If you want 'dill pickles', head to one of the numerous Eastern European shops. Whilst there you can also pick up your sour cream (usually labeled 'Smetana').
I am a Brit & I hear you about Mexican food. I looked up what specialist online grocers charge for fresh tomatillos (& that's if they're even in stock) & nearly had a stroke. I picked up corn tortillas in Sainsbury's recently -- pretty sure it was Sainsbury's -- so it might be worth checking out where you live.
Yeah it’s crazy! Oooh ok, I usually shop at Tescos and haven’t found corn tortillas (only flour and wheat) so I need to go pop into a sainsburys then! Thanks so much :)
I suggest making your own, from scratch, Mac and Cheese. It's so much better than the processed stuff (and I'm from America). Also, make your own salsa. Both of these things are easy to make.
Moving to England in August, but when we were living in Germany it was vanilla extract. Must have for baking. And I agree about the sour cream. Luckily we had base access so I was able to purchase these items. Looking so forward to experiencing England.
You can make your own dill pickles in about 20 minutes if you have access to dill weed. It's just water, vinegar, salt and garlic, boiled and dumped into a jar filled with sliced cucumbers and dill. That's it. Let it sit for a few days and you have a ton of dill pickles. Reply if you'd like a more specific recipe. And I don't know if I could live there if they didn't have peanut butter. I may have to disown my British ancestors.
True, I could thanks! I’d just prefer to buy lol They do have jars of peanut butter, but not anything peanut butter flavored! Like I love peanut butter stuffed pretzels or cookies, but no!! Haha
I'm a native of San Diego and I know what you mean about missing good Mexican food. In my case it was our Baja-style Mexican food (like Rubio's famous fish tacos and good carne asada burritos). In Central California where I attended college they typically ruin perfectly good carne asada with a load of rice and beans, which I think is a mainland Mexico thing. "Sin arroz y frijoles por favor" became a mantra. As for peanut butter, it was as rare as hen's teeth in the European summer of 1980. All this great fresh baked bread and tasty jam everywhere... and no Skippy Chunky style in sight! After a month in England I finally found a dusty *can* of peanut butter in a shop in Paris near the International University. It had a plastic cover (like tinned cat food). And for the rest of the summer it was the best damn trade goods ever, 'cause nearly every American traveler I met wanted some.
Yes!! I’m the exact same as you with Baja style Mexican food- I miss fish tacos and carne asada burritos so much!! Haha that’s too funny about the peanut butter😂 thanks for sharing!!
Saw this London restaurant featured on the Jolly channel. It's owned by the Hollywood actor Danny Trejo and offers high-end authentic Mexican food: Trejos Tacos 299-301 Portobello Rd, London, United Kingdom W10 5TD
Tesco have been carrying Herdez salsas for the past year or so. I've become addicted to their Salsa Verde. And just in the past few weeks they'v discontinued selling it. I have one jar left in the cupboard.
@@SheRunTheWorldOcado has Herdez salsa casera (red). They did have the salsa verde recently too, but seem to be out of stock right now. They also have corn tortillas (Old El Paso). I’ve not been able to find good guacamole at all so make my own now 🥑
As a Wisconsinite, might I recommend that you find Landjäger. This is a German meat stick that while is not the same as slim Jim's, is probably as close as you are going to get and much better in my opinion. Or at least the one's made here in Wisconsin are.
Try WA cafe for matcha. You should be able to get coffee mate (just a bog standard one not all th varieties of the US) but it’s probably with the dried milk and uHT juices etc rather than with the coffee. Also sour cream, usually with the creams and I haven’t had Californian sour cream but it’s not runny so hopefully is a bit closer to what you are used to. I think you may have got the bottle stuff next to the burrito kits. Avoid that! Haha. Try looking by the milk and cream.
You’re a life savor!! You’re right, I got the bottle next to the burrito kits and it was so runny - but I just got the container by the milk/cream. Excited to try tonight! THANK YOU!
the way i live in the UK and can only find sour pickles and wish I could find sweet ones! I feel like thes sour ones are pretty easy to find in any big supermarket or polish shops have good ones too. Sour cream really threw me, this is a super normal thing here and definitely is like, the good creamy stuff! I think you gotta get to a big Sainsburys! In terms of matcha I recommend trying authentic Japanese cafes rather than standard coffee shops like Katsute 100, Wa Cafe, Toconoco, Tsujiri or even Cafe Kitsune. Understandably, we have very little Mexican food here but I stand by Homies on Donkeys in Leytonstone. Very much worth a try!
Hmm every pickle jar I’ve ever bought that says “dill” or “tangy” is still very sweet to me and tastes nothing like a dill pickle back in the US, so I think the taste buds are just different here!! I actually just went to Katsute and you are SO RIGHT! Best matcha in London so far - thanks for the rec :) And I’ve actually never heard of Homies on Donkeys I’ll have to check it out!! Thank you!!
Nestle Coffee Mate Original Coffee Whitener from most big shops I can only see in powdered form. I don't know if that's the same thing but in powdered form and not liquid.
Ooooh I’ve never heard of those! Definitely going to go try, thanks for the tip :) and yes, ranch is so amazing! Maybe one day it’ll become more popular here
@@SheRunTheWorldit’s definitely here!! The Paul Newman, Newman’s Own Ranch is readily available in Sainsbury’s! I used to work there, so I know! All of the Paul Newman’s sauces and dressings are made in GB, to UK and Euro food ingredient standards
Ate at The Texas Embassy (in the old White Star Line building) and it was “different”, but vaguely resembled Tex-Mex food. Not sure if it still exists.
Salsa verde is widely available at supermarkets (in the world food section where you can also find corn tortillas), as is sour cream (Sour cream is always next to the creme fraiche). Peanut cookies sold at Sainsbury's. But yes a lot of the stuff you mentioned is going to be very hard to find... The problem you have in London is finding a large enough store. If you are shopping in the small metro supermarkets you're not going to find these ingredients easily.
I’m really confused. I live in Warwickshire and you can get virtually all those things in Sainsburys here. Or online American stores. With the internet nowadays you can get anything. I hope you manage to satisfy your cravings. I understand as I lived in Spain for 20 years and 'comfort food' is craved so much.
Honestly haven’t been able to find any of this stuff that actually tastes good! There are “dill pickles” in the store, but they don’t taste like dill pickles from back home they’re still sweet. There’s salsas and sour cream, but don’t taste as good! Things like that - so they might exist in some capacity, but I miss the good tasting ones!! But thank you i appreciate it! Wow 20 years must’ve forced you to create some new comfort foods, maybe that’s what I’ll have to do :)
Tesco has Newman's Own Ranch, no idea how good or bad it is (the only time I have had Ranch it was diabolically boring !), it is the only one they mention having in a quick search (may be worth trying ASDA if available, it used to be owned by Walmart and still leans towards that "market" ?)
Hahah fair enough, ranch can be very good or very bad in my opinion and I’ve had the Tesco newmans and didn’t like it! But you’re right actually, I should try ASDA - they might have something!! Thank you :)
I think you are probably up the Creek with regard to "Good" Mexican, it might be worth trying Borough Market? I have a friend whose husband is Korean and he has tried an endless supply of British Korean Food and not once found anything that replicates His taste in Good Korean (I quite like our take, but I have never had his idea of good Korean )
My local shop has loads of different dill (and other) pickles, but it could be that I am living in an area with a large Jewish community. As for spices, explore a South Asian shop- they won't be the same but you'll find loads of new ones.
Someone else suggested going to a small local polish shop since they have a dill that’s similar to US dill (cuz the supermarkets here have “dill pickles” but they don’t taste the same!) And thanks for the tip about a south Asian shop! I’ll check it out!!
Morrisons has one, Krakus brand (registered in the States). Sainsburys have a few, a few of which are labelled/described as sweet so the others by elimination must be tangy (look on their site for dill pickles).
NO WAY!!!! I’m going to head to Morrison’s this week to find those Krakus dill pickles!!! I just bought some from Tesco last week labeled “dill and red pepper” but still didn’t taste like dill. THANK YOU!
@@SheRunTheWorld They are advertising Krakus on their site so they should have some, unless it's only regional and/or not at small shops. As for the Sainsburys thing, they specifically describe some as sweet under the product and others without. So I'm only having a guess at it because I don't buy them (maybe trial and error in finding the right one you like). But no worries, happy to help.👍
I don't know what corn bread mix is, but isn't the main ingredient just polenta flour as thats ground corn, its course ground but its still ground corn so can't you use that. we have coffee whitener, look around the coffee area in shops like Asda and sainsbury, my mother used to drink coffee mate it was awful. peanut butter flavour things tend to be limited edition like peanut butter kit kats but you can get peanut butter cups all year round if you want. if you want matcha go to a japanese shop, theres one in westfield sheperds bush, theres one at ealing common, atari ya in north acton and theres several in central london such as japan centre, theres probably some dotted around the rest of london but West London is where the main japanese community is and where their schools are, also most asian in general shops like chinese and thai also stuck japanese food like Wing Yips at Cricklewood, Hoo hing near stonebridge park and tian tian market in ealing broadway, theres also quite a few asian shops around hammersmith with more seemingly opening all the time and you could probably get in it china town. if you have a car I recommend going to Wing Yips even if its pretty far from you, it is a massive shop full of interesting things, they also have a store in croydon. finally I suspect the cake shop at ealing called Wa probably your best bet for someone to make matcha for you. the barrista probably put boiling water in it that makes it bitter, it needs to be hot not boiling.
Honey, if you seasonings you need shops that sell Caribbean food you'll find it there it maybe called something else but you'll recognise what you need. The supermarkets dont sell anything good!
We used to call it Macaroni Cheese in UK, not Mac n Cheese, I think however its US name leaked into our vocabulary. I wish our supermarkets had kept the UK name for it. I much prefer it, makes more sense as a name for a dish and aligns with its ‘sister’ dish Cauliflower Cheese.
Hi. First time viewer here. Not sure why you don't think the UK has scouts? (Boys and girls). The scouts was started in the UK in 1910 by Robin Baden Powell in London. US Girls scouts was formed in 1912. Never heard of a cookie thing though. In the UK the scouts have summer fares where home baked goods are sold to raise money.
Scout troops in the UK and the US differ quite a bit. The Girl Scouts in the US are well known for selling different kinds of cookies known as "Girl Scout Cookies" to help raise funds for individual Scout councils and troops, they've apparently done it since the 1920s. They raise millions! I'm British but Girl Scout Cookies are heavily referenced in a lot of tv and films, I'm super curious to try them one day.
I actually bought some last week and they were labeled “dill” and I will say they are definitely more tart/tangy than most, but still have a sweet aftertaste that we don’t have in the states. So I think it just genuinely doesn’t exist here! Lol
I prefer my chicken burgers without a side order of religious bigotry. Chik-fil-a can stay in USA before they consider opening in 2025; we don't tolerate that kind of nonsense in the UK.
Slim Jims closest one is the Peperami Beef, look for a blue packet of them. But they aren't showing up in the usual places that their own site says to look for Peperami's in general. So....?
Part of the taste of your American food is nostalgia, so no British equivalent, even if the same, would taste the same. There's also the fact that many ingredients in your American food are banned in the U.K., so you have healthier replacements, which, of course, taste different!
Honestly, you need to look a bit harder! Coffee Mate? It's been here since the 70s! Dill pickles? Lidl, Aldi. Reese's cups - like everywhere... OK, cornbread mix - well, just make some cornbread. Ditto ranch, if you really really can't find it (Asda, Tesco I'm pretty sure). Herdez salsa? It's in Farmfoods! 🤣 And Popeyes *is* horrible, so I'm not sure we should be crying out for Chick-Fil-A. OK, In-N-Out burgers are pretty good, though I can make better. 😋Oh, you never mentioned Taco Bell! 🤮
Coffee mate is different here. Dill pickles aren’t the same here, they say “dill” but are still sweet. Cornbread mix is how you make cornbread. Chick fil A is so much better than Popeyes which is why I said I miss it. And I don’t like Taco Bell.
Taco Bell offers food, but it ain't great or authentic Mexican by any stretch. Chick-fil-A and Popeyes are good, albeit different styles, and both are far better than the ubiquitous KFC.
I specifically said I missed Velveeta shells and cheese which is a brand I cannot get here. And don’t really have an interest in making corn tortillas from scratch lol but thank you!! :)
@@SheRunTheWorld I understand that you miss that specific brand, if I had to move to the US, I would miss some proper British food items. I find the American obsession with macaroni and cheese rather curious though, obviously it is ingrained in the psyche of americans who ate it from childhood onwards. It's not much of a thing here. When I was a child my mother would cook macaroni as a milk pudding (like rice pudding but with macaroni substituting for the rice). I am willing to bet that Italians would thow up their hands at either dish! By the way, I have made peanut butter cookies for a friend and they went down well.
I agree with others here , these items are all available, Britain does cut back the additives, but being such a culturally diverse country everything is here , amazon sells all of these trader Joe's, this seems to be a views moan rather than honest ,borders biscuits are a better than girl scout that I s not me saying this, I work in hospitality with a large american customer base the continent not just usa this is their preferred biscuits.
I think tastes to differ between US and Uk. To be honest I feel US dont care what they put in their food provided it tastes good. Cant blame them but hey hello obesity.
I think some people have been commenting that it’s in powder form and doesn’t have all the flavors we have back in the states! So it exists, but not in the same way or flavors!!
With "Ranch", Paul Newman sauces were popular over here for a while, and Rach-style was amongst them. But I haven't seen Paul Newman sauces much recently.
If you want 'dill pickles', head to one of the numerous Eastern European shops. Whilst there you can also pick up your sour cream (usually labeled 'Smetana').
Thank you such a good tip! Someone else commented about polish supermarkets specifically having dill pickles so I’m gonna check one out this week :)
I am a Brit & I hear you about Mexican food. I looked up what specialist online grocers charge for fresh tomatillos (& that's if they're even in stock) & nearly had a stroke. I picked up corn tortillas in Sainsbury's recently -- pretty sure it was Sainsbury's -- so it might be worth checking out where you live.
Yeah it’s crazy! Oooh ok, I usually shop at Tescos and haven’t found corn tortillas (only flour and wheat) so I need to go pop into a sainsburys then! Thanks so much :)
I suggest making your own, from scratch, Mac and Cheese. It's so much better than the processed stuff (and I'm from America). Also, make your own salsa. Both of these things are easy to make.
True. But I just love and miss Velveeta! Lol salsa would require me buying a blender or food processor but might be worth it!
Moving to England in August, but when we were living in Germany it was vanilla extract. Must have for baking. And I agree about the sour cream. Luckily we had base access so I was able to purchase these items. Looking so forward to experiencing England.
Oooh vanilla extract good one. Yeah that is extremely lucky! I’m excited for you to experience England, I’ve loved it so far this past year :)
You can make your own dill pickles in about 20 minutes if you have access to dill weed. It's just water, vinegar, salt and garlic, boiled and dumped into a jar filled with sliced cucumbers and dill. That's it. Let it sit for a few days and you have a ton of dill pickles. Reply if you'd like a more specific recipe.
And I don't know if I could live there if they didn't have peanut butter. I may have to disown my British ancestors.
True, I could thanks! I’d just prefer to buy lol
They do have jars of peanut butter, but not anything peanut butter flavored! Like I love peanut butter stuffed pretzels or cookies, but no!! Haha
I'm a native of San Diego and I know what you mean about missing good Mexican food. In my case it was our Baja-style Mexican food (like Rubio's famous fish tacos and good carne asada burritos). In Central California where I attended college they typically ruin perfectly good carne asada with a load of rice and beans, which I think is a mainland Mexico thing. "Sin arroz y frijoles por favor" became a mantra.
As for peanut butter, it was as rare as hen's teeth in the European summer of 1980. All this great fresh baked bread and tasty jam everywhere... and no Skippy Chunky style in sight! After a month in England I finally found a dusty *can* of peanut butter in a shop in Paris near the International University. It had a plastic cover (like tinned cat food). And for the rest of the summer it was the best damn trade goods ever, 'cause nearly every American traveler I met wanted some.
Yes!! I’m the exact same as you with Baja style Mexican food- I miss fish tacos and carne asada burritos so much!!
Haha that’s too funny about the peanut butter😂 thanks for sharing!!
Saw this London restaurant featured on the Jolly channel. It's owned by the Hollywood actor Danny Trejo and offers high-end authentic Mexican food:
Trejos Tacos 299-301 Portobello Rd, London, United Kingdom W10 5TD
Amazing!! I’ll have to check it out thank you :)
Tesco have been carrying Herdez salsas for the past year or so. I've become addicted to their Salsa Verde. And just in the past few weeks they'v discontinued selling it. I have one jar left in the cupboard.
Ah lucky! I’ve been here for a year looking intently for a good salsa and have never seen Herdez at Tesco
@@SheRunTheWorldOcado has Herdez salsa casera (red). They did have the salsa verde recently too, but seem to be out of stock right now. They also have corn tortillas (Old El Paso). I’ve not been able to find good guacamole at all so make my own now 🥑
As a Wisconsinite, might I recommend that you find Landjäger. This is a German meat stick that while is not the same as slim Jim's, is probably as close as you are going to get and much better in my opinion. Or at least the one's made here in Wisconsin are.
Amazing!! Thanks so much for the rec :)
Try WA cafe for matcha. You should be able to get coffee mate (just a bog standard one not all th varieties of the US) but it’s probably with the dried milk and uHT juices etc rather than with the coffee. Also sour cream, usually with the creams and I haven’t had Californian sour cream but it’s not runny so hopefully is a bit closer to what you are used to. I think you may have got the bottle stuff next to the burrito kits. Avoid that! Haha. Try looking by the milk and cream.
You’re a life savor!! You’re right, I got the bottle next to the burrito kits and it was so runny - but I just got the container by the milk/cream. Excited to try tonight! THANK YOU!
the way i live in the UK and can only find sour pickles and wish I could find sweet ones! I feel like thes sour ones are pretty easy to find in any big supermarket or polish shops have good ones too. Sour cream really threw me, this is a super normal thing here and definitely is like, the good creamy stuff! I think you gotta get to a big Sainsburys! In terms of matcha I recommend trying authentic Japanese cafes rather than standard coffee shops like Katsute 100, Wa Cafe, Toconoco, Tsujiri or even Cafe Kitsune. Understandably, we have very little Mexican food here but I stand by Homies on Donkeys in Leytonstone. Very much worth a try!
Hmm every pickle jar I’ve ever bought that says “dill” or “tangy” is still very sweet to me and tastes nothing like a dill pickle back in the US, so I think the taste buds are just different here!!
I actually just went to Katsute and you are SO RIGHT! Best matcha in London so far - thanks for the rec :)
And I’ve actually never heard of Homies on Donkeys I’ll have to check it out!! Thank you!!
Nestle Coffee Mate Original Coffee Whitener from most big shops I can only see in powdered form. I don't know if that's the same thing but in powdered form and not liquid.
Oh interesting, I’ve never seen the powdered form! I’ll have to look, thank you :)
@@SheRunTheWorld No worries.👍
If you like thin mints the closest thing we have in the UK are viscount biscuits. I wish Ranch was more popular here too as it's lovely.
Ooooh I’ve never heard of those! Definitely going to go try, thanks for the tip :) and yes, ranch is so amazing! Maybe one day it’ll become more popular here
@@SheRunTheWorldit’s definitely here!! The Paul Newman, Newman’s Own Ranch is readily available in Sainsbury’s! I used to work there, so I know! All of the Paul Newman’s sauces and dressings are made in GB, to UK and Euro food ingredient standards
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Ate at The Texas Embassy (in the old White Star Line building) and it was “different”, but vaguely resembled Tex-Mex food. Not sure if it still exists.
Hmm I’m not sure, I’ll have to look into it! Thanks!!
@@SheRunTheWorld I just looked it up. Appears to be closed. Had mixed Yelp reviews
Sadly not, used to love that place.
Have you looked in Aldi, Aldi Nord owns Trader Joes.
I’ve been to one yes! But Aldi is very hit or miss so I think I need to go back and also check a few locations
Salsa verde is widely available at supermarkets (in the world food section where you can also find corn tortillas), as is sour cream (Sour cream is always next to the creme fraiche). Peanut cookies sold at Sainsbury's. But yes a lot of the stuff you mentioned is going to be very hard to find... The problem you have in London is finding a large enough store. If you are shopping in the small metro supermarkets you're not going to find these ingredients easily.
Ya I think I need to go to a Tesco extra and try my luck there!! Or a large ASDA maybe
Great video, Brittany! I subscribed 😁
Thanks so much! ☺️
Find a polish supermarket for the pickles, they generally will have dill pickles that aren't the sweet style.
Oooh great tip! I’ll have to find one, thank you!!
I’m really confused. I live in Warwickshire and you can get virtually all those things in Sainsburys here. Or online American stores. With the internet nowadays you can get anything. I hope you manage to satisfy your cravings. I understand as I lived in Spain for 20 years and 'comfort food' is craved so much.
Honestly haven’t been able to find any of this stuff that actually tastes good! There are “dill pickles” in the store, but they don’t taste like dill pickles from back home they’re still sweet. There’s salsas and sour cream, but don’t taste as good! Things like that - so they might exist in some capacity, but I miss the good tasting ones!!
But thank you i appreciate it! Wow 20 years must’ve forced you to create some new comfort foods, maybe that’s what I’ll have to do :)
Tesco has Newman's Own Ranch, no idea how good or bad it is (the only time I have had Ranch it was diabolically boring !), it is the only one they mention having in a quick search (may be worth trying ASDA if available, it used to be owned by Walmart and still leans towards that "market" ?)
Hahah fair enough, ranch can be very good or very bad in my opinion and I’ve had the Tesco newmans and didn’t like it! But you’re right actually, I should try ASDA - they might have something!! Thank you :)
Trader Joe is ALDI isn't it ??
I think you are probably up the Creek with regard to "Good" Mexican, it might be worth trying Borough Market? I have a friend whose husband is Korean and he has tried an endless supply of British Korean Food and not once found anything that replicates His taste in Good Korean (I quite like our take, but I have never had his idea of good Korean )
It probably doesn't help that I grew up with British Ish taste
We also have breakfast burritos in Vancouver, Canada so maybe that's a West Coast thing?
Oooh you might be right!!! I didn’t know Vancouver was big on breakfast burritos, how cool
My local shop has loads of different dill (and other) pickles, but it could be that I am living in an area with a large Jewish community. As for spices, explore a South Asian shop- they won't be the same but you'll find loads of new ones.
Someone else suggested going to a small local polish shop since they have a dill that’s similar to US dill (cuz the supermarkets here have “dill pickles” but they don’t taste the same!)
And thanks for the tip about a south Asian shop! I’ll check it out!!
@@SheRunTheWorld Definitely. There are Polish and other eastern European shops everywhere. They also do amazing dried wild mushrooms.
You can't find coffee mate where do you live in the UK just go to the nearest supermarket other things you miss why you not make
The coffee mate is different! And I don’t want to make it hahaha
Morrisons has one, Krakus brand (registered in the States). Sainsburys have a few, a few of which are labelled/described as sweet so the others by elimination must be tangy (look on their site for dill pickles).
NO WAY!!!! I’m going to head to Morrison’s this week to find those Krakus dill pickles!!! I just bought some from Tesco last week labeled “dill and red pepper” but still didn’t taste like dill. THANK YOU!
@@SheRunTheWorld They are advertising Krakus on their site so they should have some, unless it's only regional and/or not at small shops. As for the Sainsburys thing, they specifically describe some as sweet under the product and others without. So I'm only having a guess at it because I don't buy them (maybe trial and error in finding the right one you like). But no worries, happy to help.👍
I don't know what corn bread mix is, but isn't the main ingredient just polenta flour as thats ground corn, its course ground but its still ground corn so can't you use that. we have coffee whitener, look around the coffee area in shops like Asda and sainsbury, my mother used to drink coffee mate it was awful. peanut butter flavour things tend to be limited edition like peanut butter kit kats but you can get peanut butter cups all year round if you want. if you want matcha go to a japanese shop, theres one in westfield sheperds bush, theres one at ealing common, atari ya in north acton and theres several in central london such as japan centre, theres probably some dotted around the rest of london but West London is where the main japanese community is and where their schools are, also most asian in general shops like chinese and thai also stuck japanese food like Wing Yips at Cricklewood, Hoo hing near stonebridge park and tian tian market in ealing broadway, theres also quite a few asian shops around hammersmith with more seemingly opening all the time and you could probably get in it china town. if you have a car I recommend going to Wing Yips even if its pretty far from you, it is a massive shop full of interesting things, they also have a store in croydon. finally I suspect the cake shop at ealing called Wa probably your best bet for someone to make matcha for you. the barrista probably put boiling water in it that makes it bitter, it needs to be hot not boiling.
I’m not sure honestly what’s in it!
@@SheRunTheWorld I edited before I saw your reply please read all my edited post as I just named a tonne of shops that might interest you
Ranch dressing is often marketed as "American Dressing" in the UK.
Ah! Good to know!
Honey, if you seasonings you need shops that sell Caribbean food you'll find it there it maybe called something else but you'll recognise what you need. The supermarkets dont sell anything good!
Ooooh great idea, I’ll have to find one close to me!! You’re right, the supermarkets don’t have good spices! Lol
We used to call it Macaroni Cheese in UK, not Mac n Cheese, I think however its US name leaked into our vocabulary.
I wish our supermarkets had kept the UK name for it. I much prefer it, makes more sense as a name for a dish and aligns with its ‘sister’ dish Cauliflower Cheese.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing
Amazon sells Trader Joe’s spices. They’re a bit pricey but worth it.
Ya very pricey! I’ll just have all my American visitors bring me some when they come visit :) lol save me some money!
Hi. First time viewer here. Not sure why you don't think the UK has scouts? (Boys and girls). The scouts was started in the UK in 1910 by Robin Baden Powell in London. US Girls scouts was formed in 1912. Never heard of a cookie thing though. In the UK the scouts have summer fares where home baked goods are sold to raise money.
Scout troops in the UK and the US differ quite a bit. The Girl Scouts in the US are well known for selling different kinds of cookies known as "Girl Scout Cookies" to help raise funds for individual Scout councils and troops, they've apparently done it since the 1920s. They raise millions! I'm British but Girl Scout Cookies are heavily referenced in a lot of tv and films, I'm super curious to try them one day.
Thank you! My exact point!!
Thanks
Try looking for Cornichons these should be tart in flavour
I actually bought some last week and they were labeled “dill” and I will say they are definitely more tart/tangy than most, but still have a sweet aftertaste that we don’t have in the states. So I think it just genuinely doesn’t exist here! Lol
In the UK Indian or Chinese if you find a decent one.Mexian food I doubt it.The other stuff is less than dog food from the US don't touch.
True! The Indian and Chinese food is fantastic here. So pros and cons!
I prefer my chicken burgers without a side order of religious bigotry. Chik-fil-a can stay in USA before they consider opening in 2025; we don't tolerate that kind of nonsense in the UK.
Slim Jims closest one is the Peperami Beef, look for a blue packet of them. But they aren't showing up in the usual places that their own site says to look for Peperami's in general. So....?
Interesting!! I’ll have to be on the lookout for those, thank you!!
@@SheRunTheWorld 👍
Sweet pickles don't exist over here. They always be sour.
Mac and cheese, make it yourself.
Clearly you’ve never had a pickle in the states if you think Uk pickles are sour. Because they are extremely sweet!! Lol
Part of the taste of your American food is nostalgia, so no British equivalent, even if the same, would taste the same. There's also the fact that many ingredients in your American food are banned in the U.K., so you have healthier replacements, which, of course, taste different!
That’s actually such a good point - I never thought of it like that!!
Popeyes has made it to the UK .
It has!! I prefer chick fil A tho!
Honestly, you need to look a bit harder! Coffee Mate? It's been here since the 70s! Dill pickles? Lidl, Aldi. Reese's cups - like everywhere... OK, cornbread mix - well, just make some cornbread. Ditto ranch, if you really really can't find it (Asda, Tesco I'm pretty sure). Herdez salsa? It's in Farmfoods! 🤣 And Popeyes *is* horrible, so I'm not sure we should be crying out for Chick-Fil-A. OK, In-N-Out burgers are pretty good, though I can make better. 😋Oh, you never mentioned Taco Bell! 🤮
Coffee mate is different here. Dill pickles aren’t the same here, they say “dill” but are still sweet. Cornbread mix is how you make cornbread. Chick fil A is so much better than Popeyes which is why I said I miss it. And I don’t like Taco Bell.
Taco Bell offers food, but it ain't great or authentic Mexican by any stretch. Chick-fil-A and Popeyes are good, albeit different styles, and both are far better than the ubiquitous KFC.
Do you not cook or bake? Make your own cookies, corn tortillas, mac and cheese etc. I'm sure there a plenty of recipes out there.
I specifically said I missed Velveeta shells and cheese which is a brand I cannot get here. And don’t really have an interest in making corn tortillas from scratch lol but thank you!! :)
@@SheRunTheWorld I understand that you miss that specific brand, if I had to move to the US, I would miss some proper British food items. I find the American obsession with macaroni and cheese rather curious though, obviously it is ingrained in the psyche of americans who ate it from childhood onwards. It's not much of a thing here. When I was a child my mother would cook macaroni as a milk pudding (like rice pudding but with macaroni substituting for the rice). I am willing to bet that Italians would thow up their hands at either dish! By the way, I have made peanut butter cookies for a friend and they went down well.
I agree with others here , these items are all available, Britain does cut back the additives, but being such a culturally diverse country everything is here , amazon sells all of these trader Joe's, this seems to be a views moan rather than honest ,borders biscuits are a better than girl scout that I s not me saying this, I work in hospitality with a large american customer base the continent not just usa this is their preferred biscuits.
I’ll have to check out borders biscuits then! Thanks!
Does Brittany like the caffeine availability here....not so mocha 😅.
Huh??
Sorry silly attempt at a pun , not so mocha..not so much, probably sounded better in my head than written 😂
😂 you need your eyes tested…..you can get most of these things in Sainsbury’s, Tesco’s, Morrisons. Coffee mate is deffo a thing here.
Perfect 20/20 vision thanks :)
I think tastes to differ between US and Uk. To be honest I feel US dont care what they put in their food provided it tastes good. Cant blame them but hey hello obesity.
True! We definitely prefer taste over quality of ingredients!!😂
We definitely have coffee mate
I think some people have been commenting that it’s in powder form and doesn’t have all the flavors we have back in the states! So it exists, but not in the same way or flavors!!
America has the best tasting poisons on the planet.. People can't get enough of them..
Delicious!!!!
I got diabetes twice and a degenerative colon disease just from watching this video.
That’s unfortunate!
@SheRunTheWorld Love the response hahaha. When I get back from my home country I also always come back with all the junk food. I'm a hypocrite
With "Ranch", Paul Newman sauces were popular over here for a while, and Rach-style was amongst them. But I haven't seen Paul Newman sauces much recently.
Interesting!! I wonder why!
@@SheRunTheWorld 🤔
Lots of the foods you cannot find I have been buying for years but one thought you might bear in mind you are in the uk not America
@@patriciacrangle8244 I’m fully aware of where I am! I’m allowed to miss food items from my home country :)
Wawa..
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That Mac n cheese looks disgusting. Pond slime with fake cheese slime. Keep it out of the UK at ALL COSTS!
@@solpat1977 Velveeta is AMAZING!!!!
Isn’t ranch the same as Kewpie Mayo?
Make your own salsa and spice mixes? Outside of the US we make things ourselves
Hmmm I don’t know what Kewpie Mayo is, but I doubt it because there’s no Mayo in ranch!!
@@SheRunTheWorld Japanese mayonnaise I think. Recipes in Australia often substitute kewpie if it says ranch
Kewpie and ranch are completely different, kewpie is a really eggie mayo
@@bigrdz just a recommendation from Americans for ingredients here in Australia. That’s all. Mayo with spices I suppose is why
And Tesco for one sell Corn tortillas.
WHERE!!!!! I’ve been looking for so long and only see flour and wheat tortillas