What is the food you miss most from "home?"

[GS_Dirtboy]

I had a serious yearning for home today. Thought I'd indulge and tonight I made fried chicken, green beans (couldn't find black-eyed peas), mashed potatoes, corn bread, and sweet tea. I made an apple pie for desert. Tomorrow's breakfast will be scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, hash browns, buttermilk biscuits and gravy.

What foods do you miss?

 

[Ceviche]

spicy food

 

[ElQueso]

I'm making beef and chicken enchiladas for my wife's birthday party tomorrow. Found some bottles of both tomato salsa and tomatillo salsa that will aid in the making, along with a store of chili powder some friends have brought me from the States. Mmmmm.

I miss Popeye's fried chicken. I really, really miss it.

I miss a good, thick pepper bacon. Or hickory-smoked.

I miss my 6-hour apple-smoked briskets.

Hell, I even miss Pizza Hut!

 

[Davidglen77]

I miss all of the great fish I used to buy in New York City. It's too expensive here to be able to eat regularly, plus some is just not available. I miss my salmon steaks, swordfish steaks, bluefish, catfish, orange roughy, chilean sea bass (which I stopped eating for ecological reasons), flounder, grey sole, tilapia, grouper, crabmeat, fresh tuna, jumbo shrimp, etc. I also miss all of the great smoked whitefish, lox, sable, etc. When I went back to visit New York last year I sure ate a lot of that stuff!

 

[scotttswan]

Haggis Neeps and Tatties!
Steak n kidney pie (fray bentos pies saved me at university for a while)
Irn-bru, Tizer, Ginger beer (idris fiery ginger beer), Dandelion and Burdock, Vimto, Barr's Red Kola, Dr Pepper, Ribena, Cherry Coke, Lilt. Softdrinks that are different.
Whisky that's not 5 times the price it should be (especially the great cheap blends you can get like Bailie Nicol Jarvie)
British chicken tika masala and other curries in general.
Fish suppers
Haggis Suppers
Salt n Sauce
Chippys in general
Campbeltown Mature Chedder
Seriously Strong Chedder
and many many other things

 

[walkingtwig]

chippy food, a good chinese, everything spicier than chimi, naan bread but most of all irn-bru

 

[NoseyParker]

Baked beans, super noodles, cheddar cheese - the super strong variety, Wensleydale with cranberries, fresh soup bought in supermarket, poppadums, nice mango chutney. Fish and chips, mushy peas! Diet cherry coke ....... Decent Indian food!

 

[scotttswan]

chippy food, a good chinese, everything spicier than chimi, naan bread but most of all irn-bru

Look at that stuff..... Fiery irn-bru! What genius came up with that! I would love to try it.

fresh soup bought in supermarket

Broccoli and Stilton soup that you can just get from the supermarket!


I'll also add proper scrumpy cider!

 

[Napoleon]

You can find Black Eyed Peas in Chinatown.

 

[PhilinBSAS]

What foods do you miss?

Now that Young's brewery in Wandsworth has closed down and been replaced by disgusting mash from north of the river (Bedfordshire or some similar heathen place) it can only be ...

Marmite

Fortunately Ive got five years supply stocked up in a secure place to tide me over (chucked out those gold bars I was hoarding to make room in the safe)

and have now popped home to pick up more = celebratory "Ma'amite" version for "toasting the queen's diamond jubilee"

Weird that I'm loosing all my republican sympathies having experienced the joys of Su Excelencia Señora Presidente de la Nación

After all .... not only enjoy a tasty authentic British treat but I do take seriously the advice of the iconic and socialist NHS in world wide efforts to minimise the advance of "super-bugs"

Marmite 'stops spread' of superbugs

BTW I think maybe I'm going native but beginning to totally enjoy equal proportions of Marmite and dulce de leche as an improvement and not just a substitute for honey for spreading on my toast for tea-time/ la merienda together of course with a nice cup of builder's tea