This is a Damned Outrage!!

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

No, any moron can copy-paste. I am highlighting your wrong choice of word. Your audience (visa journey) is geared towards immigrants. Expatriates convene on a different forum.

Also, you applied and were approved for an IR-1/CR-1 visa. Expatriates aren't your fellows, immigrants are.

Not everyone on VJ is an immigrant. There are separate sub-fora for work visas and tourist visas. Further, there are some who are on here now who may consider themselves expats despite having filed for (and perhaps received) an immigrant visa, as they intend to return one day permanently to the UK.

There's no need to be a jerk about this, nor to jump to ludicrous conclusions.

Finally, this whole issue is a complete travesty and I shall be buying up the all the real Cadbury's that the shop across the street from me randomly keeps well-stocked.

[RM1987 3]

I can't believe this!!! I too will be stocking up from the shops near me that randomly have the real Cadbury's

[Pheebs1201 269]

Where do you live?? I lived in Falmouth!

Yeah, I may have to bring them over with me too, will have to practice making my own Yorkshire puddings!

I'm going to pretend I didn't read that last line...

Sorry didn't see this until now! How crazy I live in St.Ives! Did you go to uni there or....? God I know I need to learn how to make yorkies every time I try they turn out rubbish! My fiances mum is actually good at making them though so there is some saving grace in the US

Can you bring Cornish pasties too, this Devonian misses them

Haha my mum makes them, I'll have her teach me, then throw a pasty party for UK VJers in Oregon

Edited January 27, 2015 by Pheebs1201

[-Shana- 152]

Sorry didn't see this until now! How crazy I live in St.Ives! Did you go to uni there or....? God I know I need to learn how to make yorkies every time I try they turn out rubbish! My fiances mum is actually good at making them though so there is some saving grace in the US

Haha my mum makes them, I'll have her teach me, then throw a pasty party for UK VJers in Oregon

It's a small world, I visited St. Ives a few times! However I had a bad memory of seagull trying to make off with my panini, vermin the lot of them! I've yet to try out a yorkie recipe, but I heard that it can be a bit tricky to get it right.

[rhirhi 35]

I cooked my first yorkshire pudding after moving here I've been using this recipe: http://www.food.com/recipe/yorkshire-pudding-87480

Has worked every time so far, and went down a storm at Thanksgiving with our American friends (though one of them wanted me to put meat in the middle next time and didn't understand why it was just empty space inside...blasphemy!)

[-Shana- 152]

I cooked my first yorkshire pudding after moving here I've been using this recipe: http://www.food.com/recipe/yorkshire-pudding-87480

Has worked every time so far, and went down a storm at Thanksgiving with our American friends (though one of them wanted me to put meat in the middle next time and didn't understand why it was just empty space inside...blasphemy!)

Thanks for the link! Bookmarked. Our family tend to buy those giant yorkshire puddings and then put the roast dinner inside it...it's pretty epic.

[rhirhi 35]

Mmmmmm those are yummy! Don't think my friend meant that though....think he meant meat actually cooked into the yorkie as a filling. You've given me ideas now though, gonna have to attempt one of those big yorkies with the dinner in the middle!

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Just to contribute to this thread--

I never met a chocolate I didn't like. Galaxy is my favorite, but any chocolate is better than no chocolate to me.

We bought a huge tub of Heros before Christmas and ate them all. Wondering if we should have hoarded them in light of this Cadbury conflict.

I have failed at making Yorkshire pudding many times. I have tried various recipes posted on here and elsewhere. I even watched my English mother-in-law make them at my house. Mine just don't quite work. I can easily buy Aunt Bessie's frozen ones if needed. I like to fill the middle with gravy.

[Pheebs1201 269]

Just to contribute to this thread--

I never met a chocolate I didn't like. Galaxy is my favorite, but any chocolate is better than no chocolate to me.

We bought a huge tub of Heros before Christmas and ate them all. Wondering if we should have hoarded them in light of this Cadbury conflict.

I have failed at making Yorkshire pudding many times. I have tried various recipes posted on here and elsewhere. I even watched my English mother-in-law make them at my house. Mine just don't quite work. I can easily buy Aunt Bessie's frozen ones if needed. I like to fill the middle with gravy.

Dan likes to pile anything and everything on his plate into his small yorkshires then top it with gravy

Glad I've found someone else who can't seem to get the knack for making them!

[TBoneTX 46,129]

1. Chocolate = good

2. Biggest fan of "Manichos" chocolate bars from Ecuador. Buddy just brought some back.

[Non-UK interloper exits thread]

[-Shana- 152]

I'm starting to think perhaps some people are cursed not to make good yorkies...I hope i'm not one of them

[TBoneTX 46,129]

For obvious reasons, when someone refers to Yorkshire pudding, I think of little yap-dogs that someone's trying to eat...

[Pheebs1201 269]

For obvious reasons, when someone refers to Yorkshire pudding, I think of little yap-dogs that someone's trying to eat...

[Darnell 8,479]

Fellow Brit expats in America, I'm not sure if you saw an article that appeared in the NYT last week but it appears that Hersheys are taking action to prevent Cadbury's being imported from the UK to the US (basically because they are aware their own chocolate takes like ####### and doesn't compare). Not sure how many British import shops will be hit by this but stock up while you can!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/24/nyregion/after-a-deal-british-chocolates-wont-cross-the-pond.html?_r=1

“Have you tried Hershey’s chocolate?” asked Nicky Perry, a longtime British expatriate living in New York.

“I’d never sell it in my store,” she said, using a string of imaginative expletives to describe how the ubiquitous American chocolate tastes to her.

Ms. Perry, a native of Blackheath, England, owns Tea & Sympathy, a tea shop and restaurant; Carry On Tea & Sympathy, a British goods store; and A Salt & Battery, a fish and chips restaurant, all in Greenwich Village.

As such, she is naturally partial to Maltesers and Flake bars. She is also positively appalled at the notion that some of her beloved chocolates will no longer be available in the United States.

As a result of a settlement with the Hershey’s Company, Let’s Buy British Imports, or L.B.B., agreed this week to stop importing all Cadbury’s chocolate made overseas. The company also agreed to halt imports on KitKat bars made in Britain; Toffee Crisps, which, because of their orange packaging, and yellow-lined brown script, too closely resemble Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups; Yorkie chocolate bars, which infringe on the York peppermint patty; and Ms. Perry’s beloved Maltesers.

“Things in the world are bad enough as it is,” Ms. Perry said, “and now you’re going to take away our chocolate?”

Jeff Beckman, a representative for Hershey’s, said L.B.B. and others were importing products not intended for sale in the United States, infringing on its trademark and trade dress licensing. For example, Hershey’s has a licensing agreement to manufacture Cadbury’s chocolate in the United States with similar packaging used overseas, though with a different recipe.

“It is important for Hershey to protect its trademark rights and to prevent consumers from being confused or misled when they see a product name or product package that is confusingly similar to a Hershey name or trade dress,” Mr. Beckman said in an email.

What many Britons and British-chocolate lovers are most incensed about is the difference in taste between chocolate made in Britain and chocolate made in the United States.

Chocolate in Britain has a higher fat content; the first ingredient listed on a British Cadbury’s Dairy Milk (plain milk chocolate) is milk. In an American-made Cadbury’s bar, the first ingredient is sugar.

American Cadbury bars also include PGPR and soy lecithin, both emulsifiers that reduce the viscosity of chocolate, giving it a longer shelf life. British Cadbury bars used vegetable fats and different emulsifiers.

An informal blind taste test comparing Cadbury Dairy Milk bars — muddled by this reporter’s garlicky lunch — suggested that Ms. Perry had reason to be upset.

The British Dairy Milk was slightly fudgier, allowing for a creamier taste and texture. The American Dairy Milk bar left a less pleasing coating and somewhat of a stale aftertaste.

Another retailer of British goods, who wished to remain anonymous because she feared reprisal from Hershey’s, said she imagined she would go out of business soon.

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“Cadbury’s is about half of my business,” she said, while eating leftover Cadbury’s Christmas chocolate, “and more than that at Christmas. I don’t know how we’ll survive.”

She said she tried to import chocolate herself, but it required dealing with the Food and Drug Administration, as well as customs and the country’s Department of Agriculture, which got to be very complicated.

And because Hershey’s is looking to stop the sale of all Cadbury’s chocolate and the other bars in the United States, it might not help her to import the chocolate herself.

I talk often with my local Indian market men -

they all told me that they don't care about the wholesale company handling the stoppage of shipments,

as they all have other avenues to purchase it in the UK and have it shipped to the USA, to their stores,

so

I suggest you 'go ethnic', seek out an Indian market in your locale,

as

they'll have the chocolate you crave,

and the tea you want (and cheaper, usually)

Go Get Em, and Good Luck !

[-Shana- 152]

I talk often with my local Indian market men -

they all told me that they don't care about the wholesale company handling the stoppage of shipments,

as they all have other avenues to purchase it in the UK and have it shipped to the USA, to their stores,

so

I suggest you 'go ethnic', seek out an Indian market in your locale,

as

they'll have the chocolate you crave,

and the tea you want (and cheaper, usually)

Go Get Em, and Good Luck !

It'll be like the black market of chocolate, hah! P.S. Your soo-young avatar is hypnotising...