# Things you can only find OUTSIDE the U.S. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 23, 2002, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337 "2002-07-23T05:12:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![lothos2002](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/df788c/32.png) [@lothos2002](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lothos2002)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/81 "2002-08-01T20:59:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cornflakes \* > \*\*Milanesa, either beef or pork. I’ve never seen it on a menu here. \*\* On this issue (sorry for going off topic a bit), on a trip to Austria, I went looking for WienerSchnitzel, which I had heard was great! Imagine my surprise when I found out that Schnitzel is… milanesas. Anyway, you can try it as a substitute, and I think it is easy to get in the US. BTW, what do they mean by “builders” are the ones that put sugar in their tea? ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/82 "2002-08-01T21:31:44Z")
**MattK**! You and I have just skipped across a generation gap, **Junge**! I don’t know how old you are, but I remember asking my Mama for **Groschen** für **Brause Brocken** , and I am 52! I am also a big fan of … ready? **Müller Milch** (strawberry and banana flavor) “Alles Müller oder was?” Gott, Ich hab’ Heimweh! 😃 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/83 "2002-08-01T21:33:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sivalensis \* > \*\*can’t get: > > kinder surprise (big wail of sorrow) > haribo peach gummies > real cheese (the non-pasteurized kind like brie and camembert) > yop (drinkable yoghurt) > > on the flip side, the milk here is a lot better than the boxed crap they have in france. same goes for orange juice. had to buy sunny d over there (and i’ve never even drunk it when i was here!) \*\* Most grocery stores in California sell something called kefir in various fruit flavors. It’s essentially drinkable yogurt. I think the ubiquity of Lipton tea is failing, at least in urban centers. Most midrange and higher restaurants I can think of would be embarassed to serve it (not that some of the strange herbal concoctions they offer instead are any better.) ---
**Author:** ![MattK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@MattK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MattK)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/84 "2002-08-01T21:46:34Z")
Quasimodem, I am 19. My brother likes Müller Milch. But I don’t, because I think it tastes really artificial. Maybe it was different back in the day? My mom’s strawberry shakes are still the best! ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/85 "2002-08-01T22:33:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cornflakes \* > \*\*Milanesa, either beef or pork. I’ve never seen it on a menu here. \*\* That’s odd, I see chicken milanesa all the time (most Mexican restuarants have it on their menu) but never beef or pork. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/86 "2002-08-01T23:06:27Z")
arsemonkey board hamsters (shaddup) ate my post! And it was long and detailed and concerned tea ☹ and then I couldn’t find this thread!!! I searched and searched pages of threads looking for it, and even did a search for the word tayto! I swear to god, this thread was missing for about and hour The gist was as follows… Allow me to hold forth for a moment on the subject of tea. Me and mine (the Irish) consume the most tea per capita in the world at 3.1 Kilos per person per year 🙂 (3.1 kg in Ireland, 2.8 kg in England, 1.4 kg in Sri Lanka, 1 kg in Japan). I think the milk is part of the problem yes. I have it on good authority that the milk here in Sweden, not UHT is heated to over 90 degrees as opposed to the 7-odd needed for pasteurisation. I can’t drink the stuff (this from a liter a day girl back home), nor have it on cereal, but it works ok for tea, I mean I have no choice! This could possibly be part of the problem when encountering tea in other countries. Somone else mentioned tea that had been stewing all day. Therein lies I think another issue, the lenght of time the tea is allowed to draw (infuse?). Most people in Other Countries™ seem not to leave the tea to draw sufficiantly long, resulting in the saddest watery mess imaginable, I like mine “strong enough to trot a mouse across” as we say in the vernacular. While on the vernacular another good tea phrase relates to sugar content, I like mine “so you can stand the spoon in it”. On the subject of Liptons teabags, I can reveal that there is an Export version!! The horrible weak version! I know this because I was at the airport and there was a warning printed on the little yellow envelope, tipping me off that I could expect a watery cupp of tannin no matter how long I left the bag in. This confirmed something I had believed for a long time, Liptons tea in the uk and ireland is crap. Outside of the uk and ireland its even worse. The best tea is, imho, Irish tea. I bring home about 10 to 15 boxes of 80 Bewleys teabags every visit, and anyone who comes over has to bring them too. In a pinch I can get by on PG tips from the english store in Stockholm, but its really only an emergency solution. I drink about 3 pints of tea per evening. \ \ ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/87 "2002-08-01T23:14:20Z")
hey! hahah look! Seems I accidently remembered my old username and password! 🙂 ROFL! \ ---
**Author:** ![Pope\_George\_Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@Pope\_George\_Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pope_George_Ringo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/88 "2002-08-02T05:30:10Z")
It’s my first grocery shopping experience in New Zealand, and I’m wandering down the refrigerated aisle purusing the various meats. Steak, roast, chicken, lamp chops, dogroll, ground beef, pork chops…“DOGROLL? What the hell is dogroll?” I ask myself. It’s a big tube of ground meat with a picture of a dog on it. Well despite the large number of Asian immigrants living in that country, dog roll is not dog, it’s dogfood. That’s right, dogfood refrigerated right in the middle of the people food in the grocery store. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/89 "2002-08-02T17:29:20Z")
Guarana soda. Had some in Brazil, have never seen it since. I can’t even remember what it tastes like anymore! ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/90 "2002-08-02T21:51:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MattK \* > \*\*Quasimodem, Waldmeister rules! I never had the Hanover brand ones, but I guess they are similar. Frigo has squares, little candies and the regular little pouches with the powder stuff. Sometimes I eat so much of it my mouth hurts. \*\* Today I received a “care package” from my uncle who lives in Zeitz and the **Brause Brocken** are made by **Frigo** as you stated. I don’t know what made me say **Hanover** unless it was the picture of that little sailor on the package. Or (dare I say it?) **Old age**!😃 Anyway, he also sent the powder stuff and I am wondering how **you** consume the powder? In a glass of water or just eat it out of the bag? Thanks Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/91 "2002-08-03T02:46:48Z")
Marks & Spencer underwear and (best of all ) cotton socks. (You can get these in both Panama and Bahrain, two of my favorite countries.) ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/92 "2002-08-03T07:23:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by owlstretchingtime \* > \*\* > > Yup! But from stuff they ate ages ago. It’s OK now. > > Incidentally US beef is banned from the EU because of the level of growth hormones used in it’s production. \*\* Sorry to get feisty, but not every farmer in the US uses growth hormones. Had somebody go off on me the other day about how the United States is entirely corrupt. I’ve lived on a dairy farm my entire life and my dad would never even contemplate using bovine growth hormone or any other of those little drugs. If you use them for too long, then a cow won’t even let down her milk without being stabbed in the butt with a needle. They’re really cost prohibitive, too. The only way you could afford to use them was if you ran a mega-operation. 2500+ cows, at the very least. I’m opposed to those because the cattle are kept in cement floored sheds for their entire milk-producing lives. That’s not cool. Instead of having individual personalities and actually bonding with the animals (and yeah, that happens), they become a long succession of cow butts. ---
**Author:** ![Justhink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@Justhink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justhink)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/93 "2002-08-03T08:00:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DrMatrix \* > \*\*Aren’t a U.S. Embassies _on_ U.S. soil? \*\* Hence the question mark. If the U.S. embassy in Bagdhad is ‘technically’ on U.S. soil; than by that logic… Catholic Churches maybe? =) -Justhink ---
**Author:** ![Halo13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Halo13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Halo13)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/94 "2002-08-03T12:57:55Z")
Can you buy Vegemite is the US? Can you buy products containing Monosodium Glutimate or MSG? ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/95 "2002-08-03T18:28:50Z")
> [@](#): > > Can you buy Vegemite is the US? Yes, at import shops, but it costs a fortune. In addition to the aforementioned lemon Fanta, here’s some stuff I miss from Spain: – Kinder Bueno bars (chocolate with hazelnut cream, mmm) – Mussels that actually taste fresh – The perfect cup of coffee – Bread _delivered to your door_ in the mornings – Many different kinds of fireworks (most of which are probably banned in the US for safety reasons) And from England: – Tikka Masala curry paste – Kebab shops – Many, many kinds of beer [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337.md?page=4)