American Food
Aug 30th 2009, 4:17 pm
#106
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Re: American Food
Originally Posted by 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...]
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...]
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.
Aug 30th 2009, 10:29 pm
#107
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Re: American Food
Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
No need to apologise you can be an honourary Brit.
Aug 30th 2009, 10:55 pm
#108
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Re: American Food
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.
Aug 30th 2009, 11:13 pm
#109
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Re: American Food
Originally Posted by chartreuse
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'.
Aug 30th 2009, 11:44 pm
#111
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Re: American Food
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
Originally Posted by meauxna
ewww. Did you wiki that before you bought it?
"It is prepared from one of three primal cuts". *That's* 'WTF'.
"It is prepared from one of three primal cuts". *That's* 'WTF'.
It's not bad, though I probably shouldn't have put salt on it... Tequila helps.
Aug 31st 2009, 2:00 am
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Re: American Food
Originally Posted by julii2020
...and Fiddlehead Ferns - signs of spring
Aug 31st 2009, 2:25 am
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Re: American Food
Originally Posted by Bob
That's brave, fiddleheads, they're nasty
Aug 31st 2009, 10:55 am
#114
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Re: American Food
Originally Posted by Bob
That's brave, fiddleheads, they're nasty
Sep 1st 2009, 12:23 am
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Re: American Food
Originally Posted by cindyabs
What about dandelion greens?
