Immigrants: what foods from home do you miss most?
Illona88
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I personally moved from the Netherlands to the UK.
The foods I miss the most is the applesauce (British ones taste funny and I can't find the right apples here to make it myself), chocolate sprinkles with butter on bread, snert (pea soup at the thickness of a stew), stewed pears (can't find the right pears), peach flavoured milk, bolognese flavoured crisps and Frisian spice and sugar cake.
The meals I can make myself, so I don't really have to miss those. Unfortunately snert is delicious, but takes hours to make and can only really be made in quantities that will feed an army.
The foods I miss the most is the applesauce (British ones taste funny and I can't find the right apples here to make it myself), chocolate sprinkles with butter on bread, snert (pea soup at the thickness of a stew), stewed pears (can't find the right pears), peach flavoured milk, bolognese flavoured crisps and Frisian spice and sugar cake.
The meals I can make myself, so I don't really have to miss those. Unfortunately snert is delicious, but takes hours to make and can only really be made in quantities that will feed an army.
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Boiled crawfish and decent seafood mostly.
The food here in SE Texas is just so generic...no identity like my homeland in Lousisiana.0 -
empanadas chilenas!0
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I am Irish and have been living in the US for 14 years. I have never recovered from missing Irish cadbury's chocolate. Dairy Milk from the fridge, specifically! I can find it here, but it is just not easily accessible when I get the craving.0
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Boiled crawfish and decent seafood mostly.
The food here in SE Texas is just so generic...no identity like my homeland in Lousisiana.
What city do you live in? I don't think I could live without my TX barbeque and Texmex. Albeit, after visiting my sister in Seattle I do admit our seafood leaves something to be desired.
I used to live in Buffalo, NY and I miss beef on weck. Thinly sliced (right in front of you) roast beef with aus jus on a kemmelweck roll (a soft flaky roll topped with caraway seeds and kosher salt. I could attempt to make it myself, but I don't think it' would compare.
P.S. I totally googled the recipe for Snert and will definitely be making it in the future! Yum!0 -
I love those chocolate sprinkles when I go to the Netherlands!I personally moved from the Netherlands to the UK.
The foods I miss the most is the applesauce (British ones taste funny and I can't find the right apples here to make it myself), chocolate sprinkles with butter on bread, snert (pea soup at the thickness of a stew), stewed pears (can't find the right pears), peach flavoured milk, bolognese flavoured crisps and Frisian spice and sugar cake.0 -
love the OP. My mother was Dutch it really brings back memories. apple sauce with all sorts of things, like mashed potato!
I'm from NZ so we don't have much cuisine i miss. Kumara (NZ sweet potato) is the main one, and the mussels you buy actual live and farmed in the supermarket, huge much bigger than European ones.0 -
passion fruit from kenya..it's wrinkled and black, not smooth and purple like other varieties. I can find it occasionally in the UK, but I overdose on it whenever I return to Kenya for visits0
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Char Kuay Teow. Fried with lard only, please.
I'm from Singapore.
I don't know the proper translation of the dish and I don't exactly want to try because it will just ruin it.0 -
I miss, from Peru: aji (yellow chillies) and super fresh ceviche (raw fish marinated in lime juice); from my Chinese home: steamed rice bowls my dad would cook for me, but other than that, almost everything Chinese can be found where I'm at right now; from my adopted home, New Zealand: green lipped mussels, really good fish and chips, really good lamb....0
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I like peas, the description of snert sounds good, if not the name itself, but snert is fun to say.
snert......snert.......snert.......
now the word has lost all meaning.
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Not the exact same, but I moved from California to Georgia. I miss good artichokes. Random, but true. and In and Out Burger.0
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From the US but lived in Germany for a short time, I really miss Jaeger Schnitzel. Tried several recipes from on line without much success.0
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When I lived in the UK, I missed peanut butter, dill pickles and Campbell's chicken noodle soup. Also, my mother's butter tarts.
Now, being back in Canada, I miss M&S caramelised onion chutney, caramelised onion and balsamic crisps and twirl bars.0 -
Funeral Potatoes. It's a Utah thing.0
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Not an immigrant, but a transplant to California and I miss real hot New Mexican food. This blah watered down California stuff doesnt even come close to home. I also miss some of the food from Nigeria like the roadside corn and the thin slices of hot spicey meat wrapped in newspaper. Oh and I also miss the Lebanese cooking from the immigrants in Nigeria....MMMMMM.
Oh and mangoes and guava fresh from the tree...yum yum drool drool.0 -
A nostalgia thing, I miss milk in bottles.0
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I currently live in California, but was born and raised in New York. Not different countries, but different ends of the same county.
No Dunkin Donuts?
No Carvel?
Seriously... although, we are getting a Dunkin in 2014, so is rumored. But it's on a military base, and well, i'm not military, so probably won't be able to go.
However, we have in n out - and a lot of my NY friends are jealous of that.0 -
Fresh goat cooked on a rotisserie/open flame on real fresh flat bread with tons of grilled veggies bought at the Suk (North Africa).0
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I used to live in the Netherlands and miss old goat gouda most of all. Also raw herring which I used to call working man's sushi. I also miss fillet americain.0
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The only thing I cannot get in NYC is Zwack Unicum. It's not a food, it's booze. And it's not from my home country but it is foreign. So there, I am not exactly on topic.0
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I spent a lot of my childhood in Malaysia. I miss roti canai, rambutans, and good Chinese food :sad:0
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Originally from Iowa, U.S., and been living in Canada for 11 years. What I miss:
- A&E small curd cottage cheese
- Oscar Meyer beef balonga
- Fastco hot dogs
- chocolate milk
Up here, all the foods that have casing (sausages, hot dogs, cottage cheese) come with thick casing. I found hot dogs that I like, except biting into them is like biting into minced meat stuffed into a 1/2" chunk of plastic. Cottage cheese does not taste "right", extremely blah. The chocolate milk is somewhere between red and purple in color rather than a brown.
I also miss the cheapness. Food's much more expensive when it has to be shipped on an overnight ferry.0 -
Funeral Potatoes. It's a Utah thing.
I had this a few years ago. My husband's fav.0 -
I was in US for 10 years, I missed many things. Some of them I could cook myself or find in restaurants but they weren't the same and some I simply cannot find in US.
Ful (pronounced fool) fava beans boiled till they break, with veggies, cheese, falafel, olive oil, spices. It is extremely yummy. Cannot find anything close to even the real thing in US.
Hummus: What is it about Americans and getting rid of the chick pea flavor in hummus. The US hummus tastes like cream to me. You're supposed to taste the chick peas in it. With olive oil
Mutabbaq: veggies with meat and eggs on cheese wrapped in very thing dough and then lightly fried! yes please. Cannot find anything even close to it in US
Biryani: Cannot find good biryani in US
Many other things really but these were the biggies.0 -
Just a lower NY transplant to WNY but I so miss the NY thin crust pizza:sad: :sad: Nothing like it in Buffalo... We overdose on it when we go home to visit family. I understand the beef on weck issue, but what i've heard is the salt does not travel well when they are shipped!:bigsmile:0
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I spent part of my life in Asia. I miss fruits like mangosteen, rambutan and things like jackfruit, string
hoppers (like a noodle pancake).0 -
I spent part of my life in Asia. I miss fruits like mangosteen, rambutan and things like jackfruit, string
hoppers (like a noodle pancake).
Mangosteen is the best fruit in the entire world. I could happily spend eternity eating only that.0 -
I was in US for 10 years, I missed many things. Some of them I could cook myself or find in restaurants but they weren't the same and some I simply cannot find in US.
Ful (pronounced fool) fava beans boiled till they break, with veggies, cheese, falafel, olive oil, spices. It is extremely yummy. Cannot find anything close to even the real thing in US.
Hummus: What is it about Americans and getting rid of the chick pea flavor in hummus. The US hummus tastes like cream to me. You're supposed to taste the chick peas in it. With olive oil
Mutabbaq: veggies with meat and eggs on cheese wrapped in very thing dough and then lightly fried! yes please. Cannot find anything even close to it in US
Biryani: Cannot find good biryani in US
Many other things really but these were the biggies.
Next time, try Dearborn, MI.0 -
I was in US for 10 years, I missed many things. Some of them I could cook myself or find in restaurants but they weren't the same and some I simply cannot find in US.
Ful (pronounced fool) fava beans boiled till they break, with veggies, cheese, falafel, olive oil, spices. It is extremely yummy. Cannot find anything close to even the real thing in US.
Hummus: What is it about Americans and getting rid of the chick pea flavor in hummus. The US hummus tastes like cream to me. You're supposed to taste the chick peas in it. With olive oil
Mutabbaq: veggies with meat and eggs on cheese wrapped in very thing dough and then lightly fried! yes please. Cannot find anything even close to it in US
Biryani: Cannot find good biryani in US
Many other things really but these were the biggies.
Next time, try Dearborn, MI.
Lived about 45 minutes away from Dearborn MI (Flint, MI). Believe me, I've looked.0 -
Not an immigrant, but a Canadian ex-pat in Japan.
Most of the foods I miss aren't really good for me but I obviously didn't eat that great if I'm here trying to lose weight.
Humpty Dumpty Cheesies (or cheese sticks if you prefer), Though I did recently find Herr's baked cheese curls at a foreign food store, and they're pretty close.
Cheeze Whiz!
Campbell's Tomato Soup (again I can find it but it's really expensive ~3$ per can)
Sour cream, I can find it here but it's almost like cream cheese texture and super expensive, but I have recently started using greek yogurt which has been a decent substitute,
Powdered onion soup mix (for dips)
The choice in pre-made frozen dinners. The only kinds you can really find easily here are pasta, I miss lean cuisine type meals.
What will I miss when I go back to Canada? Garigari-kun bars and Melon Soda.0
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