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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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So, I'm heading back home to NYC later this week and I was thinking of what foods I would like to eat while I'm there - all the unhealthy stuff that I really miss. I'm going to have home fries, cheese, and eggs on a rolls for breakfast every morning and apple pie with caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream for dessert.
But then I thought of what foods from the UK I could have my family try, like a full English breakfast and my latest experiment of a chip butty (although I'm still deciding on what sauce, if any, to put on the butty for them).
Anyway, it got me thinking...what foods do you all like from the US (I'm taking orders  ) and what foods do you think I should have my American friends and family try from the UK?
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"So, I'm heading back home to NYC later this week and I was thinking of what foods I would like to eat while I'm there - all the unhealthy stuff that I really miss. I'm going to have home fries, cheese, and eggs on a rolls for breakfast every morning and apple pie with caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream for dessert.
But then I thought of what foods from the UK I could have my family try, like a full English breakfast and my latest experiment of a chip butty (although I'm still deciding on what sauce, if any, to put on the butty for them).
Anyway, it got me thinking...what foods do you all like from the US (I'm taking orders ) and what foods do you think I should have my American friends and family try from the UK?
-Courtney"
Oooh I'll have one of those two foot across perperami pizzas the cops always fold in half, a corn dog, and a hot pastrami on rye with dill and mayo!!   |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Funnel cake
Burritos
American pancakes with syrup"
Funnel cake! I haven't had that since I was a kid. I used to always get it with strawberries and vanilla ice cream when I when to amusement parks.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Funnel cake
Burritos
American pancakes with syrup
Funnel cake! I haven't had that since I was a kid. I used to always get it with strawberries and vanilla ice cream when I when to amusement parks. "
I've only had it once, in one of the Disney parks. It was bloody lovely  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When I lived abroad there was only a few things that I missed so I used to stock up on whenever I was back in old blighty. The said goods were (in order of importance)
1. Tea
2. Colmans English Mustard
3. Branston pickle
4. Tinned steam puddings
5. Marmite
Johnny Europe had little or no understanding of these food items. The poor fools!
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Cornish pasties, although you'll have to stop off in cornwall to get a proper one!.
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Toad in the hole, there's a good double entendre food! "
I wish I could bring them back some pasties. I love them and I think they would go over well! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I know you have baked beans (obvs!) but do Americans have them on buttered white toast, dash of Worcestershire Sauce washed down with a cuppa "
I don't even know what my family would think of me if I suggested having bakes beans on buttered toast with tea  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mustard - Colemans, not that pish you yanks call mustard!
Bacon - proper back bacon, smoked. Not the excuse that makes streaky look meaty.
Mature cheddar cheese.
HP sauce - the ONLY acceptable topping for brekkies.
Sausages- Cumberland.
Could go on.
Bring back? Nada. My pancakes are without peers  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'll have a cheese steak, a hot dog from a hot dog cart, waffles and fried chicken, another hot dog from a baseball game, and what the fuck are grits? Who cares I'll have ago at them too.
You can take back with you these little gems
Custard creams
Spotted dick
Black pudding
Faggots
Whatsits to compare with chetos
A balti
Sausage egg and chips
And can you please take pics of people who you tell that there is a place in England called The Black Country, where they eat faggots  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'll have a cheese steak, a hot dog from a hot dog cart, waffles and fried chicken, another hot dog from a baseball game, and what the fuck are grits? Who cares I'll have ago at them too.
You can take back with you these little gems
Custard creams
Spotted dick
Black pudding
Faggots
Whatsits to compare with chetos
A balti
Sausage egg and chips
And can you please take pics of people who you tell that there is a place in England called The Black Country, where they eat faggots "
Grits - a savoury breakfast dish. Boiled maized, porridge like. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'll have a cheese steak, a hot dog from a hot dog cart, waffles and fried chicken, another hot dog from a baseball game, and what the fuck are grits? Who cares I'll have ago at them too.
You can take back with you these little gems
Custard creams
Spotted dick
Black pudding
Faggots
Whatsits to compare with chetos
A balti
Sausage egg and chips
And can you please take pics of people who you tell that there is a place in England called The Black Country, where they eat faggots
Grits - a savoury breakfast dish. Boiled maized, porridge like."
Yeah I'll give it a go |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'll have a cheese steak, a hot dog from a hot dog cart, waffles and fried chicken, another hot dog from a baseball game, and what the fuck are grits? Who cares I'll have ago at them too.
You can take back with you these little gems
Custard creams
Spotted dick
Black pudding
Faggots
Whatsits to compare with chetos
A balti
Sausage egg and chips
And can you please take pics of people who you tell that there is a place in England called The Black Country, where they eat faggots
Grits - a savoury breakfast dish. Boiled maized, porridge like.
Yeah I'll give it a go "
Try it, seen it served with crispy bacon & scrambled eggs.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'll have a cheese steak, a hot dog from a hot dog cart, waffles and fried chicken, another hot dog from a baseball game, and what the fuck are grits? Who cares I'll have ago at them too.
You can take back with you these little gems
Custard creams
Spotted dick
Black pudding
Faggots
Whatsits to compare with chetos
A balti
Sausage egg and chips
And can you please take pics of people who you tell that there is a place in England called The Black Country, where they eat faggots
Grits - a savoury breakfast dish. Boiled maized, porridge like.
Yeah I'll give it a go "
They're horrible. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Cornish pasties, although you'll have to stop off in cornwall to get a proper one!.
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Toad in the hole, there's a good double entendre food!
I wish I could bring them back some pasties. I love them and I think they would go over well!"
.What's not to like I mean there food of the gods..
I hear on the grapevine that real beer is taking off on the east coast... I'm sorry about that |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Your family should try lorne sausage, haggis & clootie pudding with a wee dram......"
I would love for my family to try that. I  veggie haggis myself. But you can't really get it in the US, parts of it are illegal there. |
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"Your family should try lorne sausage, haggis & clootie pudding with a wee dram......
I would love for my family to try that. I veggie haggis myself. But you can't really get it in the US, parts of it are illegal there. "
Really???? I never would have expected that!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Your family should try lorne sausage, haggis & clootie pudding with a wee dram......"
Mmm and other Scottish delicacies such as the deep-fried mars bar, irn-bru and buckfast  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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When i was in new york i enjoyed the hotdogs and banter with the sellers.. Mustard was better than the colman.s here. Nearly mugged and arrested there too all before 6am ffs lol.. Anyway .. Not sure if you could use generic ingredients to make some foods over here? But.. Spotted dick with custard, cornish pastie, yorkshire tea, pork pie .. Melton Mowbray style.. but i would check what your allowed to take home first. |
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"Your family should try lorne sausage, haggis & clootie pudding with a wee dram......
Mmm and other Scottish delicacies such as the deep-fried mars bar, irn-bru and buckfast "
Buckfast I believe comes from the monks at Buckfastleigh in South Devon. I have a bottle in my collection unopened. They changed the formula for the stuff they sell after the Scots gave it a bad name!!
I am currently drinking Irn Bru though.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"When i was in new york i enjoyed the hotdogs and banter with the sellers.. Mustard was better than the colman.s here. Nearly mugged and arrested there too all before 6am ffs lol.. Anyway .. Not sure if you could use generic ingredients to make some foods over here? But.. Spotted dick with custard, cornish pastie, yorkshire tea, pork pie .. Melton Mowbray style.. but i would check what your allowed to take home first."
US might be funny about pork products, having once been confiscated. Super gutted, was going to eat it all on the spot.. Grrr |
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By *isa 59Woman
over a year ago
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I've never been to America so there isn't anything that I would ask for but as for things that you could take over there...what about some traditional sweets (confectionary) like Everton mints, cough sweets, cherry lips etc
or you could make them some Yorkshire puddings and have a nice roast beef dinner with thick gravy to go with the mustard that others have suggested? |
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"Your family should try lorne sausage, haggis & clootie pudding with a wee dram......
I would love for my family to try that. I veggie haggis myself. But you can't really get it in the US, parts of it are illegal there. "
Veggie haggis is oats and lentils I think, can't imagine what bits are illegal unless it's non veggie haggis? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I've never been to America so there isn't anything that I would ask for but as for things that you could take over there...what about some traditional sweets (confectionary) like Everton mints, cough sweets, cherry lips etc
or you could make them some Yorkshire puddings and have a nice roast beef dinner with thick gravy to go with the mustard that others have suggested?"
Yeah, I can't cook a roast but I'm gunna brig them some English mustard because its so good. And some candy. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Your family should try lorne sausage, haggis & clootie pudding with a wee dram......
I would love for my family to try that. I veggie haggis myself. But you can't really get it in the US, parts of it are illegal there.
Veggie haggis is oats and lentils I think, can't imagine what bits are illegal unless it's non veggie haggis?"
Sorry, no, I meant the real haggis is illegal. Part of the sheep isn't allowed in food products - the lung I think? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I've never been to America so there isn't anything that I would ask for but as for things that you could take over there...what about some traditional sweets (confectionary) like Everton mints, cough sweets, cherry lips etc
or you could make them some Yorkshire puddings and have a nice roast beef dinner with thick gravy to go with the mustard that others have suggested?
Yeah, I can't cook a roast but I'm gunna brig them some English mustard because its so good. And some candy. "
not Colman.s is it? I think it's far too weak |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Pancakes with bacon n maple syrup......amazing!
Food for your family to try?...Haggis,neeps(turnip) n tatties. "
aye.. Neeps! (turnip) Can you take veg.? |
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"Pancakes with bacon n maple syrup......amazing!
Food for your family to try?...Haggis,neeps(turnip) n tatties. aye.. Neeps! (turnip) Can you take veg.? "
We have turnips in the US 
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"Pancakes with bacon n maple syrup......amazing!
Food for your family to try?...Haggis,neeps(turnip) n tatties. aye.. Neeps! (turnip) Can you take veg.?
We have turnips in the US
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Yes, but instead of eating them you vote them into the Republican party... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Pancakes with bacon n maple syrup......amazing!
Food for your family to try?...Haggis,neeps(turnip) n tatties. aye.. Neeps! (turnip) Can you take veg.?
We have turnips in the US
Yes, but instead of eating them you vote them into the Republican party... "
Touché |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Pancakes with bacon n maple syrup......amazing!
Food for your family to try?...Haggis,neeps(turnip) n tatties. "
Haggis is illegal in the USA. same as Irn Bru. Its a conspiracy.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Pancakes with bacon n maple syrup......amazing!
Food for your family to try?...Haggis,neeps(turnip) n tatties. aye.. Neeps! (turnip) Can you take veg.?
We have turnips in the US
Yes, but instead of eating them you vote them into the Republican party...
Touché "
Turnips are also brainwashed to vote |
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"Pancakes with bacon n maple syrup......amazing!
Food for your family to try?...Haggis,neeps(turnip) n tatties.
Haggis is illegal in the USA. same as Irn Bru. Its a conspiracy.."
Irn Bru illegal? So the yanks are civilised after all! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Pancakes with bacon n maple syrup......amazing!
Food for your family to try?...Haggis,neeps(turnip) n tatties.
Haggis is illegal in the USA. same as Irn Bru. Its a conspiracy.."
Fuck it,deep fried mars bar then....or peas pudding....or jellied eels! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Not food but I love root beer
Ooohhhh loved this when I worked at McDonalds!! "
I really miss it from Mcdonalds. When I went to nyc I drank bucketfuls of it |
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"Not food but I love root beer
Ooohhhh loved this when I worked at McDonalds!!
I really miss it from Mcdonalds. When I went to nyc I drank bucketfuls of it "
I paid £1.60 for a can from a sweet shop a few weeks ago  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Whatever you take home, you could find out a little history to tell them of it's origin.. I.e cornish pastie had the crust for miners to hold with their fingers being dirty etc.. |
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I'm seriously considering a trip back to New York sooner rather than later just to eat huevos rancheros every day with homefries. (And then have lunch every day in the beautiful Fika chain of coffee shops).
Seriously, what the fuck are homefries? They're like fucking crack. |
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"Just remembered.. Place in ny called Dunkin doughnuts. That was a great place.. Not sure he it's still there or the address. "
Dunkin Donuts is ace! I have coffee there every day when I'm home - it's down the block from my mom's place.
Did you know Dunkin Donuts has the most stores in NYC, even more than Starbucks or McDonald's? |
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"I'm seriously considering a trip back to New York sooner rather than later just to eat huevos rancheros every day with homefries. (And then have lunch every day in the beautiful Fika chain of coffee shops).
Seriously, what the fuck are homefries? They're like fucking crack."
I home fries. I have the absolute best recipe for them but there really is no beating the ones you get off the fryer at a diner. |
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By *anky_PankyWoman
over a year ago
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It's not the same, but I send my friend in Austria decent teabags, Sarsons vinegar, proper jam and HP Sauce (I do mean the brown variety, not Hanky Panky sauce!!)
I love anything Reeces or peanut butter based from America - so glad we can get them now and thank God for Costco - Skippy PB!
It's gold n crispy coating with Robertsons chicken spice from South Africa I want!! I can get the spice off Amazon, but not the coating (and it's AMAZING!!)  |
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By *anky_PankyWoman
over a year ago
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"I'm seriously considering a trip back to New York sooner rather than later just to eat huevos rancheros every day with homefries. (And then have lunch every day in the beautiful Fika chain of coffee shops).
Seriously, what the fuck are homefries? They're like fucking crack.
I home fries. I have the absolute best recipe for them but there really is no beating the ones you get off the fryer at a diner."
Oooh please share recipe! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm seriously considering a trip back to New York sooner rather than later just to eat huevos rancheros every day with homefries. (And then have lunch every day in the beautiful Fika chain of coffee shops).
Seriously, what the fuck are homefries? They're like fucking crack.
I home fries. I have the absolute best recipe for them but there really is no beating the ones you get off the fryer at a diner."
I tried making them at home, but they just kind of tasted English... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Just remembered.. Place in ny called Dunkin doughnuts. That was a great place.. Not sure he it's still there or the address.
Dunkin Donuts is ace! I have coffee there every day when I'm home - it's down the block from my mom's place.
Did you know Dunkin Donuts has the most stores in NYC, even more than Starbucks or McDonald's? "
oh right. No i didn't .. Not suprised though.. Food and drink was ace. |
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