All i want for xmas

[Bill and Hayley 0]

is some lucozade, mushy peas and hulu hoops.... I live in delaware and cant find these anywhere, we have an english tearoom that sells plain walkers crisps and a few other items but thats it, is there anyone from around here that knows of a place where i can find at least one of these items..OR whats the cheapest online site to buy english foods from. please help.thanx

[gwenneh 7]

We found a British food shop in upstate NY (*really* weird place to find it, in the middle of nowhere!) and they have a website. I'll see if I can find the link for you!

They carry all of the above.

[Bill and Hayley 0]

Thankyou that would be great!

[JandC 0]

OMG you just started off a rampage of longing! I miss the tropical lucozade I used to get from the drink machine at work in England! Thank you, thank you very much ! LMAO

[~*Maria*~ 1]

I miss tuc crackers, decent scottish shortbread, vimto and oh my favourite......... a haggis supper!!!

[Bill and Hayley 0]

I only started to miss things about a month ago, well apart from quorn sausages but ive found a good veggie sausage now. But nothing can replace lucozade or hulu hoops( i do have 4 packets for xmas put away..yayyy), think im gonna have a go at making mushy peas myself, cant be too hard. Sorry for making you remember of how lush lucozade is

[JandC 0]

This site might help you find a store near you..... The British Pages

[Fandango 1,439]

I miss a real curry n chips

[ajames79 0]

I miss a real curry n chips

I had a real curry and chips last week. Not to rub it in or anything.

Really though Lisa, at The World Market, they sell jarred curries. Typically I am against most jarred sauces because I love making homemade. But these curries are fantastic. They have a butter chicken sauce, Tika, a lemon and coconut...and they all are so good. We can even get Naan bread that is decent enough.

There are a few that are higher fat and calories but for the most part they are really reasonable.

I totally recomend them for any one missing a curry.

I can't help you with the chips guys. Haven't been able to do those yet. However the steak fries come close when we make fish and chips.

The one thing I really miss is sausage. When we were visiting my inlaws last week I got to eat them a few different times! Yummo.

[JandC 0]

Hmmm......Chicken Korma *drools*

[catrocks 0]

We have an Indian supermarket within walking distance.... keeps me in mango chutney, naan bread and biriyani!!

We also have a couple of Indian restaurants.... though the food is not the same as that I'd get at an Indian restaurant in England... but it's still freaking good so I'm ok on the curry front

[Amby 490]

I know they have mushy peas at World Market...the question is is there one near you.

[Lou Lou 1]

is some lucozade, mushy peas and hulu hoops.... I live in delaware and cant find these anywhere, we have an english tearoom that sells plain walkers crisps and a few other items but thats it, is there anyone from around here that knows of a place where i can find at least one of these items..OR whats the cheapest online site to buy english foods from. please help.thanx

My local supermarket sells all those and I live in the sticks of VT. If you're that desperate, I can send you some. Isn't Gatorade the same Lucozade? All nasty sugary stuff.

[Dan and Lynne 0]

I miss tuc crackers, decent scottish shortbread, vimto and oh my favourite......... a haggis supper!!!

A haggis is a small animal native to Scotland. Well when I say animal, actually it's a bird with vestigial wings - like the ostrich. Because the habitat of the haggis in exclusively mountainous, and because it is always found on the sides of Scottish mountains, it has evolved a rather strange gait. The poor thing has only three legs, and each leg is a different length - the result of this is that when hunting haggis, you must get them on to a flat plain - then they are very easy to catch - they can only run round in circles.

After catching your haggis, and dispatching it in time honoured fashion, it is cooked in boiling water for a period of time, then served with tatties and neeps (and before you ask, that's potatoes and turnips).

The haggis is considered a great delicacy in Scotland, and as many of your compatriots will tell you, it tastes great - many visitors from the US have been known to ask for second helpings of haggis!

The noise haggis make during the mating season gave rise to that other great Scottish invention, the bagpipes.

Many other countries have tried to establish breeding colonies of haggis, but to no avail - it's something about the air and water in Scotland, which once the haggis is removed from that environment, they just pine away.

A little known fact about the haggis is its aquatic ability - you would think that with three legs of differing lengths, the poor wee beastie wouldn't be very good at swimming, but as some of the Scottish hillsides have rather spectacular lakes on them, over the years, the haggis has learned to swim very well. When in water, it uses its vestigial wings to propel itself forward, and this it can do at a very reasonable speed.

Haggis are by nature very playful creatures, and when swimming, very often swim in a group - a bit like ducks - where the mother will swim ahead, and the youngsters follow in a line abreast. This is a very interesting phenomenon to watch.

The long neck of the mother keeping a watchful eye for predators.

This does however confuse some people, who, not knowing about the haggis, can confuse it with the other great indigenous Scottish inhabitant, the Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie as she's affectionately known.

From a distance, I'm sure you'll agree, the tourist can easily mistake a family of haggis out for their daily swim, as Nessie, this of course gives rise to many more false sightings, but is inherently very good for the tourist industry in Scotland.

The largest known recorded haggis (caught in 1893 by a crofter at the base of Ben Lomond), weighed 25 tons.

In the water, haggis have been known to reach speeds of up to 35 knots, and therfore coupled with their amazing agility in this environment, are extremely difficult to catch, however, if the hunter can predict where the haggis will land, a good tip is to wait in hiding on the shore, beacuse when they come out of the water, they will inevitably run round in circles to dry themselves off.

This process, especially with the larger haggis, gives rise to another phenomenon - circular indentations in the ground, and again, these have been mistaken by tourists as the landing sites of UFOs.

I hope this clears up some of the misconceptions about the Haggis, that rare and very beautiful beastie of the Scottish Highlands (and very tasty too).

I have included here as much factual material as possible, although there are many gaps in this subject, and some of the information has to be mere speculation.

No-one has as yet been able to ascertain the sex of captured Haggis, and partially because of this, scientists assume the haggis is hermophroditic.

This may also be a product of evolution, and does explain the logistic problems of bringing two haggis together - after all, sure footed though the beast is, if two were to mate on a Scottish hillside, it is a long fall down, and a slip at the wrong time may very well result in a reduction by two of the total haggis population.

What is known about Haggis breeding is that, several days prior to giving birth, the Haggis make a droning sound - very much like a beginner playing the bagpipes for the first time - giving rise to the speculation that the bagpipes were indeed invented in Scotland, simply to lure unsuspecting haggis into a trap. At the onset of this noise, all other wildlife for a five mile radius can be seen exiting the area at an extremely high rate of knots (wouldn't you if your neighbour had just started to play the bagpipes?). The second purpose of the noise seems to be to attract other Haggis to the scene, in order to lend help with the birth. This also gives rise to the assumption that Haggis are tone deaf.

Haggis normally give birth to two or more young Haggis, or "wee yins", as they are called in Scotland, and from birth, their eyes are open, and they are immediately able to run around in circles, just like their parent.

The wee yins are fiercely independant, and it is only a matter of weeks before they leave the parent, and go off foraging for food on their own, although it is perhaps a two or three year period before they are themselves mature enough to give birth.

Most Haggis hunters will leave the wee yins, due simply to their size, but when attacked by other predators, they are still able to emit the bagpipe like sound, which again has the effect of very quickly clearing the surrounding area of all predators, and attracting other Haggis to the scene. This results in a very low infant mortality rate, with most wee yins actually making it to adulthood.

The lifespan of the Haggis is again an unknown quantity, but from taggings done in the Victorian era, we know that some haggis live for well over 100 years.

[bettenan 1]

I don't know where in Delaware you live but if it's close to MD...Wegmans Wegmans has a great British food aisle. We've also found mushy peas in our Shoprite Supermarket (they have a mini-Brit food aisle). Of course when all else fails....mail order from TOBBP TOBBP....that's what we did until Wegmans opened near us and we found some stuff at Shoprite.

Good Luck..