What do you miss from home?

[mobertol]

I happened to mention to DaveMac that I had packed my suitcase and it was half-full of teabags ready to take back to Italy tomorrow and he suggested this might be a good thread idea for those who, like me, are ex-pats or else living away from Accrington and are missing something fundamental.

The tea-bags are 240 PGTips (£4 from Booths on offer) and a pack of Lancashire tea which a friend bought me - should keep me going for a while.
Bear in mind the only decent tea I can get in Italy is 4,50 euros for a pack of 50 - and I am a "right tea-belly" -someone else's description not mine! That's half the story - the truth is you can't beat proper English tea so I do miss it among many other things...

So the question is "What do you miss from home?"

[Margaret Pilkington]

My sister is in Brisbane. When she comes home she loads her case full of Cadburys chocolate fingers. Yes they do have them in Oz, but the chocolate is definitely not the same......she also misses going to shops like Home and Bargain.

[maxthecollie]

My cousin in Melbourne misses fish and chips.

[davemac]

Slightly in reverse, before I stopped her "she who must be obeyed" used to take on holiday, milk and bacon, so I suppose this is what she missed.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by maxthecollie

My cousin in Melbourne misses fish and chips.

Some of the very best fish and chips I had were in the suburbs of Melbourne.
They just don't do mushy peas.
And you cannot get a Hollands steak and Kidney pudding for love nor money...but Four and Twenty pies are very good!

[maxthecollie]

We once went on a caravan holiday near Ullapool and the warden on the caravan site came from Trawden. As soon as we got there and introduced ourselves, he said " If I'd known you came from Accy. ,you could have brought me some Hollands meat pies."

[Margaret Pilkington]

A friend who lives in Perth wrote to Hollands and asked for the recipe for the pastry on their steak puddings. They wrote back and told him it was just ordinary pastry...well my pastry never looks that colour.

[DaveinGermany]

Lots of things! English sossys & bacon being somewhere up near the top of the list, the humble porky pie & brown sauce, D&B pop, as for fish & chips, well I'd drag my raggedy arse over splintered planks for a proper, tasty, salt & vinegar lathered portion!

[westendlass]

When my daughter was going to visit her Auntie in France she was asked to bring some Cracker Barrel cheese, Hp sauce and tea bags among other things.

[Boeing Guy]

When I lived in Morocco, Tea, good fresh Coffee, Hellmans Mayo, Hard Cheese HP Sauce, Melton Mobery Pork Pies
All of which I used to stuff in my suitcase.
When I used to come home, the first meal was always at the chippy

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Boeing Guy

When I used to come home, the first meal was always at the chippy

A man after my own heart, you Sir, are a star!

[Margaret Pilkington]

I can remember making Lancashire Hotpot, cheese and onion pie and bread and butter pudding for my sisters family.....they ate these foods sat round the table in the garden in 40 degree temps with perspiration dripping off them....but they had asked me to make these delicacies....they missed them from home!

[Bob Dobson]

In America I met a Scouser who always takes Daddies' Sauce back, and a lady who takes Smarties.

[ossy kid]

We're pretty fortunate here in B.C. lots of shops sell British food and a great local chippy with mushy peas and steak and kidney pies. The beers good too so I guess the thing we miss most are family and friends.

[egg&chips]

No cheese and onion pies in any chippy near me OR steak puddings:-(