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

Nothing black currant flavoured. All purple flavour drinks and sweets are grape.

Just saw this thread. I think the article exaggerates. I live in Seattle and the cafe around the corner sells sausage rolls, yes exactly like they are in the UK. There's also a pasty restaurant, where they sell a range of delicious pastys to the detriment of my waistline. Now I think of it, there's a tea and crumpet shop in Pike market as well... Most of the supermarkets sell marmite, Heinz baked beans, ribena cross& blackwell products etc...There's even an English style butcher where I can get real English bacon and bangers so we're not exactly short of British food in this part of the States!

Want2bSupermum - thank you for the suggestions. Don't have a car, but I'll certainly check out Butcher Block which isn't far away.

These are pigs in a blanket. It's just a Pillsbury Croissant roll dough wrapped around mini-hotdogs. The entire purpose is a cheap easy snack for the kids when you don't feel like cooking.

I don't think I've ever had a sausage roll though to be honest.

My local grocery has all the cheese you have, I'm pretty sure. A lot of it is imported from England and Ireland. There are hundreds of types.

They also sell Ribena. It's in the "England," section of the international foods aisle. But another local store, Jungle Jim's, has a whole England section. It has an animatronic Robin Hood in it.

Senpai, those are only really good, IMO, when you use Little Smokies instead of hotdogs. And if you put two mustard dots on them, they become mummies for Halloween.

I do have a question. Jungle Jim's sells this in the England section. It smells like perfume. Do you all really eat these?

Senpai, those are only really good, IMO, when you use Little Smokies instead of hotdogs. And if you put two mustard dots on them, they become mummies for Halloween.

Yes! That's what they're called, thank you! Smokies wrapped in Pillsbury dough.

My friend's father used to draw a smile face on front of the smokies and a curly tail on the back of them with ketchup. Best snacks ever. He also made Mickey Mouse pancakes for breakfast, and faces on pizzas. Good times.

Shakshuka - thanks for the Butcher Block suggestion. It's fairly near me. I got confused about who recommended it!

Steff - I've never seen those before! There are some perfumey sweets around (like parma violets?) but v old fashioned and only seem to turn up in cheap party bags and gifts for old people!

Continuing the buffet theme, what about quiche?

Definitely worth a visit hags.

A bottle of Ribena costs $4 there while at Myers it's $8! Literally half the price.

If you're coming from the city, it's only a few stops on the local 7 train and the store is steps from the subway station.

My problem is buying too much and not being able to carry it all! I usually try to drive there at weekends

Do they have Ribena in the US then

in my limited 3 week experience they don't sell concentrated squash, it is all pre-diluted, so sunny-d style.
And i didn't see ribena whilst looking for drinks for the kids, and I LOVE supermarket shopping abroad so we went in a fair few.

steff13 we don't have lifesavers full stop, we call that style sweets "polos" and they come in 1 flavour mint, they used to come in fruit (boiled sweets) but they stopped a good few years ago.

Americans also don't have blackcurrants. Weird.

So that's why the Californians are all so into their goji and acai and whatnot. We're missing several tricks here - we should be promoting blackcurrants over there as the latest Wonder Make You Live Forever Antioxidant Health Food. Again Sod cranberry juice, drink Ribena instead.

'A friend's SIL came to stay for a couple of months (she's lived in the US for decades) and while my friend was at work one day, the SIL pulled up all of her blackberry bushes and set them on fire. She simply said they were a noxious weed and dangerous to have in a garden with children.'

The cheek!

Americans are really missing out on blackberry loveliness.

A quick Googling reveals that those Lifesavers pictured upthread are from New Zealand, not England. although it doesn't surprise me Ohioans wouldn't know the difference

Reminds me of this

We have blackberries in abundance. It's blackcurrents we don't have.

I've never seen lifesavers in NZ. They're an Australian thing.

The US equivalent to squash are frozen cylinders of concentrate. The big downside is that you have to make a whole jug in one go.

Of course, they also have Koolaid, which comes as a tiny packet of flavouring and colouring which you add sugar to and mix in a jug.

How can they produce cheddar in America? Cheddar is British and regional.

Cheddar isn't a protected name like champagne or camembert.

You can have American cheddar just as you can get British brie.

Actually Google tells me only “Camembert de Normandie” is protected. So I imagine an American producer can't say West Country cheddar for example but can say New York cheddar.

The best NYS cheese comes from Cuba, New York. If any of you are ever up that way, you should visit the Cheese Museum.

www.cubanewyork.us/links/cheesemuseum.htm