# Expat dopers: what do you miss most? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 25, 2002, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expat-dopers-what-do-you-miss-most/138624 "2002-11-25T08:51:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Burnt\_Sugar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@Burnt\_Sugar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burnt_Sugar)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expat-dopers-what-do-you-miss-most/138624/41 "2002-11-27T12:57:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Inky- \* > \*\*…\Here in Australia \… > > Cheeseburgers. Oh sure, they have 'em, but they’re not quite the same animal here (they have pouches). \*\* 😕 Are you joking? Have I been wooshed? Every single cheeseburger I’ve eaten has been a minced beef burger! > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Inky- \* > \*\*Don’t even get me started on the wrong-headedness of _lamb_burgers. \*\* I’ve never been sold a lamb burger either. I made lamb kebabs once though… We rarely have minced lamb, it’s usually either chops or roast. ---
**Author:** ![Washte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Washte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washte)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expat-dopers-what-do-you-miss-most/138624/42 "2002-11-27T17:52:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Melandry \* > \*\*…snip… My mom apparently found some tinned pumpkin at the store there, but it was £10! \*\* 10 quid!! I’d have to be bloody desperate for that. You can buy a huge tin of Libby for less than a pound… ☹ Being a clever clogs I bought a pumpkin last year, cooked it down and had huge plans for pumpkin muffins, pie, soup… all sorts. But guess what? It’s still in the back of the freezer… Not sure about the importing of tinned pumpkin. Don’t think it would be a problem cos it’s not fresh, or seeds. But don’t quote me on that. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expat-dopers-what-do-you-miss-most/138624/43 "2002-11-28T07:29:30Z")
For those who need their junk food and jerky fix, try [Cybercandy](http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/aaasmt/) ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expat-dopers-what-do-you-miss-most/138624/44 "2002-11-28T08:55:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Narrad \* > **Where abouts in Aus are you, Inky? I don’t think I’ve even heard of a lambburger before.** I’m in Melbourne, Caulfield to be specific (anybody know a good Mexican restaraunt?). Granted, all the lambburgers I had were in well out-of-the-way places. Towns where you don’t so much remember the name of the town as much as the giant concrete lobster by the side of the highway. And yes Blue Curls, I was just joshing about the hamburgers. Sill, they just aren’t quite the same as at home. ---
**Author:** ![odd-socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@odd-socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/odd-socks)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expat-dopers-what-do-you-miss-most/138624/45 "2002-11-28T10:17:47Z")
Not just for brits abroad 😉 [http://www.ex-pat.co.uk/ex7a.shtml](http://www.ex-pat.co.uk/ex7a.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expat-dopers-what-do-you-miss-most/138624/46 "2002-11-28T11:35:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mort Furd \* > \*\*There’s a pretty good one down on the Rhein river in Biebrich by Wiesbaden, too. I just don’t often get a chance to go there. \*\* Aaah, that would be the ‘Hacienda’ which in my opinion is the best Mexican restaurant in all of Germany. (And beleive me, I think I’ve tried almost all of them.) The only other ones that come close are the ‘Hacienda’ in Darmstadt (Heidelbergerstr. 23), and ‘Sausalitos’ in Bielefeld (Obernstrasse 53-55). Yummmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Mort\_Furd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mort\_Furd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mort_Furd)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expat-dopers-what-do-you-miss-most/138624/47 "2002-11-28T12:33:48Z")
Yeah. The Hacienda is great. What tickles me about the place is that it is run by a couple of italian guys (one of which cooks,) and that most of the waiter staff are dark skinned folks from different countries. The italian fellows try awful hard to make it look like they’ve got mexicans working there. ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expat-dopers-what-do-you-miss-most/138624/48 "2002-11-28T12:44:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mort Furd \* > \*\*The italian fellows try awful hard to make it look like they’ve got mexicans working there. \*\* Yeah, my wife once tried speaking spanish with the waitstaff there. The response was … huuuh? But the food is great. Oh, and Sausalitos has real frozen margaritas!!! None of that watery, salt on the rim crap either. And the obligatory spelling mistake in my post is of course ‘believe’. To this day I still picture Charlie Brown preparing for the big spelling bee: “I before E except after C… I before E except after C…” ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expat-dopers-what-do-you-miss-most/138624/49 "2002-11-28T13:13:45Z")
You don’t have to be an expat to miss Mexican. Having moved from Colorado to a teeeny tiny town in Michigan, I miss good Mexican horribly. They have a Mexican restaurant here, but it’s more like a restaurant that serves stuff in tortillas than anything Mexican. You want spicy? Forget it. Noone has even heard of green chili (I know that’s more of a New Mexico thing, but still…), or roasting peppers. Nobody in my family has ever had a tamale except me. Things are looking better, though. I found corn husks and chipotles in adobo at the grocery store, along with several other of my favorite lil mini-cans of Mexican sauces. And it’s real stuff, the same imported-from-Mexico brand I got in Colorado. The tortillas are made in Minnesota, but it’s hard to screw up flour tortillas. I’ve been making Mexican food to eat at home 2-3 times a week to satisfy our cravings. I tried to make a big pot of Mexican pork to put in tortillas last night, but my family swooped in and ate almost all of it. They liked it! There’s hope up here! ---
**Author:** ![Mort\_Furd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mort\_Furd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mort_Furd)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expat-dopers-what-do-you-miss-most/138624/50 "2002-11-28T13:16:16Z")
English is your best bet in there. They all speak german, of course, but quite a few of them speak english quite well. One of the fellows was a patient in the doctor’s office where Mrs. Furd worked, and it seems he is from India and got to Germany by way of England. Damn. Talking about the place has got me dreaming of enchiladas. I’m going to have to see about arranging a parent’s night out this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Mort\_Furd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mort\_Furd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mort_Furd)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expat-dopers-what-do-you-miss-most/138624/51 "2002-11-28T13:23:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Athena \* > \*\*The tortillas are made in Minnesota, but it’s hard to screw up flour tortillas. \*\* You’d be surprised. Once in a great while, I find some packaged ones here. I’ve learned not buy them, though. They always taste sweet and smell like vinegar. I’m guessing that it has to do with preserving them for shipment from the US, but I don’t really know. I just know that I am not eating sweet tortillas. Nothing at all wrong with sopapillas, but tortillas that I’m using in a burrito or an enchilada had better no have even come in contact with sweet stuff. We’ve found that tortillas made with shortening are easier to make (you can roll them thin easier and they hold up better when done) but that they taste better when made with lard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expat-dopers-what-do-you-miss-most/138624.md?page=2)