Foods I can't find in my present location and regional specialties.

[Story]

Twinkies. They make my teeth feel funny.

That needs to be your new tag line!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4780900
All Things Considered, August 1, 2005 · Michele Norris speaks with Roger Bennatti, a recently retired science teacher at George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill, Me., about a food preservation experiment he began 30 years ago. He and students set out to determine the shelf life of a Hostess Twinkie.

 

[dollydaydream]

Tomato sausages, I really want some tomato sausages

Oooo the nice butchers in halesowen sells them

 

[Smuterella]

Oooo the nice butchers in halesowen sells them

you northerners have it all, hot pork sandwiches, tomato sausages, decent fish and chips

 

[dollydaydream]

That needs to be your new tag line!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4780900
All Things Considered, August 1, 2005 · Michele Norris speaks with Roger Bennatti, a recently retired science teacher at George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill, Me., about a food preservation experiment he began 30 years ago. He and students set out to determine the shelf life of a Hostess Twinkie.

lol lol lol lol lol lol

They do have a short shelf life on the packet. I was disappointed I had to eat the box Pink sent me in like, a day because the use by was the day after I picked them up for the post office.

Note, I had to. I was not willing to waste what had been lovingly packaged & sent to me for the Mericas

 

[dollydaydream]

you northerners have it all, hot pork sandwiches, tomato sausages, decent fish and chips

You can't get decent fish & chips in the Midlands unless you go to the Black Country Living Museum, where they fry in beef dripping. My first job was working in a chippy & they fried in beef dripping, that was in Yorkshire. They're still there. That's the secret to the best fish & chips. Lovely beef fat yum yum yum!!

Come & visit & I'll get some tomato sausages & take you for some hot pork sandwiches :eusa_clap

 

[Rufus]

Wow! we must've crossed paths BT... I lived above Pizzeria Castello in E&C,

I now live 2 minutes from Pellicci's cafe, in Bethnal green Rd. Proper Italian greasy spoon. Complete with argumentative family! ;-)

The P&M in Broadway Market is still there. Great mash..

Hope your beers are going down well...

Now.. I'm hungry..

Ruf

 

[Smuterella]

Is that the P&M where the guy that runs it has a brother who has another P&M close by? They are a great pair those brothers, its a long standing family business.

 

[Mojito]

There's a particular type of squid dish they used to serve at the fishing village Pongol in Singapore when I lived there as a kiddie - we called it "deep fried baby squid", and it was a sort of flash fried tiny, tiny squid (smaller than bottle squid) with a lush, indescribable sauce. You ate them whole, and they were chewey, crunchy yummy.

When I visited there last time I asked for "deep fried baby squid" at the local stalls, and was given small battered and deep fried stuff that was nothing like it. I asked a cab driver and he seemed to know what I was talking about - he told me Pongol is gone now, all developed. But he assured me that you could still ask for the dish at hawker stalls - unfortunately I think I'm missing some nuance in the translation, because when I asked what specifically I should request he said "oh, we just ask for the little squid, and they know what we mean." I'm going to go in serious quest of them next year.

Other than that, I'm looking forward to the dishes that just aren't done well except for one or two local Malay Singaporean places - like a proper Mee Goreng, or satay done the right way, fanned constantly over a hot flame with loads of peanut sauce.

 

[i_am_the_scruff]

We used to have Lucky Charms in England but for some reason they stopped selling them. And when we used to go to America we'd stock up lol. Last time I was in America I went to Kansas and brought a box home and no one could eat it lol we aren't capable of eating that much sugar at once past the age of 14 lol

I also really like chocolate pretzils but can't find them anywhere here now. I'll have to make my own.

 

[LocktownDog]

Pork roll and scrapple. Man, sometimes I really miss Jersey. Can't get good pizza out here either. Or funnel cake.

 

[rmrdaddy]

LTD,
Come back to Jersey friend! The first porkroll and cheese sammich is on me!!!

 

[KY Gentleman]

Anybody else like Goetta? I can get it here now but when we lived out of state that was something we would stock up on and bring home.
"White Castle" was another thing I was glad to get back in the land of as well!

 

[BellyTank]

Wow! we must've crossed paths BT... I lived above Pizzeria Castello in E&C,

Ruf

Draper House..?

Now that I think about it, I'm missing the Caribbean Bakeries.


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[dollydaydream]

We used to have Lucky Charms in England but for some reason they stopped selling them. And when we used to go to America we'd stock up lol. Last time I was in America I went to Kansas and brought a box home and no one could eat it lol we aren't capable of eating that much sugar at once past the age of 14 lol

I also really like chocolate pretzils but can't find them anywhere here now. I'll have to make my own.

You can get Lucky Charms over here from 'specialist' shops (haha that sounds rude!!) They cost about £6 a box though! £6 for CEREAL!!! Craziness!

And they taste foul anyway lol

 

[Rufus]

BT - Castle House, next to Draper. It's been pulled dowm for, wait for it, Luxury Flats...

and just in time for the Recession/Depression/End of the world. (depending on which paper you read)

Twinkies, I used to see the ads on the back of the US comics and DREAM of how tasty they'd be.... The very first thing I did upon visiting the US was buy one..

I stood there excitedly unwrapping it, then made the mistake of biting into it...

Fire Retardant and soggy cake....what a great idea.

Lucky Charms... in my days in animation there is nothing I haven't drawn from General Mills/Nabisco/Kelloggs/Nestlé et al.. I have recurring Tony the Tiger and Toucan Sam nightmares.... No...they're not Greeeeeeat.

I need an apple.

 

[Darhling]

When it comes to american foods, I have always wanted to taste a poptart, simply because the word brings so many fabulous images to mind

I still haven't had a proper curry or a serving of fish & chips in the UK, but I think it is because I forget to get it when I have visited.

 

[John in Covina]

"White Castle" was another thing I was glad to get back in the land of as well!

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Out this way you can sometimes find White Castle Burgers and Cheese Burgers in the froozen food section of the super market.
"Buy'em By the Sack!"

 

[Smuterella]

When it comes to american foods, I have always wanted to taste a poptart, simply because the word brings so many fabulous images to mind

I still haven't had a proper curry or a serving of fish & chips in the UK, but I think it is because I forget to get it when I have visited.

Right, well when you are here we will take you out for one of those meals

 

[Smithy]

Who mentioned sausages?!

That's another I'm missing. They've got nice ones here but not the British type sausages that we eat back home. I tried to make Devilled Sausages with some Norwegian ones and it was distinctly wrong.

BT, when you are in Auckland in December you have to go to the butcher's shop on Gladstone Rd in Parnell, that chap IMHO makes the best sausages in the world. They are incredible, all natural, none of that sythetic skin crap. Tons of varieties but get the pure pork, brilliant. All his meat is good to, and he'll hang things to the customer's request and even get in things like pheasants, quail, if you want.

Bangers and mash anyone?

 

[duggap]

Fish

You all are talking about your fish and chips. Well down here we like farm raised catfish with hush puppies and coleslaw and fries. Matter of fact, I am driving 30 miles this evening just to eat at the catfish house.:eusa_clap