »

Like John, we too shop in all the supermarkets depending on what we need at the time. Adda currently has some good buy one get one free offers, Kartin has some very good deals on wine, Sevil has good prices overall and of no interest to holiday makers but certainly made me happy, is now stocking Branston Pickle and Sharwoods curry sauces at reasonable prices. Teskom also is very competitive and although small carries a good stock.

Everyone I know who lives here (mainly Turks but Brits too) has said that if any of the supermarkets offered a discount to a select group e.g. EK members, they would expect that discount to be extended to every shopper. If it wasn''t, they would take their business elsewhere.

I am at a bit of a loss to understand why EK members would be offered a discount, when the vast majority of shoppers at Adda (Turkish) wouldn''t get the same deal. It''s nothing to do with the amount spent on individual bills, since a shopper spending 10 lira a day for say, 250 days of the year is much more valuable to Adda than a shopper spending 300 lira three times a year.

I am concerned that because this so called discount is being promoted on EK, it could appear that Brits here on holiday would expect a discount for giving their support to any local supermarket. I am sure that is not the case. We all pay the same price for food in supermarkets, whether we are tourists with five hundred lira to spend or locals with 5.

Lantana

felicity · « **Reply #18 on:** June 30, 2009, 02:08:41 PM »

Just a belated apology to all those people and thanks to those who corrected me when I said that Ekmek was milk.....durrhhhhh - brain dead day it must have been - I hope that I didnt confuse anybody....

Ekmek is of course bread and sut is milk...!!!

woody · « **Reply #19 on:** June 30, 2009, 09:32:11 PM »

Thanks everyone for all your information, if anyone can thinks of anything else useful it would be great to know, like do the supermarkets provide bags ? do you need money for the shopping trolleys.

Tracy X

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