i'm never buying yoghurt again.

except maybe to somehow import some live native bulgarian culture. the tricky part is that x-raying it would probably kill it.

the source and destination are technically EU, and there shouldn't be restrictions but with organisms there often can be.

any portuguese folk subscribing to my posts who know about importing living things into portugal? in this case it is yoghurt bacteria but i have interest in also working with tree seeds and other things that cannot be exposed to ionising radiation and arrive in a useful state.

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i have figured out a way to get live yoghurt culture across the borders.

just need to have some of it kept in a live state, sealed up, taped to my body somewhere. that would keep it alive, and also prevent it from being exposed to x-ray radiation.

to recover said organism, i just need to be very clean at first in raising a small amount of seed culture with a small, very carefully cleaned fermentation vessel, and once i have a couple hundred ml of active cultured yoghurt i can keep it going indefinitely.

the lactobacillus/acidophilus combo found in native bulgarian yoghurt is special, and has made its way across the world already to many parts, but a) i don't trust commercial entities to actually deliver me the for real bulgaricus and b) i have not seen any food product label containing live yoghurt culture specify it contains bulgaricus.

Probably just do a land trip by yourself. I mean… odds of you being stopped and asked about yoghurt in your tunks is somewhat slim.

I believe you can do it in two days drive.

But an interesting topic indeed.

yeah, it would be pretty rad... road trip from some village in a dense dairy country area of Bulgaria, back to Lisbon and then a domestic flight back home to madeira :D

they are giving out grants at the madeira regional government for agriculture related projects... some authentic bulgaricus based yoghurts and white cheeses made from local farmer goat milk, shipped via plane to rich hippies in germany :D

Би трябвало да има някакви български магазини. В Англия има в Португалия остава и да няма. Ако не в Испания би трябвало да има.

няма нищо такива в мадеира брат. не дори номарлна месарница, и в "тальо" само теле и свинско всичко от царевица не трева. млеко само УХТ и кашкавал. европейски храна е много лош.

Alright, I thought you were bulgarian. That looks to me like Google Translate bulgarian. Maybe english is better. What I wanted to say is that you better look for Bulgarian import stores in Portugal or maybe in Spain if there aren't any in Portugal.

не, това е лош български от мой мозик, аз живеех там за около пет години, най много в софия.

имам специална клавитура която аз програмирах за да писвам по бързо. в 2021 година работил във варна. съжелавам че мой български не е добър.

not gonna find any anything, if you didn't understand what i said, there isn't even normal butcher stores here in Madeira. There is the meat section in supermarkets and then there is these places that mainly are just slicing up beef to stick on giant skewers to roast over coals on a fire, they call it "espetada". and just like in bulgaria, most of it is nasty young veal, not beef at all, it's hard to find beef anywhere. it really bothers me because i'm from australia and beef is easy to find there, and is generally decent quality.

this isn't the mainland. i have seen bulgarian shops in amsterdam and romanian ones in cambridge where i used to live. there's barely even foreign themed restaurants, a few indian places, the obligatory chinese places, some turkish places and brazillian/argentinian, but i doubt much of that lovely beef is coming in here except to supply those places.

Madeira these days seems mostly geared towards the tourist industry and most of the businesses here are about that. getting real food here requires spending a lot more time inland from the coastline and learning better portuguese, and there is a lot of goat and sheep milk production for cheese, for some reason (probably because these animals do well on this rugged terrain) and aside from that a lot of bananas and various miscellaneous fruit crops, there is a few cattle farmers, i've been told by locals, but they are hard to find, most of the beef and dairy production nearby is in the Azores.

madeira is about 1000km southwest of portugal.

i am not spending my money on most of the EU blessed garbage the same as what i was buying in bulgaria. if i could get bosnian food, that would be a different story, but nothing i want to have isn't bulky and needing refrigeration, ie milk, kaimak, white cheese, fresh beef and lamb. all the package products are full of additives and garbage that makes my teeth go crazy and fucks up my nervous system and digestion.

i would presume, since the odds are pretty high, that you live in sofia, or if not, in plovdiv or varna. i've lived in small towns in bulgaria, and in novi sad in serbia and in sarajevo. the best food i've seen since i was a small child was in bosnia.

the rest of europe i am walking past the shelves and vitrina and just saying to myself "poison, poison, poison, poison, oh, look, more poison" it's extremely depressing.