Food we're going to miss
Hello folks !
First post, treat me gentle. We've got our one way flight booked to Vancouver in May armed with PR and looking forward to fun and frolics in our new life. Have lived our whole life in London (we're fast approaching 50) so looking forward to having a go at it in a new and different city (and weekend skiing Whoop Whoop :thumbsup:) Very interested in peoples personal experience of those foods from home that they miss? I'm sure there's a thread somewhere but I can't find it with the search. We mainly cook fresh from scratch, so broadly the same meat,fish and veg (better steak & fish?) and am sure we can buy the necessary curry spices. Looking forward to trying the different veg varieties that will be around. Expecting to miss: A good cup of tea (Amazon to the rescue?) Unsweetened bread (buy a breadmaker?) Brown sauce Baked beans I can take or leave marmite I'm taking my coffee bean to cup machine (and a step down power thingumy) European style chocolate? European style bacon A good whisky (but checking out the whisky thread) I know from previous visits that beer isn't going to be an issue. What else in your collective wealth of experience? |
Re: Food we're going to miss
Originally Posted by NealAndMel
(Post 12436041)
Hello folks !
First post, treat me gentle. We've got our one way flight booked to Vancouver in May armed with PR and looking forward to fun an frolics in our new life. Have lived our whole life in London (we're fast approaching 50) so looking forward to having a go at it in a new and different city (and weekend skiing Whoop Whoop :thumbsup:) Very interested in peoples personal experience of those foods from home that they miss? I'm sure there's a thread somewhere but I can't find it with the search. We mainly cook fresh from scratch, so broadly the same meat,fish and veg (better steak & fish?) and am sure we can buy the necessary curry spices. Looking forward to trying the different veg varieties that will be around. Expecting to miss: A good cup of tea (Amazon to the rescue?) Unsweetened bread (buy a breadmaker?) Brown sauce Baked beans I can take or leave marmite I'm taking my coffee bean to cup (and a step down power thingumy) European style chocolate? A good whisky (but checking out the whisky thread) I know from previous visits that beer isn't going to be an issue. What else in your collective wealth of experience? Tea - you can get Tetleys / Yorkshire Tea here no probs from main supermarkets. Orange Pekoe = your standard cuppa. Baked beans - buy the 'british style' Heinz in supermarkets & no bother there Marmite is available, but pricey Bread we buy from a local baker Don't buy the rest. I miss pork pies & decent cheese (at affordable prices) And fish fingers that haven't been minced to death. |
Re: Food we're going to miss
Welcome aboard! A few foods you might miss, but lots of nice Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) foods to explore.
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Re: Food we're going to miss
Originally Posted by NealAndMel
(Post 12436041)
Hello folks !
First post, treat me gentle. We've got our one way flight booked to Vancouver in May armed with PR and looking forward to fun an frolics in our new life. Have lived our whole life in London (we're fast approaching 50) so looking forward to having a go at it in a new and different city (and weekend skiing Whoop Whoop :thumbsup:) Very interested in peoples personal experience of those foods from home that they miss? I'm sure there's a thread somewhere but I can't find it with the search. We mainly cook fresh from scratch, so broadly the same meat,fish and veg (better steak & fish?) and am sure we can buy the necessary curry spices. Looking forward to trying the different veg varieties that will be around. Expecting to miss: A good cup of tea (Amazon to the rescue?) Unsweetened bread (buy a breadmaker?) Brown sauce Baked beans I can take or leave marmite I'm taking my coffee bean to cup (and a step down power thingumy) European style chocolate? A good whisky (but checking out the whisky thread) I know from previous visits that beer isn't going to be an issue. What else in your collective wealth of experience? |
Re: Food we're going to miss
Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat
(Post 12436050)
All of those things are available (some for a price) in the small city I live in on the Far East coast. One imagines they'll easily be available in the metropolis of Vancouver.
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Re: Food we're going to miss
Originally Posted by Shard
(Post 12436054)
I thought you guys just ate whale blubber?
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Re: Food we're going to miss
Originally Posted by Shard
(Post 12436049)
Welcome aboard! A few foods you might miss, but lots of nice Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) foods to explore.
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Re: Food we're going to miss
Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat
(Post 12436050)
All of those things are available (some for a price) in the small city I live in on the Far East coast. One imagines they'll easily be available in the metropolis of Vancouver.
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Re: Food we're going to miss
Originally Posted by Hawkmoon77
(Post 12436047)
Hi and welcome to BE.
Don't buy the rest. I miss pork pies & decent cheese (at affordable prices) And fish fingers that haven't been minced to death. Cheese worries me. Canadian cheddar YES, but worried about my extreme taste in hurty blue cheese! Scotch eggs, pork pies and sausage rolls I'll miss , I'm sure I'll find the local dirty food equivalent. I'm pretty sure some of the "artisan" bars & food places in gas town will have some attempts at these. |
Re: Food we're going to miss
Originally Posted by NealAndMel
(Post 12436070)
Thanks.
Cheese worries me. Canadian cheddar YES, but worried about my extreme taste in hurty blue cheese! Scotch eggs, pork pies and sausage rolls I'll miss , I'm sure I'll find the local dirty food equivalent. I'm pretty sure some of the "artisan" bars & food places in gas town will have some attempts at these. And what you will find is a wealth of new food to try. If you like dining out look for a TV show called "You gotta eat here", covers Canadian restaurants, hole in wall establishments and everything in between. |
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Toronto's not Vancouver but here I think the only food that's eaten in London or in France that's hard to find here is jellied eels. There's a lack of good Mexican restaurants but I suspect that's true of London. Some "foods" from remote corners of the UK, mushy peas and reformatted offal dishes such as blood pudding, might be hard to locate. I haven't looked.
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Re: Food we're going to miss
Originally Posted by Hawkmoon77
(Post 12436047)
Hi and welcome to BE.
Tea - you can get Tetleys / Yorkshire Tea here no probs from main supermarkets. Orange Pekoe = your standard cuppa. Baked beans - buy the 'british style' Heinz in supermarkets & no bother there Marmite is available, but pricey Bread we buy from a local baker Don't buy the rest. I miss pork pies & decent cheese (at affordable prices) And fish fingers that haven't been minced to death. |
Re: Food we're going to miss
Originally Posted by Howefamily
(Post 12436080)
You can get the hurty blue cheese in NS for a fee, I am more than sure you will be able to find it in Vancouver :fingerscrossed:
And what you will find is a wealth of new food to try. If you like dining out look for a TV show called "You gotta eat here", covers Canadian restaurants, hole in wall establishments and everything in between. |
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For tea, you can find PG Tips at Sobey's. For a price. But unfortunately there is no Sobey's in Vancouver. However, Save On Foods has recently enhanced their British offerings in a special isle marked as Tesco (guess the king of creative accounting will be supplying all the good stuff to British Columbians through Save On). I hope its not too long until they start shelving some PG Tips in there.
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Re: Food we're going to miss
If you want good cheese (Chedder) go to Cost-co. They sell Dubliner and Colliers. The price is generally ok (around $10 for 300g) sometimes Dubliner is on offer
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