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Mar 3rd 2008, 7:51 pm

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Re: Waitrose in USA

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Originally Posted by sime303

I don't think malasses exists. The beans they have in a tomato sauce around here are what they call vegetarian beans and the tomato sauce is very very runny. I got to have my Heinz fix

with you on that one! can you get heinz ketchup too? (albeit "britsh shops")

Mar 3rd 2008, 7:53 pm

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Re: Waitrose in USA

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Originally Posted by Chrissywissy100

with you on that one! can you get heinz ketchup too? (albeit "britsh shops")

Now that is one thing you can get anywhere here and it would seem in any size bottle you want too.

Mar 3rd 2008, 11:31 pm

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Re: Waitrose in USA

Not surprising, since Heinz is an American company, founded in Pittsburgh, PA!

Mar 3rd 2008, 11:50 pm

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Re: Waitrose in USA

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Originally Posted by Belinda-wales

Tesco are here at least in AZ anyway called fresh and easy like a tesco mtero its weired it feels like tesco and they do british cut bacon and plenty of fresh ready meals- just like tescos - take a peak see what you think.

I am soooo jealous, the supermarkets here on the east coast aren't that great with the exception of Trader Joes. Plus you can't buy alcohol in any of them which is even more annoying!

Mar 4th 2008, 12:15 am

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Re: Waitrose in USA

Just like to throw in a recommendation for The Fresh Market which seems to find an ideal balance between extremely high quality and affordable prices. It's like a Whole Foods without the pretention or the absurd pricing. Mostly on the eastern seaboard, but we have a few here in the midwest.

http://www.freshmarket.com/index.html

Mar 4th 2008, 1:37 am

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Re: Waitrose in USA

American baked beans have a sauce which is more like barbecue sauce than tomato sauce. It's not usually runny though. I like them, I'm used to them now. I don't get the Heinz ones either, I get them at Trader Joes.

Mar 4th 2008, 1:41 am

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Re: Waitrose in USA

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I find the vegetarian beans to be the closest to English BB. Although I am an avid carnivore I don't like finding chucks of bacon in my beans.

Mar 4th 2008, 1:53 am

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Re: Waitrose in USA

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I find the vegetarian beans to be the closest to English BB. Although I am an avid carnivore I don't like finding chucks of bacon in my beans.

Yup, my hubby, a baked beans fanatic, reckons Bush's Vegetarian Baked Beans are the most tolerable. Our Safeway was selling Heinz Baked Beans for a while but I think I was the only one buying them and they stopped stocking them after a while

Mar 4th 2008, 3:17 am

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Re: Waitrose in USA

Wegmans.

They are slowly filtering out of Upstate NY and making it across most of NE now. Awesome supermarket. It puts all UK supermarkets to shame. It is more like a french iipermarrrche.

Mar 4th 2008, 3:52 am

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Re: Waitrose in USA

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Originally Posted by denzil75

What I'd give for a Tesco's over here though!

Fresh and Easy, I thought they had a store out your way?

Mar 4th 2008, 3:52 am

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Re: Waitrose in USA

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Originally Posted by SagenOnion

I used to love browsing the beers at the Trader Joes when I lived in So Cal but the closest one we have around these parts in down in MA and they don't carry any booze.

only one store a chain is allowed booze in Mass, and it's Framingham for TJ and Wayland for Wholefoods...bit of a bugger really

Mar 4th 2008, 3:54 am

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Re: Waitrose in USA

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Originally Posted by SagenOnion

I find the vegetarian beans to be the closest to English BB. Although I am an avid carnivore I don't like finding chucks of bacon in my beans.

smell of beans as you drive through portland

though B&M aren't to bad, the veg ones.

Mar 4th 2008, 4:02 am

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Re: Waitrose in USA

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Fresh and Easy, I thought they had a store out your way?

Sadly no such luck! I have to say I found the food stores so much better out on the west coast than on the east, we have a very poor selection nearby. Although there are talks of a Wegman's coming our way soon

Mar 4th 2008, 4:03 am

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Re: Waitrose in USA

[QUOTE=SanJoseCA;6012633]Hi,

First post here, looks like it could be a useful website!

Can anyone suggest an equivalent supermarket to Waitrose? I will be living in San Francisco, CA.

Thanks

Raleys www.raleys.com
PW's http://www.pwmarkets.com/locations.php
Mollie Stones www.molliestones.com
Whole foods as mentioned but they are wonderful www.wholefoods.com

All of the above are in your area and excellant stores to visit.