The only English (sorry Scots etc.) food that I miss are some regional cheeses (eg. Lancashire creamy, single Gloucester), but even if they were available here, I 'd be reluctant to buy them as they probably wouldn’t travel well. Before we moved here full-time, I remember being very disappointed with some Cantal from our Cockermouth deli (the town’s twinned with Millau, which although in the Aveyron isn’t that far from the Cantal).
And as posted elsewhere previously, I can now get a glass of draught IPA (albeit Californian) on our monthly coffee bean runs to Rodez. So overall I’m very happy with what I can get locally from an Algerian shop in Figeac that also has lots of Levantine foods and spices.
And anything I can’t get locally I’ll order from mesépices.com
However certain foods are a no-no in Europe - decent mangoes, pink guavas, grenadillas, pawpaws and papayas. Though you might strike lucky with the odd avo.
I’ve not tried the mangos but I order avocados when in season and they’re the best I’ve ever tasted.
Plus almost all the stones self propagated in the compost and I now have 40 odd avocado plants in the house !
Mangoes from Brazil bought in Denmark: no-go. They’re never good. Mangoes from Brazil in Brazil: the best. But the Indian and Pakistani mangoes I find here are absolutely yummy.
I did not come to (or stayed in) Denmark for the food, hehe. It’s mostly quite lousy. However, there are a few things I’ll miss from here: æblekage and ris à l’amande, two desserts I love.
When I arrived here 20 years ago, there was a lot I missed from Brazil and was impossible to find. So every trip back home we shipped one or two boxes to DK filled with Brazilian goodies. My taste changed in time, and I started missing fewer and fewer things. Other things became easily available here. And finding the ingredients I can make my own recipes like the famous cheese bread or passion fruit mousse.
Last month in Toulouse I found a shop that had most of my beloved items like guava sweets and jam
As someone who gets grumpy at the lazy interchange of English and British, this is perfectly acceptable. Just so long as you don’t start talking about English passports and driving licences, or “British” law for that matter.
Edited to add: I suppose there probably is British law, now that Northern Ireland still has one foot in the EU.
Well, the jar of Potter’s Malt Extract With Cod Liver Oil arrived safely. I contacted the seller to ask if the jar was made of glass, and if so would they make sure it was well wrapped, and it was!
Will report back if I feel it’s done me any good, but what I can say is that it is yummy, as it was back in the early 1950s.