Strange things you're not used to

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

It was the Vons on Los Feliz and Central. The Vons in Santa Monica didn't have them, or at least I didn't notice them if they had. It was very weird. I'm not sure how the sound of thunder helps sales of produce. :S

[weedebz 0]

cadbury's here is a tricky one. Occasionally in some stores it's real UK cadbury's for the most part it's just Hershey's in cadbury's packaging. It even says manufactured under licence by Hershey's on the back.

Around easter walmart was selling real cadbury's creme eggs from the UK...I stock piled!!!!!

I agree about the bacon, it's just pumped full of water and grease. I always seem to end up with a pan full of white yuck and it's swimming in grease. Not to mention that it's 1/4 of the size it was when I started.

REALLY MISSING MY HOBNOBS!!!!!

[StillThePrettiest 4]

they have Hobnobs in some of the British sections in the supermarkets I go to... can't remember if it's Kroger or HEB, but one of them at least

[Reba 2]

I don't, of course, need to point out that there are WORSE things to be turned off eating than bacon and chocolate

Chocolate is good for you, you should eat more actually. Bacon...not so much.

[weedebz 0]

they have Hobnobs in some of the British sections in the supermarkets I go to... can't remember if it's Kroger or HEB, but one of them at least

there are NO british type food places around here. I'm currently saving pennies to go to world market when I go to Omaha for my biometrics. This is the only place I know of and it's 3hrs away.

[StillThePrettiest 4]

Chocolate is good for you, you should eat more actually.

what if I eat seventeen kilos a day?

[Krikit 1,166]

If you can find a proper butcher or a Polish or Italian deli you might be able to get some decent bacon. But there really isn't anywhere I've found that you can get it. Or maybe do a search for a desi grocery in your area. They carry a lot of British products and may have some. I'd also put in a request for what you want at your local supermarket. They always tell me if they can find it they'll order it.

[TBoneTX 48,087]

REALLY MISSING MY HOBNOBS!!!!!

* Colonistic sigh * WHAT are "hobnobs"? Is it related to horn-on-the-hob, or norn-on-the-nob, or another talking vegetable? How does a hobnob differ from, say, a gossipnossip?

Question: Are people who silently laugh at sound-effects in the Produce aisle considered to be mental vegetables?

Q: If a cabbage and a carrot had a race, who would win?

A: The cabbage, because it's a head.

Definition for the Day: Vegetarian, n. - 1. Someone who fought in a war. 2. A horse-doctor.

Unrelated (yet undeniably clever, if we may so very modestly admit) Definition #2 for the Day: Condo, n. - a California bird of prey, indigenous to individually owned housing-units within a multiunit structure, and endangered because of its constant use of birth control.

...Had it initially been made clear what "hobnobs" were, much of the above could have been avoided.

[TBoneTX 48,087]

If you can find a proper butcher or a Polish or Italian deli you might be able to get some decent bacon.

And if you find an improper butcher, run like the plague! (Couldn't resist, si man.)

...put in a request for what you want at your local supermarket. They always tell me if they can find it they'll order it.

MY local supermarket denied that they had or could procure Moose Bacon. Life is simply no longer worth living, si man, eh.

However, I did see a cured ham. Wonder what it had?

Edited August 28, 2008 by TBoneTX

[English Muffin 59]

* Colonistic sigh * WHAT are "hobnobs"? Is it related to horn-on-the-hob, or norn-on-the-nob, or another talking vegetable? How does a hobnob differ from, say, a gossipnossip?

You can also get them with chocolate on! Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom.

[Gemmie 142]

I want Hobnobs now!

[TBoneTX 48,087]

Ah, biscuits... er, cookies! Four questions: What do Brits call actual biscuits (U.S.-style)? Does "cookie" mean anything in particular in Britaindom? On the Hobnob package, what does "nobbly" mean? When will the British learn to speak English (ha)?

[weedebz 0]

mmmmmmmmmmmmm hobnobs. They have comforted me through many hard (and not so hard) times. Always good on their own or drunked in a nice cup of tea.

[KaiserD 12]

I'm actually glad that I havn't had access to biscuits, I am terrible with chocolate digestives.

I got told off by my OB for putting on too much weight on my pregnancy (I had HG and ended up in ER a few times for dehydration from being so sick so when I was better, I ate like there was no tomorrow!), if I had access to chocolate biccies on top of all the delicious sugary things the US has to offer I would need a winch to get me out of bed

[TBoneTX 48,087]

Definitions, please, si man!