im intrigued by 'twinkies' which seem to be not just a food but part of American culture. ive never encountered them over here
you can get em , if your local tesco has a world food section (although at one point the company who makes twinkies went or was near to going under IRC.) one local here has indian, african, filipino, south african, austrailian, brazil, med countries and US countries.. oh and of course Irish stuff like red lemonade/cidona :D . notice a lot of the US stuff has been relabeled for the UK. the food comission in the US don't allow certain things there IRC.
the stuff I tried in canada years ago was aggh! and now they muck around with UK stuff like cabury's where it's sickly / oversweet .. and that corn syrup stuff etc.. sorry it's a wrong'un
they have import tax on the stuff which is fair enough.. but £5 for a packet of US lucky charms.. is a bit too much of an ask.
I like that bit of Tesco. The 'Cock Flavour Soup' aisle. :))
The cans of coconut water with bits, properly chilled, are lush and proper thirst-quenching.
And jars of 'Fluff'. Right.
Oh right, Burnham-on-Sea - I've been there. Used to go down there and Weston-Super-Mare for holidays when I was a kid. Nice part of the country. :)
I know what you mean about the bakeries. There was a decent little pie shop in the village where I went to high school. Used to go there on lunch now and again. Went back for a visit in 2010 and they'd knocked it down and built flats. They seemed to be doing that everywhere in the UK. A factory or business closes - boom - flats. (It was probably a pre-2008 plan though, so it might have been scaled back a bit now.)
There's a pie shop here, but I've only been a couple of times in the last 11 years.. It's not that far from me, I just don't remember to go. (And it's on the road where they always do speed trapping, so I tend to avoid it.)
Shame, as it's always nice when I do remember to stop in.
Pies, I know you can get em here, such as Apple Pie, and BlueBerry etc. However, I've not seen a good savory pie since I have been here and Cornish Pasties.... never seen one.
Pies, I know you can get em here, such as Apple Pie, and BlueBerry etc. However, I've not seen a good savory pie since I have been here and Cornish Pasties.... never seen one.
They have them kicking around. Savoury pies are usually called 'pot pies' and they're mostly just poultry in my experience (Chicken pot pie and Turkey pot pie seem to be the most common)
I've definitely seen them in Costco, but their selection of products seems to change seasonally.
Doubt you'd ever see anything like a butter pie or meat & potato over here.. And they can't wrap their heads around Steak & Kidney.. It just blows their minds.
(Especially the 'pudding' variety.. ("But puddings are SWEET! HOW CAN IT BE A PUDDING IF IT'S NOT SWEET!))
And - according to my wife - the mere idea of 'mushy' peas is "just gross".
Can you buy oven chips over there? Everyone seems to prefer those thin fries you get from the Golden Arches.
Yes, pretty much all frozen fries/chips are oven chips. If you want the fat English type they are called "steak fries" here. $1.88 for a 2lb bag at Wallyworld.
On the original list...trifle...easiest thing in the world to make, come on! ..and shreddies...you can get those under various different brand names.
You can usually find somewhere selling international food if you look around. Here in Houston there is "world market" , "fiesta" and also an independent India store "Rahni's Market" that sells lots of English stuff...I just got a box of weetabix this weekend from Fiesta and some English sausages.
Just got some Ovaltine Malted Milk from the International isle at Real Canadian Superstore... It's not Horlicks (which is annoying), but it's similar.
Still have my last jar of Horlicks in the cupboard - only used about half of it - there's no best before date, but the packaging says Copyright 2009 and the powder inside it seems to have fused into a brick. Also got a jar of regular Ovaltine from 2011 that's in a similar state.. Yeah, should probably chuck those out.. :-Z
Picked up a couple of large (1L) bottles of Ribena cordial.. Love that stuff with hot water. That's probably why the Horlicks and Ovaltine went unused - you have to have them with boiling milk, and lately I've mostly been drinking Ribena and powdered hot chocolate that just needs water and you don't need to mess up a pan to make (and you don't get that nasty skin on top).. Shame, because I really enjoy those when I drink them, just too much of a hassle to make very often these days.. (Oh, we're all lazy bastards now, aren't we?)
you don't need to mess up a pan to make (and you don't get that nasty skin on top).. Shame, because I really enjoy those when I drink them, just too much of a hassle to make very often these days.. (Oh, we're all lazy bastards now, aren't we?)
Umm it's the 21st century...use the microwave to warm up your milk :))
Yeah Bakeries are what I miss most. As someone else mentioned you can't really get a good savory pie here...the "pot pies" are pretty poor and generally frozen, hard to find a good fresh one and even then it's gonna be a turkey pop pie or the like...not a good meat and potato for love or money.
Not really found a "real" bakery here. Maybe I should start one "YE OLDE PIE SHOPPE" the Americans love that old world spelling
Marie Calenders Beef Pot Pies are "OK" for a beef and veg equivalent, but I miss the lardy salty oniony nastiness of a Greggs Mince Pie.
My wife did pick me up some Chicken Tikka pies a few weeks back, I was expecting good things.....Nah disappointment as usual, I cooked both of them, and after I was about halfway through the first one I realized I wasn't even going to start the second one, dry, dry, dry, and very little actual curry taste.
Americans can't make curry, or pies, or curry pies...
Fiesta has some "english" pies in the international freezer, meat pies / pork pies and pasties I believe...they look like hollands but are under the brand name of the yank company who makes then with a union jack on the packaging....I've been looking at them for coming up on 19yrs now and really want to try the meat ones....they are $10 for 4 though and I'm simply to cheap a **** to pay that :)
Walmart has it's own brand "good value" thick and zesty sauce which is pretty much identical to HP sauce in my opinion. Not cheap though 2.68 for a 12oz bottle or something like that when the imported HP is 3.50? You'd figure wallyworlds brand would be a dollar and change...maybe it's HP rebranded :))
I think getting a decent HP sauce (and pork pie) would be my deal-breaker in terms of moving to the US. I'd even waive my rights to automatic weapons for my first born to make it so.
No tbh I think the Canadian version uses apple juice in place of one of the regular ingredients? I don't have a bottle handy to check though, the only HP I've got is the legit "British" stuff (Made in Sweden :)) ).
They've probably decided that dried fruit might choke someone, and is therefore on the list of strictly controlled dangerous goods (some 270 places higher than anti-tank munitions).
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you can get em , if your local tesco has a world food section (although at one point the company who makes twinkies went or was near to going under IRC.) one local here has indian, african, filipino, south african, austrailian, brazil, med countries and US countries.. oh and of course Irish stuff like red lemonade/cidona :D . notice a lot of the US stuff has been relabeled for the UK. the food comission in the US don't allow certain things there IRC.
the stuff I tried in canada years ago was aggh! and now they muck around with UK stuff like cabury's where it's sickly / oversweet .. and that corn syrup stuff etc.. sorry it's a wrong'un
they have import tax on the stuff which is fair enough.. but £5 for a packet of US lucky charms.. is a bit too much of an ask.
The cans of coconut water with bits, properly chilled, are lush and proper thirst-quenching.
And jars of 'Fluff'. Right.
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Pies, I know you can get em here, such as Apple Pie, and BlueBerry etc. However, I've not seen a good savory pie since I have been here and Cornish Pasties.... never seen one.
They have them kicking around. Savoury pies are usually called 'pot pies' and they're mostly just poultry in my experience (Chicken pot pie and Turkey pot pie seem to be the most common)
I've definitely seen them in Costco, but their selection of products seems to change seasonally.
Doubt you'd ever see anything like a butter pie or meat & potato over here.. And they can't wrap their heads around Steak & Kidney.. It just blows their minds.
(Especially the 'pudding' variety.. ("But puddings are SWEET! HOW CAN IT BE A PUDDING IF IT'S NOT SWEET!))
And - according to my wife - the mere idea of 'mushy' peas is "just gross".
surprised you see much of it , as it was far bigger in Ireland :)
a relative had a shop, and I got things like "twirl" 6 year before they were out in the UK.. think they used it as a testing ground
Yes, pretty much all frozen fries/chips are oven chips. If you want the fat English type they are called "steak fries" here. $1.88 for a 2lb bag at Wallyworld.
On the original list...trifle...easiest thing in the world to make, come on! ..and shreddies...you can get those under various different brand names.
Still have my last jar of Horlicks in the cupboard - only used about half of it - there's no best before date, but the packaging says Copyright 2009 and the powder inside it seems to have fused into a brick. Also got a jar of regular Ovaltine from 2011 that's in a similar state.. Yeah, should probably chuck those out.. :-Z
Picked up a couple of large (1L) bottles of Ribena cordial.. Love that stuff with hot water. That's probably why the Horlicks and Ovaltine went unused - you have to have them with boiling milk, and lately I've mostly been drinking Ribena and powdered hot chocolate that just needs water and you don't need to mess up a pan to make (and you don't get that nasty skin on top).. Shame, because I really enjoy those when I drink them, just too much of a hassle to make very often these days.. (Oh, we're all lazy bastards now, aren't we?)
Umm it's the 21st century...use the microwave to warm up your milk
:))
What you should be looking out for is Maltesers hot chocolate powder. It's malty, it's chocolatey, and you can use milk or water, or a bit of both.
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Not really found a "real" bakery here. Maybe I should start one "YE OLDE PIE SHOPPE" the Americans love that old world spelling
My wife did pick me up some Chicken Tikka pies a few weeks back, I was expecting good things.....Nah disappointment as usual, I cooked both of them, and after I was about halfway through the first one I realized I wasn't even going to start the second one, dry, dry, dry, and very little actual curry taste.
Americans can't make curry, or pies, or curry pies...
Compaq Sauce? ;)
Yeah, just don't open "YE OLDE BUTTY SHOP" - different connotations over here.. :P
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