British Chocolate?
Mar 16th 2004 | 5:36 am
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Originally posted by mickj
Am still yet to find a fish and chips that at least comes close to what we are used to in blighty. I have been to all the ones people have suggested in the GTA, and they are nothing to write home about.
What gets me, is that these people selling the stuff, have the audacity to call it fish and chip british style, how dare they
To me, a good fish and chips looks something like the pic below, nice cod fish with some fluffy chips with a bit of vinegar in it
Yummy
Am still yet to find a fish and chips that at least comes close to what we are used to in blighty. I have been to all the ones people have suggested in the GTA, and they are nothing to write home about.
What gets me, is that these people selling the stuff, have the audacity to call it fish and chip british style, how dare they
To me, a good fish and chips looks something like the pic below, nice cod fish with some fluffy chips with a bit of vinegar in it
Yummy
I still think the best is when they are in newspaper and soaked in viniger......... seeping through the bottom onto your hand.
The best of british fish and chips!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CAN I HAVE HALF A LAGER TOPS WITH THAT?
CHEERS
Mar 16th 2004 | 5:58 am
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Re: British Chocolate?
okay , please keep in mind that I find that ajax and chips is a good one.. however.. I am not british.. hey, its worth a try.. they do have haddock too I believe if you prefer.. I just dont recall what made fish and chips in england different from the cdn batch..
there is a store in scarb town center called london fish and chips.. I cant imagine they would be great, but ya never know..
and as for the chocolate, its presidents choice chocolate. .forgot to mention the name.. its just a little different.. eatons used to import some, but sadly, they are no longer..
good luck..
there is a store in scarb town center called london fish and chips.. I cant imagine they would be great, but ya never know..
and as for the chocolate, its presidents choice chocolate. .forgot to mention the name.. its just a little different.. eatons used to import some, but sadly, they are no longer..
good luck..
Mar 16th 2004 | 6:35 am
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Hi,
I moved from the UK 3 years ago... You are right Canadian chocolate just is not the same as British chocolate. I found a website last year, based in Missisauga that sell everything English from choccies to Ready Brek to Billy Connolly videos !!! They even sell selection boxes at Christmastime!!
Check it out, they deliver to your door, I guarantee you will be in heaven just looking at their website. Needless to say I am a very regular customer !!!
As for the fish and chips I have tried them out here and there is NOTHING even close to fish and chips from the chippy!! I am going back for a visit this August and that will be my first meal and a good old fashioned doner kebab will be my second !!! Hope this helps. FYI I live in Manitoba.
Happy eating!!
The website address is : www.abitofhome.ca
Sharon
I moved from the UK 3 years ago... You are right Canadian chocolate just is not the same as British chocolate. I found a website last year, based in Missisauga that sell everything English from choccies to Ready Brek to Billy Connolly videos !!! They even sell selection boxes at Christmastime!!
Check it out, they deliver to your door, I guarantee you will be in heaven just looking at their website. Needless to say I am a very regular customer !!!
As for the fish and chips I have tried them out here and there is NOTHING even close to fish and chips from the chippy!! I am going back for a visit this August and that will be my first meal and a good old fashioned doner kebab will be my second !!! Hope this helps. FYI I live in Manitoba.
Happy eating!!
The website address is : www.abitofhome.ca
Sharon
Mar 16th 2004 | 7:40 am
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Originally posted by babygirl1
Hi,
I moved from the UK 3 years ago... You are right Canadian chocolate just is not the same as British chocolate. I found a website last year, based in Missisauga that sell everything English from choccies to Ready Brek to Billy Connolly videos !!! They even sell selection boxes at Christmastime!!
Check it out, they deliver to your door, I guarantee you will be in heaven just looking at their website. Needless to say I am a very regular customer !!!
As for the fish and chips I have tried them out here and there is NOTHING even close to fish and chips from the chippy!! I am going back for a visit this August and that will be my first meal and a good old fashioned doner kebab will be my second !!! Hope this helps. FYI I live in Manitoba.
Happy eating!!
The website address is : www.abitofhome.ca
Sharon
Hi,
I moved from the UK 3 years ago... You are right Canadian chocolate just is not the same as British chocolate. I found a website last year, based in Missisauga that sell everything English from choccies to Ready Brek to Billy Connolly videos !!! They even sell selection boxes at Christmastime!!
Check it out, they deliver to your door, I guarantee you will be in heaven just looking at their website. Needless to say I am a very regular customer !!!
As for the fish and chips I have tried them out here and there is NOTHING even close to fish and chips from the chippy!! I am going back for a visit this August and that will be my first meal and a good old fashioned doner kebab will be my second !!! Hope this helps. FYI I live in Manitoba.
Happy eating!!
The website address is : www.abitofhome.ca
Sharon
See...am glad am not the only one that thinks that about the fish and chips round here. Canadians that have never been to blighty, or those that have been back home for god knows when, will not know what we are talking about.
I will even go near what they call Kebobs round here. Give me a good chicken kebab with chilli sauce on it in a paper anyday from good old blighty.
I know that store in mississauga, its just a few minutes drive from my office. I think i will pop in for some crisp today, ready salted walkers crisp
Yummy
Mar 16th 2004 | 9:39 am
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what about the great FULL ENGLISH BREAKFAST?
I do love the Canadian breakfast but sometimes i really miss the proper bangers!
BANGERS AND MASH!
Someone help please!!!!!!!!!!!
Open a proper English restuarant.
just a few of the home comforts.
Still not enough to go back for though.
SHEPARDS PIE!
TOAD IN THE HOLE!
PLOUGHMANS LUNCH!
I CAN JUST SMELL THE FRESH CUT GRASS OFF THE PUB GARDEN!
MARMITE!
PROPER CHEDDER CHEESE!
WEST COUNTRY GIRL SEE!
I JUST WANT A FEW SMALL THINGS FROM BRITAIN.
THATS IT!
THE QUEEN CAN STAY THERE
CHEERS
I do love the Canadian breakfast but sometimes i really miss the proper bangers!
BANGERS AND MASH!
Someone help please!!!!!!!!!!!
Open a proper English restuarant.
just a few of the home comforts.
Still not enough to go back for though.
SHEPARDS PIE!
TOAD IN THE HOLE!
PLOUGHMANS LUNCH!
I CAN JUST SMELL THE FRESH CUT GRASS OFF THE PUB GARDEN!
MARMITE!
PROPER CHEDDER CHEESE!
WEST COUNTRY GIRL SEE!
I JUST WANT A FEW SMALL THINGS FROM BRITAIN.
THATS IT!
THE QUEEN CAN STAY THERE
CHEERS
Mar 16th 2004 | 10:21 am
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My local Zehr's and A&P have decent cheeses - Wensleydale, Cheshire and Lancashire. They are a bit pricey though.
I'm on the lookout for Pickled Onion Monster Munch!! If anyone finds 'em available online lemme know please! I actually dreamt about them last night(maybe I shouldn't be posting that lol
)
Oops I found em at www.abitofhome.ca but they're out of stock! argh!!!
I'm on the lookout for Pickled Onion Monster Munch!! If anyone finds 'em available online lemme know please! I actually dreamt about them last night(maybe I shouldn't be posting that lol
)Oops I found em at www.abitofhome.ca but they're out of stock! argh!!!
Mar 16th 2004 | 11:30 am
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Hi again,
I found marmite in our local Safeways, as well as Crosse & Blackwell Branston Pickle and salad cream !!! I miss the english food soo much, the only thing I want that I haven't been able to buy over here in stores or online is Lucozade and Bisto gravy granules!!! As for bangers and mash, and kebabs etc I have given up on my quest as after 3 years I haven't found anything remotely close to the wonderful tasting food in the UK. I was seriously thinking about opening an English restaurant so I can make REAL Cornish Pasties and Toad in the hole, shepherds pie etc...hmmm maybe will think about it some more..
Sharon
I found marmite in our local Safeways, as well as Crosse & Blackwell Branston Pickle and salad cream !!! I miss the english food soo much, the only thing I want that I haven't been able to buy over here in stores or online is Lucozade and Bisto gravy granules!!! As for bangers and mash, and kebabs etc I have given up on my quest as after 3 years I haven't found anything remotely close to the wonderful tasting food in the UK. I was seriously thinking about opening an English restaurant so I can make REAL Cornish Pasties and Toad in the hole, shepherds pie etc...hmmm maybe will think about it some more..
Sharon
Mar 16th 2004 | 11:47 am
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Re: British Chocolate?
Originally posted by babyblue
Can anyone suggest any good stores to buy british goods?
especially chocolate?
I managed to find one stall in a flea market in Pickering. they just seem so expensive.
I am desperatly trying to work on my 13 year old son to convince him that the future is much brighter here!
there must be other parents that understand the value of a choccie bar!
Sorry, everyone!..... but Canadian chocolate is not the same at all.
I still love Canada!!!!!!!!
help mothers desperate plea?
many thanks
:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:
Can anyone suggest any good stores to buy british goods?
especially chocolate?
I managed to find one stall in a flea market in Pickering. they just seem so expensive.
I am desperatly trying to work on my 13 year old son to convince him that the future is much brighter here!
there must be other parents that understand the value of a choccie bar!
Sorry, everyone!..... but Canadian chocolate is not the same at all.
I still love Canada!!!!!!!!
help mothers desperate plea?
many thanks
:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:
Hi there fellow chocoholic!!!!
I was in Ontario last year before I moved here and vowed I would never buy another bar of chocolate from Canada ever again!! I even swear the likes of twix taste different!!!!! That was until I moved to Nova Scotia. Theres a store here just outside of Halifax called petes frootique. It was started by a guy from Nottingham who was a greengrocer and he is now a multi millionaire. Now I know its a bit of a trek for you even by Canadian standards but if you go to his website you can email the store for whatever you like. His site is
http://www.petesfrootique.com/shop_online.asp
Happy chocolate eating!!!
Mar 16th 2004 | 1:49 pm
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I didn`t realise ol` Pete had a website, I shall check that out. He does the evening thing on ATV?
There used to be a Pete`s Frootique here in Moncton, but it moved to Shediac a while back.
There used to be a Pete`s Frootique here in Moncton, but it moved to Shediac a while back.
Mar 16th 2004 | 2:28 pm
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Originally posted by BritBob
I didn`t realise ol` Pete had a website, I shall check that out. He does the evening thing on ATV?
There used to be a Pete`s Frootique here in Moncton, but it moved to Shediac a while back.
I didn`t realise ol` Pete had a website, I shall check that out. He does the evening thing on ATV?
There used to be a Pete`s Frootique here in Moncton, but it moved to Shediac a while back.
Mar 16th 2004 | 9:59 pm
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Originally posted by mickj
Am still yet to find a fish and chips that at least comes close to what we are used to in blighty. I have been to all the ones people have suggested in the GTA, and they are nothing to write home about.
What gets me, is that these people selling the stuff, have the audacity to call it fish and chip british style, how dare they
To me, a good fish and chips looks something like the pic below, nice cod fish with some fluffy chips with a bit of vinegar in it
Yummy
Am still yet to find a fish and chips that at least comes close to what we are used to in blighty. I have been to all the ones people have suggested in the GTA, and they are nothing to write home about.
What gets me, is that these people selling the stuff, have the audacity to call it fish and chip british style, how dare they
To me, a good fish and chips looks something like the pic below, nice cod fish with some fluffy chips with a bit of vinegar in it
Yummy
I don't know exactly where you live but......
There is a Place in Hamilton called
Connaught Fish & Chips
976 Main Street East,
Hamilton, ON
L8M 1M8
This is the absolute closest I ever came to British fish and chips. and their Mushy peas are good as well.
Not perfect but close!!
Sharma
Mar 16th 2004 | 10:33 pm
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Mar 16th 2004 | 10:38 pm
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Sorry about the last post. I've just signed up and had trouble posting a reply.....didn't realize I had to subscribe to the forum first.
Ok, I'll try again.
I've noticed that no-one has ever mentioned St. Andrews Fish & Chips at Brimley and Ellesmere in Scarborough. They have been around for a long time and were still there this time last year. Also, next door there is a Scottish butchers/bakers and I'm sure you can get chocolate there but I do suspect they will be expensive.
And yes, British Chocolate is best but I still say my favourite is Reese's Peanut Butter Cups!
Ok, I'll try again.
I've noticed that no-one has ever mentioned St. Andrews Fish & Chips at Brimley and Ellesmere in Scarborough. They have been around for a long time and were still there this time last year. Also, next door there is a Scottish butchers/bakers and I'm sure you can get chocolate there but I do suspect they will be expensive.
And yes, British Chocolate is best but I still say my favourite is Reese's Peanut Butter Cups!
Mar 16th 2004 | 11:41 pm
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Classic Sweets
Another good Website for english sweets (Especially the ones you don't see much anymore ) is:
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/
I'm not sure about posting them to Canada but it's worth a try !
Martin
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/
I'm not sure about posting them to Canada but it's worth a try !
Martin
Mar 16th 2004 | 11:58 pm
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by CDNReturner
Sorry about the last post. I've just signed up and had trouble posting a reply.....didn't realize I had to subscribe to the forum first.
Ok, I'll try again.
I've noticed that no-one has ever mentioned St. Andrews Fish & Chips at Brimley and Ellesmere in Scarborough. They have been around for a long time and were still there this time last year.
Hello there,
Welcome back and happy St Paddy's Day
How is good ol' Loughton eh? Woodford, Theydon Bois, grage hill, and all that? I like it round there, and was going to buy my flat there, before settling for the docklands.
Do you still get all those soap stars living round there? I know Brian harvey (E17) lives round there, because i was at a party at his house once. The close proximity with london is the good thing about it, and you got the central line running straight up west.
I was back there last August, and it still looked good round there. I lived in Leyton for a while, while at UNI. So you reckon this Chipie is alright then? I know Hamilton very well, i'll give it a go next time am in that area.
Sorry about the last post. I've just signed up and had trouble posting a reply.....didn't realize I had to subscribe to the forum first.
Ok, I'll try again.
I've noticed that no-one has ever mentioned St. Andrews Fish & Chips at Brimley and Ellesmere in Scarborough. They have been around for a long time and were still there this time last year.
Hello there,
Welcome back and happy St Paddy's Day
How is good ol' Loughton eh? Woodford, Theydon Bois, grage hill, and all that? I like it round there, and was going to buy my flat there, before settling for the docklands.Do you still get all those soap stars living round there? I know Brian harvey (E17) lives round there, because i was at a party at his house once. The close proximity with london is the good thing about it, and you got the central line running straight up west.
I was back there last August, and it still looked good round there. I lived in Leyton for a while, while at UNI. So you reckon this Chipie is alright then? I know Hamilton very well, i'll give it a go next time am in that area.
