Originally Posted by nicegal

If you want good fish and chips in Engerland come to sunny (no, scrap that), come to West Yorkshire.Where's that? North of the Watford Gap? Goodness me, do people actually LIVE there? Chippies use haddock. Harry Ramsden's chain is famous, and there's brilliant fish and chips in Whitby, Scarborough etc. On the other hand, we have eaten great fish and chips all over the world, the States included. In the UK the 'proper' way to eat fish and chips is out of a newspaper package, yesterday's news of course. Oh and do they eat whelks, cockles and jellied eels in the USA? I imagine not.Well, even the newspapers ain't wot they useter be!! Do YOU eat whelks, cockles and jellied eels up in the north? Thought the EEC stopped us catching anything more than flu!!

Now chips is another matter. I grew up in the south, where you ate them with salt and vinegar. Then I moved to Lancashire and found people eating them with gravy or curry sauce. Or mayonaise. I did not succomb to such strange habits, it's salt'n'vinegar or nothing, for me. Yuck, HAS to be salt'n'vinegar - we agree on that one!!!

I will investigate Red Rose tea bags, sounds promising. I don't understand the bit about Americans not boiling water properly, two of you have mentioned that. What is a tea kettle, for instance? Surely a kettle is a kettle is a kettle, and the only way to boil water is to bring it to boiling point? Yes, I never quite got it either - but boiling water in Florida doesn't often seem to happen!! Electric kettles are hard to come by, but do exist. I think we bought ours in Bed, Bath and Beyond!!!

Originally Posted by nealberk

Where in Utah. Helen? In SLC and Ogden the water is from maintain runoff and you have to be very careful. It is so soft that if you use more than a drop of soap, it is impossible to get rid of all the suds.

Originally Posted by 2ladies

Oh Oh .............I do love a tea debate. Well, I am from Ingerland (no relation to Engerland - hehehe). My Mum is an elderly British lady and of course tea was a terrible problem for her here in Florida. I used to arrive with half a suitcase of M&S tea. We managed to find an electric kettle here and that has helped considerably. Here they don't boil the water 'proper like' and that's part of the problem. And then she discovered Red Rose tea bags. Very acceptable apparently!!! Not the best, but according to Mum - satisfactory!!

You can buy M&S around here.

We now have a small British section in our Publix Supermarket and can get Piccallili!! Wowee!!! By the way, the Walkers Shortbread you buy here don't taste the same as the Walkers shortbread in Ingerland. And Publix also have Heinz Baked Beans at an exorbitant price of course!! And Heinz Tomato Soup - all in the British Section of course.

Walkers shortbread is another item you can buy here.

Originally Posted by Mystery Gal

Originally Posted by nealberk

Did not get a chance to try any of those! Not sure I would want to except for soggy triffle.