I would love to help some of you out at cost by sending you some of the food as I am in Canada and a lot of it is here but it just isn't worth it cost wise due to Canada Post being one of the most expensive mail services in the world.
I must have unusual tastes because I absolutely love Twinkies and root beer and meatloaf and corn dogs and Fluff, squeezey cheese, Buffalo wings, Beef Jerky, clam chowder in a bread bowl, S'mores, Peanut Butter, Tootsie Rolls, Dr Pepper, Mellow Yellow and flavoured iced tea.
Yummy!
Buffalo wings are lovely. I had some in Buffalo a few years ago, and they were wonderfully spicy.
I think most soft drinks are made with real sugar, whether from the UK or US. Typically, the sugar is either sucrose, glucose or fructose.
Much of the soft drink industry in the United States stopped using sugar in the 1980s, in response to a series of price supports and import quotas introduced beginning in 1982 that increased the price of sugar above the global market price. As a result, most US soft drinks, including Dr Pepper, now use high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar
Pepsi, Dr Pepper, 7-Up, Mountain Dew, Sprite, Coca Cola and Fanta are just a few examples of soft drinks that are made with HFCS instead of sugar in the US.
Pepsi, Dr Pepper, 7-Up, Mountain Dew, Sprite, Coca Cola and Fanta are just a few examples of soft drinks that are made with HFCS instead of sugar in the US.
Fructose is not sucrose, but it still a sugar. It happens to be made from corn instead of sugar beet or sugar cane.
I get that from my local Chinese supermarket, as its very popular in the Far East (you get it in all fast food places, KFC, Wendys, McDs etc), my fave fizzy drink by far.
Are you sure it is fizzy. Have never heard of a fizzy cordial before
Buffalo wings are lovely. I had some in Buffalo a few years ago, and they were wonderfully spicy.
It took me years to perfect the exact recipe but finally cracked it.
First buy some nice tender chicken fillets. I use the Asda frozen ones and allow them to defrost.
In one of those pint Pirex jugs I half fill it with plain flour and add 1teaspoon of salt, 1 tsp black pepper,1tsp ceyenne pepper, 1tsp garlic powder and 1tsp paprika and mix it together.
Next pour some out onto a plate.
Next crack an egg into a bowl and add a dash of milk and whisk.
Slice the thawed chicken into goujons and first coat the raw chicken in the flour mixture, then dip in the egg mix and again in the flour and make sure it's all coated.
Your hands will get very gooey.
Then fry the chicken in a small pan of oil. I use regular sunflower or vegetable oil.
Once browned, transfer to a sheet of kitchen roll.
Now (and here's what gives your chicken the real Buffalo taste) mix a bottle of Franks Louisiana hot sauce in a saucepan and mix in some butter or marj. TIP: You can buy Franks Buffalo sauce but all it is is original hot sauce mixed with butter so for cheapness you're best buying the original stuff and mixing your own. Plus doing it that way means you can make it as mild or as hot as you like. I've tried the pre mixed Frank's Buffalo sauce and found it too mild.
Throw in the chicken and stir it in the hot sauce for about a minute then transfer to some more kitchen roll.
Serve with blue cheese sauce or (as I prefer) creme fraiche dip and a few sticks of celery. Enjoy!
I've noticed sriracha sauce becoming available in UK supermarkets - I understand that's quite common in the US but only recently come to the UK.
There are a few sweet shops I've seen which specialise in American sweets. I bought a single twinkie from one (and paid £1.50!) and really wish I hadn't. Tasted of fat and sugar and nothing else. Horrid. Only American sweets I do like are the Reese's peanut butter cups/nutrageous bars.
OK. You carry on believing that Normal soft drinks contain natural unrefined sugar. Scientists must have been imagining the obesity crisis partly caused by soft drinks?
and yet soft drinks have been around for a hundred or so years, and only now is their people becoming obese maybe it's something other than the drinks?
In the late 1980s, the US Army's Natick Labs created a new high-temperature chocolate (dubbed the "Congo Bar" by researchers) that could withstand heat in excess of 60 °C (140 °F).
During Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm, Hershey's Chocolate was the major manufacturer, shipping 144,000 bars to American troops in the southwest Asia theater. While Army spokesmen said the bar's taste was good, troop reactions were mixed and the bar was not put into full production.
Since the war ended before Hershey's supplies of the experimental bar were shipped, the remainder of the production run was packaged in a "desert camo" wrapper and was dubbed the Desert Bar. It proved a brief novelty but Hershey declined to make more after supplies ran out.
What exactly has that got to do with how chocolate tastes in the U.S.?
Oh yuk, I once asked for some French mustard in America and was given this, I was then told I should ask for Dijon mustard.
OI!!! I happen to like French's Mustard. We've got Colman's (the cat'll disagree with me about mustard but that's for another post [she didn't find the incident with the said mustard amusing]) and the American's have got French's, one of the best in the world.
Nothing worse than asking for mint sauce (in the US) and being given mint jelly, disgusting. if I go to the States again I'll be taking some with me, likewise mustard, I don't even consider French's to be mustard ,my mother emigrated to Canada and seemed to lose her sense of taste, when I visited, tried to pass French's bright yellow sauce type stuff off as mustard.
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Thing is, they use to sell them in the UK until about 1995. They were grim though. Really sweet.
I think most soft drinks are made with real sugar, whether from the UK or US. Typically, the sugar is either sucrose, glucose or fructose.
Buffalo wings are lovely. I had some in Buffalo a few years ago, and they were wonderfully spicy.
I've just checked Premier Foods' website and Mr Kipling brand products only use vegetable fats - no lard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Pepper#Varieties
Pepsi, Dr Pepper, 7-Up, Mountain Dew, Sprite, Coca Cola and Fanta are just a few examples of soft drinks that are made with HFCS instead of sugar in the US.
Fructose is not sucrose, but it still a sugar. It happens to be made from corn instead of sugar beet or sugar cane.
Are you sure it is fizzy. Have never heard of a fizzy cordial before
I know all about sugar... And HFCS is not real sugar (which is what the post you quoted specifically said) by any stretch of the imagination.
http://www.britishsoftdrinks.com/default.aspx?page=1017
It took me years to perfect the exact recipe but finally cracked it.
First buy some nice tender chicken fillets. I use the Asda frozen ones and allow them to defrost.
In one of those pint Pirex jugs I half fill it with plain flour and add 1teaspoon of salt, 1 tsp black pepper,1tsp ceyenne pepper, 1tsp garlic powder and 1tsp paprika and mix it together.
Next pour some out onto a plate.
Next crack an egg into a bowl and add a dash of milk and whisk.
Slice the thawed chicken into goujons and first coat the raw chicken in the flour mixture, then dip in the egg mix and again in the flour and make sure it's all coated.
Your hands will get very gooey.
Then fry the chicken in a small pan of oil. I use regular sunflower or vegetable oil.
Once browned, transfer to a sheet of kitchen roll.
Now (and here's what gives your chicken the real Buffalo taste) mix a bottle of Franks Louisiana hot sauce in a saucepan and mix in some butter or marj. TIP: You can buy Franks Buffalo sauce but all it is is original hot sauce mixed with butter so for cheapness you're best buying the original stuff and mixing your own. Plus doing it that way means you can make it as mild or as hot as you like. I've tried the pre mixed Frank's Buffalo sauce and found it too mild.
Throw in the chicken and stir it in the hot sauce for about a minute then transfer to some more kitchen roll.
Serve with blue cheese sauce or (as I prefer) creme fraiche dip and a few sticks of celery. Enjoy!
There are a few sweet shops I've seen which specialise in American sweets. I bought a single twinkie from one (and paid £1.50!) and really wish I hadn't. Tasted of fat and sugar and nothing else. Horrid. Only American sweets I do like are the Reese's peanut butter cups/nutrageous bars.
and yet soft drinks have been around for a hundred or so years, and only now is their people becoming obese maybe it's something other than the drinks?
Did nothing for me, chicken wings with some spicy sauce on
What exactly has that got to do with how chocolate tastes in the U.S.?
Oh yuk, I once asked for some French mustard in America and was given this, I was then told I should ask for Dijon mustard.
its said to taste like that!
OI!!! I happen to like French's Mustard. We've got Colman's (the cat'll disagree with me about mustard but that's for another post [she didn't find the incident with the said mustard amusing]) and the American's have got French's, one of the best in the world.
Try your local Asda - mine sells a small selection of Hershey products, including almond Kisses!
Of course it is.
We had them for dessert once. Way too much sugar, even after dinner
YES:o
.... my brother brought some back from the USA a few years ago, that's exactly how i would describe it.