To the Brits - do you think everything here in the US is too sweet?

[*julez* 124]

G gets upset about our baked beans! He is very much a fan of your basic Heinz beans in tomato sauce and cannot come to grips with things like brown sugar or molasses in our versions.

[msu17 0]

Paul loves the food here except for our bread. Totally registering for a breadmaker when we get married! English chocolate is also 10000000 times better! I always make him bring me a stash when he visits. We're big meat and pasta fans, so you can really add too much sweetness to that.

[Mags 112]

G gets upset about our baked beans! He is very much a fan of your basic Heinz beans in tomato sauce and cannot come to grips with things like brown sugar or molasses in our versions.

Kroger's "vegetarian beans" are very close to the UK ones.

[PaulineA 1]

Simon is constantly crabbing about everything being too sweet! The bread, the beans, the pastry, you name it, and he thinks it's too sweet.

Is it just him, or do others feel this way too? I don't notice it, but then again, I've always been here. Eating up the sweet life I guess! ----sorry, that was bad, I know.

~Liza

I have found that things over here are too sweet. The chocolate just isn't as good as the British chocolate. The beans taste funny here, and I think it is gross that people put brown sugar in baked beans, lol. I've gotten used to the bread, it isn't that bad anymore.

[lizaanne 0]

Kroger's "vegetarian beans" are very close to the UK ones.

Those are exactly what we just bought this week, and he did say they were pretty good (he had them on toast for breakfast - BLECH!!!). He hated the Boston brand with the brown sugar and pork in them.

~Liza

[Peikko 1,575]

Bread is too sweet, chocolate is too sweet, don't bother with baked beans and try to avoid processed food.

Martini's are just perfect though

[mmb 0]

I have to agree about American foods being way to sweet, but personally I'm in food heaven here. I live just accross the street from a Gujerati store where I can get all my curry ingredients fresh as I want them.

As I only actually moved here Tuesday, yesterday lunchtime I didn't feel like cooking so just walked over the road and came back with a box of frozen massala dosas made in Kerela. While I'm not a big fan of processed foods I think I might buy more of those sometime.

[*julez* 124]

G gets upset about our baked beans! He is very much a fan of your basic Heinz beans in tomato sauce and cannot come to grips with things like brown sugar or molasses in our versions.

Kroger's "vegetarian beans" are very close to the UK ones.

Thanks mags! We were so happy to discover on a trip to Wegmans that they out of the blue started stocking the Heinz ones. G is thrilled!! I'm not a fan so much (they taste like beans in spaghettio sauce to me!), but as long as he's happy, I'm happy!

Edited March 8, 2007 by julezabelle

[perfect 39]

Kroger's "vegetarian beans" are very close to the UK ones.

Those are exactly what we just bought this week, and he did say they were pretty good (he had them on toast for breakfast - BLECH!!!). He hated the Boston brand with the brown sugar and pork in them.

~Liza

Baked beans on toast - how can you not like - that's one of my all-time favorites - UK beans of course!? Or Fried egg, chips (fries) and baked beans....sausage, egg and beans - dip the sausage in the egg yolk and bean sauce...don't knock it until you've tried it!!

Edited March 8, 2007 by perfect

[Mags 112]

My husband can't understand beans or cheese on toast. Nor eggs on toast, or egg and chips. He's missing out on some damn fine culinary classics I can tell ya!

[ajames79 0]

Kroger's "vegetarian beans" are very close to the UK ones.

Those are exactly what we just bought this week, and he did say they were pretty good (he had them on toast for breakfast - BLECH!!!). He hated the Boston brand with the brown sugar and pork in them.

~Liza

Baked beans on toast - how can you not like - that's one of my all-time favorites - UK beans of course!? Or Fried egg, chips (fries) and baked beans....sausage, egg and beans - dip the sausage in the egg yolk and bean sauce...don't knock it until you've tried it!!

*grin* YUCKOOOOOOOO

But you are welcome to eat what ever you like...I'll cook it for you to. But no beans on toast for me...same goes with dipping anything in egg! (I am a no egg girl)

[featherB 1]

I will have to agree on the 'everything being too sweet' thing - I'm not even there yet, and I noticed the presence of High Fructose Corn Syrup in EVERYTHING (whyyyyyy does bread need to be sweetened, damn it? It's not a cake, it's BREAD, ffs!!) while wandering round a supermarket a couple of years ago. It's just made me think that I really really really will have to get used to the idea of cooking a lot of stuff from scratch, just so I don't end up consuming a ton of unwanted sugar on a daily basis. I'm soooo far from being some kind of diet-obsessed health freak, but that corn syrup thing (along with the amount of totally unnecessary additives in EVERYTHING - and I'm more than used to foods being filled with additives, living in the UK and all...) does freak me out a touch, I have to say.

[jezebelseven 0]

My husband can't understand beans or cheese on toast.

At first, cheese on toast sounded strange and awful to me, but I tried it and was shocked at how nice it was. It only occurred to me afterwards that basically, it's an open faced grilled cheese sandwich. And I loves me some grilled cheese!

The beans though, I can't even think of touching that. Ughhhh.

I think Adam prefers food in the US *because* it's so sweet. His sweet tooth overpowers mine by a mile.

[Lisax 0]

Try italian bread, I'm not all that keen on the regular bread over here, do miss a nice loaf of bread from Hovis, but anyways, try Italian bread from supermarkets or an italian bakery if you can find one, I think it's the closet to what the bread is like back in england, tastes much better than the regular bread over here.

[Lisax 0]

I also agree with many of you guys aswell, Heinz baked beans are waaaay much better than the beans over here, I'm so glad I can get them in the Stop and Shop over here in the international section, go nice with a toasted bagel with butter. another thing, also miss Clover aswell.