The ones with the excruciatingly annoying commercials?!
NO, I DON’T WANTA FANTA!!
The ones with the excruciatingly annoying commercials?!
NO, I DON’T WANTA FANTA!!
Thorntons toffee is available direct from their website. The shipping brings up the cost a bit, but you may be able to save by buying in quantity – shipping costs are £14 for .5 kilo and £24 for 5 kilos, or ten times as much for less than twice the price.
New French cars.
We stopped importing/assembling Alliances, Encores, Medallions, etc when Chrysler bought AMC from Renalt.
Puegeot took a hike around the same time.
Balfours meat pies.
VB!
Why can’t America seem to produce a lemon soda that actually tastes like lemons? I drank piles of the stuff (Schweppes and/or Fanta) in Spain, was very happy to see it in England this spring, but all the stuff made in the U.S. tastes fake as hell. I was elated to discover that the wacky Middle Eastern bakery/grocery near my place sells some Turkish domestic brand of it, which actually has lemon juice in it. Not all Americans want their beverages to taste like they’ve been produced in a lab!
Regarding the Fanta issue, the orange Fanta I had all over Europe was a lighter orange colour than the stuff I had in the Minneapolis airport (on my way home to Canada, btw) and was called “mandarin orange” as opposed to regular, run-of-the-mill orange soda. And it was damn pleasing to the tastebuds, much moreso than what passes for orange pop in North America.
As for the OP, well, you really have to leave North America before you can truly appreciate the complete, undistilled essence of mullet.
A good pint of Guinness.
I’m not an expert, but hub tried dozens of places in the States for a good pint and was disappointed each time.
Thrills gum, perhaps? Comes in a delightful shade of purple and tastes like soap.
As for Fanta, we have it on the west coast, too. It used to be a lot more prevalent, than it is now, and came in a lot more flavor varieties. I am pretty sure that I’ve seen the mandarin orange before. In the last year or so, my local 7-11 has started carrying slurpees in Fanta flavors. They have a different one every month, or so. Right now it’s Pina Colada flavored.
As for Guinness, my brother says that the closer you get to Dublin, the better the Guinness tastes. I’ve never been to Ireland, so I cannot verify this.
Now, the thing that I would like to be able to get in the US, is, Coca-cola that is made with sugar, rather than corn syrup. I prefer Coke over Pepsi, because Pepsi is too sweet, so it would seem as though I wouldn’t like it to be made with real sugar, but damn is it delicious. Fortunately, I live close to the Mexico border, and usually end up taking visiting friends/family down there, on their request, so I always make sure to drink lots of Coke while I’m there. It wouldn’t be feesible to go down there every week to stock up. Ah well.
It’s not impossible, but it is hard to find clotted cream in the US. I found a place that special orders it, but I haven’t tried it, yet, so I don’t know if it’s truly comparable.
~V
Shen Mue 2
Proper chocolate.
Hershey’s tastes like it’s been left in the sun too long; M&Ms taste of balloon rubber; Snickers smell of sick.
I had some good chocolate in the US before, but it was hard to find: Hershey’s Symphony and Girardelli chocolate in San Francisco.
Take a slice of thick bread, spread some (lots) of butter on one side, lay some thick slices of cheese, and roll. Stake and grill.
Dial local ambulance service
Consume
Advise ambo crew to prepare for CPR…
Deep in the south of the South Island, NZ - nowhere does them bigger or better
Pickled onion flavour Monster Munch.
Scampi fries.
Actually the problem is the milk. Most American milk is UHT/sterilised and it simply doesn’t work in tea.
I do have some Assam in my desk drawer (but it is in bags, which is cheating a bit)
Also:
Salad Cream!
(and from my experience) Dress Sense.
Most tea that I’ve had in the US is Lipton’s, which is not tasty, and is weak as piss.
However, since it’s a UK export, I think we only have ourselves to blame.
Natto. Soybeans that have been fermented just enough to smell awful, but not enough to make your breath flammable. Wonderful stuff.
Instant Cup-o-Curry Noodles.
Drink vending machines reliable enough that you have no qualms about putting a $10 bill in them.
The crisps of champions - Tayto cheese & Onion flavour.
Tayto - pah! I don’t know why Irish people bang on about those packets of broken, disgusting pieces of grease they called Tayto. So the company invented Cheese & Onion? Big swing of the micky (though I will concede the Tayto from NI are nicer than those made in the Republic).
Back to the OP - you can’t get crisps in the US. You can get nice ‘potato chips’, but they don’t have the flavourings everyone wants. If you want proper crisps, you want Walkers.
That’s what you want, coz I said so.
Socialized healthcare.