British Expats reared in GB, come wallow in unrequited food porn love with me, I'll go first

[suzywong]

these are making my pulse race faster

your turn

Making steak pie, so add Bisto to my list, Nappiesgalore

Artic roll. yummy

waitrose products are available in Singapore???????
I am going to be in Singapore for 24 hours on Friday - DH thinks we are all eating at a hawkers' market but if I can get to any kind of Waitrose Productory then that's me sorted. Where do you get it from, FD?

Oh yes, proper bacon.

Fleur I thought you could get fresh cream in Singapore ? How awful if not.

Not fresh cream cakes though ..mm chocolate eclairs

ahhhhh bisto

arctic roll is kind of lost on me tho, gotta admit.

i get my bacon from local butcher who cures and smokes his own. it is to DIE for. [rubs salt in wounds]

I second the sausages. Proper non fatty gristle free ones from the farmers' market. And good unsmoked bacon.

We can get strong cheddar here, but not the mild stuff, which is all I can stomach

Shreddies, the children love them

In fact lots of cereals. They are all uber-sweet and mostly chocolatey here. Yuk.

worth coming back home for

Think there must be enough Brits over here in Holland as I can stock up on Weetabix / Marmite / Chivers marmalade without resorting to KLM every week, fortunately. I reeeaaaallly miss proper Cumberland sausages, though. Dutch sausages (worst) are just NOT the same...

Also:
proper pork pie (I'm a northern lass)
proper bacon
(oh dear I sense a pork theme developing here)
particular cooking ingredients like bicarb and food colouring (do I now qualify for the Froot Shoot award for E-number crimes to humanity )
other stuff that Nigella uses in her recipes which I just CAN'T get here grrr

Finally:
proper joints of meat instead of 2-portion packs of chicken breast or fake meat-squidged-into-a-joint-shape-without-bone

haha just realised "worst" could be construed as being English in that sentence and still work... I meant the Dutch word for sausage is "worst"...

Worst by name, worst by nature

Thanks for this site guys. We'll be moving abroad in July so this is a good way to remind me of all the stuff we will no doubt miss, and go out and gorge on it now.

From my previous time overseas the things I missed most were: good cheese, fish and chips and decent sausages.

Proper bread that doesn't taste sweet.

Proper pies not made with sweet slimy pastry.

Fish fingers.

Mullerrice and yogurts.

Diet cherry coke.

Clotted cream.

Fresh watercress.

Thornton's plain chocolate caramels.

Oh yes used to miss good bread. We are taking a bread maker this time.

(Clara - tip for the bread machine, make sure you take enough milk powder for a while as lots of countries don't actually use that outside the UK and it seems to be universal in British bread machine recipes...)

well i'm still living here and clearly ignoring the wonderful cuisine in every supermarket aisle. i just know i'll go shopping tomorrow and come back with nothing but artic roll and chicken kiev for the month ahead!

xpatshop Think this was the site but I bet nappies galore could do just a good job ..Rosa goes off to write shopping list !!!!

oK, I am not british, but I lived in the UK for 15 years.

I moved to Norway less than 24 hours ago.

So far I miss: Flapjacks.

(QS I saw your other thread ?yesterday? about moving back - hope MN helps to make the withdrawal of British culture from your daily life slightly more bearable Hope you're all settling in OK!)

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Anorak
Could you not use one of these things to grow your own watercress?

QS
How are you? How was the move?

Sorry for hijack

Castille, where do you get the strong cheddar from?

Have you noticed Cali how all the US ads on TV for fast food show all these orange meals?

And everything has cheese in it. A meal isn't a meal unless it's deep fried, orange and pulls out into cheese strings when you cut it or bite into it.

Otherside - they have it at the cheese counter of my local Super U! A recent addition to their range, I think. It was definintely the old, crumbly stuff.

Suzy not fair!!!

Crying into the keyboard...

I do miss the gluten free french stick things that you put in the over yourself. And gluten free English muffins. And being able to buy GF cornflakes for a pound, rather than having to buy some terribly worthy organic ones which taste like floor scrapings.

Lancashire cheese.