What’s the one food you wish for but can’t get in your area (but really want)?

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Inspired slightly by the saveloy thread and those no longer able to attain one.

I went to Key West 6 years ago and I’m still dreaming about the fish tacos. I’ve tried making myself and I can’t get it right. Not a single place in my Midlands city sells fish tacos. I so want them to become popular - can you Deliveroo them in London?

Also Vietnamese. Went to a fab restaurant in China Town and again have had various attempts but not been very successful.

What are you craving that’s hard to get hold of?

Not mine as such, but when my DS was younger i think it was crusha? that did a limited edition ice cream flavoured milkshake that he LOVED.
It ran its course and he still dreams of it years down the line, nothing else he's tried has ever tasted quite the same according to him lol.

I sometimes resort to making my own but proper Staffordshire oatcakes

Properly sour green mangoes (seemingly impossible to find, even in London), purple Irish snack bars (why the f do they not sell them here), and Meanies. God I could hammer a multi pack of Meanies right now

Proper Nottinghamshire Potted Meat and also Tomato Sausage.

@BlueBirdGreenFence if it helps they both freeze (and defrost) excellently! Might help you transport some over - this has saved me many a time when I’ve missed them 😊

@MumandnotMum

There’s this chain restaurant in Cyprus, couldn’t tell you what it’s called but they did the most fantastic prawns in buttery rice. I went there en route to Larnaca airport 6 years ago and can’t get them out of my head!

Was it the Ocean Basket?

Bovril ( since Covid no one is shipping it to NZ)
Battenburg cake
Cod roe
Smiths square crisps
Drifters

Decent independent English chip shop chips ( they don’t do proper chip shop chips here, nasty pre frozen things)

Just read this list and realised I am a total peasant ...

Where I grew up and left at 25, was possibly the best Chinese restaurant, ever. I've never found one as good. They were always rammed.
They did these spring rolls, they were quite large, crispy on the outside and full of beanshoots and duck etc on the inside. Those were the best ever, you could eat one of those on its own they were that tasty and full of goodies.
When we moved I was gutted we couldn't bring them with us.
When we went on a visit 5 years after we left, I was so excited and thought, yep so going there. Nope. It has shut down and was an internet café.
Never been so disappointed.

Prawns and chips from the chip shop in Anstruther. I had them once about 15 years ago and they were amazing. It’s one heck of a trip from South Wales just for chips though!

Proper meat pies and potted shrimp. Were my favourite foods growing up in Lancashire but almost impossible to get down south!

I used to live in the North East and still miss the egg mayo stottie i used to buy from my local bakery. Also I wish I could get a chewas and onion patty with batter bits down here.

@toria658

Bovril ( since Covid no one is shipping it to NZ) Battenburg cake Cod roe Smiths square crisps Drifters

Decent independent English chip shop chips ( they don’t do proper chip shop chips here, nasty pre frozen things)

Just read this list and realised I am a total peasant ...

They sell tinned and fresh cod roe in the Morrison’s near me! And the chippy used to do battered roe. Am in North London if that helps

Cheese and onion pattie!

Anything sold by a French bakery/patisserie.

Butlers dark hot chocolate with a salted caramel on the side. Always get one the first day back in Dublin, haven't been away so long in years.

(Home made from the ones over the internet just won't cut it.)

Greek

Proper fish and chips
Anything pork related
Greggs

I live in the ME

@bluebirdgreenfence I came on to say soda bread as well.

Rissoles from the chippy. A South Wales delicacy

Oh and I had the best veggie burger of my life in a little restaurant in Hanalei bay, Hawaii and I still think about it 14 years later.

@rslsys

Proper Nottinghamshire Potted Meat and also Tomato Sausage.

What’s tomato sausage as it sounds lush! I’ve googled it and can’t see anything come up.

Oh and really miss toast toppers (especially the cheese and ham one) ,Welsh Rarebit that they used to sell in a cafe near me but it changed hands and the recipe is no longer the same, and the mushroom double swiss which burgerking stopped doing years ago and was the only fast food burger I have ever really liked.

Patty, chips and scraps
Hot oven bottom cakes
Five guys

Egg nog.

Starbucks have it round Christmas but they insist on putting coffee in it.

In the US you can get it by itself, around 10 million calories per cup, but yum.

A meal from Dragon Express chinese takeaway in Bristol. I dream of it regularly. They did a vegetarian equivalent for every meat dish and it was absolutely amazing. We live about 100 miles away now (and have done for years) and my husband was going to go and actually get me a meal last year for our anniversary, but they had closed down 😭