What would you miss from the good 'ole US of A?
Mar 21st 2006, 2:16 am
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Re: What would you miss from the good 'ole US of A?
I actually have found eating healthier far far easier here in Western NY. I even joined a frikking farming collective for ****'s sake. For $150 for a whole year I would receive a huge quantity of organic fruits and veg every single week. Not really possible in the UK where I was.
Also where I am at the moment is a huge variety of food - lots of different cultures all picked this cack-hole as a place to start over. So there's the good - Cantonese, Polish, Hungarian, Indian, Turkish, etc - and there's the truly awful - Italian American.
But the US does dfo one thing better than the UK - food that would kill an elephant. Fast food and pure shit is everywhere. It's no wonder people are so fat with this much corn starch, 24oz Coke for a buck, and gargantuan burgers on every street corner.
Also where I am at the moment is a huge variety of food - lots of different cultures all picked this cack-hole as a place to start over. So there's the good - Cantonese, Polish, Hungarian, Indian, Turkish, etc - and there's the truly awful - Italian American.
But the US does dfo one thing better than the UK - food that would kill an elephant. Fast food and pure shit is everywhere. It's no wonder people are so fat with this much corn starch, 24oz Coke for a buck, and gargantuan burgers on every street corner.
Mar 21st 2006, 2:18 am
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Re: What would you miss from the good 'ole US of A?
Originally Posted by cuckoofrommars
I actually have found eating healthier far far easier here in Western NY. I even joined a frikking farming collective for ****'s sake. For $150 for a whole year I would receive a huge quantity of organic fruits and veg every single week. Not really possible in the UK where I was.
Also where I am at the moment is a huge variety of food - lots of different cultures all picked this cack-hole as a place to start over. So there's the good - Cantonese, Polish, Hungarian, Indian, Turkish, etc - and there's the truly awful - Italian American.
But the US does dfo one thing better than the UK - food that would kill an elephant. Fast food and pure shit is everywhere. It's no wonder people are so fat with this much corn starch, 24oz Coke for a buck, and gargantuan burgers on every street corner.
Also where I am at the moment is a huge variety of food - lots of different cultures all picked this cack-hole as a place to start over. So there's the good - Cantonese, Polish, Hungarian, Indian, Turkish, etc - and there's the truly awful - Italian American.
But the US does dfo one thing better than the UK - food that would kill an elephant. Fast food and pure shit is everywhere. It's no wonder people are so fat with this much corn starch, 24oz Coke for a buck, and gargantuan burgers on every street corner.
Mar 21st 2006, 2:22 am
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Re: What would you miss from the good 'ole US of A?
Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
You missed out the Yorkshire puds. How could you! 
ohh love my yorkshire puds
Mar 21st 2006, 2:25 am
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Re: What would you miss from the good 'ole US of A?
Originally Posted by blaze
We all have our favorite foods and restaurants in Britain that we just don't like being parted from living overseas (pie and chips anyone? ). If you moved back to Britain what foods would you spend all your time craving from the USA that you can't find in Britain? (once you've caught up with eating all the things that you missed from home first!) I've thought long and hard about this and sadly my answer is "not very much!". There are restaurants that I enjoy, "Olive Garden", "Red Lobster" (sorry anyone that lives in Maine, Mass, Ca, or anywhere that you can get FRESH fish!!! 
but specific foods I can't think of any, I'm sure that there are some, lets see if anyone can jog my memory! 
). If you moved back to Britain what foods would you spend all your time craving from the USA that you can't find in Britain? (once you've caught up with eating all the things that you missed from home first!) I've thought long and hard about this and sadly my answer is "not very much!". There are restaurants that I enjoy, "Olive Garden", "Red Lobster" (sorry anyone that lives in Maine, Mass, Ca, or anywhere that you can get FRESH fish!!! but specific foods I can't think of any, I'm sure that there are some, lets see if anyone can jog my memory!
Mar 21st 2006, 3:56 am
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Re: What would you miss from the good 'ole US of A?
Originally Posted by emmals
they have started doing delivery organic fruit and veg in the uk now I think it is called river cottage.....but no way is it that cheap
Mar 21st 2006, 4:02 am
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Re: What would you miss from the good 'ole US of A?
Originally Posted by Celsius
You think it's new but for those in the civilized part of the UK (South of Watford), organic box delivery have been going on for years (at least 10 in my experience)...
yep close to our place in surrey we have some local home grown organic farms that when i go back i buy from there..they've been producing for about the last 8 yrs. i was in there last week and the food although pricey is worth it. best we can do here is shop at wholefoods
Mar 21st 2006, 4:04 am
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Re: What would you miss from the good 'ole US of A?
Originally Posted by emmals
they have started doing delivery organic fruit and veg in the uk now I think it is called river cottage.....but no way is it that cheap
Mar 21st 2006, 4:40 am
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Re: What would you miss from the good 'ole US of A?
Originally Posted by cuckoofrommars
I actually have found eating healthier far far easier here in Western NY. I even joined a frikking farming collective for ****'s sake. For $150 for a whole year I would receive a huge quantity of organic fruits and veg every single week. Not really possible in the UK where I was.
Also where I am at the moment is a huge variety of food - lots of different cultures all picked this cack-hole as a place to start over. So there's the good - Cantonese, Polish, Hungarian, Indian, Turkish, etc - and there's the truly awful - Italian American.
But the US does dfo one thing better than the UK - food that would kill an elephant. Fast food and pure shit is everywhere. It's no wonder people are so fat with this much corn starch, 24oz Coke for a buck, and gargantuan burgers on every street corner.
Also where I am at the moment is a huge variety of food - lots of different cultures all picked this cack-hole as a place to start over. So there's the good - Cantonese, Polish, Hungarian, Indian, Turkish, etc - and there's the truly awful - Italian American.
But the US does dfo one thing better than the UK - food that would kill an elephant. Fast food and pure shit is everywhere. It's no wonder people are so fat with this much corn starch, 24oz Coke for a buck, and gargantuan burgers on every street corner.
Mar 21st 2006, 4:43 am
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Re: What would you miss from the good 'ole US of A?
Originally Posted by Celsius
You think it's new but for those in the civilized part of the UK (South of Watford), organic box delivery have been going on for years (at least 10 in my experience)...
Hey behave, we had it in backward Bradford from before forever
Mar 21st 2006, 6:49 am
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Re: What would you miss from the good 'ole US of A?
Originally Posted by Celsius
You think it's new but for those in the civilized part of the UK (South of Watford), organic box delivery have been going on for years (at least 10 in my experience)...
Newbies!!!
I can remember as a kid going to the local farm for fresh milk (still warm, straight from the cow), and veggie grown totally naturally......its maybe only in the last 10 years that its been marketed as such, but its certainly not a new idea. Oh, or maybe that was just in uncivilised Yorkshire
Mar 21st 2006, 6:54 am
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Re: What would you miss from the good 'ole US of A?
Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad
Newbies!!! I can remember as a kid going to the local farm for fresh milk (still warm, straight from the cow), and veggie grown totally naturally......its maybe only in the last 10 years that its been marketed as such, but its certainly not a new idea. Oh, or maybe that was just in uncivilised Yorkshire
I can remember as a kid going to the local farm for fresh milk (still warm, straight from the cow), and veggie grown totally naturally......its maybe only in the last 10 years that its been marketed as such, but its certainly not a new idea. Oh, or maybe that was just in uncivilised Yorkshire
Mar 21st 2006, 6:57 am
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Re: What would you miss from the good 'ole US of A?
Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad
Newbies!!! I can remember as a kid going to the local farm for fresh milk (still warm, straight from the cow), and veggie grown totally naturally......
I can remember as a kid going to the local farm for fresh milk (still warm, straight from the cow), and veggie grown totally naturally......
Mar 21st 2006, 7:07 am
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Re: What would you miss from the good 'ole US of A?
Originally Posted by TouristTrap
Did you have to walk for 4 miles uphill both times, in the snow?
Mar 21st 2006, 7:19 am
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Re: What would you miss from the good 'ole US of A?
Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad
wi no shoes an a newspaper for us coat..............
Mar 21st 2006, 7:20 am
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Re: What would you miss from the good 'ole US of A?
Originally Posted by TruBrit
those were the days eh....mum used to talk about all local produce and just took it for granted
