missing food from homecountry

[Reba 2]

No shortage of good bagels here! Cakes and pastries, bagels, steaks, produce, clams, oysters, shrimp, lobster.. Not about to trade that in for pigeons wrapped in Cabbage.

no bagels around here tho. I bought some one time, and nearly gagged and choked it was so gross. Not even toasting it could save it. It was mushy and squishy and tasteless.

Can we move in with you?

[jenart 0]

I know the things I am going to miss most as I have already spent several months in the US.

CHEESE - I find the US cheese very mild and I like extra mature chedder like Seriously Strong

BREAD - Can't stand the sweetness in most US brands - although Walmart sell fresh hot french bread which is delicious but doesn't have much body

ENGLISH FISH & CHIPS - so I am making up for it by having em once a week til I leave

BRANSTON PICKLE - WEETABIX - real BUTTER - KIDNEY BEANS - ENGLISH STRAWBERRIES

[Reba 2]

I found Wheetabix at our local grocery store here. Its in the organic cereals section. I personally dont much like 'em myself, but it reminded me of home just to have them in the cupboard and turns out James likes them, so I buy them for him.

Edited June 22, 2006 by Reba

[RaspberrySwirl 20]

Just ordered some stuff online from tulumba.com

Should be here tomorrow. YAY! Tasty cheese and olives, num num!

[luvaLimey 0]

ABOUT THE DURIAN

... its odor is best described as pig-######, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock...

Comparisons have been made with the civet, sewage, stale vomit, skunk spray, and used surgical swabs

can't wait to try it......:NOT:

HAHAHAHA! when I told the S'porean woman that managed my apartment building that I was moving to Malaysia for 4 months and was goig to be in Singapore for a week, she told me I had to try durian!

I said "what's durian?" she said "It's the stinky fruit!" I laughed and she said "It taste like heaven but it smell like HELL"

When we went to the Carrefour in Singapore to get some food, we went through a plastic veil doorway into the produce/meat section of the store, and an overwhelming stench hit me right in the face. I couldn't breathe! I thought "you know, they should really throw out the rotten meat." I honestly thought it was rotten meat!

It was only once we got to Malaysia and I passed a durian stand that I realised it was the fruit!.

I am convinced that that fruit was discovered to be edible (and I use the term edible lightly) on a dare.

[Jaylen Brit 0]

oh man American bread..its so sweet I wonder wth they put in it I think I will likely try the wholemeal bread; its better for you anyways..I don't HATE the american white stuff but my fave white one in UK is 'Hovis Best of both' which is white with wholegrains. Aussie bread was fine btw - just pretty much like UK bread.

We have I think its Pumpernickel bread when we got to OUTBACK - and thats really nice.

I've tried Durain fruit - its ok - didn't think it tasted like heaven tho lol - starfruit is another one thats quite odd, but not unpleasant - quite tart tho. Mangosteens tho (I think thats what they are called) look like someone hawked up inside it - its just pretty nasty and it doesn't taste that great either..

[Reba 2]

oh man American bread..its so sweet I wonder wth they put in it

high fructose corn syrup. Its in every loaf of bread that you buy in a grocery store. Even the whole wheat, multi-grain and artesan "healthy" bread. The local grocery stores here (which will be the same where you'll be in Lenoir, I'm just in Morganton) even the in store "bakery" puts high fructose corn syrup in the breads. You really have to read labels to see what you're getting.

Hubby bought me a bread maker the first Christmas after I moved here. I make my own now.

[Jaylen Brit 0]

godamn that HFCS! its just liquid diabetes-inducing muck

I will SO have to read labels carefully..*sigh*.. you think the food industry are co-run by the Dentists and Doctors out for business?

Bread maker - sounds like a plan for the future...

[Reba 2]

It takes me about an hour to get my grocery shopping done these days. I spend so much time reading labels its crazy.

At least in Lenoir you'll have one grocery store that doesn't require to have a "customer card" in order to get the sale prices if its still there. I can't remember the name of it right now, its been 3 years now since we lived there. We don't have one in Morganton tho. It rather annoying how grocery chains can do those customer care card things and you can't get any special offer prices unless you have it.

[Karen_L 1]

I personally don't care for most American dishes (I'm vegetarian and American food is a lot of "plain meat, plain potatos"), but I've always been used to just like... microwaving something up at the end of the day. Knowing that my fiance' is (hopefully!) on his way here has prompted me to learn how to cook not because I plan to be Suzy Homemaker (though there certainly isn't anything wrong with that!) but because I know he is used to eating "home-cooked meals" and since it will be a time of transition for us both, I figure it'll also be a good time for me to transition into food preparation, since it's about 800,000x's healthier than eating fast food or preserved food anyway.

[HuffyTheSlayer 22]

I'm not really too good at cooking, but my fiance likes to cook when he has people to cook for. So now we're cooking dinner together pretty much every night.

[luvaLimey 0]

Bah: you don't need a bread machine. Just a couple of 10" loaf pans and a Saturday or Sunday afternoon.

Bake two loaves. Put one in the freezer, and slice the other and keep it in the fridge. (stays fresher in the fridge vs in a bread box).

http://www.kitchenemporium.com/cgi-bin/kit...od/26np370.html

http://www.kitchenemporium.com/cgi-bin/kit.../06cc60042.html

http://southernfood.about.com/od/yeastbreads/r/bl40112b.htm

[Clownies 2]

i miss belgian chocolates..

and good fresh bread right out of the bakery...

and belgian beer, even if i don't drink much.

No fast food for us, but healthy (ie organic) food is oh so expensive here... Everything here grows in California's backyard, so why does it have to be so expensive? F *#ing corporates!

HAHAHAHA! when I told the S'porean woman that managed my apartment building that I was moving to Malaysia for 4 months and was goig to be in Singapore for a week, she told me I had to try durian!

I said "what's durian?" she said "It's the stinky fruit!" I laughed and she said "It taste like heaven but it smell like HELL"

When we went to the Carrefour in Singapore to get some food, we went through a plastic veil doorway into the produce/meat section of the store, and an overwhelming stench hit me right in the face. I couldn't breathe! I thought "you know, they should really throw out the rotten meat." I honestly thought it was rotten meat!

It was only once we got to Malaysia and I passed a durian stand that I realised it was the fruit!.

I am convinced that that fruit was discovered to be edible (and I use the term edible lightly) on a dare.

They have a Carrefour in Singapore? Good grief! The big corporates are everywhere!

[Reba 2]

i miss belgian chocolates..

and good fresh bread right out of the bakery...

and belgian beer, even if i don't drink much.

No fast food for us, but healthy (ie organic) food is oh so expensive here... Everything here grows in California's backyard, so why does it have to be so expensive? F *#ing corporates!

its actually because trying to grow organically is rather more difficult than using pesticides and chemical growing enhancers and genetic manipulation, so the yeild is usually much smaller. In order for the farmers to make any money at it, they pass that on to the consumer

[Kitty_Cat 0]

My husband (who hates durian) says he once encountered a smell that's exactly like durian. He was on the tarmac at a small airport and smelled, simultaneously, raw sewage and deisel exhaust. He really hates that fruit and can detect the smell from much much farther away than I can.

It also almost made him throw up the first time he smelled it. I was once giving him some different flavored mooncakes and one of them happened to be durian... There was much gagging and choking