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Charles Riggs
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:14 pm
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An article in http://www.emigrant.ie/ , a highly entertaining site,
discussed the difficulty of finding certain items in Ireland that are
readily obtainable in the US. Since one of the secondary purposes of
AUE is to discuss food, the following snippet listing what one
traveller brought back may be germane. I wonder how difficult it is to
find these items in the UK.
Here's a fairly comprehensive list of what she got, and I've
accompanied this column with a photo for added proof, lest you have
any doubts. In no specific order, she brought home (to Ireland):
Levolor light filtering, custom sized window shades; (New!) Nestlé
Toll House candy bars; Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy; Hormel Pepperoni;
Keebler Rainbow Chips Deluxe; Nyquil; Kellogg's Pop-tarts (brown
sugar, cinnamon); Nestlé hot cocoa mix; Ray's New York Bagels (plain,
onion, cinnamon/raisin); Smucker's jelly beans; Mennen Speed Stick
anti-perspirant; black jeans; Pillsbury Brownie Mix; assorted Betty
Crocker Chocolate Chip Cookie mixes and Brownie mixes; Hershey's Mini
Robin Eggs; assorted Betty Crocker Bisquick Complete mixes; Nestlé
Coffee-Mate (French Vanilla); medium white plain corn meal; Chef
Boyardee Cheese Pizza mix and (New!) Deep Dish Meals mix; and, last
but not least, a Safety Gate Hook & Eye.
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Charles Riggs
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CyberCypher
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:56 pm
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Charles Riggs wrote on 19 Mar 2005:
| Quote: | An article in http://www.emigrant.ie/ , a highly entertaining
site, discussed the difficulty of finding certain items in Ireland
that are readily obtainable in the US. Since one of the secondary
purposes of AUE is to discuss food, the following snippet listing
what one traveller brought back may be germane. I wonder how
difficult it is to find these items in the UK.
Here's a fairly comprehensive list of what she got, and I've
accompanied this column with a photo for added proof, lest you
have any doubts. In no specific order, she brought home (to
Ireland): Levolor light filtering, custom sized window shades;
(New!) Nestl? Toll House candy bars; Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy;
Hormel Pepperoni; Keebler Rainbow Chips Deluxe; Nyquil; Kellogg's
Pop-tarts (brown sugar, cinnamon); Nestl?hot cocoa mix; Ray's New
York Bagels (plain, onion, cinnamon/raisin); Smucker's jelly
beans; Mennen Speed Stick anti-perspirant; black jeans; Pillsbury
Brownie Mix; assorted Betty Crocker Chocolate Chip Cookie mixes
and Brownie mixes; Hershey's Mini Robin Eggs; assorted Betty
Crocker Bisquick Complete mixes; Nestl? Coffee-Mate (French
Vanilla); medium white plain corn meal; Chef Boyardee Cheese Pizza
mix and (New!) Deep Dish Meals mix; and, last but not least, a
Safety Gate Hook & Eye.
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Jeez. The only thing I'd want on that list might be Ray's New York
bagels, assuming that they're actually made and sold fresh in New York
instead of made in some factory in Kansas, frozen, and then shipped
around the USA with a misleading label. Corn meal might be another.
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:01 pm
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CyberCypher wrote:
| Quote: | Charles Riggs wrote on 19 Mar 2005:
An article in http://www.emigrant.ie/ , a highly entertaining
site, discussed the difficulty of finding certain items in Ireland
that are readily obtainable in the US. Since one of the secondary
purposes of AUE is to discuss food, the following snippet listing
what one traveller brought back may be germane. I wonder how
difficult it is to find these items in the UK.
Here's a fairly comprehensive list of what she got, and I've
accompanied this column with a photo for added proof, lest you
have any doubts. In no specific order, she brought home (to
Ireland): Levolor light filtering, custom sized window shades;
(New!) Nestl? Toll House candy bars; Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy;
Hormel Pepperoni; Keebler Rainbow Chips Deluxe; Nyquil; Kellogg's
Pop-tarts (brown sugar, cinnamon); Nestl?hot cocoa mix; Ray's New
York Bagels (plain, onion, cinnamon/raisin); Smucker's jelly
beans; Mennen Speed Stick anti-perspirant; black jeans; Pillsbury
Brownie Mix; assorted Betty Crocker Chocolate Chip Cookie mixes
and Brownie mixes; Hershey's Mini Robin Eggs; assorted Betty
Crocker Bisquick Complete mixes; Nestl? Coffee-Mate (French
Vanilla); medium white plain corn meal; Chef Boyardee Cheese Pizza
mix and (New!) Deep Dish Meals mix; and, last but not least, a
Safety Gate Hook & Eye.
Jeez. The only thing I'd want on that list might be Ray's New York
bagels, assuming that they're actually made and sold fresh in New
York
instead of made in some factory in Kansas, frozen, and then shipped
around the USA with a misleading label. Corn meal might be another.
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Given the tenor of her list, was she entirely wise to include jeans?
You can have window-blinds made to measure in UK, of course; the
favourite (and excellent) American jelly beans here come from "Jelly
Belly"; but not every supermarket will have different grades of
corn-meal. Most of the other stuff should have been seized by Customs
and destroyed on public health grounds.
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Mike.
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Richard Chambers
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:45 pm
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Charles Riggs wrote
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An article in http://www.emigrant.ie/ , a highly entertaining site,
discussed the difficulty of finding certain items in Ireland that are
readily obtainable in the US. Since one of the secondary purposes of
AUE is to discuss food, the following snippet listing what one
traveller brought back may be germane. I wonder how difficult it is to
find these items in the UK.
Here's a fairly comprehensive list of what she got, and I've
accompanied this column with a photo for added proof, lest you have
any doubts. In no specific order, she brought home (to Ireland):
Levolor light filtering, custom sized window shades; (New!) Nestlé
Toll House candy bars; Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy; Hormel Pepperoni;
Keebler Rainbow Chips Deluxe; Nyquil; Kellogg's Pop-tarts (brown
sugar, cinnamon); Nestlé hot cocoa mix; Ray's New York Bagels (plain,
onion, cinnamon/raisin); Smucker's jelly beans; Mennen Speed Stick
anti-perspirant; black jeans; Pillsbury Brownie Mix; assorted Betty
Crocker Chocolate Chip Cookie mixes and Brownie mixes; Hershey's Mini
Robin Eggs; assorted Betty Crocker Bisquick Complete mixes; Nestlé
Coffee-Mate (French Vanilla); medium white plain corn meal; Chef
Boyardee Cheese Pizza mix and (New!) Deep Dish Meals mix; and, last
but not least, a Safety Gate Hook & Eye.
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Kelloggs do some sort of cinnamon flavoured breakfast cereal, but I have
never been sufficiently interested to investigate further. There is a
plentiful choice of chocolate chip cookies, many of them of excellent
quality, but I do not remember Betty Crocker's as one of them. No difficulty
finding cocoa mix in UK, but we call it cocoa powder. Made by Nestlé, too.
Pepperoni is available, but not in the make specified. Sainsbury's offers
cinnamon and raisin (and cheese and onion) muffins, which I can recommend as
an occasional treat, toasted and spread with butter. I do not know whether
this product is the same thing as the American "bagel". Other types of
bagel are easily available specifically in Leeds, but perhaps not in most
other towns, mainly to serve the city's substantial Jewish population. I
have discovered that Jewish bread offers added variety from the normal
English bread, so I occasionally buy bagels myself.
I wear black jeans most of the time. Levi, Lee Cooper, Lee, and a host of
other makes (including supermarket brands and Marks and Spencer) are all
easily available in black. My preferred make is Lee, in the Brooklyn or
Kansas style. Specially taking black jeans with you to Ireland must be like
taking coals to Newcastle. At least one of the pairs I have bought in
England in recent years had a "Made in Ireland" label. My current pair,
however, was made in Malta.
The rest of the items on your list I do not recognise at all.
Richard Chambers Leeds UK. |
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Sara Lorimer
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 11:03 pm
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CyberCypher wrote, in part:
| Quote: | Charles Riggs wrote on 19 Mar 2005:
An article in http://www.emigrant.ie/ , a highly entertaining
site, discussed the difficulty of finding certain items in Ireland
that are readily obtainable in the US. Since one of the secondary
purposes of AUE is to discuss food, the following snippet listing
what one traveller brought back may be germane. I wonder how
difficult it is to find these items in the UK.
Here's a fairly comprehensive list of what she got, and I've
accompanied this column with a photo for added proof, lest you
have any doubts. In no specific order, she brought home (to
Ireland): Levolor light filtering, custom sized window shades;
(New!) Nestl? Toll House candy bars; Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy;
Hormel Pepperoni; Keebler Rainbow Chips Deluxe; Nyquil; Kellogg's
Pop-tarts (brown sugar, cinnamon); Nestl?hot cocoa mix; Ray's New
York Bagels (plain, onion, cinnamon/raisin); Smucker's jelly
beans; Mennen Speed Stick anti-perspirant; black jeans; Pillsbury
Brownie Mix; assorted Betty Crocker Chocolate Chip Cookie mixes
and Brownie mixes; Hershey's Mini Robin Eggs; assorted Betty
Crocker Bisquick Complete mixes; Nestl? Coffee-Mate (French
Vanilla); medium white plain corn meal; Chef Boyardee Cheese Pizza
mix and (New!) Deep Dish Meals mix; and, last but not least, a
Safety Gate Hook & Eye.
Jeez. The only thing I'd want on that list might be Ray's New York
bagels, assuming that they're actually made and sold fresh in New York
instead of made in some factory in Kansas, frozen, and then shipped
around the USA with a misleading label.
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If she can take one package of Chips Ahoy out of the country, why can't
she take them all?
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SML |
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The Grammer Genious
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 11:30 pm
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Charles Riggs wrote:
| Quote: | An article in http://www.emigrant.ie/ , a highly entertaining site,
discussed the difficulty of finding certain items in Ireland that are
readily obtainable in the US. Since one of the secondary purposes of
AUE is to discuss food, the following snippet listing what one
traveller brought back may be germane. <...
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I wonder if they would still want them if they
WERE readily available. When we lived in Spain, I
would always ask visitors from the states to bring
some of those big fat crunchy sourdough pretzels.
Then the pretzels showed up on the shelves at the
local Supersol and I didn't want them anymore.
\\P. Schultz |
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the Omrud
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| Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:03 am
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Richard Chambers had it:
| Quote: | Charles Riggs wrote
An article in http://www.emigrant.ie/ , a highly entertaining site,
discussed the difficulty of finding certain items in Ireland that are
readily obtainable in the US. Since one of the secondary purposes of
AUE is to discuss food, the following snippet listing what one
traveller brought back may be germane. I wonder how difficult it is to
find these items in the UK.
Here's a fairly comprehensive list of what she got, and I've
accompanied this column with a photo for added proof, lest you have
any doubts. In no specific order, she brought home (to Ireland):
Levolor light filtering, custom sized window shades; (New!) Nestlé
Toll House candy bars; Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy; Hormel Pepperoni;
Keebler Rainbow Chips Deluxe; Nyquil; Kellogg's Pop-tarts (brown
sugar, cinnamon); Nestlé hot cocoa mix; Ray's New York Bagels (plain,
onion, cinnamon/raisin); Smucker's jelly beans; Mennen Speed Stick
anti-perspirant; black jeans; Pillsbury Brownie Mix; assorted Betty
Crocker Chocolate Chip Cookie mixes and Brownie mixes; Hershey's Mini
Robin Eggs; assorted Betty Crocker Bisquick Complete mixes; Nestlé
Coffee-Mate (French Vanilla); medium white plain corn meal; Chef
Boyardee Cheese Pizza mix and (New!) Deep Dish Meals mix; and, last
but not least, a Safety Gate Hook & Eye.
Kelloggs do some sort of cinnamon flavoured breakfast cereal, but I have
never been sufficiently interested to investigate further. There is a
plentiful choice of chocolate chip cookies, many of them of excellent
quality, but I do not remember Betty Crocker's as one of them. No difficulty
finding cocoa mix in UK, but we call it cocoa powder. Made by Nestlé, too.
Pepperoni is available, but not in the make specified. Sainsbury's offers
cinnamon and raisin (and cheese and onion) muffins, which I can recommend as
an occasional treat, toasted and spread with butter. I do not know whether
this product is the same thing as the American "bagel". Other types of
bagel are easily available specifically in Leeds, but perhaps not in most
other towns, mainly to serve the city's substantial Jewish population. I
have discovered that Jewish bread offers added variety from the normal
English bread, so I occasionally buy bagels myself.
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Sainsbury's bagels are very nice, but more like bagel-shaped bread
than "real" bagels - they are nowhere near dense enough. We get
excellent bagels in bulk from Costco; I've never been but I
understand that there is a famous bagel baker in north Manchester
(another area with a significant number of Jewish residents).
I've mentioned before that I have a minor addiction to Tootsie Roll,
which are unknown in Europe, so I always bring some home from US
visits.
| Quote: | I wear black jeans most of the time. Levi, Lee Cooper, Lee, and a host of
other makes (including supermarket brands and Marks and Spencer) are all
easily available in black. My preferred make is Lee, in the Brooklyn or
Kansas style. Specially taking black jeans with you to Ireland must be like
taking coals to Newcastle. At least one of the pairs I have bought in
England in recent years had a "Made in Ireland" label. My current pair,
however, was made in Malta.
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I also prefer black denim jeans - I am currently wearing a pair which
cost £4, but I can't remember where I got them. Matalan? Tescos?
Asda? They have absolutely no branding on them, inside or out.
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David
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The Grammer Genious
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| Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:27 am
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the Omrud wrote:
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I've mentioned before that I have a minor addiction to Tootsie Roll,
which are unknown in Europe, so I always bring some home from US
visits.
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Does that mean that Europeans live lives without
any Tootsie Roll Pops? They never have the
experience of sucking on the bright, hard cherry,
or orange, or chocolate candy coating until it is
so thin that you can bite down and crunch it, and
mix the sweet flavor of the crystalline candy with
the warm and chewy Tootsie Roll inside?
No wonder they're so crabby.
\\P. Schultz |
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Father Ignatius
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| Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:39 am
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"The Grammer Genious" <schultzp@erols.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | WERE readily available. When we lived in Spain, I
would always ask visitors from the states to bring
some of those big fat crunchy sourdough pretzels.
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I'm not getting these pretzel references. Around here, pretzels are
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don groves
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| Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:07 am
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In article <3sKdnUDOmbCl76HfRVn-uw@is.co.za>, Father Ignatius at
FatherIgnatius@ANTISPAMananzi.co.za hath writ:
| Quote: | "The Grammer Genious" <schultzp@erols.com> wrote in message
news:osY_d.7820$jt6.4168@trndny07...
WERE readily available. When we lived in Spain, I
would always ask visitors from the states to bring
some of those big fat crunchy sourdough pretzels.
I'm not getting these pretzel references. Around here, pretzels are
famous for going stale within hours of being baked.
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Not enough preservatives! Here in the US our baked goods have so
many preservatives, embalmers are being put out of business.
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the Omrud
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| Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:25 am
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The Grammer Genious had it:
| Quote: | the Omrud wrote:
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I've mentioned before that I have a minor addiction to Tootsie Roll,
which are unknown in Europe, so I always bring some home from US
visits.
Does that mean that Europeans live lives without
any Tootsie Roll Pops? They never have the
experience of sucking on the bright, hard cherry,
or orange, or chocolate candy coating until it is
so thin that you can bite down and crunch it, and
mix the sweet flavor of the crystalline candy with
the warm and chewy Tootsie Roll inside?
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Yes. Other than me (but I'm more partial to the native Roll).
| Quote: | No wonder they're so crabby.
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No wonder. I, OTOH, am a paragon of sweetness and placitude.
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The Grammer Genious
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| Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:36 am
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don groves wrote:
| Quote: | Father Ignatius hath writ:
I'm not getting these pretzel references. Around here, pretzels are
famous for going stale within hours of being baked.
Not enough preservatives! Here in the US our baked goods have so
many preservatives, embalmers are being put out of business.
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I have noticed that the Thomas's English Muffins
that I buy down at the SuperFresh are perfectly
good after two and a half weeks up on top of the
fridge. There is a moistness, like dew, on them,
but other than that they're fine.
I bet that's the least English thing about them.
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Father Ignatius
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| Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:42 am
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"don groves" <dgroves@domain.net (see sig for domain)> wrote in message
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| Quote: | In article <3sKdnUDOmbCl76HfRVn-uw@is.co.za>, Father Ignatius at
FatherIgnatius@ANTISPAMananzi.co.za hath writ:
I'm not getting these pretzel references. Around here, pretzels are
famous for going stale within hours of being baked.
Not enough preservatives! Here in the US our baked goods have so
many preservatives, embalmers are being put out of business.
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ObFood: what would one put in bread products to retard staling? |
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Sara Lorimer
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| Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:44 am
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Father Ignatius <FatherIgnatius@ANTISPAMananzi.co.za> wrote:
| Quote: | "The Grammer Genious" <schultzp@erols.com> wrote in message
news:osY_d.7820$jt6.4168@trndny07...
WERE readily available. When we lived in Spain, I
would always ask visitors from the states to bring
some of those big fat crunchy sourdough pretzels.
I'm not getting these pretzel references. Around here, pretzels are
famous for going stale within hours of being baked.
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There are at least two kinds of pretzels. Large, fresh ones go stale
quickly, but there are smaller, more cracker-like ones that keep
forever.
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Areff
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| Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:13 am
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Richard Chambers wrote:
| Quote: | Charles Riggs wrote
An article in http://www.emigrant.ie/ , a highly entertaining site,
discussed the difficulty of finding certain items in Ireland that are
readily obtainable in the US. Since one of the secondary purposes of
AUE is to discuss food, the following snippet listing what one
traveller brought back may be germane. I wonder how difficult it is to
find these items in the UK.
Here's a fairly comprehensive list of what she got, and I've
accompanied this column with a photo for added proof, lest you have
any doubts. In no specific order, she brought home (to Ireland):
Levolor light filtering, custom sized window shades; (New!) Nestlé
Toll House candy bars; Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy; Hormel Pepperoni;
Keebler Rainbow Chips Deluxe; Nyquil; Kellogg's Pop-tarts (brown
sugar, cinnamon);
Kelloggs do some sort of cinnamon flavoured breakfast cereal, but I have
never been sufficiently interested to investigate further.
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Pop-Tarts aren't a breakfast cereal. They're what Ray Wise would call
"toaster pastries". Post-Suez invention, I believe; nasty stuff. Stick
with traditional BrE cuisine like toasted white bread with butter and
marmalade deep fried in lard.
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