paddingtongreen

I couldn't hear it too well but I found the lyrics. Some of today's "City Farmers" must have a similar outlook.

http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/so...nbetween.shtml

Englishtart

Love those old black and white prints

Sally Redux

Thanks for that, yes it was hard to hear the lyrics.

Bob

but it is a great drink

Juswus

you too Bob

EnglishTeaDuck

No, sorry, I didn't mean I'd MISS proper sausages.....I have yet to meet one over here!

Its just someone mentioned them in their post and I got all over excited....

Ahem....

Hmm, our local supermarket just condensed their English section yesterday....I'm really hoping the put the stuff they took off in their 'reduced' section so I can go English shopping...lol (so expensive at normal price)

Ruth :0)

cathy22w

More specifically, Turkey Hill Diet Green Tea.

Yum.

chartreuse

Fingers crossed! We got three month's worth of Branston Pickle like that!

celticgrid

I'd miss the colours.

The only places in nature you'll find anything approaching the colours of some of the processed food here is on a fish. The sort of fish that is saying "Come on, eat me if you dare, I'll taste disgusting and then poison you".

Or on a bug. The sort of bug that is saying....

Or on processed food. The sort of food....

Following the colour system of shopping saves a lot of time reading the packets!

Kaffy Mintcake

Ha! My husband tried one of those at a take-out and was ready to move to the UK.

meauxna

Are you home already?!

BountyHunter

As an American who just moved back from living in the UK for awhile - i miss many, many things from the UK. Your supermarket produce was fresher and of better quality. You grow better varieties of carrots; all my favorite vegetables (parsnips, brussels sprouts, savoy cabbage) are native to the UK climate and taste better. i love quorn & miss it terribly; also Innocent products, biscuits of all sorts, Branston pickle (i pay almost $6 for a small jar here!) and most of all - the cheese! i could go on & on... UK eggs taste better too... though that might be because free range eggs were more available in the UK & we tried to buy them whenever we had the money.

(sidenote: Why are UK eggs so expensive? i never figured out why the prices were so much higher than in the US.)

The only US foods i missed in the UK were honey Chex mix and certain varieties of ice cream (that's maybe one good thing about US food: Americans do ice cream pretty well, i think!). Maybe a few varieties of cold cereal, but i quickly found UK brands i liked.

Suffice it to say that i would do anything for more UK foods to enter the US market.

[sorry to clog up your forum with my non-British-expat thoughts! i'm just interested in why people want to move to the US - plus i have friends in the UK planning to move here soon. That's why i read the forum. Still, i have a deep longing to return to the UK...]

Kaffy Mintcake

I didn't say that ...

julii2020

I miss:

Fresh corn on the cob from a farmstand
Ramps (wild garlic) and Fiddlehead Ferns - signs of spring
Fresh ancho peppers
Pepperidge Farm double chocolate Milanos
Diner breakfasts

and real fresh BAGELS (H&Hs in NYC) - the frozen ones in the UK are like fluffy bread-cake.

cindyabs

Corn on the cob- ah yes bought some when we lived in the Netherlands that a farmer was selling to the Yanks on the base- it was field corn, not sweet corn.