I’d go with “more or less everywhere”. I got used to the drink when on a two month business trip to the US, when I got back it became my soft drink of choice. I never had a problem getting it wherever I went.
Now I am in Sweden and they have it here too.
Brits or Britons, not Britishers.
Regarding apple pie, you do reaslise that in all reality this probably came to the US via settlers from the UK?
As for Chicken Kiev, I hear Omahastaeks.com has a decent version. (I’ve never tried theirs, but it seems reasonably priced).
You can get Dr Pepper anywhere over here. God knows why though, it’s disgusting! 
Grape Jelly!
Every time I come back from the US I bring back a jar of real grape jelly- just not available easily here.
But, ASDA are doing Monterrey Jack cheese, and Root Beer is not difficult to find any more.
<< I thought root beer was the same as ginger beer >>
British Ginger Beer is American Ginger Ale.
Going the other direction, there’s no Marmite (Is that the British or Australian term? I’ve forgot) in the U.S., for which I am very grateful.
British Ginger Beer is most certainly not ginger ale!
Available in most supermarkets are:
Traditional Ginger Beer (premium and well made)
Ginger Beer (commercial and drinkable)
Ginger Ale- Dark and gingery like commercial Ginger Beer but more dilute- used as a mixer with whisky
American Ginger Ale- lighter still and less strong- used as a mixer again.
Stewart’s Beverage Co. makes a Ginger Beer, and it definatly ain’t Ginger Ale. It is a bit darker of colour and has a more bodied flavour. I’ve never been able to taste a ‘beer’ posibility in our Root beers but one can definatly taste the ‘beer’ in Stewart’s ginger. Of course I imagine it is nowhere near the beverage enjoyed in the UK, we being wimps like that. 
Sasafrass is loaded with carciangeons? I was told by herbalists the reason it was removed from the market was because of it’s haliucinational effect. The amout nesisary to ingest to recieve those effects is similar to trying to kill oneself with cinnamon.
Life without Dr. Pepper? Unthinkable!
Here’s a brief hint: Herbalists are not in the business of dispensing valid, scientifically backed information. Herbalists are part of the general anti-science market, the same people who claim that drinking ground wheat grass will cure all that ails you.
http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/PPI/UnconventionalTherapies/SassafrasTea.htm
However, it is possible to get safrole-free sassafrass root bark. I wager it’s something like decaffeinated coffee–more than just the safrole has been removed.
I was in Cambridge in the early eighties, so maybe this is out of date.
Lifesavers. Little round candy’s looks just like Polo mints, but come in about 100 flavors (flavours?), mostly fruit flavors.
Refried beans did not exist as far as I could see. Mexican food in general was very hard to find, but you get chili pretty much anywhere.
I remember you couldn’t get Peanut M&M’s either. There was something similar, but not the same.
And of course, English Muffins do not exist in England.
You underestimate the reach of Perfidious Albion.
“Myers of Keswick” in Greenwich Village caters to the homesick British ex-pat and carries [ul][li]Weetabix[/li][li]McVitie’s Digestive biscuits[/li][li]HP Sauce[/li][li]Twiglets[/li][li]Heinz Baked Beans (the British version, that is)[/li][li]Irn Bru[/li]
and, of course
Marmite (the original, made in the UK at Burton-on-Trent by CPC (UK) Ltd, Esher, Surrey)[/ul]among many other so-called delicacies of British cuisine that just don’t seem to have caught on yet in the American market…
Still can’t get lifesavers, don’t know about refried beans tho’.
Mexican food has started to catch on in the UK in the last 5 years, so it’s alot easier to get. Peanut M&Ms have been in the UK for quite a few years now.
Perhaps he means Peanut Butter M&Ms, which I only ever saw internally at Mars when I was doing consultancy there.
US stuff I’ve never seen here:
Mint oreos (possibly these were only oreo-style), also low-fat oreos and double-filled (?) oreos - ones that extra filling.
Egg-beaters - some sort of egg replacement, I presume? I never did try an “egg-beaters” omelette. I’ve never seen any such thing on offer here.
There is no where near the same range of jelly bean flavours, and the Ben & Jerry’s range is pretty limited, too.
We do have canned refried beans a-plenty, usually one of two brands or the supermarket’s own.
Jelly Belly beans we have a plenty, but they cost the bloody earth.
Do Americans have Captain Birdseye fish fingers (now made with Hoki, not Cod)?
We don’t have fluffer nutter, that candyfloss/marshmallow goop in a jar, or Tootsie rolls, or similar cake like thingies.
Cadbury’s mini chocolate Swiss rolls do nicely instead.
Do Americans have rhubarb/apple crumble? Much nicer than pie.
Nothing beats Weetabix with warm milk and a little sugar made into a sort of porridge. Yummy.
Vegemite! That’s what Marmite is called in Australia, I knew I’d remember it a few days later. And the most god-awful stuff in the world, it is.
When I’ve been in the UK and asked for ginger ale, they’ve looked at me funny and not known what it is. I finally asked for ginger beer, which is darker, but similar enough for practical purposes. Unless things have changed in the last few years…?
Then there’s lemonade, available in the U.S., but if you ask for it in the UK, you get 7-UP or an equivalent.
Two countries separated by a common language.
Shouldn’t that be in the other thread C K? This is about stuff we don’t have over here not stuff we do but you don’t want. I don’t like Marmite myself, though, and the advertising emphasises that you either love it or you hate it.
Where did you ask? Ginger ale is a far more common name for a ginger-flavoured beverage than ginger beer. The best-known brands are Canada Dry and Schweppes, which labels its product “American” if memory serves, and it’s sold primarily as a mixer rather than a product to drink by itself but it’s been widely available for decades.
aenimiac has already explained that you can get cloudy, yellow lemonade made with lemon juice in the UK, but it’s true that the default response if you ask for lemonade will be a clear, colourless drink like 7-Up. R. White’s is the best known local brand.
Based on what Fierra and I have discussed at length with her being here with me…and of course there is a difference between “don’t have” and “very difficult to find”. I mean, you can, in reality, find an enormous number of items from either country in the other, you simply have to go to much more extreme effort.
I’m betting that fried chicken, cornbread, chicken-fried steak, chicken and dumplings and other staples of Southern cuisine are fairly rare over there…
Sorghum is available at most health food stores (which are abundant), but I don’t think many people buy it - I never have.
Sweet potatoes? they’re everywhere - even the little farm shop down the road from me sells them (they are imported, of course).
What is honey butter?