What do you miss from home?
 

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...http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/drink/tea.gif

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

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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.

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My cousin in Melbourne misses fish and chips.

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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.

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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!

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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."

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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.

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Lots of things! :D 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! :)

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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.

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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

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

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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!

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

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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.

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

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Same here too ... Guy I know, Eddie Walker from Preston, has a pub and a fish and chip shop. And Canadian beer is good ... better, it is second to none ... and Canadians are dedicated beer drinkers; we even named our May long weekend after a case of beer:D

But the question. It's not that simple. Ok, I know that I have this habit of turning simple questions into complex debates, usually with myself.;) But a lot of the things I miss are no longer there. Going to catch a bus to Accy, and not getting past the Village Blacksmith. The smell of the Stink.:eek: Accy Railway Station on a cool, drizzly day, with an old shunter wheezing away and then clanking around aimlessly .... It seems as if the question is way similar to "What do you miss from your childhood and youth"? That's now a foreign country; and maybe we are all strangers in a strange land.

But I would really like some real black puddings ... and a chocolate selection box ... the chocolate is different over there. Funny how lots of people miss certain food items.

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I have access to most goodies from local Brit shops. But one thing I really miss is walking through farms and fields without being shot at! The only public right-of-ways here are in conservation areas, crown land, public trails, that sort of thing. Private land is very private here, and I'm only half joking about being shot at! Am I mistaken, Eric, or have I missed something all these years?

Ok - something else I miss: BLUEBELLS!!!!! Thanks to Accy Web photographers, though, I get to 'see' them as soon as they emerge in all their glory. We have Trilliums here in Ontario, pretty white woodland flowers that also come up in early spring. Nice, but can't even come close to a wood full of bluebells.

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when I go up to the spugsters he gives me a list of what to take for him ... then when im coming back theres a list of accywebbers to bring back haggis .... thing is it weighs a ton carrying em ...:rolleyes:

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Defiantly Hollands pies and puddings, love the chippy on Abbey st, I eat there for as many meals as possible when I come back. Not sure if its still the same people or if it is still there now. I follow Hollands pies on fb, even sent a message to them to please export to Canada:)

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The good old Lancashire fish and chips from my childhood and the beefsteak puddings from the fish-and-chip shop. Also Bassett’s Liquorice Allsorts – which we can get here but somehow just don’t taste the same. Could be that my taste bud memories are different from actual fact, as my nephew sent me some and they still didn’t taste like those when I was a kid. Nor did the fish and chips when we were over there a couple of years ago. Still were good but didn’t have ‘that’ taste from my memory.

When my youngest daughter (born here in Australia) lived in the Caribbean she sent a request for Tim Tam biscuits for her and some Vegemite (yuk!) for her husband as they were longing for these and couldn't get them. Now they live in Glasgow and both these items are available there, though she can’t get her favourite chocolate – Cadbury Peppermint Block.

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i miss my brother

it was so much easier to crack him round teh head when we lived at home but now it takes a car journey and i have to put outdoor pants on :(

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We can't get decent tripe in Morecambe but from what my Sister tells me neither can you, any more, unless you have an outing to Bury.

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the original abbey friar was demolished to build some traffic lights and stuff and it was ran by a couple from baxenden who are long retired now.I think when a new chippy opened they took the name but i dont knwo if it is still there or not

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Isn't that Abbey Friar by the Canine Club on Abbey Street?

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I think Abbey Friar have won awards in the past, don't know whether it's still the same people but it had a really good reputation.

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If your ever down here, Accrington market have a tripe stall, I think it's been going for years. Saying that, it's not something I'd know a lot about, it looks like the most disgusting stuff. My grandma used to eat it with vinegar on. Yuk. :eek:

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Is the tripe stall still Southworths? Even if it is they must have changed their suppliers as it doesn't come close to what it used to taste like. It may look disgusting but the proof of the pudding is in the eating, as they say and serving it with lashings of vinegar is the way to go.

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I'm not sure, I'll check next time I'm there. As to proof of the pudding - my gag reflex would seal my lips, offal is the devils food.:eek::eek: