Food we're going to miss
#76
Re: Food we're going to miss
I've not been yet. Stepdaughter has but it's changed a bit since then.
I want to try St James Gate just along a bit.
#78
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We have one downtown. Tide and Boar.
A few basics on the menu but plenty of different things. I'll pass on the Boar Poutine though.
A few basics on the menu but plenty of different things. I'll pass on the Boar Poutine though.
Locally it's diners and similar. The usual salads of garden, Greek, or Caesar. Fries, burgers, wraps, ribs. It's ok but no variety. I doubt anyone would want it. The same as 70s pubs were with their choices of gammon, scampi, chicken, and chips.
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#80
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1) Adnams pigs are happy pigs but 2) I live in Canada. The only bacon available is intensive agro-industrial stuff. It's better than life without bacon.
#83
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That's the kind (from Waitrose, not Ayrshire) I get in the UK. I noticed that the 'streaky bit' has a more intense bacon taste than the 'back' bit. Just the meat as I don't eat the fat. All pretty tasty though!
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Yes, and the fat makes good fried bread, not like the stuff you get from Canadian bacon which just seems to soak into the bread and make a soggy mess.
#85
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Living in the UK, I would definitely rather have no bacon than Danish bacon. I appreciate I'm spoilt compared to places like NL, but on the flip side you probably have more wild seafood compared to UK farmed seafood.
#86
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It’s just swimming about. Just got get out there and drop a line or four.
#87
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I have lived in Canada for 25 years. I cannot believe after 6 pages in this thread, nobody has mentioned the one food I miss from UK. (So much I had to come out of lurk mode.)
Fresh cream choux buns (Or eclairs, or custard slice)
In Ottawa the pastries are filled with some yucky rubbish. Every trip back to Blighty my first day treat is a fresh cream pastry.
Ok carry on, back to lurking.
Fresh cream choux buns (Or eclairs, or custard slice)
In Ottawa the pastries are filled with some yucky rubbish. Every trip back to Blighty my first day treat is a fresh cream pastry.
Ok carry on, back to lurking.
#88
Re: Food we're going to miss
I have lived in Canada for 25 years. I cannot believe after 6 pages in this thread, nobody has mentioned the one food I miss from UK. (So much I had to come out of lurk mode.)
Fresh cream choux buns (Or eclairs, or custard slice)
In Ottawa the pastries are filled with some yucky rubbish. Every trip back to Blighty my first day treat is a fresh cream pastry.
Ok carry on, back to lurking.
Fresh cream choux buns (Or eclairs, or custard slice)
In Ottawa the pastries are filled with some yucky rubbish. Every trip back to Blighty my first day treat is a fresh cream pastry.
Ok carry on, back to lurking.
#89
Re: Food we're going to miss
I have lived in Canada for 25 years. I cannot believe after 6 pages in this thread, nobody has mentioned the one food I miss from UK. (So much I had to come out of lurk mode.)
Fresh cream choux buns (Or eclairs...In Ottawa the pastries are filled with some yucky rubbish.
Fresh cream choux buns (Or eclairs...In Ottawa the pastries are filled with some yucky rubbish.
Certainly you can get them with yucky rubbish, just as you can in the UK. The Sobeys ones are huge and they spoil them a bit with piped icing (too sweet) but they are definitely real cream just like UK ones.
They do mini ones too.
Superstore/Loblaws are smaller than Sobeys and not as good, but only because there's less cream.
You can also buy frozen ones with real cream in too. Very nice.
I can't find the usual pic I post for the Sobeys one but it's in this one, on the left.
#90
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A choux bun with a cherry on top?!! eclairs with sweet iced piping no wonder I haven't tried them
Ok one other thing the missus reminded me we can't get Pork Crackling, have not found a butcher here that will sell pork that roasts with a crackling.
Ok one other thing the missus reminded me we can't get Pork Crackling, have not found a butcher here that will sell pork that roasts with a crackling.