What can't I buy in France and should bring from UK?
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Bullet-Proof_Biscuit said:
On topic of salted pork, get some Gésier, literal translation gizzards, it is the most best super bacon you will have ever tried, trust me.
You just have to tell people what it is AFTER you feed it to them.
Honestly it's really good bacon type stuff.
Typically served like this, basically a BLT but without bread (works with bread tho):
https://cookpad.com/uk/recipes/337202-salade-de-ge...
Thanks for the tip....I’ll try and find it when we’re allowed back in...You just have to tell people what it is AFTER you feed it to them.
Honestly it's really good bacon type stuff.
Typically served like this, basically a BLT but without bread (works with bread tho):
https://cookpad.com/uk/recipes/337202-salade-de-ge...
Good point, bacon is the one thing that I miss and this is about the only area where French meat products aren't better than you find in the UK.
You can get your fix if you live anywhere near Paris (or even at CDG airport or Chatelet RER) from the Marks and Spencer food shops that survived the closure of the general M&S shops - the French really didn't get M&S clothes
. Sadly they've dropped bitter from the range of beers that they stock.
You can get your fix if you live anywhere near Paris (or even at CDG airport or Chatelet RER) from the Marks and Spencer food shops that survived the closure of the general M&S shops - the French really didn't get M&S clothes
. Sadly they've dropped bitter from the range of beers that they stock.
Doofus said:
It's Heinz branded. Not L&P
And it doesn't taste the same either. Well, not to me at least. And Doofus, I don't count about four bacon sandwiches and one pork pie a year as being dependent! Most of the English food in the freezer is used during Le Mans and the Classic - at the request of the English!lowdrag said:
And it doesn't taste the same either. Well, not to me at least. And Doofus, I don't count about four bacon sandwiches and one pork pie a year as being dependent! Most of the English food in the freezer is used during Le Mans and the Classic - at the request of the English!
leyorkie said:
The Rose and Crown are struggling to get supplies due to the various travel restrictions and reluctance to come to France.
Beer range changes and sometimes the menu is short of some of the staples but there keeping going ??
Baconbythebox.com delivers our bits and bobs. Irish outfit so it's just pay in euros and shouldn't suffer from the changes the uk are about to go through.Beer range changes and sometimes the menu is short of some of the staples but there keeping going ??
Had our six-monthly delivery from them a few weeks back. Nearly €500 euros, of which only €175 was for us. The majority went to a french bar/restaurant! The turkey breast is in the freezer of course. If there is one present for the French I find goes down extremely well, it is a pair of oven gloves. The French only have one glove, and the two together they find most acceptable!
Zulu 10 said:
Notwithstanding the OP's final line, why anybody would feel the need to bring any form of cheese to a country which produces upwards of 1,000 different types of cheese beggars belief.
V true UK cheese is boring, but did you know that the UK produces more types of cheese than france?As De Gaulle famously commented "How can you manage a country with more than 300 types of cheese"?
Auchan sell good cheddar if you want it, but if you order from Bacon in the Box they sell vintage cheddar - which I order for my chemist! And as for bacon, I use lardons fumé for cooking.
Auchan sell good cheddar if you want it, but if you order from Bacon in the Box they sell vintage cheddar - which I order for my chemist! And as for bacon, I use lardons fumé for cooking.
We don't crave bacon (or didn't until I typed that ). We always cook interlean bacon on our turkey and find poitrine makes a satisfactory substitute and supplies the necessary fat.
We had a look at a couple of British products suppliers after reading this thread, but could't get a substantial order together, so Mrs McMissile made her own pear, and green tomato chutneys (no Branston), her own mincemeat (4€ ish a jar in Super U), and I pickled a couple of jars of onions and peppers (call me Peter Piper).
Our Super U also stocks Seriously Strong cheddar and a slightly cheaper own brand one that is pretty obviously the same thing, produced alongside. I know it's not a great cheese, but it fullfils most of our requirements.
Although the jury's out on the pickles until Christmas evening, I doubt we'll go back to the commercial products. OH's mincemeat in particular is wonderfully alcoholic.....
Happy Christmas Folks!
Steve
We had a look at a couple of British products suppliers after reading this thread, but could't get a substantial order together, so Mrs McMissile made her own pear, and green tomato chutneys (no Branston), her own mincemeat (4€ ish a jar in Super U), and I pickled a couple of jars of onions and peppers (call me Peter Piper).
Our Super U also stocks Seriously Strong cheddar and a slightly cheaper own brand one that is pretty obviously the same thing, produced alongside. I know it's not a great cheese, but it fullfils most of our requirements.
Although the jury's out on the pickles until Christmas evening, I doubt we'll go back to the commercial products. OH's mincemeat in particular is wonderfully alcoholic.....
Happy Christmas Folks!
Steve
I've followed this thread with some bemusement! Surely part of the French adventure is to eat and drink the products the French make and eat themselves. There are good substitutes for almost everything we English like, as remarked poitrine is a very acceptable replacement for bacon, for Cheddar buy Cantal Entre Deux, gesiers are delicious, Leclerc stock most English brands but why would you want expensive sweetened Heinz Baked Beans when you can buy haricot beans in tomato sauce, very good Belgian beers are available everywhere although we have several microbreweries around us now producing all the different types of English beers, for paint we use Mr Bricolage's heavy duty exterior white paint which is cheap and it lasts and lasts etc etc. I agree there are a few things we do miss but the lack of them has not made us ill or caused us to loose much sleep!!
I agree Mike, but don't you sometimes yearn for a certain taste? I love a good Comté, but the price is several times the price of a good cheddar from Auchan. And I've tried a lardon sandwich but still prefer a good smoked bacon one, even if it is often the case that I fancy one but never open the freezer make one. Bacon is more used for cooking chez nous, and was last weekend over the breast of the turkey when we had the usual - french - friends to our annual Xmas dinner. Sage and onion stuffing (home made), roast potatoes, parsnips -all of it french - just to make a meal the french adore but have no idea how. When I moved here and served parsnips, the french asked me where I got my white carrots. I said "they are panais", but they had no idea what panais were. They are latterly available, but used only for pot roasts. I can make a good steak and kidney pie and do so from time to time, using macreuse, but macreuse theoretically is also brisket, but damn me if I can get a french butcher to cut and roll it right for a pot roast. When the french come to ours, they want a good dose of english cooking, since a french hachis parmentier is nowt like a good cottage pie with Lea and Perrins in and crême de raifort in the mash. And boy did they attack the cheddar and Stilton last weekend!
Edited by lowdrag on Sunday 20th December 13:28
Very good about your French friends! Lynne made a game pie, different types of bird, pate, red peppers, olives, all sorts of stuff goes into it and it is to die for, the pie serves 12 people. Some of our French friends came to dinner and absolutely demolished it, seconds and thirds, talking with mouths full, couldn't get it down quick enough! Likewise she makes small Christmas cakes sometimes for one or two of our FFs, one of them admitted that he had sort of just kept on having another bit until it had all gone, nobody else got even a sniff! When there is one of these bring and share things in the village she does a big Pavlova and believe me, they are waiting for it!
Certainly there are things I do occasionally think about, a really good Kate and Sydney pie takes some beating, proper English sausages are unbeatable but we eat the local ones quite happily. However, my wife also asks me to ask where we can find TATE & LYLE BLACK TREACLE which she uses in some of her cake making. Anyone?
Certainly there are things I do occasionally think about, a really good Kate and Sydney pie takes some beating, proper English sausages are unbeatable but we eat the local ones quite happily. However, my wife also asks me to ask where we can find TATE & LYLE BLACK TREACLE which she uses in some of her cake making. Anyone?
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