Which of these British foods should this American try first?

[BananaPudding]

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

Kind of. It looks like processed cheese shaped into triangles.
what time is it over there bananapudding?

good grief, they have to label it as 'natural' cheese? (Actually doesn't look terribly natural to me, am guessing the journey from cow to supermarket shelf is far from straightforward.)

they do have cheddar in the US. but it's called 'sharp' cheddar (rather than 'mature').

5:40pm.

I do have access to the type of cheese Edam has shown, it's just not as most popularly consumed as kraft or the vile American singles!

Wait a mo - Kraft sell Cracker Barrel canadian cheddar in the UK (coals to Newcastle!) - I haven't had it for ages but iirc the strongest versions are quite good. If that (or some other canadian cheddar) is available in the US that may be a decent cheese to go with that Branston, even if it does come in a stick.

Lyra, is that a counter-attack in return for my admission on fruit and nut?

And Grimma, oddly enough Edam is one of the very few cheeses I don't like. Along with Stilton.

Grimma, canada make excellent cheddar but a lot of it is unpasteurised which I don't think is allowed in the US.

ooh, Banana, just thought, maybe you could persuade your shop to import some Wensleydale and some English fruit cake (or Welsh Bara Brith). You eat them together. And then feel very, very contented.

No, I do like Edam (the cheese, not you ). Ds1 is also very partial. DS2 prefers Cheestrings

bananapudding should be able to find craker barrel white cheddar, defn a match for branston.

While I'm at it, here is a picture of banana pudding. It is so delish that I named myself after it

banana pudding

pudding is a type of custardy thing. What you call pudding we call dessert.

Looks like a trifle to me.
We call dessert dessert, pudding, afters. Many different names for the same thing.

Royal Dark is nothing like Bournville, .

Americans seem not to understand fruit cake (or xmas pudding). Its most odd.

i hate christmas pudding. and what's that stuff called bread sauce?

I don't understand Christmas pudding. Sweet, icky, yuk.

Urgh, bread sauce (puke).

Oh no, Colby cheese is nothing like cheddar. It's bland -- the cheese equivalent of Hersheys. A lot of shops carry Kerrygold (Irish) cheeses, and places like the Whole Foods Market sell real English cheese as well as unpasteurised cheese.

Bread sauce is traditional. I've never eaten it.

Quite like decent xmas pud though- litres of booze in it and a plain cream to serve with it.

really math? Would you say that Colby is like the value stuff that's a bit rubbery?

Apropos of the discussion of pudding, I found this (iced)gem of information in DDs homework tonight, fortunately before I emailed it to the teacher:

.A large part of Egypt is covered in dessert
.Sugar is also grown in Egypt

Shop-bought Christmas pudding is way too sickly though. Have never tried making my own. Maybe I should.

Grimma!

Fantastic

xmas pud isn't half as sickly as pumpkin pie so that can't be why Americans don't like it.

Kerrygold cheese? In Ireland, kerrygold make butter, no cheese.