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Which of these British foods should this American try first?

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BananaPudding · 06/09/2009 17:03

My little Texan village grocery has expanded and is trying to be very posh all of a sudden (which is a change from the standard Velveeta and Hamburger Helper choices) and has put in a British section of food! Imagine my shock to find some of the things you talk about in my own store here. It's quite pricy as it's all imported, so I want to try just one or two things at a time. Here's what they have to offer:

HP Brown Sauce and Fruity Sauce
Branston Pickle
Marmite
Heinz Baked Beans (apparently different than ours?)
Blackcurrant jam
Galaxy bars
Bounty bars
Bird's Custard
Bisto granules
Robinsons barley water

Think there are more but can't remember. Of these, what should I try?

Oh, almost forgot the Heinz Spotted Dick. It's creating hilarity/shock throught the town

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edam · 07/09/2009 23:17

Oh, I'm prepared to lose the fruit and nut as the first pawn in US/UK confectionary war.

Actually, am sure we could create a workable conspiracy theory about this - maybe the Yanks are trying to take our chocolate in revenge for the Scots letting Al-Megrahi go?

LyraSilvertongue · 07/09/2009 23:18

Bananapudding, all those products on your Photobucket (except your DD ) look vile. Processed crap.

edam · 07/09/2009 23:18

(I think Marmite is the converse of all those products that warn 'for external application only'...)

LyraSilvertongue · 07/09/2009 23:19

You blaspheme, Edam. How can you be prepared to lose the Fruit and Nut?

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BananaPudding · 07/09/2009 23:21

Americans eat cheese that is not from a jar or can. Mostly it is Kraft cheese, but is not completely processed and artificial. I've been made to try Cheez whiz and easy cheese once each and they are both hideous. DH likes them both [gag]

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edam · 07/09/2009 23:22

shhhhh! It's strategy...

GrimmaTheNome · 07/09/2009 23:22

I don't know if its still the case, but when I lived in the US at the start of the 90's the major brands of milk chocolate (eg Hersheys) had peanuts as an ingredient. I assumed that's what gave it the weird taste. Ugh.

Just discovered (while trying to google to see if they still had peanut hidden in there) that Hersheys has a license to manufacture Cadbury's brands in the US. Royal Dark? - presumably Bournville rebranded for those with no appreciation of the importance of this Birmingham suburb. I used to take the train from Bournville station to the uni every day for two years....oh, the wonderful smell! And then I moved to York and drove by the Rowntrees factory

LyraSilvertongue · 07/09/2009 23:23

Not completely processed implies some degree of processing, no?

LyraSilvertongue · 07/09/2009 23:24

Leave the Fruit and Nut out of the strategy. Surely there are other products that can be sacrificed?

edam · 07/09/2009 23:25

Does Kraft cheese look like this? Or this?

LyraSilvertongue · 07/09/2009 23:25

Grimma, you seem to be following the chocolate manufacturers around the country.

LyraSilvertongue · 07/09/2009 23:26

I doubt it Edam.

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BananaPudding · 07/09/2009 23:26

Yes, the cheese that the majority of America buys is in my opinion "somewhat" processed. By that I mean more than say, small farm artisan cheddar, but far far far less than velveeta which is still considered to be a "cheese food".

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LyraSilvertongue · 07/09/2009 23:27

More like this I suspect.

edam · 07/09/2009 23:27

Lyra, no, because I'm in charge of strategy here and I hate Fruit N Nut!

LyraSilvertongue · 07/09/2009 23:28

We need a picture, bananapudding. Branston Pickle won't work with just any old cheese product.

LyraSilvertongue · 07/09/2009 23:29

Please explain, in detail, how anyone can hate Fruit and Nut.

edam · 07/09/2009 23:29

'cheese food'? I really don't want to know what that is about!

edam · 07/09/2009 23:31

Um, I know chocolate raisins are nice. And chocolate with nuts inside is nice (if it's an individual posh chocolate, not a bar). But a chocolate bar with raisins and nuts in it is just horrible IMO.

Not 1/100th as horrible as Hershey's though.

GrimmaTheNome · 07/09/2009 23:31

I've escaped to Lancashire - no local chocolate AFAIK. None within scenting range anyhow. Lots of curranty things to eat with a cuppa though - Eccles cakes, Chorley cakes, Goosnargh cakes... ok, ok, most of you will only ever have heard of Eccles but shouldn't we be trying to sell those to the Americans?

differentID · 07/09/2009 23:32

probably the closest cheese you can get to cheddar in the us is Colby cheese

edam · 07/09/2009 23:34

Grimma, do you realise that in order to keep the theme going you will one day find yourself drawn to move to Slough, home of the Mars factory?

GrimmaTheNome · 07/09/2009 23:34

Edam, do you really think we're going to bow to the gustatory opinions of someone named after a mild rubbery Dutch cheese?

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BananaPudding · 07/09/2009 23:35

Edam, your cheese pic was really good cheese.
Lyra, your pic was really crappy American singles.

This is what I meant kraft cheese See how it's in the middle of yours?

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LyraSilvertongue · 07/09/2009 23:36

I'm rather partial to a piece of Edam.

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