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[telophase]

One cat pic


Help! I'm being suffocated by a giant cat!





Also, the British food shelf at our local supermarket.



Here it is from the side. Click on the picture for an enlarged version of it.



And a blurry direct-on shot (click to embiggen). Brits on my f-list: how many of the foods do you actually recognize? :)

Comments

[movingfinger]

I'm not a Brit and I recognize everything (and have bought a lot of it) except Dreamy Mallows...

[telophase]

I recognize a lot of it, but mostly from consuming British media over the years.

[onthehill]

WHUT!!!??? 5 tons of Marmite but no Bovril!!!??? I AM OUTRAGED! All the Heinz stuff and the Branston & the HP sauce and that red vinegar bottle make me \o/ Hah and Birds custard \o/ It's funny how its all the cheap crap that reminds you of a place.
Yes no living there now but this shelf kinda makes me feel like I've been taken back in time.

[chomiji]

Awww, you have more/better Brit-food than we do! We just have one vertical section of Red Rose tea, marmalade, some biscuits, and cans of Devon custard and creamed rice.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

We seem to have a reasonable amount of international foods here, well, comparatively speaking that is. At least I can get Squid brand fish sauce in the Asian section!

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

I recognise pretty much all of it. :D Though Dreamy Mallows are nasty. Tunnocks Tea Cakes are far superior (fluffy and not chewy marshmallow). In fact if there weren't any signs up I'd probably not be able to tell this wasn't an average British supermarket (though I'd wonder why they put the custard, tex-mex and pasta all together like that, I've only seen shelves like that at tiny service stations). :D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Ah, you see, that's not the pasta, that's the Indian food. This is the International Foods ghetto aisle! Just past the Indian section is the Asian section (because India is totally not in Asia), where you get all sorts of ramen, sushi-making ingredients, soy sauce, fish sauce, and a bunch of other stuff all mixed in because all those Asians eat the same thing.

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

Oh. Err, of course it is. I totally see that now... >_> <_< Clearly all Asian people eat nothing but sushi and soy sauce. Just like Americans eat nothing but pizza and hot dogs and British people eat nothing but marmite and hp sauce. Everyone knows that. Our "world food" aisle at the local supermarket isn't any better though. Except we can often find exactly the same items shelved elsewhere along with all the other rice/ pasta/ sauces/ quick meals, etc. which makes me wonder why they bother at all.

[awamiba.livejournal.com]

I want a British section in my grocery! Totally jealous. Last year "we" had to order online for our British Tea Party (my friend threw me a surprise one for my birthday). What kind of store is it? (I'll be in DFW in a couple weeks for David's ortho appt. and I may have to stop by and stock up.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It's the Kroger's nearby us! Although I've been in different Kroger's and noticed different patterns of stocking, so I guess it depends on the area it's in. Pick one in a reasonably affluent area and you should be fine.

You might also check in World Market, which has some British goods as well.

[m00nface.livejournal.com]

It looks like some of the packaging is not the dominant packaging here, e.g. fruit pastilles in a box instead of a paper tube, wine gums in a box instead of a plastic packet etc., likely due to the practicalities of importing food. However, I recognise everything, and am horrified to be culinarily represented by pickled onions, Ribena and Weetabix. :(

Also, I understand wanting to get hold of your favourite brand of tea, for example (would still have to bring in my favourite Yorkshire tea though!), and I realise that ingredients like Marmite or HP sauce might be hard to come by, but I find it hard to believe that American supermarkets don't provide jam or gravy granules! Is there really that much of a difference?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I believe I am culinarily represented by the Big Mac, so I sympathize!

As far as jam and gravy granules, I guess the distributor thinks that American jam and jelly* and our packets of gravy mix will suffice for the homesick Brit!


* British jelly = American gelatin/Jell-O. American jelly = jam without fruit bits in it, just the jellied juice. At least I think jelly = jellied juice while jam = jellied juice and fruit.