British food stores

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I think what Dev said - their Canadian mature cheddar is probably the best I've been able to find at a decent price. Now if you have a Ralph Fresh Fare nearby (posher than the regular Ralphs) you can sometimes find some really good British cheeses there - I have found Windsor red cheese which is hard to find even in England.

Also - have you checked along the strip on Palm Springs blvd for posh delis? I'm sure there a few places along there selling gourmet foodstuffs to the gays (I am thinking of a place just off the main road near the Hyatt - dunno the name though!)

[Jeraly 4]

Oh grocery shopping is sooo funny - Bless them all but you could swear that it is only women in there talking then you turn around and it is some 200lb guy Jeremy said he is fine with it all but that being surrounded by grown men who act like 13 year old girls gets a bit annoying after a while

Stater Brothers has some good (expensive) imported cheeses but there just isn't the range there is back home

[no name 1]

Oh grocery shopping is sooo funny - Bless them all but you could swear that it is only women in there talking then you turn around and it is some 200lb guy Jeremy said he is fine with it all but that being surrounded by grown men who act like 13 year old girls gets a bit annoying after a while

Stater Brothers has some good (expensive) imported cheeses but there just isn't the range there is back home

I think it's a losing (expensive) battle with perishables & America. At least not on a regular basis. TJ's has good NZ cheddar too, and less expensive than the English cheddar. You are close to LA & we have a lot of expat shops.

I thought you weren't allowed to ship perishables abroad, hence my earlier comment.

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

i fedexed the cheese, and i just put it down as a gift. The guy in the fedex office was like 'is that chocolate' I said 'NO!!' He said 'REalllllly?????'. I said 'It's definately NOT chocolate'. He said 'OK'. The cheese got through customs fine!!

[Jeraly 4]

So you just put "gift" on the customs declaration and didn't mention it being cheese at all? I thought you had to be real specific or they would blow it up thinking it is a bomb or something equally extreme

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

well, you know, beverly hills cop taught me well. I made sure to include coffee beans with the blue cheese payload

[Jeraly 4]

To cover the smell?! So you put coffee on the customs form and said it was a gift?! Genius... I think I need to e-mail my mum now... of course... a small package that is so heavy might not pass as coffee....

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

well there actually was coffee in the package. and they didn't ask for the contents. And Axel Foley knows best.

[ginger1981 0]

well, you know, beverly hills cop taught me well. I made sure to include coffee beans with the blue cheese payload

LMAO...and all I got from Beverly Hills Cop was sticking a banana in the tailpipe will cause a car to backfire. Not that I've ever tried it...

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I learned that if the hotel is fully booked, you can still get a room if you pretend you are in town to interview Michael Jackson.

[ginger1981 0]

I learned that if the hotel is fully booked, you can still get a room if you pretend you are in town to interview Michael Jackson.

Oh, I forgot about that part....but first try to see if there are any rooms under Smith

[Glyn and Kathy 288]

OMG we found a place through this thread near us that has everything I could want. Including my mushy peas. Glyn is happy because he can get his Heinz beans and Ribena. They have even offered a future job to Glyn.

[ginger1981 0]

Oh, and the Mexican grocery store down the street (The Morse Supermercado) carries Heinz Beans, Spaghetti and Salad Cream. Like I said...you can find Brit products in the most unexpected places.

They also have pop in the old skool glass bottles...which Nicky loves too :-)

[Jeraly 4]

OMG we found a place through this thread near us that has everything I could want. Including my mushy peas. Glyn is happy because he can get his Heinz beans and Ribena. They have even offered a future job to Glyn.

Ooh - where?!

We have now aquainted ourselves with Trader Joes and World Market. Ignoring even the food issue, World Market has a garden table and chairs that I really like We might be investing when our money situation sorts itself out

As for finding things in weird places, I found Stater Brothers does my Yogi Tea which I never in a million years thought I would find out here!!!

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I get Yogi tea at my local Ralphs