Foods you miss?

[Blackpaw]

Im heading back to Aus in a few days, and ive been literally salivating over the thought of all the foods im going to eat that i cant get in Canada....

What are foods that you miss? could be from a place you used to live, or from your childhood, or foods you cant really eat anymore....

 

[Blackpaw]

I''ll start of course

From Australia the list is a mile long, but meat pies, vanilla slice, potato cakes, kebabs, and aussie cadbury chocolate are all up there!

From childhood i miss when you could go down to the milk bar (corner store? not sure if milk bar is a phrase outside of Australia) and buy 50cents worth of lollies. And you would pick every single lolly because they all cost one or two cents! And im pretty sure i felt i was rich with that 50cents.

The poor shopkeepers who had to deal with all us misbehaving children though

 

[yssie]

From my NZ/Australia days
mince pies
milkybar// (the white chocolate)
marmite & chip sandwiches (though we found it locally a few weeks ago - I was thrilled!). NOT vegemite.


From India
maggi noodles
fresh jhangri
guavas and custard apples


From England
fish n chips

 

[kenny]

From my time in The Philippines I miss jackfruit and starfruit.
I do not miss balut. (Google balut, if you dare.)

Iceland had scrumptious lamb hotdogs and the best richest vanilla ice cream in the world.

From the Azores, alcatra, sort of a Portuguese pot roast, and the wine many Azoreans made at home.

 

[Blackpaw]

oooh yes fruit, i forgot about that... i love starfruit and fresh coconut and mango...

and from italy, truffle cream pasta. Its doable here but it aint easy!

 

[Octavia]

From England:
bakewell tarts
really good curries
plain chocolate digestive biscuits
chips (so much better than most fries here)

From Turkey:
the dozen different kinds of baklava
breakfast rolls and simit
lebne (sort of like cream cheese but better)
visne suyu (sour cherry juice) and freshly squeezed pomegranite juice
su borek (almost like a lasagne, but with feta, parsley, and a ton of butter as the filling)

 

[whitby_2773]

Date: 3/4/2010 1:29:45 AM
Author: Blackpaw
I''ll start of course

From Australia the list is a mile long, but meat pies, vanilla slice, potato cakes, kebabs, and aussie cadbury chocolate are all up there!

From childhood i miss when you could go down to the milk bar (corner store? not sure if milk bar is a phrase outside of Australia) and buy 50cents worth of lollies. And you would pick every single lolly because they all cost one or two cents! And im pretty sure i felt i was rich with that 50cents.

The poor shopkeepers who had to deal with all us misbehaving children though

ditto on all of these. ditto on battered fish, too - and battered potato scallops.

add to this list lamb chops and double dipped tim tams.

and yes, mangoes. mangoesmangoesmangoes! yummmmmmm!

 

[Hudson_Hawk]

I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease when I was 21. I miss all things wheat. A good brioche, cookies, cake, and even just the convenience of walking into a store, grabbing a bottle of anything and not needing to scour the ingredients for gluten.

 

[dani2142]

From my childhood....

I miss cheetos paws! Those were soooooooooooooooo good!

 

[Callisto]

When I was younger, Pepsi came out with this limited market drink called Josta. I didn''t last long and was hard to find but I really liked it. Haven''t had that in about 10 years.

 

[Amethyste]

POUTINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[MissMina]

Milk from the milkman at our doorstep with the cream on top
And Cottage cheese in those shiny aluminum glasses
Cupcakes from the Omar Man
Hostess French Pastry
Delicious black cherry soda at the movies
7 Up candy bars
Jello 1-2-3
Home made tapioca pudding
Mom''s Christmas cookies

 

[MonkeyPie]

I miss the original Tang. It used to be way better when I was a kid, now it''s all weak and takes like half of a container to make the water taste Tang-y.

 

[lucyandroger]

From NY
Live in DC

I miss bagels, pizza, and good Chinese food! Oh and black and white cookies!!!

 

[gemgirl]

Foods I can''t eat anymore and miss-

Fresh Italian bread, bagels and challah bread. Anything with melted gooey mozzarella on it. Eggplant parm.
Ice cream and frozen yogurt. Mayo.

 

[Bella_mezzo]

from the town where I grew up: whole wheat honey apple cider donuts from the local apple orchard--no where else makes anything similar. they are nothing like the apple cider donuts they sell at famers mkts in NYC. My mom knows, and always gets a box for me to have waiting when i go home

 

[princesss]

From Thailand:
Fish! We used to eat at restaurants on stilts over the water and the fish were kept alive under the restaurant and killed fresh. YUM!
Pad Thai
Fruit - mangosteen, rambutan, lychee, fresh pineapple
Anything from Cabbages and Condoms, but especially their pork dip that you put on rice cakes
Mangoes and sticky rice
Grilled sticky rice with salt

From Singapore:
Can I just say everything?
Chicken Rice
Roti Prata w/ mutton curry
Char Siew Baos (and just Char Siew with rice)
Chili Crab
Black Pepper Crab
Kaya Toast
Yeah...I''m just going to say everything.
(I actually read an article in the New Yorker about how expatriated Singaporeans are the most culinarily homesick people in the world, and it seems true from my experience - I''ve never seen a Singaporean restaurant, and when I run into Singaporeans or people who have lived there, we spend hours talking about our favourite hawker stalls and the different foods we miss)

From Virginia:
Allman''s BBQ

 

[Dancing Fire]

you don''t wanna know,it would gross you out.

 

[PumpkinPie]

when I lived in Switzerland for a year, I missed peanut butter and maple syrup a lot! (I''m Canadian)

 

[dragonfly411]

This is a fun thread!

From Texas :
REAL fajitas
Huge steak and eggs that we got at this little hole in the wall diner in the middle of no where ranch land Texas
home made baked beans and home made potato hash from the dude ranch we stayed at

From California:

Really really good fresh seafood
fresh grapes
free ghiradelli chocolate at the factory
fresh baked bred that the hotel in Carmel left in a basket at our door
fresh wine at the vineyards (yes I did drink it at 12 lmao)

from UK:
fish and chips
shephard''s pie (had the BEST shephard''s pie at the White Lion pub in London)
good local brews
fresh cider


and because I''m eating really healthy now:
doughnuts
cookies
anything with powdered sugar

 

[princesss]

Date: 3/4/2010 11:02:37 AM
Author: Maevie
when I lived in Switzerland for a year, I missed peanut butter and maple syrup a lot! (I''m Canadian)

Oh man, when I was in Spain I bought the most over priced jar of peanut butter ever, and it was delicious. I can''t believe how much I missed that!

 

[galeteia]

From Canada:

Sushi

Smoked fish

Fresh Fish

Fish of any kind, really

Vegetables/Fresh produce

Things that don''t have HFCS

Congee and Dim Sum

Avocado Milkshakes and Viet/Thai food

Maple Syrup

Good Olives

Artisan Cheeses

Poutine

 

[Cehrabehra]

The one single thing I miss more than anything else from anywhere else is.... Sugar Free Tropical Squash in Ireland - it's a concentrate. I put maybe a teaspoon over ice and soda water and it's the best drink ever. I have a friend in Ireland - I wonder if he has a paypal account and will ship me a couple bottles to China - sounds expensive lol

eta: bummer - I can't get into the tesco website because I don't have my local irish info anymore - boo! I don't remember the name of it but it wasn't kia-ora and it wasn't the tesco brand... if someone knows the name of the other brand I'd love to know!

ETAETA! I'm such a dork - I searched for like 10 min or so and then remembered I probably (and did!) take a picture of the bottle! hehehe Brand is MiWadi! Dublin local stuffs - I love it.

 

[Cehrabehra]

DF you know you want some yummy sea cucumber!

 

[Vancity]

If you''re Canadian, and of a certain age, you may remember a cookie called "Chew Chews", made by Mr. Christie (slogan - Mr. Christie, you make good cookies).

They were a square cookie with a milk chocolate bottom, a light tasty wafer, topped with creamy caramel, and toasted coconut, and drizzled with more milk chocolate. YUMMMMMM!

I would give my left arm for one more package of that little delicacy! I even lobbied their CEO to start up production again…no go so far, but I''m working on it. For a psuedo-fix, you can go to the Real Canadian Superstore, and get their "Coconut Rings". They are somewhat similar in taste. I just gotta convince Galen Weston to change the biscuit part to a wafer, and we may have a winner

From my American friends, I would have to go with these delicious wafer cookies made by Nabisco. They may have been called "Sunshine Wafers" at the time? Between the flakey wafers, they had the most delicious white hard cream filling…and so THICK, too! I used to love prying them apart, and eating the little squares of cream individually. YUMMMMMMMM!

And this is to the folks at Brach''s/Welch''s - in your Neapolitan Candies, why in god''s name did you remove the caramel portion of the candy?! Stop cheaping out!!! You are depriving the kids of today!

 

[Mrs Mitchell]

From Helsinki, when DH worked there for a few months, I miss Fazer''s icecream sundaes. They are at their best eaten on a bitterly cold day, with a mug of hot chocolate. Amazing!

 

[Rachel9]

Too many from the places we lived/worked

All the Costa Rican & Argentinian asados [BBQ] they have the leanest, well fed beef in the world!
UK fish n' chips with vinegar please, TG digestives are avail here

Spanish Bacalao!
Eye poping Syrian mezze starters
Moroccan bisteeya pie [savory version]
Greek pastitsio from DH's grandmother
Russian yazyk [gross for some]
Portuguese caldeirada [simple shellfish stew]
My brother lives in NY going to Du Mont for burgers in Brooklyn is a must!
Over the years we had the best chinese food in Vancouver [mom & pop]
We also drive down to Rosarita beach for their flour tortillas and lobster...not kidding.

 

[IloveAsschers13]

Paprika Chips in the Netherlands- I know, bbq is like those, but the chips there were so much better! And to Irish people- should I say crisps?

In general, FRESH FOOD that I ate in Europe compared to here. Every meal was like a party in my mouth. Especially the goat cheese.

 

[Callisto]

Date: 3/4/2010 10:11:24 AM
Author: lucyandroger
From NY

Live in DC

I miss bagels, pizza, and good Chinese food! Oh and black and white cookies!!!

Oh good call. I miss pizza too!!! I''m from Chicago and now living in Texas. I have yet to find a pizza place that is even half as good as the pizza from home.

 

[NewEnglandLady]

I miss barbeque. All the time. When I go home, I eat it almost exclusively.