As good as living in America is, sometimes you get the total joy of finding the imported British food section in stores. Normally wherever you go they sell the same stock - including hobnobs, Yorkshire tea, Jaffa cakes, salad cream and mushy peas. But nothing finishes off your baked beans or bacon like HP and American custard is nothing compared to Birds. Sometimes you have to go back to your roots.
We stumbled across Irn Bru in the "posh" local food store for $1.99 a can, which is like £1.30, shockingly pricey when you compare the price marked upon the can itself for it's British RRP of 49p. But Irn Bru reminds me of childhood holidays in Scotland and buying it from my local fish n chip shop in Newcastle's Heaton area when I was a student. On the other hand the equivalent of 90p is always worth a Yorkie bar, especially when the relabelled information declares it has made in York upon it, that makes a Yorkshire girl happy.
We stumbled across Irn Bru in the "posh" local food store for $1.99 a can, which is like £1.30, shockingly pricey when you compare the price marked upon the can itself for it's British RRP of 49p. But Irn Bru reminds me of childhood holidays in Scotland and buying it from my local fish n chip shop in Newcastle's Heaton area when I was a student. On the other hand the equivalent of 90p is always worth a Yorkie bar, especially when the relabelled information declares it has made in York upon it, that makes a Yorkshire girl happy.
If you moved countries what food would you crave and miss?