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.
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:)
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.
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 … 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.
'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.
