Food brands that are different to the UK?
#61
Re: Food brands that are different to the UK?
Originally Posted by David C
IrnBru, Smarties due to non aproved ingredients and such like.
Now Tangfastics are my dream food but cost a load to have shipped over. They are a Haribo product and when I researched the matter indeed, there is an FDA-banned ingredient in Tangfastics but not in nearly every other Haribo sweetie. I even wrote Haribo to beseech them, to see if we could work out a little recipe change that wouldn't hurt the taste but would pass the FDA muster.... but not suprisingly I got a reply from a robot.
#62
Re: Food brands that are different to the UK?
Originally Posted by John Murray
I found Pattaks Chicken Korma suace and some other Pattaks indian sauces, popadoms and spices at the World Market in Houston (FM1960)
#63
Re: Food brands that are different to the UK?
Originally Posted by Paint
....as for beef products, we can still get British beef gravy powders, but I don't think they can stock the Fray Bentos tinned steak & kidney pies and puddings anymore. The whole beef/mad cow thing is a total mess-up. I went to donate blood after 911 and was told that I couldn't be a donor because I was British and might have Mad Cow Disease....
#64
Re: Food brands that are different to the UK?
Originally Posted by Paint
The whole beef/mad cow thing is a total mess-up. I went to donate blood after 911 and was told that I couldn't be a donor because I was British and might have Mad Cow Disease....
Paint.
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#65
Re: Food brands that are different to the UK?
What about the thousands of American tourists who've indulged in British beef? Should we all be banned from blood donation as well? Or is it the frequency of exposure?
I guess we must have a surplus of blood donors to turn away everyone from Britain. However, cord blood donation is very specific to an individual and the parents ought to have the right to donate -- it's only used in situations where the benefits would far outweigh the extremely low risk of its containing CMJ prions.
I guess we must have a surplus of blood donors to turn away everyone from Britain. However, cord blood donation is very specific to an individual and the parents ought to have the right to donate -- it's only used in situations where the benefits would far outweigh the extremely low risk of its containing CMJ prions.
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Re: Food brands that are different to the UK?
Originally Posted by Bob
That's weird...I've seen smarties around some place over here...
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Re: Food brands that are different to the UK?
Originally Posted by David C
Apparently IrnBru is legally available only in the bottled version specially brewed for export for the USA or from Canada.
#68
Re: Food brands that are different to the UK?
Originally Posted by NC Penguin
Certainly won't ban you but please tell us which country's chocolates you do like...
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Swedish chocolate \/
-Becs
#69
Re: Food brands that are different to the UK?
Originally Posted by AmerLisa
... The place that we go to was telling us that they couldn't sell Walker's Crisps because there was a ban on them at the moment or some such thing. So, instead they sell some kind of crisps from Ireland (can't think of the name at the moment)
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Re: Food brands that are different to the UK?
I think my local Domincks supermarket bakes cookies with Smarties in, perhaps they're not "real" Smarties.
I found Heinz tinned spotted dick in my local Cost Plus alongside Ambrosia tinned custard and Golden Syrup I ate the whole lot in one go.
-tom
I found Heinz tinned spotted dick in my local Cost Plus alongside Ambrosia tinned custard and Golden Syrup I ate the whole lot in one go.
-tom
#71
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Originally Posted by Becs
Swedish chocolate, I'm afraid. It's typical though, you get used to food in one country and when you move, everything else suddenly tastes like cardboard I DO however like Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles..I'll miss those when I move again
Swedish chocolate \/
-Becs
Swedish chocolate \/
-Becs
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Re: Food brands that are different to the UK?
Originally Posted by Bob
That's weird...walkers/lays...same company...
#73
Re: Food brands that are different to the UK?
Originally Posted by snowbunny
What about the thousands of American tourists who've indulged in British beef? Should we all be banned from blood donation as well? Or is it the frequency of exposure?
And it's not like America couldn't possibly have its own mad cow problem - they get all smug about not having it here, but really they haven't tested for it in any meaningful comprehensive way, and the same cattle rearing practices that gave rise to it in Europe were used here, banned more recently, and what bans there are aren't rigorously enforced. The cattle/beef lobby in the USA has been so effective in its lobbying against mad cow testing that recently they even managed to prod the FDA into preventing one cattle company from carrying out plans to test every single one of the cattle it processed, rather than the one in every few thousand than is the current norm.
And I've read about studies in the USA that suggest up to 15% of Alzheimers cases in the USA might really be misdiagnosed vCJD.
#74
Re: Food brands that are different to the UK?
Originally Posted by AmerLisa
May be the same company, but its something that is in the Walkers
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Re: Food brands that are different to the UK?
Originally Posted by AmerLisa
I was going to say, I was sure I'd seen it before. Also, I've bought Bovril stock cubes, can't say where I got them over here. The place that we go to was telling us that they couldn't sell Walker's Crisps because there was a ban on them at the moment or some such thing. So, instead they sell some kind of crisps from Ireland (can't think of the name at the moment)