Question of the Day: Which foods would you miss if you were overseas?
I'm in Nicaragua enjoying the rice and beans - but I'd kill for a British sausage.
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27 Comments:
Tacos and all things southwest !
Colorado Jim at 1:48PM on 05/29/07
Peanut butter! corn on the cob!
ThatGirl153 at 2:26PM on 05/29/07
My husband spent 5 weeks in Thailand. He said the food was awesome but after a few weeks he just wanted a sandwich or a hamburger. It's been years since he has been home and he is just now ok with eating Thai food here. I guess it was just an overload of one cuisine!
ThatGirl153 at 2:28PM on 05/29/07
I don't know if I'm overseas (Puerto Rico), but I miss pizza like you wouldn't believe. Second would be bagels. Also Greek, Armenian, Chinese, Mexican, and Japanese food.
Lou at 2:32PM on 05/29/07
i lived in germany for a few years and missed burgers, pizza, scrambled eggs, good take out food (germany doesn't have a single good delivery restaurant, seriously!), non-cream based salad dressings, cans of tuna in water (not oil!), bagels, oh my the list can go on and on....
ceforrester at 3:03PM on 05/29/07
Pizza and bialies. As for bagels, I haven't had a decent one in years.
Barbara Hanson at 3:38PM on 05/29/07
Jambalaya, Gumbo, fried chicken, collard greens, corn bread.....
1stmakearoux at 5:15PM on 05/29/07
I am currently overseas - since the island is small - there are no actual restaurants, no fast food and no decent supermarket.
I am currently missing (insert collective gasp here) Taco Bell's chalupas !!
.....and bagels and good hamburgers and good whole wheat pasta and fresh milk and salmon and Heath bars and whole grain bread and tacos (well Mexican food) and granola and the white cheese flavored popcorn (natural) and the "homestyle" microwave popcorn and meat that hasn't been frozen for 6 months and Hansen sodas and gyros and carnival food (and fairs and festivals) and beer - have I mentioned the serious lacking of good beer here? (all I ask is a Fat Tire or Blue Moon!) and grapefruit juice and .... sigh....
enjyns at 7:50PM on 05/29/07
Lived in several countries in Europe, and in a remote part of Japan. Missed American-style pizza; I think the Yanks improved on the concept greatly. Okra was in short supply except, oddly enough, in Belgium. Mexican food was an abomination everywhere; other Americans I knew got masa and such mailed from home. And, of course, Budweiser. Just kidding about the last.
TikiPundit at 8:12PM on 05/29/07
Missed American-style pizza; I think the Yanks improved on the concept greatly. Okra was in short supply except, oddly enough, in Belgium. Mexican food was an abomination everywhere; other Americans I knew got masa and such mailed from home. And, of course, Budweiser. Just kidding about the last.
TikiPundit at 8:12PM on 05/29/07
Being from Texas I miss Mexican food and barbeque-not to mention being able to enter a 7-11 at any time night or day and getting a Diet Coke with crushed ice or a Slurpee.
lpennin104 at 1:34AM on 05/30/07
The only thing I miss when traveling over seas is water from the faucet..
NYBITECLUB at 11:30AM on 05/30/07
A good, juicy AMERICAN hamburger.
DocChuck at 11:32AM on 05/30/07
while in ireland: chunky peanut butter & mexican food!
ailleacht.firinne at 12:17PM on 05/30/07
A decent natural-casing American hot dog with one of the solid varieties of coney sauce ... and some mustard, sweet onion and root beer, of course!
LunaPierCook at 2:28PM on 05/30/07
Cranberry juice. I don't normally drink it at home, but when I was in Britian, I felt very deprived.
KDBlue at 6:27PM on 05/30/07
Our Man formerly in Hanoi, what are you doing here?! I didn't know you posted/commented here. This is Mr. No Star Where (NSW=No Star Where), formerly of Saigon. I came onto this thread to post that if I were returning to live in Vietnam, I wouldn't miss much, other than slices and bagels.
NSW at 7:10PM on 05/30/07
yum! Nica fooooooood! My tummy is now rumbling for some gallo pinto. And the fried cheese, maduros, and deep-fried tacos from a street cart with crema and cabbage. Finger-licking good.
When I was in England for a year (coming from the US) I missed cheez doodles, non-flavored marshmallows, and bagels. Then I got back to the US and missed all the yummy blackcurrant things, sticky toffee pudding, and pasties. For these reasons we must travel!
veggiesattva at 11:12PM on 05/30/07
Pasta al dente... The Italian girl said... ;-)
Sara - Piperita at 3:22AM on 05/31/07
A couple of years ago, John and I went to Ecuador, where none of the food served agreed with us. So, we missed everything. Otherwise, when we go to Utah (not foreign, I know), we miss good bread. It's just that high-altitude desert thing. Very hard to bake bread and make good pizza there.
hereandthe at 7:34AM on 05/31/07
I'm based in London, but spend large chunks of the year in Amsterdam, where I used to live full-time. When I'm in Amsterdam, I miss very little, actually. But when I'm in London, I miss Calve mayonnaise, affordable Indonesian and Thai food, the availability of good quality chocolate in any corner shop, aged Dutch cheese (oude kaas) and sweet gherkins. Also, I miss the range of food that you can get in the supermarkets (my local supermarket in London is a travesty). Most things that I eat here in London are available in most other places I've been, with the possible exception of plain old British sausages.
caley at 8:41AM on 05/31/07
I am back in the states for just a few days now...and I miss the stroopwafels of Holland with my coffee!!! And on top of that, its hard to find them in the US without being cheap ingredient high priced failures.
At least the coffee's still remarkable...
tyronebcookin at 1:09PM on 05/31/07
After only a few weeks in England last summer, what I missed most was good crusty chewy bread, skim milk (not semi-skimmed!), and good salad dressing in restaurants (salad cream? is that just mayo? ick). Of course, it didn't help that I was staying in a dorm, so the food was worse than normal to begin with.
ChristineB at 1:30PM on 05/31/07
I've been living in Japan for a few years now... off the top of my head: cranberry juice, peanut butter (they only sell Skippy at the local supermarket), sourdough bread, good cheese that isn't 10 bucks for a tiny sliver, dolma, sliced deli meats (there's only ham or some scary looking "pastrami" stuff - and it's all prepackaged), nectarines, apricots, berries... I could go on for days.
Looks like it's time for a trip back home!
pluot at 9:08PM on 06/01/07
I've been missing beignets lately, as well as whole-fried flounder. And good, dark, non-sweet bread or sufficiently crusty French bread. Everything else, I make for myself. : )
Sanba at 9:56AM on 06/03/07
seasonal fruits (grapes, papayas, nectarines) i went to puerto rico for 14 days but the papayas there were horrid! it left me shocked and disappointed, to say the least!
fat-free milk (none available in the dominican republic or russia) i couldnt feed my coffee habit!
Dreamzoxo at 10:34PM on 06/04/07
When I spent my summer abroad in Italy, I think I finally realized how lucky we are to have so many options ! Italian after four weeks begins to be a little tiresome, so we found a convent in the middle of Rome that was also a restraunt and served fabulous French bistro fare ..When I came home from there I think all I ate was mom's fried chicken and turkey sandwiches.
orcutbm at 10:48PM on 06/04/07