Food from home i miss!!

msmoneypenny New member

3POSTS

19 years ago

Please list item & what country your from/country your in

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msmoneypenny New member

3POSTS

19 years ago

USA/Peanut M&M, EasyMAC, twizzlers, BBQ, Taco Bell/聽 Scotland

charlier Member

8POSTS

19 years ago

UK- granary bread & sausage rolls from the local bakery/ marmite/clotted cream/local cheese/pick your own fruit/warm beer on my allotment-now living in Queens USA.
New US (well, you can get them in Queens!) foods worth writing home about- Fried cheese, salami & plantain at the local Dominican cafe, cheese Perogi & warm honey beer from the Polish restaurant, homemade italian icecream...watch this space!

Heidelbergerin Active member

38POSTS

19 years ago

I am from the US. I was missing peanut butter cups until I discovered they were being sold at the Rewe Getraenke Markt!聽 Maybe they are sold elsewhere too.
I miss Taco Bell also, and other American "Mexican" food.聽 You can get it here but it's not really the same.聽 I also miss American "Chinese" food.聽 I miss free water in restaurants.聽 Having had it always be free, paying for it now feels like punishment for being thirsty.聽 Drinking only the free water was always my money-saving technique in the US.聽 Now I just go thirsty.
I miss the wide variety of breakfast cereals.聽 And real cream cheese. Cape Cod chips.聽 Swiss Cake rolls.聽 The really cheap and awesome corn tortillas made right nearby.

Invader_Stu Contributor

101POSTS

19 years ago

It's a small thing but I miss Bourbon biscuits they were so easy to get in the UK but they don't sell them any where in Holland.

Caledonia Member

12POSTS

19 years ago

The only thing I miss is snails (escargots).聽 Apart from that nothing, food is great here (no we do NOT eat fried Mars bars) and I've got a French deli 2 minutes walk from home (where they sell snails for a fortune!).
Edinburgh a very cosmopolitan city so you can find food from all over the world.

pepez Member

12POSTS

18 years ago

Dark bread from Finland - it is not available in Budapest. But I found a baker from myself - check this tasty bun recipe of 'korvapuusti':

CLGinDE Active member

25POSTS

18 years ago

I miss really good salad bars, ripe tropical fruit, and fresh seafood (USA > Germany)

I've also got to help new expats to Germany with finding replacements for favorite foods.

El Yanqui Member

1POSTS

18 years ago

I miss Mexican food from back home. My sister just visited and brought me three big bottles of Cholula hot sauce, so that has helped me greatly.

Agali Member

10POSTS

18 years ago

#10

Caledonia wrote:
The only thing I miss is snails (escargots).聽 Apart from that nothing, food is great here (no we do NOT eat fried Mars bars) and I've got a French deli 2 minutes walk from home (where they sell snails for a fortune!).
Edinburgh a very cosmopolitan city so you can find food from all over the world.

Do you really miis this. I'm french in germany, and what is missing for me is all duck receipes (magret, confit, foie gras) and more simply mustard (here i find only senf, which is definitively not mustard).

I also like snails, but I don't miss it

Dimana Member

2POSTS

18 years ago

#11

I'm from south west France. I wanted to take a few live ducks along with me to make some foie gras, confits and magret down here in Congo, but no can do !

Ducks here are so skinny ! they look like midgets compared to the 30 pounds monsters you can find back home !

CLGinDE Active member

25POSTS

18 years ago

#12

Agali - Where in Germany are you?聽 Have you checked in the larger supermarkets?聽 Our Real has a big French section with canned snails and foie gras - and the German senf section includes Maille mustard.聽 I'm sure it's not as great as the stuff in France, but it's something.聽 If you're in Berlin, then there's a supermarket in the basement of Galleries Lafayette on Friedrichstrasse.

Agali Member

10POSTS

18 years ago

#13

Hi, i'm in bremen. I try the "extra" and find mustard (but very expensive) and magret (but not as good as i expected).

Fortunatly, i fly sometimes to toulouse, and come back with a lot of great things that make life better for me ;-))

novi sad newbie New member

5POSTS

18 years ago

#14

I'm from Louisiana and obviously I miss our local dishes such as crawfish etouffee, gumbo, etc.聽 Some of the ingredients can be found here in Novi Sad, Serbia, but price is prohibitive.
Aside from that I miss Whataburger hamburgers/Rose wine/Kraft macaroni and cheese/twizzlers/Mexican/Chinese/Italian food cooked ala USA.

Bob K VIP Member

7675POSTS

18 years ago

#15

Every blue moon I will miss a big, juicy, rare, corn fed, well aged, grilled rib eye steak from the US.聽 However the fresh fish, chicken, veggies, and especially the fruits here in the Domincan Republic cannot be beat. Not to mention the coffee

Bob K

chiraz Member

6POSTS

18 years ago

#16

I miss "harissa". This is a kind of very hot chili sauce/relish that you don't find anywhere else but Tunisia!

Chiraz

louise Member

10POSTS

18 years ago

#17

I'm an Englander in Italy. I miss cheddar cheese with Branston pickle on thick granary bread. But not enough to go back. Ever. L

chinamatt Member

15POSTS

18 years ago

#18

The second time I felt homesick in China was because I traveled to Guangzhou and ate a chicken parm sandwich at Danny's Bagel. It tasted just like a $5 sandwich I'd get back home in Jersey.

Other than that, I miss deli sandwiches. And after taking my wife to the US for the first time, she keeps asking when she'll get to eat pastrami again.

cantdocell Member

19POSTS

17 years ago

#19

I'm an American in Spain.

I miss: good Mexican food, Cabot cheddar cheese... then for my baking: cranberries, pumpkin puree, chocolate chips, brown sugar, vanilla extract.. yummy muffins and cupcakes in bakeries... Oh, and good old-fashioned diners for eggs and hash browns, pancakes, French toast, etc.

I agree with whoever said they miss free water! And a wide variety of breakfast cereals.

But all the great food here makes up for it (as well as what I can bring from time to time in my suitcase)! I'd miss this food if we were in the US.

NicoleB Serial expat

626POSTS

17 years ago

#20

Country from: Germany聽 In: Hungary

I always miss the right meat to make decent Rouladen & Goulash

cararose1977 New member

5POSTS

17 years ago

#21

I am an American in Switzerland.
I miss: Plain M&Ms, Twizzlers, Peanut Butter Cups, American Beef, Fresh Chicken Sausage from the Publix Meat Counter, Digiorno Pizza, Pre-made Bread Crumbs in a can, Washington Wines, Tostitos chips and medium chunky salsa, Busch's Baked Beans, Peeps, Cheetos, Wensleydale Cheese with Cranberries, Little Dibbie Oatmeal Pies, Shredded Mozzerella Cheese

I just shipped from the US: Butter-Flavor Crisco, Honey Nut Cheerios, Bisquick, Zataran's, Kikoman Stir-Fry Sauce, Flour Tortillas, Vlassic Sweet Relish, Jello, Instant Pudding, Kool-Aide, Barbecue Sauce, Lipton Iced Tea Bags, Clif Bars, Graham Crackers, Jif Peanut Butter

This being said, I would miss: cheese, cheese and more cheese, amazing chocolate, access to food products from countries with which the US does not trade

ParisMontreal Member

15POSTS

17 years ago

#22

I'm a Canadian living in France.

I miss all the stuff that my mom used to cook like vol-aux-vents, p芒t茅 chinois and the like.

I also miss dearly my oreo and social tea cookies, normal brick cheddar cheese (it's the only one I eat

), good steaks, salt and vinegar, ketchup and PICKLE flavoured chips.

Fortunately last time I made a big provision of Jell-O, hot chicken sauce and BBQ sauce and I'll try to get some Oreos in the US of A next week

Oh God, I almost forgot candy bars, all of them !

Jo Ann ViP

1548POSTS

17 years ago

#23

It's funny. I don't miss Angolan food at all... But when I go back and eat traditional food, I am like "oh mah gosh, it's been such a long time !!", like I missed while eating it ;-)

jamesy Member

22POSTS

17 years ago

#24

Im from Scotland and living in Pennsylvania... i miss a decent fish supper most , impossible to get here.
Black pudding,soda scones,A&B roll,morning rolls,square sausage,ayrshire bacon,Youngs chinese curry sauce ...other than that im good.
On the up and up i can get heinz baked beans here "YaY" and oddly Pataks products from coatbridge,excellent indian curry paste and breads..lovely.

The food here is very good,a lot of german/dutch influence.

NicoleB Serial expat

626POSTS

17 years ago

#25

I finally figured out how to make decent bread and Broetchen with sour dough.
Almost like home

jamesy Member

22POSTS

17 years ago

#26

A good baker would do well here,theres a sad lack of them.

NicoleB Serial expat

626POSTS

17 years ago

#27

@jamesey

I was too stupid in Korea and Kuwait to figure out that all I need to make my German stuff is flour and water to begin with

The rest is a bit of testing, but over all easy and I'm no great baker to begin with (especially NOT with a gas oven

聽 )

jamesy Member

22POSTS

17 years ago

#28

Hi NicoleB , we all got to learn from the beginnings,doesnt make any of us stupid , youve learned and become adept at the baking so your anything but stupid id say.
I love photography and never am without a camera , do i know how to use it ?.. no
I stumble and fumble my way to an occasional good picture missing many opportunities for a great photo.
Would you as an expert label me stupid even though i proclaim i might be?Probably not.
Odd that you dont like a Gas oven..most cooks ive known and even myself prefer gas as it does give more control.

NicoleB Serial expat

626POSTS

17 years ago

#29

Grin, the "stupid" part was meant for being too stupid to look up how to make bread

Like complaining that one doesn't know how the camera works, but not looking up the manual

Cooking on electric gives me actually the feeling of having more control.
But then again, we have a cheap gas oven here, so a real nice one is probably a whole different ballgame.

jamesy Member

22POSTS

17 years ago

#30

The manuals are fine up to a point , operating and setting the camera is pretty straightforward.Angles and lighting is a whole new thing and not in the manual really.
Its like some never realise that using a mono setting can give stunning results on a snowy day..took me years to remember what id already seen.
Experience i guess is the best teacher eh?

NicoleB Serial expat

626POSTS

17 years ago

#31

Yeah, but switching from my tiny, trusty Casio P&S to a DSLR last May, taught me some respect for manuals and such

I'm still trying to figure all those buttons out...sigh

But that's another story

jamesy Member

22POSTS

17 years ago

#32

Give'em a bit of a push and find out

My first digital was an intel..800x600 ..when i think of the places i took that camera.Now with a Canon that has ridiculously high resolutions..sigh..

NicoleB Serial expat

626POSTS

17 years ago

#33

I do, did, but like I said, that's another story, not very food related

Like here:
/forum/viewtopic.php?id=8248

GuestPoster1010989 Guest

0POSTS

17 years ago

#34

Fish and all kind of seafood, they are available here in Prague but horribly expensive! SY

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NicoleB Serial expat

626POSTS

17 years ago

#35

Fish?
Have you tried to get some at a local fishing lake?
Sometimes you can "put in an order", that's what people do at the lake where we go fishing

GuestPoster1010989 Guest

0POSTS

17 years ago

#36

NicoleB wrote:
Fish?
Have you tried to get some at a local fishing lake?
Sometimes you can "put in an order", that's what people do at the lake where we go fishing

Ooops, should have said "saltwater" fish, I am not madly keen on freshwater fish. SY

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NicoleB Serial expat

626POSTS

17 years ago

#37

Anna_Malta Member

17POSTS

17 years ago

#38

I'm from Thailand living in Malta.

I miss chilly and papaya, I cooked "Tom Yum soup" with 17 maltese chillys still less hot than 3 Thai chillys!

VickyTwead Member

20POSTS

17 years ago

#39

I'm English living in Spain.
I miss Tesco doughnuts. I thought I'd miss Heinz baked beans and Marmite but I can get those here.
Vicky T

sud-carolinienne ViP

166POSTS

17 years ago

#40

I'm French and I live is the USA now.
I don't really miss any food from home since I can cook the same way as I used to, everything can be found here. The only thing may be bread, I sometimes would fancy a good piece of French baguette with butter on it. But it's not impossible to live without that anyway!