# Regional foods you miss and where to find them **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 7, 2004, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745 "2004-04-07T14:26:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![carimwc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@carimwc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carimwc)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/81 "2004-04-11T00:12:57Z")
> [@rostfrei](#): > > From Germany, I miss the following: > > Orange Fanta. Sure, we get orange Fanta here in Virginia, but it’s not the same thing. The German Fanta has orange pulp. > > Milka Chocolate. There are better chocolate bars, but this has always been my favorite. Target stores used to sell Milka, but I guess they didn’t catch on. > > Eric Oh I miss my Orange Fanta from France. I lived on that stuff. I’ve heard that the Italian Store in Arlington has the real stuff, but I can’t be sure. It’s worth a trip out to it though. I miss my Milka too but you can sometimes find it as Cost Plus World Market. I miss the great, wonderful, cheap, doner kebabs that were on every street corner in Germany. Yum! What I really miss is Haribo gummis. The Gold Bears are my favorite but I like all of the others too. The bears are hard to find. The convenience store in my building sells them but I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay $1.75 for that small bag every time. ---
**Author:** ![Maple\_Leaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Maple\_Leaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maple_Leaf)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/82 "2004-04-11T00:43:01Z")
Amazing… I was going to post something similar myself but someone has saved me the trouble. 🙂 As an ex-pat brit living in Canada I have friends and family send me regular food parcels of :- Marmite Galaxy chocolate (vastly superior to Cadbury’s) Polos Lemon BonBons Walking down the street the other day I had this overwhelming urge for “Parma Violets”. Can anyone in the UK tell me if these are still available? If so I will add them to my next shopping list:) ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/83 "2004-04-11T04:09:53Z")
> [@fruitbat](#): > > I am also jealous of the Aussies (and I presume the Kiwis) for their acess to the **Violet Crumble** , the best candy bar ever made. My sister loves them so much she imports by the case, and that is the only time I get to have one. If you have access to a CostPlus World Market, you can get **Violet Crumbles** there. My brother got me about 20 for Christmas. Best. Candybar. Ever. I miss **Maid-rites**. Also known, I 've heard, as loose-meat sandwiches. Maid-rite restaurants are an Illinois/Iowa delight. Everytime I visit my parents I insist that we go there. Loose meat and onions and pickle and mustand. Hell yeah. Also, **Mrs. Fisher’s** potato chips. A northern-Illinois thing. So good, although kinda wet and fishy by potato chip standards. And milkshakes from **Beef-A-Roo**. Mmmm… ZJ ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/84 "2004-04-11T06:39:46Z")
From southern New Mexico, I miss _Las Cruces_ brand tortilla chips. They taste EXACTLY like the corn chips that would be served in that area’s restaurants, and I’ve never been able to find another brand of store-bought chips that comes close to matching the worst restaurant chips. Buffalo, [America’s capital of regional food](https://www.buffalofoods.com/home.htm) … others long for good wings, beef-on-weck, sponge candy, charcoal-broiled hot dogs, loganberry pop, Weber’s mustard, or any of the plethora of local sausage brands. Me, I miss Buffalo-style pizza. There are some Buffalo-area pizzerias that ship their goodies cross-country, for those homesick enough to drop the bucks to have some Bocce Club or La Nova delivered. Supposedly, there’s a bunch of restaurants in Charlotte, North Carolina that specialize in Buffalo-style food, catering to the hundreds of thousands of expats living there. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/85 "2004-04-11T17:03:05Z")
My local Target still carries Milka chocolate bars. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/86 "2004-04-11T17:08:32Z")
**Underwood Roast Beef** spread. Decent **Soft shell crabs**. They gotta be good, the bad ones are real nasty. **blueberry hot pepper soda**. Had it once, from the “Everything’s a dollar” grocery store. Never found it again. Gosh, it was good. **Gibbsville 5 year old cheddar cheese**. 'nuf said. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/87 "2004-04-11T17:28:29Z")
'Nuther Upstate New Yorker here (I just call it ‘the Canadian side of New York City’). I miss Hinerwadel’s Salt Potatoes Binghamton Spiedies Beak & Skiff Cider Cornell University Cider Marble Farms Ice Cream Although I have found a place in Santee (SC? somewhere on I-95) - Smith’s Chevron that produces several different types of homemade cider: muscadine is my favorite, but hooweee!, the Scuppernong that I found in the back of the fridge has DEFINITELY taken a turn. For the better, by the way. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745.md?page=4)