American Food
#106

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...]

(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...]

No need to apologise you can be an honourary Brit. Not that it matters because you don't have to be a Brit to post on here...we have members of many nationalities.

#108










Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 7,605


And another thing: WTF is "Salt Pork"? It comes in a package like this:

And looks like this:

Just looks like a big lump of unsliced bacon, to me.
So I bought some and am frying it up now. Will report back, if it doesn't kill me.

And looks like this:

Just looks like a big lump of unsliced bacon, to me.
So I bought some and am frying it up now. Will report back, if it doesn't kill me.

#109

And another thing: WTF is "Salt Pork"? It comes in a package like this:
https://www.wegmans.com/prodimg/885/...7600379885.jpg
And looks like this:
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/i...6salt_pork.jpg
Just looks like a big lump of unsliced bacon, to me.
So I bought some and am frying it up now. Will report back, if it doesn't kill me.
https://www.wegmans.com/prodimg/885/...7600379885.jpg
And looks like this:
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/i...6salt_pork.jpg
Just looks like a big lump of unsliced bacon, to me.
So I bought some and am frying it up now. Will report back, if it doesn't kill me.
"It is prepared from one of three primal cuts". *That's* 'WTF'.

#111










Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 7,605




It's not bad, though I probably shouldn't have put salt on it... Tequila helps.

