Mayennaise Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Our local Carrefour in Fougere (dept 35) had crumpets at Christmas 2005, in the bakery section but not Christmas 2006. I was very disappointed as I was looking forward to eating them again for breakfast on Christmas morning, just dripping with butter and honey!! When we lived in the UK it was one of our Christmas traditions. Don't ask me why! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 [quote user="Tresco"] [quote user="KathyF"]...However I can sympathise with nostalgia among permanent residents for some of the things that are typically British and which just don't have an equivalent here. [/quote]Crumpets. If anyone sees Crumpets please tell me.[:)][/quote]I saw some at lunchtime..........when I opened my freezer, they were next to the Asda Hot X buns[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 [:D]Please can we move on? Does no one want to talk about Heinz Sandwich Spread?Thought not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Nice curl on the butter. Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 I can't bear to look at it again, but thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 I have to go back to the UK this weekend, after reading this thread guess what is now top of my shopping list?Another question for those able to reply before I leave tomorrow morning.I am going to a pique-nique with French friends as soon as I return so I won't have time to prepare anything and will be buying what I will take in England, any suggestions as to what would be different but enjoyable for them? - Adults and children.I thought of sausage rolls and perhaps scotch eggs but I seem to remember that a french girlfriend refused to even try one last time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meg Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 cor i could murder a scotch egg.............or a lovely cornish pasty..... no hang on a Ginsters steak and wotsit slice..........i think i'd better go and cook dinner..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicos Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Eccles cakes???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5-element Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 [quote user="J.R."]I thought of sausage rolls and perhaps scotch eggs but I seem to remember that a french girlfriend refused to even try one last time![/quote]No offence meant, J.R., but YUK! However, give me crumpets any time! Miam miam....[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Oh stop it already with the crumpets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I could just eat a pack of good old warburtons with lashings of butter, its bad enough when mumsie is scoffin 'em whilst chatting on the webcam, oh well, when in France CROISSANTS[:D]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (and starwberry tarts from the pattiserie[6]) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 When I went shopping I also bought a really nice pork pie, with a hot water pastry crust and a hardboiled egg in the middle. Salty jelly, but not too much, and delicate pink meat.Then I went to the Chinese supermarket to buy crispy roast duck and hoisin sauce...Did I mention the crumpets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meg Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 [quote user="Dick Smith"]When I went shopping I also bought a really nice pork pie, with a hot water pastry crust and a hardboiled egg in the middle. Salty jelly, but not too much, and delicate pink meat.Then I went to the Chinese supermarket to buy crispy roast duck and hoisin sauce...Did I mention the crumpets?[/quote]Sounds nice Dick...............I just ate my dinner outside (still in shorts and Tshirt) because it is so hot and still light........[6] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 [quote user="Dick Smith"]When I went shopping I also bought a really nice pork pie, with a hot water pastry crust and a hardboiled egg in the middle. Salty jelly, but not too much, and delicate pink meat.Then I went to the Chinese supermarket to buy crispy roast duck and hoisin sauce...Did I mention the crumpets?[/quote]Dick what time is your next blood test due??? My dad would be upto about 22 on the naughty scale after attemping that lot[:$] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Did I mention the caramel eggs, cadbury flake dark, ginger biscuits or bourbon creams? no?, oh I forgot the Hollands Meat pies, steak and kidney pies and puddings in the freezer.........oh and the bachelors mushy peas in a tin.[6] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicos Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 We had mushy peas last night!! Hmmmmmm....( where is the right smiley when you need it???)[:-))] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 So no advances (other than a "yuk" which is what my French girlfriend said!) on sausage rolls and scotch eggs?Over dinner I thought of taking proper butchers "sossidges" because my friends are taking a barbecue as well, I said to them that I thought i was going to a french picnic not an american one.I suppose that I could take loads of packets of rehydrogenated E numbers and carbonated chemical fizzy alcopops, at least the kids would appreciate the cultural exchange!What would be in a traditional English picnic hamper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumziGal Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 [quote user="Meg and Mog and dog"]Sounds nice Dick...............I just ate my dinner outside (still in shorts and Tshirt) because it is so hot and still light........[6][/quote]You are very lucky. Down by the Med here it went all cool and cloudy in the late afternoon, so we had our tea indoors. Not much of the 5.50-euros-a-kilo asparagus left either after I cut off the tough bits. Sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Crikey thats some posh asparagus you had there , 1 euro a bunch at the market today(though to be honest I didn't weith it) and 1 euro 80 per kilo at the Arab grocers yesterday.get some hoola hoops and sasparella for the pic-nic , definatly some mini pork pies and a decent coleslaw (instead of that celriac stuff and carrot rape) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumziGal Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 [quote user="opas"]Crikey thats some posh asparagus you had there , 1 euro a bunch at the market today(though to be honest I didn't weith it) and 1 euro 80 per kilo at the Arab grocers yesterday.[/quote]Les Halles at Lunel, market stalls outside. They were all that price, and plenty people were buying. Glad I didn't buy a kilo, cos it was just for 2 of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Thanks for the suggestion Opas.I prefer celeriac and carrot rape but I am sure that likewise they will appreciate the difference, what is sasparella, a drink? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Sarsparilla is a cordial drink made from herbs, where I lived it was made by the herbalist (orriginal recipe from his great grandfather , I think) It was sold in the shop many years ago when it was a temperance bar. It is a lovely drink, very unusual taste, sort of liquorice and peppery........somone will have a better explanation. It is a MUST have when we visit my dad in UK. Just a thought, if there are to be children , why not bring some sherbet dips.........you know the tubes of sherbet with a spanish/licorice to dip with, I don't think I have ever seen those in france, though I may add that a mod on Anglophone direct had hers confiscated ! true! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 When I was a nipper, sasparilla was the local name given to dandelion and burdock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 I think you have the 2 mixed up, definatly 2 different drinks and tastes. Did you have sasparilla tablets? they were hard boiled sweets. Quite different from the taste of Dandelion and Burdock, and not fizzy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Good night all and god bless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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