Wow the differences are beginning to sink in here. Everytime Lucy or I say something is rubbish, one of our friends is so kind and mocks us.
Also, I recognise practically nothing in the supermarkets, and while this was fun when we were here first, and last year when we were staying in a hotel, now when I try to find pasta and can only find egg noodles, it's not as fun.
I have a feeling that if I do not find English food soon, I will waste away, and Lucy with me. Each week we will be become more skeletal and die :( Sad times.
I have worked out that we need a cat. A house is not a home without a cat, so maybe we should see if the neighbours have one and steal it. That's what happened with Bluffy, I think. One day she turned up into our garden (yes, garden, not yard) and we never let her out! It was the most successful catnap of the century. I'm not really joking either, she even had a collar :))
Dad has gone to get cleaning materials with Lucy. We need cleaning materials quite badly, I tried to clean the mirrors earlier and discovered that somehow water and glass cleaner are substantially different. All the cleaning materials here are different anyways... and the chocolate :(
Mum, if you're reading this I beg you to send some chocolate with your next mail order. Hershey bars are like the economy chocolate you get that you know has been made in China.
We're still waiting on the sofas... me especially. They sound like they would be good sleeping places :)
Cxx
You just need to find a large grocery store with a "British aisle" and you'll find the necessities of life you are looking for! I know several in Texas had such sections with everything from Marmite (which it seems all English people live - but I *hate*!) to Robinsons squash, Heinz baked beans, Mcvities tea biscuits, Cadburys chocolate, and all the other "essentials" - including tea, etc. So, you just need to look a bit further, as you *will* find British foods - just perhaps double the price you paid in the UK! ;) BUT that will be cheaper than the postage your mum would have to pay to send it to you! LOL
ReplyDeleteOh, and there's *plenty* of pasta in USA, and taste very much the same, so not sure what you were finding. But yes, I think they do tend to put egg in all of it (or at least most of it) and it's the other way round here in the UK, where most is egg-free, but it's in some of the pasta.
pasta goes by its name rather then just stating "pasta" they say, spagetti, linguine, macaroni etc. Rach is right most big stores should have some sort of british isles. Walmart typically does and its under the name of foreign foods. you also can look on the internet and order some things from over there that will be cheaper then your mom sending them. HEB, WALMART, KROGER, CUB, RAINBOW any of the big stores will have the items your looking for.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the inside info, I'm sure it will help! Esp re where Const can buy "real" chocolate. You do have to remember though, that this is GR, MI, not Texas. . . this is the kind of place where everyone leaves their door key under an identical flower pot on their front lawn; and the neighbors pop round with cookies when you move in (which is kind of unbelievable from a London-dweller).
ReplyDeleteConst, do the stores have a British aisle? I'd have thought in Aldi you would be getting European type products, similar to Lidl. (I never did like most of Lidl's food, it is very "European" rather than British)
Keep up posted
Hx
PS - what does "rubbish" translate as? I'd have thought garbage, but maybe something gets lost in translation.
ReplyDeleteRubbish = garbage or trash :D
ReplyDeleteAnd chocolate? I never found real chocolate in the states! Maybe at the high end shops...wherever they were. :D