Things I am missing:
Marmite (it's obligatory to say that, even though I subvert received wisdom by neither particularly liking or disliking it)
Custard (impossible to find)
Crumpets (ditto)
Crisps ('potato chips') in any flavour apart from plain or sour cream & onion
Pies and pasties, except for 'chicken pot pies' which are not the same
Good quality ready-meals
Supermarket burgers, fishfingers etc. (people here just go to fast food drive-throughs)
Instant noodles
Lamb (hardly eaten here)
The English all-day breakfast, including bacon which doesn't taste of maple
Things I have been pleasantly surprised to find:
Real tea (in the form of PG Tips)
An excellent supply of beer, including Fullers London Pride, Theakston's Old Peculier and many other varieties
Things I am enjoying for the first time*:
'Pudding' (like Angel Delight only with a different texture which is impossible to describe)
An extraordinary array of fruit juices and soft drinks, including cream soda and Hawaiian punch
An equally extraordinary array of cereals, including some which are basically sugar dyed various radioactive colours
A quite incredible array of tinned soups - every conceivable variety, and a few inconceivable ones
Squash (acorn, butternut, spaghetti, yellow and many others)
Snickerdoodle cookies
Tilapia (a ubiquitous kind of white fish)
The whole American breakfast experience: pancakes, maple syrup, bacon, sausage and 'biscuits' (a kind of scone)
*Not really the first time in some cases, as I have visited America many times before!
(NB. Anyone reading the list above would get the impression I eat nothing but processed food. I do eat fresh meat, fish, fruit and vegetables too, but most of these are the same as back home. Honest.)
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And a happy Halloween to you! How was your first Halloween in OK?
Very disappointed that only one group of trick-or-treaters turned up all evening. This is the middle of America!! We had a huge bowl of sweets - now I'll have to eat them all myself!
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