BristolUK

Well you could have the $8.50 even more local one. Or the $6/$8 dark beers.

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.

caretaker

Pretention tax. I'd blow a vein.

bats

Peterborough has good restaurants but oven ever been in the pubs - they look more like drinking holes that's gastropubs but Paul Shepherd would know better than I do.

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.

scrubbedexpat134

Summit Gourmet Meats sell Ayrshire bacon, its back with the "streaky" still attached

Atlantic Xpat

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.

Atlantic Xpat

Yes, that's the stuff I buy. It's OK. Just OK.

Shard

Unless you happen to be a pig.

Shard

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!

scrubbedexpat134

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.

Jingsamichty

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.

Oink

It’s just swimming about. Just got get out there and drop a line or four.

Chuffinora

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.

rivingtonpike

My wife went back to the UK last summer and the first thing she did (ish) was go and buy a Vanilla Slice. She was disappointed. She said "it didn't taste the same".

BristolUK

Readily available in Sobeys and Superstore - so I'd have thought Loblaws too.

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.

Chuffinora

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.