This is probably for Asheville Claret . We have a Harris Teeter in Winston Salem. Has a British food aisle. Branston Pickle (Relish), HP Sauce (both), Dark Chocolate Digestives (milk chocolate of course), fkn Baked Beans, Tomato fkn Soup.....so many others. Hell, puddings in a can I never ever ate back home.....Anyone back home even eat Branston Pickle any more???? I put it on EVERY sandwich I ever eat. Guess this thread is actually......where are you and do you ever get ANY of the things you grew up with and loved (no dirty answers.....)

Iceland is a godsend over here in Prague, although they have stopped doing frozen Greggs stuff. Also m&s for sausage although i have to be like a crouching tiger for when they reduce them as they are up to 5 quid a pack for the good ones full whack.

I pass the old Branston pickle factory every day to and from work down here just outside Burton - in Branston, strangely enough.
Part of the huge site is now a B and Q depot but up until relatively recent times there was an absolutely huge government storage facility there with stuff ranging from prison uniforms to arctic-style military vehicles.
Some of the houses adjacent to it were built by Italian POWs who were allowed a little free rein to use their designs - just a few little touches - but very nice they are too.

I do like it, although I go for the newer type which has less chunky pickles, if making a sandwich.

I do like chutney, and when I have a cheese night, I get a couple of flavoured chutneys to compliment them.

Hollands pies & puds at our Iceland, here in Ireland.
Saves me bringing a freezer box full back everytime we go back over.

piston broke wrote:Hollands pies & puds at our Iceland, here in Ireland.
Saves me bringing a freezer box full back everytime we go back over.

Holland's aren't a patch on Haffners, a must try on your next visit.

Edwards also do mean pies, their various pork ones are amazing.

Transiting through Miami in 1986 from Central America and we had a 14 hour stopover so went to look at the cultural aspect of the city. A dozen beers later and I had a shopping list from a Mancunian exile who worked in a bar.

A fortnight later I dropped off several items for him including a few jars of Haywards pickled onions!

triadclaret wrote:This is probably for Asheville Claret . We have a Harris Teeter in Winston Salem. Has a British food aisle. Branston Pickle (Relish), HP Sauce (both), Dark Chocolate Digestives (milk chocolate of course), fkn Baked Beans, Tomato fkn Soup.....so many others. Hell, puddings in a can I never ever ate back home.....Anyone back home even eat Branston Pickle any more???? I put it on EVERY sandwich I ever eat. Guess this thread is actually......where are you and do you ever get ANY of the things you grew up with and loved (no dirty answers.....)

I can assure you that Branston Pickle is very much alive and kicking, like the previous poster, I prefer the smaller chunk variety. Cheese and Branston on an Oddie's White roll .... lovely stuff, and Pork Pie wouldn't be the same without it...

When I stayed in North Carolina with a friend who lives there a couple of years back, I was amazed that you couldn't buy baked beans and that she'd never heard of them. I actually thought we'd originally taken the idea from the Americans, but it appears not.

triadclaret wrote:This is probably for Asheville Claret . We have a Harris Teeter in Winston Salem. Has a British food aisle. Branston Pickle (Relish), HP Sauce (both), Dark Chocolate Digestives (milk chocolate of course), fkn Baked Beans, Tomato fkn Soup.....so many others. Hell, puddings in a can I never ever ate back home.....Anyone back home even eat Branston Pickle any more???? I put it on EVERY sandwich I ever eat. Guess this thread is actually......where are you and do you ever get ANY of the things you grew up with and loved (no dirty answers.....)

i'm actually from ohio and have only spent 2 weeks in england/scotland/ireland,where my main culinary memory was a pub in scotland that served us thawed peas. our local grocery store has a "european" section and i was going to post some pics to see if there was anything i should try.

I like it on cheese.

I've just got a ham, cheese and Branston sandwich for lunch on the strength of this thread!!

AshevilleNCClaret wrote:i'm actually from ohio and have only spent 2 weeks in england/scotland/ireland,where my main culinary memory was a pub in scotland that served us thawed peas. our local grocery store has a "european" section and i was going to post some pics to see if there was anything i should try.

"thawed peas"

I long for the day when I see a fancy restaurant offering "thawed peas"

Our local Mexican grocery store just started carrying it. They put it with the barbecue sauce

Dougall wrote:I've just got a ham, cheese and Branston sandwich for lunch on the strength of this thread!!

That's exactly what I have for lunch today

Bicks hamburger relish is what I go for.

Lovely.

Rowls wrote:"thawed peas"

I long for the day when I see a fancy restaurant offering "thawed peas"

we were in stirling scotland at a pub. wife ordered roast beef mashed potatoes and peas. they came out thawed. we were not sure if that was the custom or not. we didnt want to raise a stink/cause an international incident since the US-SCOTLAND relations were strained due to negative portrayal by mike myers fat ******* in the austim powers movies.
got back to states and spoke to a coworker from scotland: "they dont serve peas thawed in scotland"

Haven't seen the less chunky over here yet. Gonna ask the HT if they can get it!!!!!

I enjoy Haffner’s Steak and kidney pies out here in Mongolia.

Probably because my part of Southern Ontario was originally settled by people from the north-east, everything (except pickled sea kelp) is available here. My local supermarket has a whole section set aside for the Brits, Italians, Caribbean, and Arabs (halal). If you ever come here, you won't starve.

ontario claret wrote:Probably because my part of Southern Ontario was originally settled by people from the north-east, everything (except pickled sea kelp) is available here. My local supermarket has a whole section set aside for the Brits, Italians, Caribbean, and Arabs (halal). If you ever come here, you won't starve.

I could never envisage anyone starving on the North American continent

Ordered a Corned Beef sandwich in Edmonton. Out came a plate piled high with bread, corned beef and chips and smothered in gravy. Best sandwich I have ever had!

Corned beef with gravy? Yuch! In the States, gravy can mean a lot of things. They call spaghetti sauce "gravy" down there. The classic corned beef sandwich has mustard with a dill pickle on the side. It's a traditional Jewish meal here.

hp isn't british any more it is dutch or something.

stokes is a better brown sauce anyway and made in england.

as for corned beef - never brown sauce. cream of horseradish and some raw onions.

you people.

Sorry, but numerous North American delis disagree with you.

Forgot. It HAS to be served on rye bread, something I've never seen in England.

Sort of related to all this, I keep walking past a bakery in Padiham and they are advertising "Loose Pie" in the window. What in heck's name is "Loose Pie"? A pie without the crust or summat -- maybe the left over filling from when they make real pies?

Branston Pickle sounds like a posh kid at a public school in Yorkshire, or maybe his residue.

Wasn't he a winger at Cheltenham? Michael Duff would know.