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[AmericanExile]

Share a main course, side dish, desert, drink and snack/candy you miss from home.

I miss:
- Italian beef with baked mozzarella cheese
- hominy
- banana pudding
- root beer (which I do get now and then but wish I could get more)
- ho hos

[NYC_Gal 2.0]

*baked eggplant parm
*proper sour cream (I can get it, but have to go to Petra)
*baked apples with brie and walnuts (I can make it, but it costs a fortune)
*wheatgrass shot in an acai/blueberry/mango/greens smoothie
*already peeled fresh baby carrots with hummus (I can only find frozen baby carrots here)

[carpetdope]

Steak pies, steak and mushroom pies, beef, cheese and bacon pies, curry pies, sausage rolls, spinnach and feta sausage rolls, pasties. But they're just about the worst food for fat content so I guess it's for the best.

[Gimbap Lover]

Chile verde burritos, menudo, lamb gyros with real pita bread and loads of feta and pepperoncinis, chicken and guacamole stuffed sopapillas.

The buffalo enchiladas at Esparza's TexMex cafe.

Beer? Descutes Black Butte Porter, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and Red Hook ESB

[myenglishisno]

I miss TVP for cooking and I miss the ability to buy singular pizza slices instead of the whole pizza.

[madtownhustl]

friday fish fry, good steak, brats, potato salad, buffalo wild wings. the list could go on

[Draz]

cottage cheese
grapefruit
vanilla yogurt
many kinds of cereal
different flavours of instant coffee
different kinds of loose tea
perogies
mac and cheese
ranch dressing
baby carrots

Some of these things actually are available at exorbitant prices, of course.

[sadguy]

[adventuregal]

Dark Beer
Good Beer (Belgian.. thinking specifically of Fin du Monde)
The cheese isle @ Whole Foods (humboldt fog, emmental, brie)
CHEAP FRUIT (I'm soooo sick of paying a dollar/ orange/ apple, etc...)
Jack in the Box
The ready availability of Splenda
Cranberry Juice
Salad Dressings (Ranch, Italian)
Pre-packaged salad mixes
Cottage Cheese
Olives
Dill Pickles
Real bagels

[ThingsComeAround]

A bagel with butter
Pizza
An egg & cheese sandwich
Biscuits and Gravy (this one is from Minn)
Real cake/bread/donuts that wont turn to powder after the first bite
Unaltered Milk
Manicotti
Eclairs
West Indian food

[Illysook]

A properly aged steak
Taco trucks
Mom's pot roast.
Starbucks lemon pound cake.
Jeni's Salty Caramel Ice Cream (only made in Columbus)
Der Dutchman's Amish Bakery and Smorgasboard.

[adventuregal]

[Fishead soup]

Masala Dosa- It's basically a Potatoe and onion curry wrapped in kind of
soft crispy burrito style bread.

Jamacan Patties- Ground spicy beef in a pastry shell.

Sausage rolls- British banger in pastry.

Pork Pies- Jellied pork in a little pie.

Scotch Eggs- Egg inside sausage meat.

Cornish pastry

Bangers and chips

Thai crispy fried pork belly with white rice and sweet spicy sauce.

Chinese or Vietnamese food from China town in Toronto Queen and Spadina. BBQ duck pork combo on rice.

British pub food from Checkers in Bangkok near Nana plaza. Best British pub food outside of he UK.

German Bratverst sausage with curry. You can get some nice ones in Pattaya. The big German breakfast with all kinds of cold cuts and cheese you can get some really good ones in Pattaya.

[Sticks]

Pies (+Pie floaters)
High quality, cheap steaks - thick-ass 1"+ ones
Donner Kebabs
79cents/kg watermelons (actually, any sort of fruit and veg)
Australian Milk.

prob a whole lot i've left out. This is only my 2nd month too...

[Slowmotion]

A decent philly cheese steak