My wife refuses to acknowledge that egg and chips is a meal. Flat out refuses to cook them.

What about the gammon?

Gammon egg and chips - yes
egg chips & beans - no

But sloppy joes and chips are a meal. :scared:

Another thing somebody thought was strange was when I asked for cream to pour over a piece of apple pie. Has that happened to anybody?

No, no, no! Custard with apple pie is best. My American spouse doesn't understand my fondness for custard.

For Americans, it's ice cream with apple pie.

Custard with pie, custard with crumble, custard with plain sponge cake, custard and steamed pudding. Yummy!

I'm going to be drooling soon...

I have a tin of Birds!!!!!!!!!!

Brings to mind a time when I was just a small girl. We hadnt been here very long and had invited neighbours to dinner. We had some nice tins of cream sent over by my Grandma. Well our cats loved the cream as well so we started calling it cats milk. When mum brought out some rhubarb pie with the cream on it they were all curious as to what was all over the pie. We said 'cats milk!' LOL. We were teased about that for a long time after that.

Birds custard. You have to add about 3 bags of sugar to it when preparing.
My wife said "jeez no wonder brits have bad teeth if that's what kids grow up on"
A sadly true statement though...

Have never tried the stuff (and after reading the website as to how it is made I doubt I ever will); however I did just notice last night at the local Publix that they carried Marmite. I suppose that means that other Publix or other chains CAN get it if requested.

Regarding Marmite:

I fall into the "I can't stand the stuff" camp.

awful stuff.

Oh please! what about them drinking Pop, like it is tap water!!!

hmmm yosser do you mean you got your wife loving sunday roasts or you got your wife COOKING sunday roasts??

yeah when i first moved away i got a huge tin of Birds......It stayed in my cupboard about 5 yrs no actually longer i remember recently chucking it!!
The absolute best thing on a warm apple pie is some good vanilla ice cream.....the American's have got that right!!

Some of the British food i miss some of it now just sounds plain crap!!!
beans on toast yuck!!! Prob. would love it again if i made it but ewww just sounds weird
egg and chips ? really isn't a proper meal maybe a quick lunch?

If i had to decide between U.S or U.K food to eat on a daily basis I'm sorry folks I'm a traitor .I choose U.S!


p.s can you actually believe i never even heard of a taco ,burrito or Fajita I'd never had tortllia chips with salsa or cheese or even onion dip an'carrots/celery/chips

heck I'd never even tasted a Margarita until i lived down here...........God Bless America!

no, no actually I'm getting quite a dab hand in the kitchen, I can still watch the cowboys play whilst I peel the spuds, chop the swede etc, it doesn't take me that long to be honest, then I just stick it in the oven and kick back for the rest of the game with a ice cold fosters!

There is one thing though, bloody washing up I seem to make quite a mess