Things you'll miss from the UK, and how you'll compensate?

[Hotter Otter 1,211]

Oooh thanks for the bread recipe Nothing better than the smell of freshly baked bread in the house!

[QueenComley 295]

My fellow VJ buddies, I am so upset!!!! After this thread was created I got so home-sick for Jaffa cakes and decided to order some from amazon. Well they arrived this weekend (all 3 boxes of them!!).

Now... I never told my step-kids about this amazing British treat... I wanted to surprise them and see them fall in love with my favorite biscuit in the world (or is it a cake?)

Anyhow, Today I made my Step-son 9, and My step-daughter 11 a lovely lunch time treat of ham salad sandwich's, a small bag of potato chips and some fruit. Sneakily on the side of their plate I placed 2 Jaffa cakes for them to try..... Once they had finished their lunch they handed me back their plates... with all the chocolate nibbled off and the orange bit left on the plate!!!!!!!!!

How is this even possible??????

Mortified.

But more Jaffa cakes for me.........

[2ndMessiah 184]

Anyhow, Today I made my Step-son 9, and My step-daughter 11 a lovely lunch time treat of ham salad sandwich's, a small bag of potato chips and some fruit. Sneakily on the side of their plate I placed 2 Jaffa cakes for them to try..... Once they had finished their lunch they handed me back their plates... with all the chocolate nibbled off and the orange bit left on the plate!!!!!!!!!

How is this even possible??????

Mortified.

But more Jaffa cakes for me.........

1. They are kids. This immediately and automatically makes them selfish and pedantic.

2. They are American kids. Who are used to a whole different set of flavors and tastes.

3. They just dont appreciate the finer things in life like Jaffa cakes.

4. Send me Jaffa Cakes.

5. Jaffa Cakes. Send them to me.

Try giving HP brown sauce to your kids. Watch their faces. Yet they will manage to scoff down A1 sauce and tell you its great.

A1 sauce is just nasty....

[rjm_cmyk 75]

Try getting them to eat Marmite

[2ndMessiah 184]

Marmite..... Those the things the nurse used to comb out of your hair at school?

[Kiwinyc 62]

One of the first things I replaced after arriving here (after the Nespresso) was a bread maker.

I have been able to replicate the lovely bread I used to make in the UK almost exactly with my Panasonic.SD-YD250. (Which I mean almost exactly I mean the recipe that comes with this machine makes a bigger loaf, otherwise it tastes exactly the same)

Husband makes handmade bread from scratch too but I prefer the ease of the breadmaker. (He loves Marmite too, whereas I don't!)

Wouldn't touch US bread with a barge pole.

[QueenComley 295]

1. They are kids. This immediately and automatically makes them selfish and pedantic.

2. They are American kids. Who are used to a whole different set of flavors and tastes.

3. They just dont appreciate the finer things in life like Jaffa cakes.

4. Send me Jaffa Cakes.

5. Jaffa Cakes. Send them to me.

Try giving HP brown sauce to your kids. Watch their faces. Yet they will manage to scoff down A1 sauce and tell you its great.

A1 sauce is just nasty....

I think you should pop over to mine for a nice cup of tea and a Jaffa cake!!!!!

Try getting them to eat Marmite

Let me tell you a story... My husband gave my step-son a spoonful of marmite and told him it was chocolate spread.....The whole unfortunate episode ended in a little boy with his head down the toilet vomiting. Evil daddy!!!!!

[Hotter Otter 1,211]

That is mean haha!! Might see if my wife falls for it

[rjm_cmyk 75]

My (now) wife once gave me a marmite sandwich for the train journey home. This was the first time I had stayed with her family when we were at college together. She thought you applied it like jam....

Fair to say I have never let her forget it (Christmas 1980)

[Pooky 3,828]

Try getting them to eat Marmite

Let me tell you a story... My husband gave my step-son a spoonful of marmite and told him it was chocolate spread.....The whole unfortunate episode ended in a little boy with his head down the toilet vomiting. Evil daddy!!!!!

Been there ... done that ... now using the video as blackmail material.

[smoddydana 48]

A good chippy! With braw fish supper. And with a ton of vinegar and salt! That is what I miss after 15 years in USA.

also Scottish oatcakes.

[Krikit 1,165]

A good chippy! With braw fish supper. And with a ton of vinegar and salt! That is what I miss after 15 years in USA.

also Scottish oatcakes.

I tried a number of different recipes to make the oatcakes myself, but it's not quite the same.

When I lived in Florida there was a new British pub which opened up, and they had the fish and chips with mushy peas! I was in heaven. There's a good presence there, so you may find one! Google British Florida.

[landr 126]

A good chippy! With braw fish supper. And with a ton of vinegar and salt! That is what I miss after 15 years in USA.

also Scottish oatcakes.

Yes! Proper chips (not fries) with onion gravy or lashings of salt and malt vinegar. Plus battered fish or saveloy.

[2ndMessiah 184]

The wife And I have often thought of opening a "Proper" chip shop. We just don't think Merkins would get it.

[Hotter Otter 1,211]

My wife and I have discussed opening a British tea shop