What parts of English culture will you/do you miss?

[2ndMessiah 184]

But but but I thought I saw Mars Bars here in the US. Life gets confusing when they mess with chocolate.

[scottym27 19]

Srvman - that's the one I was on about! They're not bad actually, I quite like them.

Still not milky ways though...

[rjm_cmyk 75]

We can get Lindt chocolate here but friends know my partner needs her fix of real Cadbury's chocolate whenever they come over. That and Branston Pickle.

The food "issues" I have here are the sugar in bread (so I make our own now) , the need to hunt out real bakers rather then the supermarkets for cake stuff and of course the overbearing desire of food manufactures to stuff every product imaginable (and some un-imaginable) with sodding HFCS.

Speaking as a fat git it feels like there is a conspiracy to pack every food with fat, sugar and salt.

<dismounts from high horse>

[Rebecca Jo 1,962]

An observation.

Over the years I've been reading UK/USA message boards, I have observed that more recent migrants tend to talk about missing food from home. It always ends with talk of bread, cheese, chocolate, and sausages.

People who have been away from the UK for many years tend to talk about missing a UK lifestyle. Walks in the countryside. Public transport. Pub culture. No guns and no religious zealots. They even begin to miss the weather. Or - they don't miss a single thing about the place and are glad to have seen the backside of it.

[srvman 38]

An observation.

Over the years I've been reading UK/USA message boards, I have observed that more recent migrants tend to talk about missing food from home. It always ends with talk of bread, cheese, chocolate, and sausages.

People who have been away from the UK for many years tend to talk about missing a UK lifestyle. Walks in the countryside. Public transport. Pub culture. No guns and no religious zealots. They even begin to miss the weather. Or - they don't miss a single thing about the place and are glad to have seen the backside of it.

Being from Northern Ireland I can quite happily stick the religious zealots in Montana. They are relatively tame about it in comparison haha.

I miss a few cultural things, but honestly, 90% of the time, I don't miss a single thing about the place past my family.

[Vanitas 310]

Got to agree with srv on this one. I only miss a few food items and my friends/family.

[Big Papa Zone 93]

+1 I really don't miss the place at all. Praying the wife adjusts and loves it here as much as I do (she's already asking the "why can't we live here?" routine).

[Kiwinyc 62]

you always end up finding replacements for foods that you miss. And my DH gave me a breadmaker to replace the one I had to leave behind so now we have the exact same fresh bread as before. The weather here in TX is insane however.

[Vanitas 310]

Weather's been insane full stop.. was -10C this morning in RI. I would like for these winter storms and such to kindly sod off out the door and not return until 2015.

[Gail83 21]

To the person who first mentioned Hola on here.... THANK YOU!!! You may just have saved my life lol!!!

[Azsara 110]

I miss the rain!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cam54 84]

I miss the rain!!!!!!!!!!!!

are you sure?...

lol we had a little bit of rain here in California recently, I actually quite enjoyed it as it stopped me feelin guilty about bein lazy

[2ndMessiah 184]

Being from Northern Ireland I can quite happily stick the religious zealots in Montana. They are relatively tame about it in comparison haha.

I miss a few cultural things, but honestly, 90% of the time, I don't miss a single thing about the place past my family.

Woooohoooo!!! A fellow Ulsterman.

Greetings brother.

I find being from NI has made me a lot more intolerant of religious zealots. Don't come across to many. I get way more annoyed with the belief that this great country was setup as a theocracy and not as a secular nation. No matter how much evidence there is to the latter.

And Yes I do miss chocolate, sausage, cheese and bread. It is how it is. But I have found so many other things I love to replace the things I miss.

[2ndMessiah 184]

Come to Virginia. We get rain, snow and 70f sunny weather all within hours of each other.

I do not like snow.... full stop. I hate driving in it. Thinking of Florida.

Wife says as long as we have escape money and hurricane insurance we might just consider moving there.

To the person who first mentioned Hola on here.... THANK YOU!!! You may just have saved my life lol!!!

Your welcome..

[2ndMessiah 184]

What makes me giggle is seeing Guinness and Tennants and other UK beers as Import. Makes them almost sound exotic.

I have made Sam Adams beer my go to beer these days. But occasionally I throw some overpriced Guinness down my throat.