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

When can we get an update on your tasting progress BananaPudding? This is the most excitement I've had today - you're a marmite virgin and I get to share in the big moment!

I've got a jar of Marmite in the cupboard - we could all have Marmite Friday together?

No Marmite Friday

Marmite yucky

Bad marmite, plergh!

Hershey's tastes like sick I'll never understand why a country as huge and powerful as the US put up with it.

We usually spend our summers in US. DSs love Mount'n Doo, & root beer. I would recommend the Branston Fruity sauce, but only if you can find some Canadian back bacon. Fry several rashers, mop up the bacon fat with 2 thick slices of bread, put the bacon inside, add Branston Fruity - yum, think I'll have myself a bacon sarni for breakfast. Monterey Jack cheese would be a good stand in for cheddar.

HP stands for Houses of Parliament - the spicy sauce has a picture of them on the front. Flat muffins are called English muffins in the states. Muffins are those cakey things that often have blueberries in.

Every day's a Marmite day in this household.

So, if Kraft do succeed in taking over dear old Cadbury's, does that mean they will abolish English milk chocolate and Green & Blacks and make us eat horrible American stuff?

I dunno, what the hell happened to make a firm started by a bunch of Quakers end up in a deal making megabucks for the sort of tossers who brought capitalism to its very knees?

Nestle already got Rowntrees (and Mackintosh's toffees). What's left?

I'm shocked that anyone would want to eat Marmite.

Edam, cadbury's turned down £10.2billion. I think we'll be ok for a while.

I am drooling over here in Germany. We are existing on Marmite air because the jar is empty. I miss Cadbury's chocolate more than my family. I wake in the middle of the night in a cold sweat that the PG Tips are going to run out soon.

You lucky lucky thing, bloody yanks ( meant in a nice but jealous way)

£7 for marmite!!! It?s good, but it?s not as good as Galaxy! Or as nice as HP brown sauce on a cooked breakfast with Heinz baked beans on the side followed by Blackcurrent jam on toast. HmHmHmmmm.

I love love love marmite. DH hates it with a passion. I have got DD to like marmite on toast much to DH's disgust.
I have to have it spread thinly on cold toast (so that the butter doesn't melt)...YUMMMM

different, I fear it's just the opening gambit and Kraft (makers of Cheez Whiz, fgs or someone else will come back with a better offer.

Lost my whole stinking post into the ether and I'm too cranky to do it all over again.

I am on for Marmite Friday. Does this mean that it will be a Marmite and bumsex Friday? That may be a little too kinky even for me I am a Marmite virgin, after all.

Question: what is a rasher?

Also discovered Maltesers and Hobnobs today. And cans of Ambrosia custard and devon cream.

Here is a link to my Photobucket with all the pictures of strange American food. I was going to title the "love it" or "vile" but I'm too tired to follow through. So you all will have to guess which of all those things I will actually eat!

I also threw in a pic of my dd because I think she is adorable

www.Photobucket.com/americanfood

rasher of bacon

HP brown and fruity sauces are disgusting.
A bacon sarnie must never be sullied by these inferior sauces.
Crusty bread, (English) streaky bacon, lashings of butter and slices of fresh tomato. That's all you need.

Edam, check how many products I've shown are kraft! I've even got Cheez whiz in there!

STOP! Do not in any way get marmite involved in bum sex. It will sting.

Bananapudding, Hob Nobs are the king of biscuits. Maltesers are lovely but Ambrosia custard is pure deliciousness.

Do most Americans eat cheese out of a can/jar?

Banana, I know, was just highlighting Whizz as the most ludicrous.

Should the nation that peddles Hershey's as chocolate be allowed anywhere near Cadbury's?

Edam, have you tried it with marmite then? Experienced the burn,so to speak?

Edam, I agree, there is more to come with this Cadbury/Kraft thing.
Presumably they'll keep the product lines the same, won't they?

Nope, have just eaten enough Marmite to suspect that it would sting if used for other applications... doesn't it contain about 1g of salt per 0.99g of spread?

no idea- I've banned th eM-word from the house.

How can anyone hate Marmite, it's a food of the Gods.