Things you miss from the UK

If you didn't know already you can but HP sauce here

Yes you are right. I am posh. Our council house had hot and cold running water and an inside bog. And my dad used to work extra hours down the pit (until he was made redundant) to fund my elocution, violin and modern arts classes in the local miners welfare. It was here that me and my friends because interested in operatic's and the performing arts. A career that I felt certain would lead me to a life of elegant dinner parties and social events with then local gentry.

But then I thought fuck it!! I will join the army and get pissed for the next 8 years!!!

I second that emotion! Why do the Germans have an aversion to pastry?

Isn't it the same as Blutwurst? Which is readily available anywhere. I've never eaten either so I'm guessing here.

I'd agree with this whole heartily, it took me quite a while to get used to German beer, but luckily I managed to get used to it. If I'm ever in England, which isn't often I always try to drink in pubs with real ale.

@allerhausen

NO!!!

i must say i am a southener and i ADORE ENGLISH black pudding...the irish doesn't come up to scratch (sorry to all irish )

@allershausen - blutwurst is to black pudding what one of them weedy little nürnberger things is to a nice fat juicy cumberland sausage
no comparison, really

In Argentina they have a kind of Black Pudding called Morcilla which they Barbecue (Of Course)
However it is soft and gooey in the middle and Tastes FANTASTIC!

Is that not true then?

What, and have to MAKE the bacon and egg sandwich MYSELF? Methinks I should also warn the fire brigade in advance!

no, rus, i don't believe they are all sluts
some girls at my school went for it in a big way behind the bike sheds, but there were others who were busy praying for their souls with their mates from bible study

Now thats a comparison I can understand, I've just had 2 of them for my breakfast, YUMMY!

I miss...

English breakfast (without baked beans and bacon)

Asian restaurants which are mostly above average compared to Munich!!! Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese etc yummy!!

Those chatterbox english teenage gals serving as cashiers within souvenirs shops who were interested in their conversation than serving you. They don't even bother to look at you too besides without even Hello and thanks!

Yes YES YES my favourite body shampoo brand Original source!!! it's better than alot of chemical blend of cheap body shampoo here in munich! But saldy it seems that in London, they are'nt so popular compared to south east asia.

The subway (tube) i miss the bumpy track from the airport heading to downtown or vice versa. It feels like riding a horse hehe.

Metro Newspaper
Evening Standard
Bass Real Ale
Decent Bacon
Decent supermarkets
Decent teabags

Good Gracious, Andrew!!

Not found the UK import shop in by Fraunhofer U-bahn yet? He has those PG Tips out from under the counter before I´ve closed the door! He will even speak English to you; only to be expected in a shop called "Pomeroy and Winterbottom", I suppose.

Sue

Please take of those Rose coloured glasses all of you and realise what a great place you're living in.

Mr OG was correct ref real ale.

P

daddies sauce

single mums

Chip shop chips, crumpets, mac and cheese in a can , my boyfriend (in that order i think)

Terry Wogan in the car

Crumpets..
mmmmmmmmmmm crumpets...

Crumpets with Marmite on...!!!

Theres only one thing I'll miss from the UK.

They don't seem to have decent pickles and chutneys here - so I brought back 60 kilos worth last week from the UK! Along with enough PG tips for an army, and some bacon, sausages etc.

Knocked up Sunday breakfast for some friends at the weekend:

British Back bacon
Pork sausages
Grilled tomatoes
Scrambled Egg
Toast and Marmalade
Pots of Tea

I am a crummy cook but managed a fair hash at the above. But being in the sticks it is a 25 minute drive to Augsburg for the Sunday Times :-(

I miss Tories, but I think that because my throwing arm isn't as good as it used to be.

Available here in Vinzensmurr or C and C Pullach, or Tengelmann.

Skips

Pickled onion monster munch

Ginger snaps

Hobnobs

Kippers

Farmhouse white bread

Pot noodles!

In fact yer basic slob out food.

That and the telly of course, although I did have Sky for a while here so it doesn't really count.

Don't you mean Ewtcakes, duck?

I miss a trip oop 'Anley duck, on a PMT bus.

Agreed

mmmm KP Skips, they are great on the tongue (love prawn cocktail...)

And I too miss the King of the Dunkers ... Hobnobs

Ohh, and Corrie and Emmerdale

Pg tips, horlicks, brylcream, chutneys etc are all available in the kohinoor near hbf.
i miss variety. but as to us all just whinging check out what the krauts think of us.
www.deutsche-in-london.net

What do I miss about Britain that you don't get here?

Manners.

Well I'd have given you a jar of my homemade chutney if you'd asked.
It isn't orange though.

Proper supermarkets especially Tescos
Nice and spicy nik-naks
Decent curry
Vegetarian food and the understanding that fish is NOT a vegetable
The weather (this summer anyway)
Awareness of personal space (non-existent throughout most of the continent)
Chocolate hob-nobs
Humus and salad in pitta bread
Work colleagues with a sense of humour (apart from 1 or 2)
Agendas for meetings
Robinsons orange squash

Still prefer it here to being in Blighty though

The Victorian House in the the Frauenstrasse serves crumpets with lemon curd (unfortunately without butter, so you have to ask for it). I suppose they might have Marmite, if you ask nicely.

Now there is something I really do miss. I haven't seen any pickle or chutney over here

Going to a Restaurant and getting what you 'think you order'. Last night in an italian restaurant and ordered a pizza with Peperoni, Salami and onions and got one with Peperoni, PICKLED CHILLIES and onions. I asked the waitress and shes like...that is Salami.

No that's your mistake.
You call it peperoni sausage, in Germany that's salami.
Peperoni (as in Italy) are the chilies, not the sausage.
Ask for peperoni in Germany you'll get peperoni, just look at the jars of them in any supermarket.
Ask for Peperoni-Wurst, you might get peperoni sausage if they have it.

Class.

Don't forget the Munich motto:

Smiles waste muscles.

ah, thanks for whoever started this thread, makes me so sure about my decision to go home!

My kitchen is still empty but for the essentials:

PG tips
crumpets
salted butter
Marmite
cheddar cheese
Branston pickle
Ribena
and the take-away brochure for my fab local Indian which does free delivery [img]http://www.keydeck.com/smilies/worthy.gif[/img]

Oh, and another bonus (apart from british humour) which I had forgotten about or maybe just not appreciated before... not only manners, but openness, friendliness. Everyone I meet calls me "mate" or "love", it's fab!

but then let's get our feet back on the ground... 2 people I know in my area (and I only know about 8!) have been mugged recently, one at knife point. Certainly a different level of security in London, never mind the terrorists...

New Dehli does free deliverý here as well. And the food isn't that bad.

English Cheddar cheese is available in Hit and at the Deli on Herkommerplatz, both very near me. Branston pickle is difficult to get hold of, so i stockpile it.

there is plenty of crumpet in Munich as well.

Did someone mention Marmite?

Ooo - and call me kinky, but I love a bit of crumpet with me Marmite

@ OG sure, I know what you mean, I can get that stuff here too. But I have to look for it!

Just trying to justify my decision, you know me!

Pretty scary shit, leaving here after 5 years to move to a city I don't know, where I hardly know anyone, and setting up own company so no colleagues or structured job and guaranteed income to soften the cultural blow.

(apart from my cockney sparrow builders, my God they're fun I get SMS's saying things like "the skip didn't arrive, so we took the roof off your car and used that, instead" )

Kippers...

Got a Feezer full of Deverauxs Manx Kippers...

Cant wait till tea-time!!

Smoke me a kipper Grinner, and I'll be there for breakfast

proper horse racing with proper bookies

even the dogs

How the hell can aynone eat that stuff?

Agreed, it's not for the faint hearted. But, it does put hairs on the insides of yer eyeballs

Terrifyingly, I seem to be getting allergic to it. Start weezing when I eat it - catastrophy!

Perhaps you'll be missing this in the future: Black Pudding Ice Cream.

"The ice cream has small pieces of black pudding like chocolate chip ice cream...The firm company had experimented adding black puddings to their basic ice cream mix but found a base with mustard added made a better flavour."

Yet more proof of the existence of a a higher power !

@benp
So, what happens when you drink beer? Marmite is afterall yeast extract
Poor you! I love it and would be really gutted if I couldn't have it