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For example, Marmite Crumpets don't exist. You cannot buy them at the supermarket. To be clear: you can buy crumpets, you can buy marmite, you can buy butter; but you have to assemble them at home.

If you walk into a breakfast cafe, they will happily serve you sausage / egg / bacon / french toast / bubble / squeak (whatever that is). But no marmite crumpets. If you ask them to make it, they will give you a very strange look. It's not typically offered. It's something you just have to make at home.

It is unbuyable. Any tourist who comes to the UK to try a Marmite crumpet would need to bring a toaster or an oven with them, or quickly befriend a brit and hope that they have all the ingredients at home.

It's not a secret. You just can't have it.

*munches into crumpet thoughtfully, and salivates at the juicy savory delight, whilst staring at you pityingly and condescendingly*

Anyway, what's something that I could never experience unless I made it myself in your local?

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[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  1. Chip Butty
  2. Crisp Sandwich made with Sandwich Spread.
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

horrific, you get a pass

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[–] brlemworld@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Properly cooked hash browns. It takes too long for a restaurant to do it.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Disagree, mcdonalds does it perfect and I will die on this hill, or fight in this trench. Also their coffee is great. I am not paid by mcdonalds to shill their awful products

[–] ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

IMO a hash brown patty from Trader Joe's is far better if it's skillet-fried at home with a little bit of oil. It's also far cheaper if you don't need to eat on the go.

Their breakfast steak patty sandwiches though, no place makes it like them and I absolutely love them. I wish they made burgers with their steak patties, but that probably won't happen.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Maple Walnut ice cream seems to be impossible to find in stores outside of New England

[–] Not2Dopey@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

Lots in Canada

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[–] Dubois_arache@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Maybe most of the food is based in the ideals of what we want it to be, but the reality is the ingredients and the people who cook of your region.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Stuffing and mashed potatoes.

Most places have their stuffing way to moist. I want stuffing, not bread that looks like it was dropped in water. Boxed stuffing shouldn't even be sold. It tastes like garbage.

Get some bread. Tear it up. Let it dry. Add some chicken broth. Add some seasoning. That means go to store and buy the different seasonings. Like garlic powder. Sage, thyme, etc.

Then put it on the oven. The moisture comes from gravy.

Mashed potatoes... Yeah most times people add way to much to the mashed potatoes.

Edit and for the gravy that means you make a chicken or a turkey you get the broth and you make the gravy.

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[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The Cannibal Sandwich, which doesn't actually use human flesh, but is also not a sandwich. Anyway, you take a slice of rye cocktail bread, spread on some raw, ground beef, then top it with some sliced onion, salt, and pepper. You can't get it ready-made, because nobody likes e. coli or salmonella poisoning. In fact, you have to make special arrangements to get the beef ground by a butcher in a clean grinder, and pretty much eat it the same day.

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[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Brother, we have all of those ingredients everywhere. We have a little British store run by expats who could get whatever packaged crumpet you use. Shit, I can make a batch of crumpets in about 15 minutes.

It's not like a crazy recipe that needs balanced flavors to be done right. Like I've never had a good poutine outside of Quebec. It's always sad beige gravy with the wrong seasonings or mozzarella or frozen fries or all of the above. It is never right.

What we can also talk about is local places making local dishes but they do it wrong and cheap or "good enough" and people come from abroad and try the dishes and think they're mid because they went to the wrong place.

TL;DR: I love poutine.

/Rant

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[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Marmite on Weetbix.

Ingredients:

  • 1 Weetbix
  • butter (lots)
  • Marmite (lots)

Method:
Select a choice looking compressed wheat brick, apply a thick layer of butter, spread the Marmite across the layer of butter.

This was a common school snack when I was growing up.

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[–] molten@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago
[–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Food I want to eat

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Jam that doesn't get moldy. Store-bought jam is usually made from freeze-dried powder (supply-chain effects) while mold doesn't like the acids in real jam. Learned that the hard way after i moved out from parents farm.

[–] oo1 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Some cafes will do it - not as standard, but a few - maybe try the ones trying to be 1-up from a greasy. https://seahousescafe.co.uk/the-breakfast-menu

As will many hotel breakfasts, there's often little single serving marmite things in with the single serving jam packets. I'd say about half the hotels i've stayed in with decent cooked breakfast have had it on offer.

I've also seen it in little roadside food van / trailer type things too.

Anyway, you want sainsbury's yeast extract instead of marmite, it's way gloopier and nicer tasting.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

sainsbury’s yeast extract

It just sounds wrong but I'll be on the lookout

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