In my travels, there are times I ate something so good that I started to mentally hatch plans about how I could import it back home and sell it and introduce everyone to this delicious product and make lots of money. But of course, it never happened.
I was wondering, are there food items you discovered abroad that you wished you had in your home country?
For example, Tim-Tams.
Posts: 841 | Location: Vancouver, BC, for now... | Registered: 06 January 2004
the Thai noodle dish I can't pronounce right & have yet to find in the states...
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Posts: 583 | Location: Houston, TX, USA | Registered: 12 February 2005
has anyone tried this one fruit in asia.. its red on the outside and on the inside, it's white with little black seeds everywhere? i'm not sure what its called in english but it's translated as 'lantern fruit'
yummy!
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Posts: 2240 | Location: seattle | Registered: 22 July 2004
Requejao cheese from Brazil and pickled herring from Iceland come to mind. There were also these REALLY good candies from Hokaido (Sapporo) Japan that tasted like rich Haagen-dazs strawberry ice cream. A freeze-dried strawberry covered with white chocolate....yum.
Please can I go back to Thailand
Posts: 1490 | Location: Finally breathing some clean air in No. CA Mountains | Registered: 01 February 2001
I still occasionally think I could make a mint by selling salt 'n' vinegar crisps in mainland Eorope -- but perhaps somebody has beaten me to it by now...
being from the north of Germany, not far from the Dutch border, I'm addicted to salty liquirice which is also popular in Scandinavia. So I thought I was on a sure-fire winner there, but people with different roots spit the stuff right into the bin. Tastes differ...
I recently read in New Scientist that eels are overfished to the point of extinction in Germany and France where smoked eels are a delicacy. Yet, even though Scotland abounds with fish smokeries, you can't get them here. Edible mushrooms are also hard to find on the continent where people get up at the crack of dawn during the season, but in the woods around St. Andrews we found prize specimens growing right by the roadside. A former colleague of mine got so excited that he drove to ours and bundled us into the car for an instant foraging expedition...mmmh. Those woods were special, though, I had marginally less luck around Stirling.
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'I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.' J. Handey
Posts: 2394 | Location: Perth, Western Australia | Registered: 02 June 2004
When in Thailand we found a canned iced tea by Lipton that was to die for.
Also, when I studied abroad in England I got fat from all the chocolate McVities digestives I ate. (I know they have them in the US.. but they are a lot more expensive and harder to find.) And I remember I really liked Lilt. Lilt and McVities were my favorite snack.
Posts: 841 | Location: Vancouver, BC, for now... | Registered: 06 January 2004
While in Greece I found out that Retsina doesn't have to suck, but you'd never know that from what is served in every Greek restaurant I've been to in Boston and Chicago.
Other than that my favorites rely on being made fresh so they couldn't be imported with the same effect, or else they rely on me being ravenous after a full day of backpacking - would that can of Devon Cream, heated on my campstove really taste that good now, or was it just the miles talking?
Red Kite Ale from just north of Inverness is so good!
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Posts: 2394 | Location: Perth, Western Australia | Registered: 02 June 2004
Fanta orange (I can't find it here) and real Argentine dulce de leche - not this sketchy "caramel dip" crap you find in my local grocery stores.
Also, this would involve importing between provinces, but I am at the point where I would kill for some hot, fresh, greasy garlic fingers from KitKat or any other sketchy Halifax establishment. I also want a donair, with good donair sauce - not the watery junk they serve up here. Real donair. From the giant hunk o' meat.
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--Real scones with clotted cream from England. --any flavors of bizarre crisps from England... I tell you, I NEED worcestershire or ketchup flavored crisps! --gelato from Florence. --nutella and banana crepes from any street vendor cart in Paris. --pizza from New York.
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