Uk Foods

[Jaiden]

Can anyone tell me what exactly "treacle" is? From what I understand, it's like a syrup/honey/molasses? Is it good?

 

[Gill]

Can anyone tell me what exactly "treacle" is? From what I understand, it's like a syrup/honey/molasses? Is it good?

Closest thing would be molasses i think

 

[OohFeeshy]

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the majority of US chocolate bars contain nuts in some form (mainly peanuts or peanut butter)? Not that many UK ones do, Snickers is the only major one, and there's peanut forms of a couple of others like M&Ms and KitKat Chunky, but that's about it.

 

[Esfa]

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the majority of US chocolate bars contain nuts in some form (mainly peanuts or peanut butter)? Not that many UK ones do, Snickers is the only major one, and there's peanut forms of a couple of others like M&Ms and KitKat Chunky, but that's about it.

I noticed that.

i hate nuts

 

[Jaiden]

I don't know about the States, but there are quite a few chocolate bars in Canada with peanuts or peanut butter. But there's just as many without!

 

[tucan]

It amazes me how different even Canada and the US are, I've never heard of half the stuff you were talking about Jaiden.

Tucan, we have a chocolate covered marshmallow cooking here called Mallomars. <a href="http/www.nabiscoworld.com/Brands/ProductInformation.aspx?BrandKey=mallomars&Site=1&Product=4400000674" target="_blank">http/www.nabiscoworld.com/Brands/Product...duct=4400000674</a>

And then are the ever popular Peeps as Easter and other holidays. Disgusting if you ask me.
<a href="http/www.marshmallowpeeps.com/" target="_blank">http/www.marshmallowpeeps.com/</a>

Hershy's produces most of our popular candy bars, and then there's Mars and Peter Paul.

Hershy bar, Hershy bar with almonds, Butterfinger, Mounds (dark chocolate w/coconut, yum), Almond Joy, Twix, Rolo, Snickers, M&M's, all that good stuff.

Out of curiosity, do you guys get SPAM in the UK or Canada? My mom loves it, but I'd sooner throw up than even smell the stuff. It's so popular in the US that it has it's own websites, and even cooking contests.
<a href="http/www.spam.com/" target="_blank">http/www.spam.com/</a>

We get SPAM here in Canada. It's not very popular, though

I just sent a package of about 20 chocolate bars to my brother in law in San Diego. There are a LOT of chocolate bars Canada has that the US doesn't. Same with chip (or crisp) flavors.

dthoffsett, have you ever watched a show called "Just For Laughs: Gags"? They've recently started showing it in the US. It's filmed in Quebec, kind of like a Candid Camera show. When they do skits in corner stores, they actually blur out the items in the store (chips, chocolate bars, etc). It's like they're hiding all our Canadian goodies from Americans If you want to try some Canadian chocolate bars (they ALL taste better than US, trust me ) I'd be happy to send you a few! It'd be cheap to send to you because I could make the 5 min drive into Michigan and ship them from there...no international shipping charges

Another US thing - LAYS Crisps. So much better then uk crisps.
Went thru loads of packets of the stuff when i was on holiday in India (its the only crisps hat most places sel there)

Lays are very good crisps In Canada, we pretty much have Lays and Humpty Dumpty...then the "no name" brands

those mallomars are similar to those m&s tea cakes over here. To me lays crisps are almost the same as walkers over here, even the packaging is almost the same.

have you ever tried jellied eel? it look like vomit in a tub. like marmite - you either love it or hate it

 

[PlecMama]

have you ever tried jellied eel? it look like vomit in a tub. like marmite - you either love it or hate it

No.

Jellied eel is like a nasty chopped up snake in a pot of see-through floppy crud. Disgusting. Another of those things that have no place on the Earth, like Pork Pie Jelly. I've seen it advertised, "Pork pie with jelly", how is that a selling point? - unless you like floppy nasty see-through salty eyeball goo on your food I spose.

 

[Jaiden]

Pickled anything other than 'pickles' is gross, too Pickled pigs feet, pickled eggs, pickled bologna...eww.

 

[flash22]

have you ever tried jellied eel? it look like vomit in a tub. like marmite - you either love it or hate it

No.

Jellied eel is like a nasty chopped up snake in a pot of see-through floppy crud. Disgusting. Another of those things that have no place on the Earth, like Pork Pie Jelly. I've seen it advertised, "Pork pie with jelly", how is that a selling point? - unless you like floppy nasty see-through salty eyeball goo on your food I spose.

just to gross you out some more i used to fish for eels and sell them on the actual jelly is the slime coat the eels makes (thickens when cooked or heated then cooled) i cant stand them either

As for pork pies the jelly used to be the gelliten from the boiled down bones from the pork but due to the EEC/EU its all synthetic carp now


and thinking of pickled anything turns my stumach esp those eggs you see in the jar in the pub/chippy :shudder:

 

[PlecMama]

I have the funniest site about a guy trying all kinds of gross foods - the trouble is, I can't post the link as it's not suitable for kids - and that wouldn't be responsible...and if I put it's title up, that title takes you directly to the page when you Google it. Dash it all.

 

[Esfa]

I have the funniest site about a guy trying all kinds of gross foods - the trouble is, I can't post the link as it's not suitable for kids - and that wouldn't be responsible...and if I put it's title up, that title takes you directly to the page when you Google it. Dash it all.

...if only you knew what andy posted in the live chat

 

[cheesy feet]

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the majority of US chocolate bars contain nuts in some form (mainly peanuts or peanut butter)? Not that many UK ones do, Snickers is the only major one, and there's peanut forms of a couple of others like M&Ms and KitKat Chunky, but that's about it.

I noticed that.

i hate nuts

I have the funniest site about a guy trying all kinds of gross foods - the trouble is, I can't post the link as it's not suitable for kids - and that wouldn't be responsible...and if I put it's title up, that title takes you directly to the page when you Google it. Dash it all.

...if only you knew what andy posted in the live chat

I hate nuts too...Off for googling I am

 

[corey01]

my favourite chocolate is cadburys creme egg mmm does anyone else here like a nice cup of tea?? just wondering we dont have places like petsmart and petco in the UK do we??

 

[tucan]

and thinking of pickled anything turns my stumach esp those eggs you see in the jar in the pub/chippy :shudder:

i love pickled eggs.

 

[CFC]

Nothing quite like a pickled egg and a bag of pork scratchings after half a dozen pints in the pub after work.