SultanOfSwing

Yeah, though that usually ends up turning into over-indulgence.

I got it the other way as well. I spent 3 weeks in the UK a couple of years ago, I put on a stone

mrken30

I'm so glad my wife bakes excellent cakes. She even made good jam rolypoly . She also bakes american cakes slightly amended for the English taste.

mrken30

i am not sure if there is a US equivalent for Victoria sponge. Also Robert Redford is not like trifle. Cookies are slightly different. Frosting on US cakes tends to contain more butter and sugar. US cakes tend to be more about the frosting than a good cake. Fillings are different.

I could go on but you get the idea.

mrken30

We have similar businesses around here, but they tend to be pricey and not for the mass market.

this lady makes good egg custard tarts

http://www.gb-bakery.com/index.html

mrken30

For example a plain victoria sponge cake has no frosting , I think that is unheard of in US cakes

mrken30

I'm not the most educated on store bought cakes, so maybe someone else can help identify the differences

mrken30

My wife's cousin made a trifle, it wasn't quite right. Put it this way it was more like a drink than a dessert.

Wintersong

Try this recipe next time: https://spoonuniversity.com/recipe/h...-from-friends/

scrubbedexpat097

There is no comparison with buying a cake from Walmart with "no frosting" and eating a homemade Victoria Sandwich. There just isn't.


Nothing beats a good homemade cake, made from scratch and not out of a box. You can tell the difference by texture, taste and smell! You also know there are no unknown additives.

Sponge cakes, cup cakes, fruit cakes, Bakewell tarts, fruit pies, jam tarts all made on a regular basis in my house. Nothing beats the aroma of baking cakes

scrubbedexpat097

I make a spicy ginger cake

johnwoo

Heaven knows why anyone would be nostalgic for the British Empire.

johnwoo

Maybe he/she likes the pies? it's the 302 million people the OP doesn't like.

scrubbedexpat097

I have been here 27 years and as most old regular posters know we started off struggling but have made a life here and on the whole enjoy it but I can honestly say in my opinion over the years it has changed a lot.

I am a lot less settled than I was five years ago and if the opportunity to move somewhere else came along I wouldn't hesitate ,and I don't necessarily mean back to the UK . I am certainly not so naive that I would arrive back to a UK that I remember either.

I think the violence and racism, the media scare mongering and the fear of an inbecile president are all factors in feeling unsettled here. The gun issue is something I will never understand and has become harder to accept as time goes on. The cost of health care also worries me, it's fine while we work but when we retire it will be a big issue.

What I am saying is you can change your outlook, we all do at certain times in life on different issues. So because you have enjoyed life here for sometime it might not always be that way.

jeepster

America is the seat of power in the world and along with that occurs a lot noise. One has to learn to ignore the noise.

themadpooper

No idea why anyone would choose to move to America, or indeed remain here if they had a problem with Americans - or guns for that matter. Amazes me how many stories I read on this forum of people not liking these things. Religion, too, is another often thrown into the mix. Who knew so many people who probably view themselves as super tolerant had so many prejudices. Perhaps it's an expat/foreigner thing and perhaps because so many come here for the wrong reasons in the first place, I shouldn't judge. I mean, I came here 10 years ago because I wanted to. My USC wife wanted to come back but we didn't have to, I liked America and Americans even before I met her so it was a no brainier. Maybe, if I couldn't have imagined going a day without the BBC and a cup of tea every 5 minutes, queuing up for no apparent reason and whinging for the 100th time that week about the weather, and I was having to follow a spouse over here because their work dictated it, I'd be as equally resentful of this country