What do you miss from home?

[Eric]

Originally Posted by ossy kid

We're pretty fortunate here in B.C. lots of shops sell British food and a great local chippy with mushy peas and steak and kidney pies. The beers good too so I guess the thing we miss most are family and friends.

Same here too ... Guy I know, Eddie Walker from Preston, has a pub and a fish and chip shop. And Canadian beer is good ... better, it is second to none ... and Canadians are dedicated beer drinkers; we even named our May long weekend after a case of beer

But the question. It's not that simple. Ok, I know that I have this habit of turning simple questions into complex debates, usually with myself. But a lot of the things I miss are no longer there. Going to catch a bus to Accy, and not getting past the Village Blacksmith. The smell of the Stink. Accy Railway Station on a cool, drizzly day, with an old shunter wheezing away and then clanking around aimlessly .... It seems as if the question is way similar to "What do you miss from your childhood and youth"? That's now a foreign country; and maybe we are all strangers in a strange land.

But I would really like some real black puddings ... and a chocolate selection box ... the chocolate is different over there. Funny how lots of people miss certain food items.

[Turtle]

I have access to most goodies from local Brit shops. But one thing I really miss is walking through farms and fields without being shot at! The only public right-of-ways here are in conservation areas, crown land, public trails, that sort of thing. Private land is very private here, and I'm only half joking about being shot at! Am I mistaken, Eric, or have I missed something all these years?

Ok - something else I miss: BLUEBELLS!!!!! Thanks to Accy Web photographers, though, I get to 'see' them as soon as they emerge in all their glory. We have Trilliums here in Ontario, pretty white woodland flowers that also come up in early spring. Nice, but can't even come close to a wood full of bluebells.

[shillelagh]

when I go up to the spugsters he gives me a list of what to take for him ... then when im coming back theres a list of accywebbers to bring back haggis .... thing is it weighs a ton carrying em ...

[kathk]

Defiantly Hollands pies and puddings, love the chippy on Abbey st, I eat there for as many meals as possible when I come back. Not sure if its still the same people or if it is still there now. I follow Hollands pies on fb, even sent a message to them to please export to Canada

[dotti34]

The good old Lancashire fish and chips from my childhood and the beefsteak puddings from the fish-and-chip shop. Also Bassett’s Liquorice Allsorts – which we can get here but somehow just don’t taste the same. Could be that my taste bud memories are different from actual fact, as my nephew sent me some and they still didn’t taste like those when I was a kid. Nor did the fish and chips when we were over there a couple of years ago. Still were good but didn’t have ‘that’ taste from my memory.

When my youngest daughter (born here in Australia) lived in the Caribbean she sent a request for Tim Tam biscuits for her and some Vegemite (yuk!) for her husband as they were longing for these and couldn't get them. Now they live in Glasgow and both these items are available there, though she can’t get her favourite chocolate – Cadbury Peppermint Block.

[accyman]

i miss my brother

it was so much easier to crack him round teh head when we lived at home but now it takes a car journey and i have to put outdoor pants on

[Morecambe Ex Pat]

We can't get decent tripe in Morecambe but from what my Sister tells me neither can you, any more, unless you have an outing to Bury.

[accyman]

Originally Posted by kathk

Defiantly Hollands pies and puddings, love the chippy on Abbey st, I eat there for as many meals as possible when I come back. Not sure if its still the same people or if it is still there now. I follow Hollands pies on fb, even sent a message to them to please export to Canada

the original abbey friar was demolished to build some traffic lights and stuff and it was ran by a couple from baxenden who are long retired now.I think when a new chippy opened they took the name but i dont knwo if it is still there or not

[maxthecollie]

Isn't that Abbey Friar by the Canine Club on Abbey Street?

[westendlass]

I think Abbey Friar have won awards in the past, don't know whether it's still the same people but it had a really good reputation.

[westendlass]

Originally Posted by Morecambe Ex Pat

We can't get decent tripe in Morecambe but from what my Sister tells me neither can you, any more, unless you have an outing to Bury.

If your ever down here, Accrington market have a tripe stall, I think it's been going for years. Saying that, it's not something I'd know a lot about, it looks like the most disgusting stuff. My grandma used to eat it with vinegar on. Yuk.

[Morecambe Ex Pat]

Originally Posted by westendlass

If your ever down here, Accrington market have a tripe stall, I think it's been going for years. Saying that, it's not something I'd know a lot about, it looks like the most disgusting stuff. My grandma used to eat it with vinegar on. Yuk.

Is the tripe stall still Southworths? Even if it is they must have changed their suppliers as it doesn't come close to what it used to taste like. It may look disgusting but the proof of the pudding is in the eating, as they say and serving it with lashings of vinegar is the way to go.

[westendlass]

I'm not sure, I'll check next time I'm there. As to proof of the pudding - my gag reflex would seal my lips, offal is the devils food.