Foods I'm (you're) in love with that I (you) can't get around here (there)

Not exactly a food per se, but I would love to be able to buy Cheerwine, like, anywhere around these parts.

other stuff wot I can't think of

Keifer's in Jack-town! Can't vouch for the falafel, but they have some tasty dishes.

Walker's marmite crisps. If it were ridged, it would be my favorite potato chip since Ruffles canceled their hot wings flavored chips. I'm spoiled about British stuff, because we can get Aero bars and Violet Crumbles (sorry Jimmy) and Maltesers pretty easily, but even the All Things British store has a limited selection of overpriced crisps.

SEAFOOD. On the one hand: DAMMIT, I am land-locked, and thank God I'm going to New Orleans in a couple weeks, in the midst of crab and crawfish seasons. On the other hand: thank God it is now and not 25 years ago, because between food transport and fish farms, I have access to more decent seafood than I did when I was a kid and only lived an hour from the ocean ("you can have haddock ... or you can have lobster. Or you can have lobster ... or you can have haddock.")

Moxie, although between people sending it and my rationing it, I do okay.

Lion. I've never had it, but I can't get it here.

I can't find good prosciutto around here either. I can find a'ight prosciutto, but a'ight prosciutto will only make a'ight dishes.

umm, where do you live??

Also Sonic.

How happy am I that Lee's Sandwiches just opened across from UCI? Very. Sure it's almost the Starbucks of the approach but it's cheap and it's good.

"umm, where do you live??"

I live on a little island. there are only two chinese places and i am scared of the one near me cuz there is never anyone in there and there is no sign on the door. when i went off-island recently i went to this pan-asian place and got vietnamese and thai and indonesian and chinese. it wasn't all great, but i was in heaven. i hadn't eaten asian food in a year and a half. since i moved from philly. mmmmmm, now i'm getting hungry. i might have to bite the eggroll bullet and go to the scary place. maybe it's not that bad. i just need that taste every once in a while.

(also I am takin' a moment here to be thankful that we *finally* have vanilla coke in this country, mm)

I am seriously addicted to Jelly Babies

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Also, we like our sugar just fine here. I have a sweet tooth for sure.

Also, also: I would have posted more on the "Moving To Toronto" thread, but most of the salient points had been made already. Drop me an email if you want my take on it - I moved here over a decade ago.

And yeah, Marmite crisps are terrific. I've never had marmite, so it's kind of an odd experience, I can't tell if they're actually marmite-flavored or not (now I have to get marmite, obviously; I am putting it on my grocery list immediately).

and submit: Sweet Tea

COFFEE SYRUP.

Also missing: That one hot waitress at the coffee bar with the Germs tattoo.

Oh, and Buffalo Wild Wings. There is one that might be opening here, but the "Buffalo Wild Wings: Coming Soon!" sign is now gone, although the building it was attached to remains.

When I move out of Indiana, I will miss its bacon and apples, the smoked chicken from my butcher, and the duck eggs, pears, and German green tomatoes from the farmer's market.

I want to know where I can buy the damn relish (the buns would be nice too.)

I mostly love New Orleans food that I can't get around here...even the cool Seafood Center in town won't order up fresh crawfish (um, because the fatality rate was too high), and you can only get 'fancy' po' boys.

I was craving a Philly cheesesteak too, but I had a slice of cheesesteak pizza today that more than sated me.

I bought frozen crawfish tails last month for a dinner party, and they were terrible -- the Louisiana ones have shot up in price because of a drought, so all I could find were Chinese ones that smelled somewhat like clams and made for strange gumbo. Next month, I will gorge myself on seafood.

PLEASE go to Boudreau & Thibodeau (see previous post) in Houma. That place was just too good to not share.

Fools I'm (you're) in love with that I (you) can't get around here (there)

as for foods.... i LOVED the sausages with mustard you could buy from stalls in germany when i was there. mmmmmm.

Omigod, my mum brought me two boxes over from the States, and I spent quite some time on Friday night trying to explain why it was so great to random English. Yes, I know it's disgusting. Aerosol cheese is wrong on so many levels. It's so orange. And artificial. And salty. And weird. And gross. But it is the TASTE OF CHILDHOOD AND I LOVE IT!!!

The closest I could get to getting them to understanding it was erm, Marmite, I guess.

Anyway, I took a box over to Catty's house yesterday and she practically mugged me at the door for it. At least someone understands. Oh, the artificial cheesy producty goodness.

i miss:
-chicago style pizza (and didn't get to have any when i was back, darn the weather)
-waffles
-morningstar farms veggie sausages (both links and patties)

i was thinking of other stuff as well, but these three are at the top of my list. what i wouldn't give for a pizza from giordanos. don't they do semi-cooked ones? wonder if they'd make it if shipped next-day air, or something...

Old Bay, but I get that sent to me and have become a source for lots of German and Austrian friends.

Maryland fried chicken. Viennese baked chicken is really good and a better choice than KFC, but it's not the same.

Berger's cookies. I get a box or two every Christmas; they last about an hour.

Good cheap Chinese food. Over here, you get at best two out of three of those modifiers, and they're usually "cheap" and "Chinese".

Decent ice tea in a bottle.

Except, well, maybe Annies Organic Mac N Cheese which is actually white, but that's cause it doesn't have crazy food colouring in it. It's lovely anyways. Especially the colour of the boxes.

xpost - but baking is the key to good mac n cheese!

What, like, homemade mac n cheese? No, no, that's not right, it totally destroys the teenage/student comfort food aspect of Mac N Cheese if you do anything except boil it in a pot and mix together the powder (or add the slime, if it is Velveeta). Preferably it should be eaten directly out of the pot for maximum comfort factor, as well.

Gahhh... hamburger helper... cheeseburger macaroni makes me wish I could still eat meat. I wonder if it would work with Quorn?

that reminds me: mc donald's orange drink. i love the stuff, and went to mcd's several times while back just to get a supersize vat of it.

mmm. and 7-11 lemonade fruut cooler. i don't know if they make it anymore, but the summer i was living in chicago i had it at least once a day.

xpost: the only morningstar farms stuff i've ever seen over here is the fake bacon, oddly. (had yummy toasted bacon sandwiches last night. mmmmm)

Is it still 99 cents or has there been inflation?

xpost - gee, i wonder why.

Oh man. I had either Pop-Tarts or oatmeal for breakfast every weekday from the time I was 5 to the time I was 18. But I was only allowed the non-frosted Pop-Tarts and my oatmeal was sweetened with Equal, unless I sweetened it myself, in which case I would sneak in some sugar and add a bit more milk than what I would usually get.

I miss really good croissants. Interestingly enough, the last time I had a good croissant was the last time I was in the Bay Area. I don't know if La Madeleine will have any good ones, but certainly H-E-B doesn't. Oh! And, as good as some of the Chinese food is around here, it can't beat the Chinese food I remember having in Seattle. OH! And really big, fluffy, homemade pancakes from independent diners. There was this one Tacoma-area diner I remember going to after Sunday morning mass for about a year and I would *always* order the same thing -- these luscious pancakes with fresh strawberries on top. There's no way IHOP could replicate them.

Europeans can't make donuts or bagels for shit; I can live without bagels, but the donut thing hurts sometimes.