Seeing Teedee's comment about setting up a farmer's market got me thinking. Out here in Texas, and all of the USA for all I know, you cannot get decent bacon, only streaky. For a country that provides you with fifty types of everything, it is puzzling and frustrating.
I stocked up at the British Isles shop downtown yesterday with Branston pickle, Rose's marmalade, Galaxy chocolate for my daughter(honestly) and, wait for it- Easter eggs- Yanks don't have them!
It's funny what people miss when they are abroad. What would you particlarly miss if you couldn't get it anymore? For my wife, it's Thorntons chocolates.
Jeremy, I can get Branston Pickles and Rose's marmalade (made in England) right in most of the regular grocery stores here in Canada. Two of the things I love also. What I can't find are things like TCP, good all spice, package suet (you only get it in a raw lump in the meat department), Zoflora concentrated disinfectant. plus lots of other things including chocolate of course. I will be stocking up on these things when I go over in June for a holday
What kind of Easter eggs did you get. We have easter eggs here in canada.
Pat, I got my daughter a Galaxy egg, my wife is getting Dairy Milk and I've got Roses chocs.
As you probably know, the American chocolate is quite different (read crap). We can get quite a few British items in our local Kroger supermarket, as there are many ex pats(no pun!) living around this part of Houston.
Lamb can be hard to get as beef rules out here, and the shrimp here is great. By the way its 82F 28C here today- loving it.
There are whole isles of easter eggs here but our two kids found out long ago they got far more by not having an egg and going for the same priced bar of choc instead
Would really miss bacon and maybe sausages ....but by the look of it not the cold weather
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For some years I had to spend 1 week a month in the USA. Usually it was in Phoenix Arizona but sometimes in Dallas, Texas. By the time I had arrived at the airport to fly home I was pining for a decent cup of coffee and a properly brewed cup of tea. I'm sure that in the US they re-use the coffee grounds over and over again and as for tea, do know you have to use boiling water? I always flew BA, not because I was patriotic but because of their excellent tea & coffee.
On return to Wiltshire my first duty was to down a pint of Wadworth 6X, served at room temperature. You can keep Coors and all the other chilled beers.
On the flip side I do miss the weather in Phoenix - even in July and August "'cos its a dry heat".
The coffee side of things, I think, has got (gotten) much better, and I do miss Waddys and the other beers at a proper temperature. There is a Texan brewery started by a German immigrant from the 1800s called Shiner and their stuff ain't bad.
OK, Jeremy's wife here (sneaked on under his sign-in).
