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My daughter moved to Greensboro, NC and says she’s having trouble finding sauerkraut, or anyone who knows what it is.
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She should look at Harris Teeter. Around here, at least, the HT deli carries primarily Boar’s Head products and bagged kosher kraut is among those items.
I craved cold cuts. Good NYC cold cuts.
A question for the NY’ers that have mentioned difficulty finding a food (be it hash browns or Tex-Mex or whatever): have you yelped at all? Just curious.
I live in a foodie city (LA), so finding certain dishes is always possible, tho’ proximity to any dish can be great. The one dish that I can’t find (but it’s certainly not “normal”) is Singaporean Carrot Cake (which isn’t cake and has no carrots).
Yeah, I have. The problem that I’m running into on Yelp and Menu Pages is people from someplace that isn’t Texas who Yelp about the wonderful Tex-Mex food they just found when what they’ve found is an authentic Mexican restaurant. Then I go expecting to find ground beef and molten cheddar cheese on the menu and instead find grilled steak or chicken with just the tiniest sprinkling of ixhuacan white cheese. Instead of sopapillas and honey for dessert they have no dessert menu at all or they might serve flan. When I think of Tex-Mex I am thinking of someplace like Herrera’s or Angelina’s.
Lots of Tex-Mex places in Texas don’t specify that they are Tex-Mex and instead identify as Mexican restaurants despite the difference in cuisine, so the first 6-8 times I went out for Mexican here in NY I was deeply disappointed because I was expecting something very different than what I was served. Once I figured out what was going on I found I actually quite like standard Mexican food but it took a few tries to figure out why it was so different here. I even tracked down one restaurant owner here and asked why he didn’t serve sopapillas and he looked at me like I was nuts and said he was from Mexico and had never heard of a sopapilla before.:smack:
I run into similar things with chicken fried steak. I’ve found a few places in the city that serve it but nothing close to the amazing chicken fried steak in Texas. Whenever I go back to visit family we go to Babe’s for chicken fried steak and I beg them to open a franchise in New York but they always tell me no. 
Any form of decent affordable Mexican food in DC. I’m not sure why so many nicw Salvadorian restaurants claim to be Mexican, and no, I do not want a pupusa.
I think I have everyone beat. My answer is
Cauliflower*.
I’m sure that’s pretty hard to beat. I’m currently in the Falkland Islands and the nearest supply of fresh vegetables is 8,000 miles away in the UK.
Only two that I really miss:
(NE Washington - NW Idaho border)
I’m way too far north for an El Pollo Loco
For reasons unknown to me (and as far as I know), San Francisco brand Sheepherder’s Bread is nowhere to be seen in the Pacific NW. Sourdough is easy enough to find, but nobody seems to stock regular old Sheepherder.
My life is otherwise perfect.
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so someone moving there and opening a veggie farm [greenhouse based] could make a living selling common veggies?:eek:
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Well, I am pretty sure that people grow vegetables in South America. 
Maybe you meant a seasonal (opposite hemisphere) supplier that ships to the Falklands in winter.
This actually mentions cauliflower as typical produce of the Falklands.
It might be possible to grow them in the summer, but it’s the middle of August! As for the South American food idea - it would work if there wasn’t a de facto blockade of the island by Argentina.
Didn’t Argentina try a blockade about 30 years ago? I seem to recall it ended badly for them.
brb, going to save gotpasswords. The little town of Tisdale, Saskatchewan (pop. 3000!) has the largest 7-11 in Canada. It is also the land of rape and honey! It makes me proud to be a Saskatchewanian.
As for my contribution, seafood. We got Red Lobster and that’s it. But that’s just because we’re landlocked. All other meats are here in abundance. 
I live in an area that was settled by, and still is populated almost exclusively by English settlers, Scottish settlers, Irish settlers, and French people. The list of what I can’t get is LONG.
We don’t have good Chinese. We don’t have sushi (though there are rumors of a sushi place opening up soon!). We don’t have Japanese or Korean food. The Mexican place is constantly closed down and reopened for health code violations. There is definitely no Polish food, which is killing me, as this Polish girl is dying for some pirogi. (And not Cheemo’s perogy, which I refuse to eat, and the only thing that is available here.) There is no Russian food. There is definitely no Ethiopian food or Middle Eastern food. (Oh, wait, I lied, there is a shawarma joint, but it’s not half as good as some chain shawarma I’ve had.) There are no good BBQ places. I cannot get good bagels or, for some reason unbeknownst to me, onion bagels. I can’t find cornbread for some inexplicable reason.
To make up for this, our lobster is six bucks a pound and there is more fresh cheap seafood than I can possibly eat. There are several good French bakeries, awesome poutine, and some good bars. So I’ll live. For now.
Differnt chains in diffent locations do thier tea differntly. Several years agoI found it funny that in Memphis, McDonalds had tea that tasted of instant and Wendys had fresh brewed tea. In Atlanta it was the opposite. Now it depends on the individual store more than the location. Pepsi has a bag o tea that they sell to reataurants saying it is “fresh brewed”. It isn’t. It still has the instant taste even if it isn’t a powder. Then of course there are the fountain tea dispensers right next to the Coke and root beer. those taste nasty as well.
I find it hard when travleing to find good tasting ice tea, even worse than instant tea is old tea. yuck. and people will tell me it is fresh and that it is just strong. I know strong tea and I know bad tea. y freinds have debates on if tea is Adhemar quality or not. 
No, sweet tea, along with ice tea, specifically developed from concentrate use. That’s how it’s supposed to be made. It is the fact that you have to overbrew the tea in a smaller amount of water that creates the bitter flavor (due to extracting tannins) that has to be tempered with so much sugar. The lighter brewed full tea is not authentic sweet tea.
As for the OP: I can’t think of anything. Especially if I get to count the big city an hour away. Heck, I’m surprised that NYC doesn’t at least have Shoney’s or similar restaurant.
So? Even if the other countries of South America joined the blockade in solidarity, why ship food from the UK? My understanding is Argentina is only restricting traffic between Argentina and the islands. South Africa and New Zealand are a lot closer.
My brother lives in the Moscow, ID/Spokane, WA area, and he says Slurpees are a fictional item there as well.
Bialys.
Also, tongue (I realize many of you wouldn’t consider it “normal”).