Did oyu see that the NY times printed an article about a new sort of food? A sausage roll!

[BrendaandEddie]

WHO KNEW the Yanks didn't have them!?
APparently we eat them on Boxing day, ..servants... something... Downton shit crap.

BUT THEY DONT HAVE THEM

I used to go on a field school during uni holidays to help out and the students were american and canadian. The amount of times we had a student pour a cup full of squash and drink it neat...

We used to educate them in the ways of chocolate and biscuits. By the end of two weeks they were agreeing that Hersheys was awful and they would also turn into hob nob addicts.

Lemon curd was also a thing remembers eating it in sandwiches during a weeks worth of lunches after the leader bought a gigantic pot for them to try

Americans are so missing out!! I can't get my head around the biscuits and gravy thing. My mind refuses to believe a biscuit is anything savoury! No squash?!? Thats awful. Hot ribena is the best thing ever when you're ill!

Back to cheese, from my self catering hols to america, to get anything the equivalent to cathedral city mature (read medium really) i had to go to the speciality section of the supermarket and my eyes watered at the price, everything else was yellow rubber.

It is a myth that you can't get good cheese in the US. It's true that a lot of Americans eat crappy cheese, and my default is never to order a cheeseburger in a restaurant because often the cheese is nasty. But good cheese is easy to find in any higher end grocery store, though often expensive. I love cheese.

Ok so we are going to set up a greggs franchise and also a dairy to produce cheese...

What got me was the milk had two types - with drugs or without

I'll set up a stall outside your Gregg's franchise selling M&S hog rolls.

They have baked beans with steak. But refuse to serve them with breakfast?

And bacon, please. We don't have back bacon here.

So basically no decent food then?

Cheese
Sausage rolls
Bacon

Food of the gods!

Christina it's the sign of a very sensible nation that refuses to serve baked beans with breakfast!

They have grits - surely a sausage roll must be gourmet in comparison to that?!

When my Mancunin friend comes home from NY for a visit she heads straight for sausage rolls, meat pies, cheese and real chocolate.
She says you can get proper cheese but it's ££££££££££££££££

I really want a sausage roll now

Seneca - there is back bacon. Where are you again? I will ask DH where he sells to in your area. You can get center cut bacon and if you want something close to english bacon taste wise get the Kirkland one from Costco.

I'm not sure where your friend shops, Hopping but NY state is one of the top cheese producing states in the country. In the rural areas there are many small cheese shops. Some of the best mature cheddar anywhere can be found in New York state.

Beans for breakfast. No. No.

She's in NYC seneca she says she can get it but in specialist shops and it's very expensive.
She also misses proper tea and brown sauce, I send her those but the fresh stuff is more difficult.

I live in Florida Want2. We can get it by ordering online, but it is expensive. I love bacon rolls. I developed a taste for many British foods when I was a student in Scotland (except for beans-for-breakfast and Marmite), and bacon rolls are by far my favorite. Preferably on a Scottish morning roll, which is also impossible to find in my neck of the woods.

NY state and Wisconsin make some very very good cheeses. Arla have their production facilities in Wisconsin and follow exactly the same process as they do in Europe. This is the brand we buy for everyday. If buying for after dinner I buy from my local supermarket (ShopRite) or my wine shop.

Seneca Where roughly are you in Florida. DH sends a lot of back bacon down that way. There is also a processing facility starting in Georgia to supply the expat community with back bacon in Florida. Tommy Maloney is one brand that DH sells into that I know supplies Albertsons with back bacon in Florida. There is a whole lot more Irish product coming into the US this year too. The quality is very good according to DH (and something that is hurting his sales so he isn't too happy about it!).

I'm in the northern part of the state near Georgia. Where will this plant in Georgia be? I am originally from Georgia and both of my brothers live there, one of whom shares my love of back bacon.

Not 100% sure where it will be. Will ask DH tonight but I do know it is going ahead. The labor rates are too high in Europe to compete with US products. I mean slaughterhouse workers are getting paid $30-40 an hour compared to $10-15 an hour here in the US.

Hoppinggreen, tell her to go to Fairway. She can get all of that there!

Hopping - she could also try Trader joes. There is a good one in Union Square that has fab $3 chuck for sangria and cooking. Just don't drink it straight!

The cheese selection there is nearly all imported. If not imported it is the excellent stuff. The buyers know what they are doing at TJ's and most of them were trained by the Germans and Brits who run Aldi (who owns TJs).

Proper tea - again TJ's but get the Irish tea. I think it is better and it is about 20c cheaper at $1.99 for a box of 80 bags. For HP sauce, I either make my own with a Nigella recipe or buy at ShopRite. Its about $4 to buy a bottle that I make last for a about 3 months. I tried A1 sauce but its very different!

Do they have pork pies?

It's buffet food not boxing day food. Classic birthday party grub.
Boxing day is turkey curry.

No pork pies. Traditionally British type meat pies are not really a part of traditional American cuisine (I should say cuisines because there are many regional variations.) Chicken pot pie is popular and shepherd's pie (which is really usually cottage pie as Americans don't really eat lamb as a rule) is now on quite a few restaurant menus.