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  • Following on from the expat thread – what do you miss
  • oddjob
    Free Member

    What do you miss the most and what do you still import from the UK? (I don’t mean friends and family)

    I miss a good curry and decent fish and chips in that order and we still import real tea bags.

    Other than that I miss Radio 4, I listen to a lot of pod casts, but I miss the today program whilst I am getting ready in the mornings.

    hexhamstu
    Free Member

    I live in britain, I also miss a decent fish and chips.

    ocrider
    Full Member

    Cask ale. Everything else I can make/get down here.

    molgrips
    Free Member

    Curry – in restaurants on supermarkets.
    Stuff being open on Sundays
    Ready made sauces for things
    A decent variety of restaurants in the suburbs
    Businesses accepting Visa
    Hedgerows
    Squash
    Good TV.

    Oddjob, can you not get it via the internet with a VPN?

    TheFlyingOx
    Full Member

    Village pubs and decent fish & chips.

    oddjob
    Free Member

    Hedgerows seem to be totally absent in Denmark too. I have chosen (in total ignorance) to blame the EU 😈

    Mackem
    Full Member

    Curry
    Proper beer
    Customer service.

    hexhamstu
    Free Member

    I live in Britain and I also miss good TV.

    ebygomm
    Free Member

    When I lived in the states I missed decent cheese.

    Now I’m back in the UK I miss peanut butter twix and ritz bitz

    scu98rkr
    Free Member

    Kerbs, you know by the road side.

    When I’ve been on holiday it always occurs to me that very few countries do kerbs as well as the UK.

    A road always looks half finished without a decent kerb

    MSP
    Full Member

    Bacon, fish and chips, piccalilli and salted butter.

    molgrips
    Free Member

    I miss hedgerows more when there’s a crosswind and I’m on my bike. Jeez.

    ArcticBeast
    Free Member

    ebygomm – Member

    When I lived in the states I missed decent cheese.

    Now I’m back in the UK I miss peanut butter twix and ritz bitz

    peanut butter twix

    TheFopster
    Free Member

    Am now an ex-expat, but when away missed:

    Pubs
    The BBC
    The British countryside
    Cheese that tasted of something.

    I was in USA…

    ebygomm
    Free Member

    The cookie base pb twix ones aren’t as good as the originals. When I was last in the states you could still get both sorts but maybe the other ones have been phased out now

    Ishouldbeworking
    Free Member

    Chicken tikka bhuna, mushy peas, Cumberland sausage rings, not all at once though

    Radio which is available online but It would be good just to be able to turn it on in the car or whatever with no pre-work.

    And daylight to late at night in the summer

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