# You move to a different country. What food from home do you most miss? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 30, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069 "2010-06-30T15:10:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/21 "2010-06-30T17:03:43Z")
> [@sandra\_nz](#): > > NZ to UK. I miss Burger Rings and Rashuns. Slight tangent: we caught a bit of a morning news show when we were in New Zealand where this exact question was put to Kiwis living abroad. The hands-down winner? Chocolate fish. šŸ˜• As a result, I bought some. They were shockingly unremarkable. Iā€™m assuming that the poll was skewed by Cadbury shills. As for the OP, Iā€™d have to go with Mexican food. I love me some good Mexican. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/22 "2010-06-30T17:07:39Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > Swede. I guess Iā€™m scraping the bottom of the barrel here. But I sort of liked it, and turnips or parsnips are not the same. Rutabagas. My local, hardly top-shelf supermarket carries them. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/23 "2010-06-30T17:19:32Z")
When I was in India, I really wanted a beef burger. Maybe it had something to do with all the cows walking around. And I found myself in desperate want of chocolate chip cookies or really any other cake-like dessert that wasnā€™t based on milk solids. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/24 "2010-06-30T17:19:54Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > Corn on the cob. A staple of summers growing up. Thereā€™s sweetcorn everywhere in England, but itā€™s never seen on the cob Huh? I used to eat it regularly. That said, it is very seasonal. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/25 "2010-06-30T17:25:01Z")
In n Out. Mexican Food in general. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/26 "2010-06-30T17:26:38Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Huh? I used to eat it regularly. That said, it is very seasonal. I never saw it at Oxford. Maybe I wasnā€™t going to the right places or something. I know I never saw it in the Cornmarket. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/27 "2010-06-30T17:28:18Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Rutabagas. My local, hardly top-shelf supermarket carries them. Iā€™ll have to ask at Wegmans (if anyone had them, they would). Havenā€™t seen them around the turnips and other root vegetables lately. Getting the kids to eat them is going to be more of an uphill battle, I think. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/28 "2010-06-30T17:29:23Z")
When I went from Philadelphia to New Mexico, I missed readily-available soft pretzels, Turkey Hill ice cream, and more than anything I still miss Tastykakes (like Hostess products, only a million times better). When I went from the US to Ireland and then the UK: Peanut butter. Iā€™d always taken for granted that I could go out and buy terribly sweetened peanut butter, or low-fat peanut butter, or organic no-sugar-added peanut butter. You canā€™t do that in Europe. Also: iced tea. And when Iā€™m anywhere but New Mexico, I miss green chile. I donā€™t even like it that much, but itā€™s omnipresent here, and apparently doesnā€™t exist outside of NM. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/29 "2010-06-30T17:30:05Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > I think that if I were to move away from Britain, the thing Iā€™d miss the most would be decent tea. In the event we have to evacuate the country after Sarah Palin is elected president in a couple of years, you will NOT be allowed on the bridge or near any of the shipā€™s computers. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/30 "2010-06-30T17:30:23Z")
I would miss Milo and Vegemite if I were to ever move away from Australia. Apparently Twisties are hard to find overseas too. Not my Twisties! ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/31 "2010-06-30T17:35:11Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > I never saw it at Oxford. Maybe I wasnā€™t going to the right places or something. I know I never saw it in the Cornmarket. Sainsburyā€™s and Tescoā€™s sell it in the vegetable aisles. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/32 "2010-06-30T17:38:17Z")
> [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](#): > > Sainsburyā€™s and Tescoā€™s sell it in the vegetable aisles. Really?! Thereā€™s no way I could have missed that for seven yearsā€¦maybe Iā€™m just having a mental block here. I seriously donā€™t remember it at all, and anyone who knows me knows my voraciousness regarding corn on the cob, which would probably would be my last meal if I had to have one. Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/33 "2010-06-30T17:46:27Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Itā€™s a Yankee thing. [B&M](http://www.bgfoods.com/bm/bm_products.asp) makes the bread & the beans to be served alongside them. (From her time living in New Hampshire, my fatherā€™s home, mother would occasionally open the cans of beans & bread. Or make New England Boiled Dinner. Or parsnips!) > > If I left Texas, Iā€™d definitely miss Tex-Mex/Mexican food. I picked up this habit from my husband who was born & raised here (Iā€™m from away). Beans and brown bread are a staple New England working class dinner. When youā€™re flush with cash you add a slice of fried ham alongside. The husband has a lifelong horror of raisins, though, so Iā€™ve never had anything but the plain, and always B&M brand. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/34 "2010-06-30T17:50:45Z")
Iā€™m not even in another country and I have a constant craving for chistorraā€¦ itā€™s a kind of red sausage; in theory itā€™s available here, but they donā€™t know how to cook it. Itā€™s as if they cook it by ear, like someone has told them how to do it but, never having seen the real thing, they donā€™t get it right. Other times Iā€™ve missed the oranges (Navels and Navelinas are the juiciest but, being ā€œuglyā€, they donā€™t get exported as much as the prettier varieties), specific cuts of meat (the pork one called steak in the UK, but left as a whole almost-cylinder for roasting) or, of course, serrano. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/35 "2010-06-30T18:15:42Z")
Depends on where I am and whatā€™s available, I guess. I didnā€™t miss avocados when I lived in Israel, because they were easily obtainable, but I would have killed for one when I lived in Bulgaria. When I lived in India, I craved _apples_, which were kind of hard to find. (I did eventually find them, but they were more expensive than the tropical fruits I would usually consider a special treat, like mangoes.) But basically, and I guess this mostly goes for Bulgaria: Mexican food. Cheese. There are two kinds of cheese in Bulgaria, sirene (which is like feta) and kashkaval, a mild yellow cheese. Both are okay, but it got boring fast. In Bulgaria, I lived about an hour and a half from Plovdiv, the second biggest city in the country. In Plovdiv, there is a fancy imported meats and cheese store. I GOT CHEDDAR THERE. It was so fucking exciting! Tofu. Broccoli. Why was is impossible to get broccoli in Bulgaria? \* Why?\* Asparagus. Ditto. Spinach. Available during a two-week harvest season once a year. Bah. Bagels. BAGELS. Breakfast food! Cereal I could get, but I wanted to go out for fucking breakfast and get pancakes and scrambled eggs. NO. Premade food. I am lazy. I want to microwave something from Trader Joeā€™s. No. Everything must be made from scratch. Fake meat things. I just wanted a veggie burger! Basically, I ate a lot of food when I got back to the US. I have a list this long of food I miss from Bulgaria, too. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/36 "2010-06-30T19:20:50Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > Every American I know that has moved to China or Cameroon has developed a single-minded obsession with cheese. Life without cheese sucks. You have to change pretty much all of your cooking habits. > > American breakfast is also a common craving. While we are used to eating a variety of foods for lunch and dinner, we tend to be pretty conservative with our breakfasts. You never quite get used to spicy noodles first thing in the morning. Iā€™ve been thinking about this, and I think these two things would definitely be my top two as well. No fresh mozzarella? No _bacon_ 1st thing in the morning? Shoot me nowā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/37 "2010-06-30T19:30:25Z")
From the UK to the USA, thereā€™s only one: marmite. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/38 "2010-06-30T19:32:10Z")
US to Canada From the South I miss Eastern North Carolina Barbeque, hush puppies, and oh, my, god, Boiled Peanuts. In the interest of muliticulturalism I have taught the Attackkids to pour salted peanuts in to coke and drink it from the bottle. Mexican food is almost impossible to get in the area where I am now, although I stumbled into a real good place in the interior of BC a while back. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/39 "2010-06-30T19:34:09Z")
Remotely decent Mexican food does not exist east of the Atlantic. I missed it when I was over there. ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069/40 "2010-06-30T20:07:41Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > In the interest of muliticulturalism I have taught the Attackkids to pour salted peanuts in to coke and drink it from the bottle. I learned that from here. Itā€™s not bad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-move-to-a-different-country-what-food-from-home-do-you-most-miss/545069.md?page=3)