A very, very important question of global scope

[sqbr]

So I was looking up recipes for hokey-pokey icecream today and was overcome by an almost inconceivable suspicion: it's not eaten in America! Or in fact anywhere beyond the Pacific region!

Is this true? Because you guys are missing out. On the plus side afaict it's just made by mixing vanilla icecream with honeycomb (or "sponge toffee", which sounds terrible), though I plan to make it with butterscotch flavoured icecream(*).

What are the foods/recipes from a country you've lived in which you can't believe people overseas don't eat?

Personally I have trouble understanding how people can not like vegemite, but intellectually I can see how it might be something you need to have grown up with :)

(*)When I can find somewhere that sells oat/almond milk and honeycomb, Coles having neither this evening. Bah!

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[fred-mouse.livejournal.com]

I always found that going to the eastern states was a bit of a culture shock, because of the foods that I couldn't get. I had problems with the lack of a decent yoghurt producer (no Brownes, just icky Yoplait, and Ski, and maybe some others), and none that produced individual single serves, rather than six-packs.

In Canada, my issue was always with cheese - there is no decent cheddar. And the half-decent cheddar costs as much as the premium stuff does here.

I'm finding myself vaguely amused that the first two things that I thought of are both things I can't eat!

Oh, and the other one that gets me - TicTac flavours are very different between countries. I've seen speciality ones here (acerola and mango), as well as the various mint ones (spearmint, mint, lemon-mint, passionfruit-mint and orange-mint, at last count), and orange ones. The US has wintergreen (which I occasionally organise for a new supply of) and Canada had cinnamon (although they may not be available any longer).

A misses A&W root beer enough that every time we go to visit his family, we end up going to an A&W (think Hungry Jacks, with a different set of corny names for the burgers).

And yes, vegemite. The first time I was overseas I missed it so much that I spent a day tracking it down. I haven't been so bad since, but that time it was bad.

[alias_sqbr]

Yes, eastern states dairy seemed pretty lackluster. I was already mostly off dairy at that stage so it didn't bug me so much :)