/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.7584837]

Food in UK that you can't get in America

You yanks don't even have Doritos brand salsa dip, what the fuck

[Anonymous No.7584839]

>>7584837
That's because we know how to make it ourselves so why would we buy it?

[Anonymous No.7584841]

>>7584839
If that's the case why would you have so much fast food and convenience culture

We know how to make salsa too but it's interesting how you guys don't have this?

[Anonymous No.7584843]

>>7584837
nope, we just hire mexicans to make real salsa for us.

wow, you really got us there. tell us more about these new world ingredients you limeys just found.

[Anonymous No.7584845]

usa has tostitos salsa

[Anonymous No.7584849]

>>7584845

>usa has tostitos salsa
Ahh ok fair enough

[Anonymous No.7584851]

>>7584837
That's because we don't dip doritos in salsa

[Anonymous No.7584852]

>>7584845
this. so much better

[Anonymous No.7584858]

>>7584843
We just got that yellow segment tube, I think you call it maze.

I put an order in to try a tube, Only £5.00 each.

[Anonymous No.7584872]

>>7584851

i do and its great.

[Anonymous No.7584900]

What's so special about it?

We live right next to mexico. Why would I expect this to be any better than what pedro makes down the street.

[Anonymous No.7584917]

>>7584900
>What's so special about it?

Doritos is an American brand yet they don't sell this product in America.

>We live right next to mexico. Why would I expect this to be any better than what pedro makes down the street.

You wouldn't. That wasn't the point of the thread.

[Anonymous No.7584920]

>>7584858
oh, you mean "teensy poppy yellow bits"?

[Anonymous No.7584922]

>>7584837

Why would we need this shit when we have Mexicans?

[Anonymous No.7584931]

>>7584851
You also don't dip flavored chips(sigh...crisps) in dip.

[Anonymous No.7584935]

>>7584837
Clotted cream
Also a proper cuppa
Also anything tea related that doesn't use the words "green", "sweet", or "iced". And even then its regional.

[Anonymous No.7584940]

>>7584931
No shit faggot

[Anonymous No.7584943]

>>7584931
What's wrong with combining flavors?

[Anonymous No.7584947]

>>7584931
Arrogant fucker.

[Anonymous No.7584948]

>>7584858
>maze

[Anonymous No.7584954]

>>7584837
Americans get freshly made salsa in grocery stores. I have to say they definitely got us beat on that.

[Anonymous No.7584955]

>>7584943
Do whatever you want.

[Anonymous No.7585081]

>>7584837
Chocolate digestives.
Decent chocolate. Cadbury's chocolate is embargoed.
Orange squash, or any sort of squash.
Literally any proper biscuits.
Fish and chips.
Kebabs.
Sweet and sour chicken.
Anything without HFCS.
Proper mustard.
Bovril. Most won't even have heard of it. I'm pretty sure that's what they flavour the cardboard with for big macs.

[Anonymous No.7585115]

>>7585081
Texasfag born to British parents here. Just about all the local supermarkets carry the digestives, ribena (squash), biscuits, and Colman's mustard.

The better ones also have bovril.

Any chinese restaurant will have the sweet and sour chicken, and fish and chips aren't as ubiquitous as they are in the UK but aren't hard to find. They're especially common in the US south, which loves it's fried fish.

Kebabs? We have doner and schwarma though not as common as in England. We also the Mexican version "al pastor" which is common in the southwest.

I'll agree our chocolate sucks, but then again I don't find British chocolate to be any better. Gotta go to the Dutch/Germans/Swiss for good chocolate.

The thing that I found hardest to find was English-style sausages. There are some specialty shops which sell them but they're all pretty crappy. I ended up learning to make them myself.

[Anonymous No.7585117]

[Anonymous No.7585691]

I really hate the term flyover, but that's what this thread will be about.

I live in a large coastal city that's full of immigrant-gun grocery stores. I could probably find anything listed here without too much trouble.

also
>UK
>bragging about shitty salsa
>to americans

[Anonymous No.7586209]

ukfag here

The Tesco own brand is better than the Doritos branded in my opinion. It has thicker chunks, and stronger flavour.

[Anonymous No.7586226]

>>7584837

Does anyone know a genuinely hot retail salsa? I'm tired of getting crap label 'hot' that is just a faint tingle of heat.

[Anonymous No.7586231]

>>7584837
Brit here, that salsa is disgusting. Pretty much any supermarket brand is better than it.

[Anonymous No.7586236]

The UK is one of the worst countries with the worst people, and funny enough, the worst salsa.

[Anonymous No.7586247]

Lads, lads, we're getting too caught up in all this salsa jive and not focusing on the fucking

CURLY

TO THE MOTHERFUCKING

WURLY

[Anonymous No.7586362]

>>7586236
>The UK is one of the worst countries with the worst people

You hurt my feelings anon :(

[Anonymous No.7586382]

>>7586226
Gotta make your own.

[Anonymous No.7586394]

>>7584900
Yes and why would you have bags of doritos chips, when mexicans can make it for you too
Retard

[Anonymous No.7586403]

>>7585081
>chocolate digestives
every supermarket around carries them
>any sort of squash
literally every grocery store produce isle sells multiple squash types
>Literally any proper biscuits.
if you're talking cookies, that's absurd, the US and canada (where I live) has tons of good cookies, what does "proper" even mean?
>Fish and chips.
literally anywhere on the west or east coast has a huge amount of fish and chip places, the quality varies but it's generally very good
>Kebabs.
probably not as good as near middle eastern countries I agree, but there are kebab places (aka donair, gyro, doner) places all over the US and canada, nova scotia in particular, and I'm sure many ethnic neighborhoods all over the US, have lots of it.
>Anything without HFCS.
tons of sweets and sodas without a hint of HFCS available if you aren't in a flyover
>Proper mustard.
this is extremely subjective, my local grocer has tons of different mustards from different cultures I'm sure it's good

[Anonymous No.7586606]

Saw my co worker with this

[Anonymous No.7586723]

>>7586247
Those are the shit and they're like 20p each too

[Anonymous No.7587535]

>>7584917
They would get shit on by better, more popular brands of salsa.

[Anonymous No.7587545]

>>7584837
>>7584935
>>7585081
not sure if this thread is lazy bait or genuine ignorance but you can get most of the things listed at specialty shops run by british ex-pats who import the stuff en masse

not to mention importers who sell things on amazon, who can ship to you next day if that's your desire

globalization happened, you should all try and catch up

[Anonymous No.7587548]

>>7586403
>literally every grocery store produce isle sells multiple squash types

Lol. That's not what the britbongs are talking about. "Squash" in UK parlance is a liquid drink concentrate, usually fruit-flavored. You dilute it with water to make a finished beverage. Pic related.

That being said, I've seen pic related at some US supermarkets; Ribena is even more common.

[Anonymous No.7587560]

>>7587545

You don't even need to go that far. Most of it would be stocked at a normal US supermarket as well as commonly found restaurants as several posters have already pointed out.

[Anonymous No.7587855]

>>7586247
I'm so sad that I can't eat those any more. I can't have toffee, because it'll yank fillings out.

[Anonymous No.7587985]

>>7585081
british mustard is pig disgusting but easily available in the US

[Anonymous No.7588035]

>>7587985
you mean its not 90% corn syrup?

[Anonymous No.7588160]

Do Americans really put a cup of water in the microwave instead of using one of these? I've heard most Americans don't even have a kettle in their kitchen.

[Anonymous No.7588165]

>>7588160
I asked some Americans and they seem to not own electric kettles, rather they use one on the stove.

[Anonymous No.7588169]

>>7588160
Their electrical systems in their houses can't handle electric kettles

[Anonymous No.7588174]

>>7588160
>visit relative who moved to London
>tells me to put the kettle on for tea
>fill it with water, go to plug it in
>the second I do, door is kicked in and I'm arrested because I didn't have me kettle licence
>forced to pay a 50pence crime and watch BBC's version of King Arthur as penance

[Anonymous No.7588181]

>>7588169
Hahahahha

[Anonymous No.7588186]

>>7585081
>british chocolate
>good

lmao

[Anonymous No.7588206]

>>7588174
>visit relative in u.s.
>go to local grocery store
>I'd like to buy a kinder egg please
>"what are you crazy? Those things can contain small parts that may be swallowed by a baby!"
>"ok then, I'll just take that assault rifle - would you like to do some form of background check?"
>"that won't be necessary, would you like a free 6 pack of shitty, watery beer with that?"

[Anonymous No.7588210]

>>7588206
Americans BTFO

[Anonymous No.7588327]

>>7588160

because they dont drink tea, kettles are redundant there. They drink coffee but they all have those weird coffee machines that they make it, so again, they dont need to use a kettle.

[Anonymous No.7588333]

>>7588206
aaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaah

10/10

[Anonymous No.7588336]

>>7588206

where do you go to get a gun with no background check/paperwork?

[Anonymous No.7588344]

>>7588206
>>7588210
>>7588333
>>7588336
Fail, lmao

silly yurocucks never learn

[Anonymous No.7588348]

YUM

[Anonymous No.7588349]

>>7588344
Britfats BTFO

There is no recovery

[Anonymous No.7588353]

>>7584837
We have Frito bean dip and whatever shit Lay's gets because we're already saturated terrible, bland tex-mex sauces.

[Anonymous No.7588355]

>>7588344
Fucking Yanks ruining fun as always

[Anonymous No.7588357]

so good omg cant believe americans dont have this stuff

[Anonymous No.7588360]

>>7588344
>$8 for 2 Kinder Eggs
wut?

Enjoy The Bern, The Donald, The Shrill Witch, or The Rat Canadian next year my friends.

[Anonymous No.7588362]

>>7588174
Top kek
>>7588344
Ooooh shut down
>>7588355
>>7588360
Tasty butthurt

Good show cu/ck/s

[Anonymous No.7588364]

>>7588357
>it's not water-injected, antibiotic-laden, arsenic-laced, factory-farmed white chicken breast

Disgusting.

[Anonymous No.7588367]

>>7584837
Well clearly whatever UK has is super healthy compared to burgers

As you can see, >>7588349 island monkeys have become the true 51st state of amerilards

[Anonymous No.7588369]

who could forget our famous cheese bread

[Anonymous No.7588373]

>>7588349
delet this

[Anonymous No.7588374]

>>7588373
I know, those fucking Britbongs are beating us at our own game

[Anonymous No.7588385]

>>7588336

You can legally buy a gun private-party with no background check, but if it is being sold by a retail store then there is always paperwork involved.

[Anonymous No.7588390]

>>7588160
actually, heating water in the microwave is the most energy efficient method

source: chemisty in college where we calculated amount of energy to heat water to boil using gas, microwave, and electric kettle/hot plate

[Anonymous No.7588396]

>>7588390
>yank science

[Anonymous No.7588397]

>The taste, so... rich and full of depth. Words cannot describe the myriad of flavors achieved in this culinary concoction, we must simply call it "brown"

[Anonymous No.7588400]

>>7588397
Brown sauce is fucking legendary you no-hope pleb scum. I can tell you've never had any.

[Anonymous No.7588410]

>>7588344
>Just want to make friendly banter
>Anon has to quell a bit of cheeky fun

[Anonymous No.7588440]

>At its conception, fellow chefs and taste testers were in awe. The creamy texture and subtle sweetness blended in perfect harmony with the salad. "well there's no actual cream in" someone claimed. "but it's just so creamy, we simply cannot name it anything else"

[Anonymous No.7588456]

>>7588440
Why are JF so obsessed with us lads?

[Anonymous No.7588500]

>>7588397
>hating on brown sauce
Why even do that.

[Anonymous No.7588550]

>>7588344
>paying $3.99 for Kinder Surprise

[Anonymous No.7588566]

>>7588550
Everything is expensive in the Northeast

[Anonymous No.7588570]

>>7588397

if you're trying to imply that the 'brown' designation implies a lack of depth, you need to bone up on your colour theory

[Anonymous No.7588673]

>>7588169
wanna bet motherfcucker? I'll plug in my 3 phase ups right now and fuck ur shit up with my industrial electric kettle 4 megawatts fuckin redcoat motherfucker i'll boil so much tea ill make boston teaparty 2 but this time it'll be warm and your dead bodies will be my digestive biscuits you fucking REDCOAT FUCK

[Anonymous No.7589096]

10/10 bet it's not hot brit bongs think black pepper is hot

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6547399/Hot-Dorito-nearly-killed-me.html

[Anonymous No.7589115]

>>7586403
>any sort of squash
literally every grocery store produce isle sells multiple squash types

I'm an American an I know what he's talking about
Its like fucking mio it's a concentrated flavored liquid you put in water
Think liquid kool-aid

[Anonymous No.7590323]

>>7588385
but then they'll just shoot you for your money instead

[Anonymous No.7590466]

>>7584837
This stuff plus cool original doritos is perfect.

[Anonymous No.7590520]

>>7588206
I like how the biggest "gotcha!" in the britfags' arsenal is a chocolate egg with a plastic toy inside.

[Anonymous No.7590552]

As Americans, we are the best chefs on the planet, ever.


We are that good. We cared enough, and we performed enough. American food, at the highest class is the greatest ever.

[Anonymous No.7590570]

>>7584935
I hate to break this to you, but we can get all those things, including your brands of tea.

As far as salsa goes, we have entire grocery aisles for salsa, plus every store sells their own fresh made, plus we all know how to make ourselves, plus we can get it at every mexican market, plus most mexican restaurants sell theirs in pints or quarts, so WHY would we even care about Doritos salsa? Doritos is marketing their product to people who would actually buy it.

[Anonymous No.7590576]

>>7590520
Who needs kinder eggs when our happy meals come with fries AND a fucking toy.

I'm an adult now. I'll take my chocolate in the form of a Hershey's with almonds, thank you.

[Anonymous No.7590583]

>>7588673
Having 3 phase in a home? What the fuck is your major malfunction "electrician"? 230V does the job just fine.

[Anonymous No.7590589]

>>7586403
>if you're talking cookies, that's absurd!

[Anonymous No.7590888]

>britfats

[Anonymous No.7590892]

>>7590520
>>7590576
I'll just take a kinder egg since yurocucks are dumb as shit

[Anonymous No.7590897]

>>7590892
>HAHA AMERICANS CAN'T EVEN GET A KINDER EGG LOL
>actually we can, here's proof
>WELL WHATEVER YOU FAT YANK YOU HAVE TO PAY EXTRA FOR AN IMPORTED PRODUCT
>being poor

[Anonymous No.7591326]

>>7590892
I just reported you and Symphony Market to the FBI, have a nice day you commie pinko

[Anonymous No.7591374]

>>7585081
All those things are widely available in the US. I think what you hit on is that the plebeian masses with shit taste go for the shit American bastarsisations, but that's true of our population too. American products are popular over here for a reason, and that reason is because we have just as many faggots as they do. In fact it's probably a lot easier to get good quality British food in the states than vice versa, since the only American products I've ever seen are bottom of the barrel mass market stuff. If it doesn't appear in TV adverts, we don't have it.

[Anonymous No.7591377]

>>7590897
We don't usually have to pay 5 times the price for imported American products though.

[Anonymous No.7591398]

>>7586226
Mrs Renfroe's habanero salsa is alright

[Anonymous No.7591419]

>>7584837
This salsa is shit-tier anyway. Tastes like ketchup more than actual salsa.

[Anonymous No.7591437]

>>7584837
actual food you can't get in the US
faggots
real haggis (its illegal)
black pudding
sausages (they're not the same)
horlicks
suet
crumpets
custard creams

[Anonymous No.7591531]

>>7591437
>faggots
I doubt there's any grocery store that carry them but I 100% guarantee somewhere in the US there is some hipster butcher/chef that sells them under a different name
>real haggis
you should clarify that what you mean by 'real' is we can't get sheep lung imported from the UK (a ban that may be lifted soon). We have sheep here, and they have lungs, how much of a difference this makes I have no idea but what you said is a bit misleading.
>black pudding
usually called "blood sausage" here, not uncommon at all among 'artisanal' butchers
>sausages (they're not the same)
Not sure what you mean by this. You have certain brands that aren't imported here, or there's a specific style that never caught on in the US? Either way that's nitpicking at best since the same could be said of almost any food between any two parts of the world.
>horlicks
I was about to begrudgingly give you that one as it's a specific brand until
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Horlicks-Traditional-Malted-Milk-Drink-Mix-500-g/21968664
>suet
we have suet, we use it in bird feeders. Woodpeckers go crazy for it.
>crumpets, custard creams
now you're not even trying

[Anonymous No.7591544]

>>7591437
>actual food you can't get in the US
Texasfag here.

>faggots
Local butcher makes 'em
>real haggis (its illegal)
Illegal to sell sheep's lungs, yeah. But people get around that by slaughtering a sheep and making it that way.
>black pudding
Local supermarket stocks 3 types. Fancy butchers make them too. And so do I: the blood is readily bought at Asian markets.
>sausages (they're not the same)
Agreed, it's hard to find English style sausages here. Thankfully it's easy to hand a British recipe to a butcher and have them make them for you. Around here the butchers are very used to making custom sausage during deer season, so this is no problem.
>horlicks
Supermarket import isle, or Asian market
>suet
Butcher
>crumpets
Supermarket
>custard creams
Supermarket

[Anonymous No.7591563]

>>7591398
Gotta get the ghost pepper salsa. That one is goat

[Anonymous No.7591757]

>>7591531
>>7591544
I hope you're taking notes kids, this is what's known as "getting reked".

[Anonymous No.7591829]

>>7591374
>In fact it's probably a lot easier to get good quality British food in the states than vice versa, since the only American products I've ever seen are bottom of the barrel mass market stuff. If it doesn't appear in TV adverts, we don't have it.


This is one of my cultural woes. As an American, I've seen what they sell as American food in Britain and Europe, and it's fucking HIDEOUS. I get actually embarrassed when I see that stuff. No wonder people think we eat garbage, since that seems to be all that gets exported as American food.

[Anonymous No.7591903]

>>7591829
this. when I lived in KSA seeing the few imported american products at the grocery was sad and quickly forced me to go native in my shopping.

>imported American foods
in the frozen dinner section they only had stouffers tuna casserole for 30SAR ($8). I got it once, it had clearly been thawed and re-frozen several times in transit. I can imagine some saudi guy thinking for the rest of his life that's what we eat regularly.

for pickles the choices were vlassic (meh) and some off brand that on the label said "for export only", worst pickle I've ever had.

I could go on (if anyone cares I will) but the point is they were only getting the shittiest exports we had and the same could be said of a lot of the imports we get

[Anonymous No.7592023]

>>7591531
The Horlicks is out of stock.

PS Ovaltine is better than Horlicks.

[Anonymous No.7592186]

>>7589096
Doritos: BANNED IN BRTAIN

[Anonymous No.7593989]

>>7591377
Hahaha, Americans... blown the... fuck out...?