Food stuffs you'd like uk supermarkets to sell

[Jamiescott1]

theres a few items that uk supermarkets don't seem to stock that I would buy regularly if sold

authentic baguettes uk supermarket's don't sell proper French style baguettes. The nearest is sainsburys finest stone baked baguette, but still not close to a proper French baguette

Swiss chard one of my favourite vegetables. Grown in uk but only ever seen in waitrose

Italian sausages popular in North American supermarkets and throughout Western Europe but never seen in uk supermarkets. Either spicy or mild with a hint of fennel.

 

[py_megapixel]

MezzoMix, a german drink which is orange flavoured cola. It annoys me that you can't get it here. The closest approximation I've found is diluting orange squash with cola instead of water.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Agree with the Italian sausages. I have them at least once per month in the USA. Would love them to be available when I retire to the UK.

 

[birchesgreen]

MezzoMix, a german drink which is orange flavoured cola. It annoys me that you can't get it here. The closest approximation I've found is diluting orange squash with cola instead of water.

Do Herman ze German sell it? They do sell a German cola drink and that was great (wasn't the orange flavoured you mentioned though).

 

[Bletchleyite]

MezzoMix, a german drink which is orange flavoured cola. It annoys me that you can't get it here. The closest approximation I've found is diluting orange squash with cola instead of water.

It's basically half Coke half Fanta with a bit more caramel colour in it. You can make it yourself at any place that does free-pour Coke.

But yes I'd like to see it sold.

Do Herman ze German sell it? They do sell a German cola drink and that was great (wasn't the orange flavoured you mentioned though).

Not MezzoMix but they do sell their brand of it. "Spezi" I think is the generic name.

 

[py_megapixel]

Do Herman ze German sell it? They do sell a German cola drink and that was great (wasn't the orange flavoured you mentioned though).

I can't see it on their menu but they do sell proper cheesecake and also do Currywurst. Pity I live nowhere near any of their locations though!

FWIW I'd really like to see proper baked pastry-based cheesecake in this country, as opposed to the cream cheese and digestive biscuit version which is nowhere near as good.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

LU Biscuits "Petit Ecolier.

The UK equivalent biscuits from various manufacturers and brands are nowhere near as good as the actual original.

 

[Jamiescott1]

Agree with the Italian sausages. I have them at least once per month in the USA. Would love them to be available when I retire to the UK.

We cooked a recipe today that I used to make when living in Canada that requires spicy Italian sausage. Had to use sainsburys sausages

I finally found a decent Pastel de nata in sainsburys but then they removed their patisserie counter so no longer stock it

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Fresh tomatoes that taste of something vaguely tomato-ey!

 

[High Dyke]

Haslet. Proper butchers type, not that weird sliced meat version that places like Morrisons flog.

 

[hexagon789]

MezzoMix, a german drink which is orange flavoured cola. It annoys me that you can't get it here. The closest approximation I've found is diluting orange squash with cola instead of water.

Sounds a bit like Spezi, which is a sort of orangey-cola drink from Germany someone mentioned in something

 

[py_megapixel]

Sounds a bit like Spezi, which is a sort of orangey-cola drink from Germany someone mentioned in something

A quick glance at the Wikipedia article suggests that yes, it is a direct competitor to Mezzo Mix (and also Schwip Schwap, which is PepsiCo's approximation and isn't as nice in my opinion)

 

[Iskra]

‘Nduja
Venison (seems hard to find recently in supermarkets, compared to 5-10 years ago).

 

[S&CLER]

When I lived in the Netherlands I became addicted to cooked liver (ox liver, I think) sold cold and sliced as a cooked meat, often larded with fat. It made a delicious sandwich (a "broodje lever") with salt and pepper on it, and it's quite different from liver sausage. I've never seen it in any other country, though perhaps it's sold in Belgium too.

Austrian Almdudler is a nice herby lemonade. The only place I have seen it on sale in the UK is in the Austrian café in Bakewell, which also does Austrian sausages.

 

[Jamiescott1]

‘Nduja

I googled it a while back and found that waitrose apparently stock it, but none at my local store

 

[PeterC]

Geneally I am quite happy to go to specialist shops for specialist products rather than have the big chains put them out of busiess.

 

[Iskra]

I googled it a while back and found that waitrose apparently stock it, but none at my local store

It is starting to appear incorporated into more and more other food items I have noticed, ie on pizza's, but I'm yet to see it just on its own. I've found some in a farm shop near Wakefield however, so can at least source some.

It's a speciality from a region of Italy I visit annually, it's one of those very flexible meat products that you can throw into many dishes to liven them up a bit without too much effort.

 

[Puppetfinger]

Banana juice. Very common in France.

 

[Darandio]

‘Nduja

With you on that. Stick it in a tomato based sauce and reduce, it just disappears and adds so much flavour.

 

[SteveM70]

Lay's crisps

 

[alex397]

I always like seeing a wide range of Milka products in continental European supermarkets.
it’s rare to see anything other than just ordinary Milka in a UK supermarket. Probably because Cadbury / Mars-products are much more popular here.
Same goes for the wider range of Haribo products seen on the continent.
Although I don’t really eat sweets and chocolate as much any more!
Also, I’ve seen those orange juice making machines a lot in continental supermarkets, namely The Netherlands and Belgium. Nothing beats orange juice that’s just literally been squeezed. I’d like to see that in the UK, if it isn’t here already.

 

[py_megapixel]

Lay's crisps

Walker's are the same, are they not?

 

[SiggysigAah]

Milk that hasn’t been homogenised and had all the goodness taken out.

 

[SteveM70]

Walker's are the same, are they not?

Lay’s seem (to me at least) much stronger flavours. The salt and vinegar ones are second only to the Coop irresistible ones

 

[Bletchleyite]

Milk that hasn’t been homogenised and had all the goodness taken out.

You can get that, at least from your local milkman!

A quick glance at the Wikipedia article suggests that yes, it is a direct competitor to Mezzo Mix (and also Schwip Schwap, which is PepsiCo's approximation and isn't as nice in my opinion)

Spezi is the generic name, though I think it originated as a brand. Either way, it's a 50-50 mix of whatever-company-it-is's full-sugar cola and orangeade products with a bit more colour in so it doesn't look like dishwater. Making it yourself by mixing 50-50 Coke and Fanta (or Pepsi and Tango, or whatever) tastes exactly[1] the same (but looks like dishwater), it's what I do whenever I go to a Subway, Nando's or any similar place where you fill your own cup.

They did do "Orange Coke" here for a while but that wasn't quite the same, that was more "fat Coke" with some orange flavour added.

[1] Noting that German Coke tastes a bit different from British Coke because I understand the coca plant extract that British Coke contains isn't legal in Germany, so you get a taste a bit more like Pepsi but not quite.

 

[AM9]

Milk that hasn’t been homogenised and had all the goodness taken out.

Dutchy Organic in Waitrose is unhomogenised. I have it (semi-skimmed) all the time. Although it tastes creamier than the same 1.7% fat homogenised milk, the larger fat globules are digested rather than absorbed into the bloodstream, so it is much more healthy and reduces blood colesterol levels.

 

[GB]

I would like a return of Nando’s Peri Peri crisps.

 

[DustyBin]

I googled it a while back and found that waitrose apparently stock it, but none at my local store

M&S sell it too. I like it as a pizza topping.

 

[najaB]

Milk that hasn’t been homogenised and had all the goodness taken out.

Homogenisation just forces the milk though a microscopic aperture at high pressure to break up the fat into tiny droplets and adds/removes nothing.

You can get the same result by shaking non-homogeneous milk vigorously.

 

[S&CLER]

I always like seeing a wide range of Milka products in continental European supermarkets.
it’s rare to see anything other than just ordinary Milka in a UK supermarket. Probably because Cadbury / Mars-products are much more popular here.
Same goes for the wider range of Haribo products seen on the continent.
Although I don’t really eat sweets and chocolate as much any more!
Also, I’ve seen those orange juice making machines a lot in continental supermarkets, namely The Netherlands and Belgium. Nothing beats orange juice that’s just literally been squeezed. I’d like to see that in the UK, if it isn’t here already.

If you have a Polish or other eastern European grocery in your area, you will usually find the full range of Milka bars there.