UK Foods in the US Share your finds!
Nov 7th 2012, 7:34 pm
#1126
Just Joined
Joined: Nov 2012
Location: Florida
Posts: 3
Re: UK Foods in the US Share your finds!
My local Supermarket has a British Food section. They call it the "Middle East" section however. And I suppose they are right in an American kind of way.
Nov 7th 2012, 7:51 pm
#1127
BE Site Lead
Joined: Aug 2004
Location: MA, USA
Posts: 92,170
Re: UK Foods in the US Share your finds!
I've been making my own, just without the casings...just leave them on a try to freeze to store them....seems to work quite well, though bit trickier in the summer when it was so humid.
Nov 7th 2012, 8:10 pm
#1128
Forum Regular
Joined: Dec 2011
Location: Poway, CA
Posts: 115
Re: UK Foods in the US Share your finds!
Nov 8th 2012, 1:34 am
#1129
Forum Regular
Joined: Oct 2011
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 225
Re: UK Foods in the US Share your finds!
Our local Walmart is getting more UK foods noticed today they had scones in the Diary section and kerrygold butter.
Nov 8th 2012, 1:36 am
#1130
Forum Regular
Joined: Oct 2011
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 225
Re: UK Foods in the US Share your finds!
do you have an ALdi? I have found them there in the past. Ours is about a 40 minute drive so I do not get there often.
Nov 8th 2012, 2:46 pm
#1131
Just Joined
Joined: Nov 2012
Location: Florida
Posts: 3
Re: UK Foods in the US Share your finds!
Nov 8th 2012, 3:45 pm
#1132
Account Closed
Joined: Nov 2012
Posts: 1,570
Re: UK Foods in the US Share your finds!
I treat us to a holiday pack every year, its about $100 but fills of the freezer for a while. The bacon and pork pies are spot on and the Lincolnshire and Cumberland sausages are good too.
http://www.britishbacon.com/
other than that I get get pretty much anything i want in the Phoenix metro area. Theres AJs fine foods, World cost plus market, most of the regular supermarkets and even a British grocery section at the codfather fish and chip shop (english owned).
The ony thing I can't find is proper pork scratchings. Hard ones that they sell in pubs back home, not these soft puffy pork cracking or whatever they call them. I've looked into making my own but have had no luck find pork skin. Any butcher in England would probably give it to you for free but i can't find anywhere here that will even sell me pork skin. Where do all the pigs get butchered that are sold in Phoenix i wonder?
Nov 8th 2012, 6:00 pm
#1133
BE Site Lead
Joined: Aug 2004
Location: MA, USA
Posts: 92,170
Re: UK Foods in the US Share your finds!
The ony thing I can't find is proper pork scratchings. Hard ones that they sell in pubs back home, not these soft puffy pork cracking or whatever they call them. I've looked into making my own but have had no luck find pork skin. Any butcher in England would probably give it to you for free but i can't find anywhere here that will even sell me pork skin. Where do all the pigs get butchered that are sold in Phoenix i wonder?
Anyway, Wegmans, Hobnobs, Digestives going about double the cost of Ocean State, but the Jammy Dodgers were a couple bucks which was good.
Nov 8th 2012, 10:53 pm
#1134
BE Site Lead
Joined: Aug 2004
Location: MA, USA
Posts: 92,170
Re: UK Foods in the US Share your finds!
Not UK, but some cheddar cheese from VT, Trader Joes had 3 year aged cheddar for $5 a pound I think it was, but anyway, all the blocks were in and around the $3.50 mark and it was really rather lovely.
Hell of a lot cheaper than most other grocery stores too for decent cheddar.
Hell of a lot cheaper than most other grocery stores too for decent cheddar.
Nov 9th 2012, 1:47 am
#1135
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Sep 2011
Posts: 2,903
Re: UK Foods in the US Share your finds!
Not UK, but some cheddar cheese from VT, Trader Joes had 3 year aged cheddar for $5 a pound I think it was, but anyway, all the blocks were in and around the $3.50 mark and it was really rather lovely.
Hell of a lot cheaper than most other grocery stores too for decent cheddar.
Hell of a lot cheaper than most other grocery stores too for decent cheddar.
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showp...postcount=1064
Nov 9th 2012, 3:45 am
#1136
BE Site Lead
Joined: Aug 2004
Location: MA, USA
Posts: 92,170
Re: UK Foods in the US Share your finds!
A few years back, they had a really awesome one that was a few years aged that was even cheaper from NH, but they stopped selling it when it went up in price a bit, even though it was still cheaper than anything else.
Nov 9th 2012, 1:34 pm
#1137
Just Joined
Joined: Nov 2012
Posts: 3
Re: UK Foods in the US Share your finds!
Hi everybody, this looks like a good source of advice, so it'll be nice to talk to you all...I'll be looking for info regarding the age old story. Girlfriend in Texas, me in Nottingham. We've spent the last few months planning for me to move over to the US, which is plainly extremely difficult unless you are Simon Cowell or a protege of some kind. I on the other hand am merely a truck driver, and couldn't enter on a professional visa since I have no degree.
We plan to get married and live together with her two kids, however, we have now decided to settle in the UK. She has the advantage that her Mom is British having moved to the US 40 odd years ago as part of a nursing recruitment drive..and I have a daughter here in Wiltshire who I would rather be closer to.
I need to find out things like does she have dual citizenship..? Will that help? I've looked at family visitor visas in conjunction with plans to marrying and settling permanently but the Border Control website I find quite complex and hard to sift through, ...when we marry do her children have permission to stay? (they are under 18)...any advice on how to jump through hoops and do it right and make it as smooth as possible would be greatly appreciated.
We plan to get married and live together with her two kids, however, we have now decided to settle in the UK. She has the advantage that her Mom is British having moved to the US 40 odd years ago as part of a nursing recruitment drive..and I have a daughter here in Wiltshire who I would rather be closer to.
I need to find out things like does she have dual citizenship..? Will that help? I've looked at family visitor visas in conjunction with plans to marrying and settling permanently but the Border Control website I find quite complex and hard to sift through, ...when we marry do her children have permission to stay? (they are under 18)...any advice on how to jump through hoops and do it right and make it as smooth as possible would be greatly appreciated.
If anybody wants something drop me a line, if you can't find it you may aswell get it from the source lol
Nov 11th 2012, 12:53 am
#1138
Forum Regular
Joined: Dec 2011
Location: Poway, CA
Posts: 115
Re: UK Foods in the US Share your finds!
Fresh and Easy have just started selling some of Saag's range of sausages, including their "British Style Bangers", which aren't too bad. They have a nice flavour and thankfully the skins are nice and thin. As customary for speciality sausages over here they are already cooked but are pale and anaemic so need a good frying to improve the colour and taste.
Nov 14th 2012, 5:29 pm
#1139
Grumpy Know-it-all
Joined: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Posts: 8,928
Re: UK Foods in the US Share your finds!
Is it my imagination or has F&E become more "Americanized", they don't seem to carry back bacon anymore and they used to have Fox's biscuits once in awhile. I noticed a few other things seem to have gone missing. E.g. pigs in a blanket aka sausage rolls, although they only ever seemed to have those around Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Nov 14th 2012, 5:35 pm
#1140
Joined: Mar 2009
Location: Google Town
Posts: 7,532
Re: UK Foods in the US Share your finds!
Is it my imagination or has F&E become more "Americanized", they don't seem to carry back bacon anymore and they used to have Fox's biscuits once in awhile. I noticed a few other things seem to have gone missing. E.g. pigs in a blanket aka sausage rolls, although they only ever seemed to have those around Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Still have plenty of back bacon and foxes biscuits, but they keep adding more little bits every month.