Shortbread! Very seasonal, and buttery and unhealthy, but good. 
Ah well you see we’re a Keiler’s family ourselves, so i’m not up with the world of gollies.
Hob-Nobs are biscuits for people who put sugar in tea. Nuff said.
Ignore her. Hob Nobs are great! (BTW… does chav = British white trash?)
FWIW, you may want to check your local stores- many of these things are available without going to a specialty store. You may want to concentrate on things you can’t get readily.
At my local Kroger(!) grocery store, I found the following on the international aisle:
[ul]
[li]Mc Vitie’s Hob Nobs- Milk chocolate and plain[/li][li]Mc Vitie’s Digestives- dark(plain) chocolate and no chocolate.[/li][li]Heinz Mushy peas[/li][li]Heinz Tomato soup[/li][li]Tayto crisps[/li][li]Bisto gravy[/li][li]Cadbury flake[/li][li]Daddies Sauce[/li][li]HP Sauce[/li][li]Colman’s mustard[/li][li]Some kind of malt vinegar (I don’t remember)[/li][li]Aero bars[/li][li]Turkish delight[/li][li]Ribena[/li][li]Lemon barley water[/li][li]Lucozade[/li][li]Idris Ginger beer[/li][li]Some kind of cake in a can[/li][li]Pears soap[/li][li]Robertson Lemon curd[/li][li]Branston pickle[/li][/ul]
There’s more, but this is all I can remember definitely. There’s even more at the local gourmet type stores (Whole Foods & HEB Central Market).
It’s a particular subsection: All you need to know about Chavs
“Her”? “Her”? Frisco must be as rough as a bear’s arse if a 6 foot, bald, fat man with a beard and a hairy chest (and many other hairy parts) can get taken for a bird! mentally crosses Frisco off potential holday spots
Hob-Nobs are too sweet. That’s why the common people like them.
I’d recommend the “cake in a can” if it’s the heinz sponge pudding range - spoted dick, chocolate sponge, treacle sponge etc. They really are excellent - but you do need some custard (the tinned stuff is pretty good).
Whoa. No offense, but all this time I thought you were a female, too. :eek:
Now I know for a fact that you’re a bint - so d’ya want me to show ya just how wrong ya are, my liddle chickadee?
For God’s sake the only things I normally post about are football and beer. What are the birds like where you come from? I shudder to think.
crosses Connecticut off list too
:eek:
adds the Paxton Rd End to her list of places to visit
“Oh my God.”
“What?”
“I’ve got a packet of f*cking Jaffa Cakes in my coat pocket!”
“Wuh-ayy!”
/Spaced
Whoops… I think I got you confused with one of the other posters actually. Other than the baldness and beard, you sound a lot like me!
In case you’re wondering, Frisco’s about 18 miles north of downtown Dallas- it’s one of the up and coming suburbs. Our girls are plenty good looking, but they fall into 2 categories: under 18 suburban girls, or stereotypical Dallas MILF types (big, blonde hair, fake boobs, trying to look 10-15 years younger than they are.)
I think the cake in a can was some kind of Heinz sponge cake, but I don’t recall what kind exactly.
I don’t find bournville to be very nice - way too sweet. Lindt 70% cocoa is much better.
Have you tried G&B ‘butterscotch twists’ yet? Absolutely amazing. It’s so nice it makes the little baby Jesus drool.
This thread reminds me of the time my sweet grandmother in law gave us a $100 gift certificate to IKEA for Christmas. We were less delighted when we realized it was for the food store.
Now I like to sample different foods from interesting cultures as much as the next gourmet, but eight years later I can’t stand to be within twenty feet of a Swedish meatball.
I rather liked their pastry-thingies with the cream & cloud berry filling. Cloud berries are yummy.
I’m not familiar with the character’s names, but “no but yeah but no but”
I swear, I just had a mental image of her in the swimming pool. I’ve only seen a couple of episodes, but I like it.
Also, I recomend sticky toffee pudding.
If you cook at all, making lemon curd is very simple:
http://thefoody.com/preserves/orangeorlemoncurd.html
Keeps for about a week in the fridge if you don’t seal it, but it’ll be gone before then.
Yeah but no but her name’s Vicky Pollard but she never done it coz she was shoplifting at Asda and Tracy saw her out round the bins snogging Darren coz she wasn’t even there nor nuffin’.
Did you ever manage to get a better recipe than mine?
I’ll report back after I’ve bought & tried some of the things you all suggested – I think I’m just going to print this whole thread and take it with me when I head over to Lawrence
I wish I knew when you planned to be there! We could have a two person Dopefest! I’m in Topeka, and I really do need to get to Brits to stock up on my Lapsang Souchong tea.
Stop giving me the evils.